The Cheese Stands Alone

 Tu 5/5/26 640am {1/2 VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg: 50 total}. 640am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 720am (4-B: Cat Piss). 905am (4-B: Cat Piss). 1215pm (GB: 6/Hybrid Popcorn). 435pm (6- B: Cat Piss). 535pm (GB: 5/ Hybrid Popcorn). 815pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss).  Up 545am: Cloudy with periods of light rain/ mist and cooler with temps only to upper 50's.  Watched 'OCCUPIED CITY' (Hoopla- it's over 4 hours so I'll treat it like a series). I shut it down at 1 hr 37 minutes although it's not even halfway. A woman reads a list of Nazi atrocities against the Jews that occurred in Amsterdam during WWII. However, what you see in the documentary is the city squares and addresses as they look today {The film was shot during the protests during COVID}. What hits me is that the people of Amsterdam during WWII were no different than people today. The documentary is an elegant cautionary tale about a city (and nation) that celebrated an inhuman agenda with patriotic fervor. I'll continu...

 Mo 5/4/26 7am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total}. 7am (GB: 8/ Cat Piss). 730am (7-B: Cat Piss). 920am (5-B: Cat Piss). 1230pm (7- B: Hybrid Popcorn). 535pm (GB: 5/ Cat Piss). 825pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). Up 6am: Cloudy with temps to low 70's and a 20% chance for rain.  Watched 'APEX' (Netflix). At its best the movie is a somewhat exciting & weird mix of rock climbing and fast river kayaking. A young woman loses her boyfriend in a rock climbing accident, yet she continues to do extreme sports and meets up with a serial killer in the wilds of an Australian nature preserve. There's lots of CGI to beef up the implausible story. The first part of the movie happened in Norway and I found that out after watching and was checking out the film at IMDB. Filmed in New South Wales, Australia near Perth; with Charlize Theron (I thought it was an actress who looked like Charlize), Eric Bana, Taron Egerton. "57" Metascore and I would go to "76...

 Su 5/3/26 750am {1/2 VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg (Blue): 50 total}. 755am (GB: 7/ Hybrid Popcorn). 830am (6-B: Cat Piss).  1230pm (GB: 7/ Hybrid Popcorn). 535pm (GB: 6/Hybrid Popcorn). 835pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss).  Up 545am: Cloudy & breezy with temps to just over 70. 8am: Right as I started the movie I noticed a prompt to 'restart'. I scheduled it to happen at 924pm tonight. I hope this works and I hope the 'yellow ball & arrows' disappears on the PC (It did not disappear, but a note says that it will run after 9pm tonight).  If it works I will never sit through another Windows Update ever again. {It didn't work. I had to run the update when I booted up Monday morning}   Watched 'COP SHOP' (Netflix). Within seconds I realized I had seen this one within the last couple of months. Watched 'AMERICAN HUSTLE' (Netflix). I knew I had seen this one, but it is worth many viewings as this is an undeniable classic!  A couple of top tier grifters (who...

 Sa 5/2/26 7am (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 735am (many-B: Cat Piss). 940am (7-B: Cat Piss).  1145am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 435pm (GB: 5/ Cat Piss). 535pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 825pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss).  Up 6am: Cloudy to partly cloudy with temps to 60.  Watched 'PURE WHITE BITCH' (Amazon Prime). The title refers to homemade crystal meth and the film is a lurid (sinks into unintentional satire) account of tweakers who act like caricatures of Appalachian hillbillies from the 1930's. It was like the whole production was straining to be transgressive. L'il Abner does bathtub meth instead of a jug of moonshine.  Filmed about 40 miles north of Houston, Texas in Cleveland and Dolen Texas. "44" Metascore and I would go to "74". From The  A.V. CLUB- "... it's almost-gleeful horrorshow quality comes with the tinge of exploitation. Misery begets more misery, but to what end"?    Finished the last hour of 'SHOULD I MARRY A MURDERER' (Netflix). H...

 Fr 5/1/26 645am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total (these are 'smoother' (weaker?) than VIIA). 650am (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 750am (4-B: Cat Piss). 940am (4-B: Cat Piss). 1240pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 540pm (GB: 7/ Cat Piss). 845pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn).  Up  6am: Cloudy & breezy with temps to 60. Watched 'LAMB' (Kanopy- borrowed yesterday). Super Strange. It's about a taciturn couple who raise sheep in very rural Iceland. They assist in the birth and then, love, and raise the baby lamb or 'human baby' lamb. The surprisingly enticing creature was born half sheep and half a human female. You don't know who impregnated the ewe, until 'The Ram' (that's half a human male) shoots dad (human) in the throat and mom (human) is desolate.  Beautifully shot in magnificent and very, very rural Iceland. CONSEQUENCE- "Lamb takes on the ominous, warning air of an old fable, the kind of pre-Grimm fairy tale meant to threaten the ...

 Th 4/30/26 705am (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 740am (5- B: Cat Piss). 1015am (4-B: Cat Piss). 1210pm (4-B: Cat Piss).  415pm (GB: 4/ Hybrid Popcorn). 435pm (GB: 5/ Hybrid Popcorn). 825pm (GB: 5/ Hybrid Popcorn). Up 6am: Sunny with increasing clouds and temps to low 60's. The  hope is to mow the lawn sometime today and Janny & Joe want a visit (soon). Watched 'ENEMY AT THE GATES' (Hoopla). It's set during the siege of Stalingrad during the Second World War. A Soviet sharpshooter is elevated to 'hero status' so that 'the people' have someone to look up to. The publicist and the shooter are friends, but they're also in love with the same woman. Some interesting and well shot battle scenes, but overall it was very average; with Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins (as Khrushchev), Ron Perlman. "53" Metascore and I would go to "74".    Began 'ANIMAL KINGDOM' (Netflix). I shut it down 34 minutes into t...