The Cheese Stands Alone

 Sa 10/10/26 805am (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 9am (4-B: Green Crack). 1205pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 535pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 830pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack).  Up 710am: Mostly cloudy with temps to about 80. Watched 'THREE' (Netflix). An anthology of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan. 1) A husband's wife has disappeared and he 'thinks something bad' has happened to her. Few words of dialogue, but some of the grisliest murder scenes I've ever seen. A difficult piece of filmmaking, but worth the effort.  2) 'Thai Puppets' vs. 'Masked Dancers'; total cultural immersion with backgrounds of jungles, rivers, and rural traditional stages in very rural Thailand.  3) A man and his three year old son stay in a desolate apartment building that is slated to be leveled. The man next door has strangled his wife who was dying of cancer. He " killed her so that he co...

 Fr 10/9/26 820am (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 905am (4-B: Green Crack). 1pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 230pm (4-B: Green Crack). 435pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 530pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack).  Up 730am: Sunny with temps to mid 80's.  Watched 'THE GUARDIANS' (Amazon Prime). Women till the soil while the men go off to fulfill their destinies as the first world war slowly comes to a close. Great scenes of women working the fields and it ain't no picnic. The film is glacially paced, yet, in the end, it becomes an intriguing love story. It authentically demonstrates the early 20th century's repressive ideas about sex & family, but the hardworking and level-headed 'Francine' has a few francs and a more modern attitude that will take her further than any of these rubes. Filmed in Haute-Vienne, France which is in southwest-central France near Limoges. "81" Metascore and I would boost that to "90".  Began 'THE BOURNE IDENTITY' (...

 Th 10/8/26 855am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 1250pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 535pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 830pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 8am: {well rested}. Plenty of sunshine and temps to lower 80's. Watched 'OLD HENRY' (Netflix). A 'thinking man's western' with a crazy theory about the demise of Billy The Kid. It delivers bona fide 19th century dialogue and probably some of the most authentic gunfights of the era because in the real wild, wild west many shots were fired, but few found their targets. "69" Metascore and I would go to "84"; with Tim Blake Nelson. From 'Movie Nation': "It’s the title character and the great character actor playing him that turns this otherwise decent indie Western into something special. And Nelson pulls that off every time he squints or opens his mouth." { Tim Blake Nelson was in the terrific 'anti-boxing film', 'BANG BANG'}. Finished 'AFRICAN QUEENS: NJINGA' (Netflix).  Fun Fac...

 We 10/7/26- Frog Pond Gone 8am (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 9am (3-B: Maui Wowie).   1030am {I took 1/4 of a VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg: 25 mg total}. 11am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 225pm (5-B: Green Crack). 435pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 530pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 830pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). ***25 mg didn't hit; no discernible difference during a pleasant walk ***  Up 650am: Sunny & hot with temps to mid 80's. The city picked up the branch piles yesterday, but they didn't get my two leaf bags. This morning I was going to sweep up the branch debris and put at least one leaf bag in the 'big blue can', but a garbage truck picked up both bags before I made it to the curb.  Downloaded 'Oil!' by Upton Sinclair from the library (Hoopla). A major production due to unfamiliarity with the outmoded website and I got 2 copies of his book and another named 'Oil'.  930am: Next door I noticed a white pickup truck with a bumper sticker that declares "FUCK AROUND AN...

 Tu 10/6/26 805am (GB: 5/Green Crack). 920am (GB: 4/ Maui Wowie). 1230pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 335pm (2-B: Maui Wowie). 535pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 7am: Sunny with temps to upper 70's.  Tuesday Restart PC & no problem; phone- there must be an easier way to restart;  740pm downstairs PC. ***Big sale at diamondcbd.com: $75 for a whole lotta weed 1) Hammerhead Flower-indica ($22- trying the sleepy stuff) 2) Green Crack Flower-sativa  (1/2 oz half price!!) Watched 'THERE WILL BE BLOOD' (Amazon Prime). It feels like a great novel and I was surprised to learn that it is based on Upton Sinclair's novel, "Oil!". Odd Observation: The film examines nearly all the great themes of art & literature except sex. Daniel Plainview might be lying about H.W., but it makes sense that Daniel would use a baby as a prop to get the edge on gullible buyers who believe in 'family values'. It always works; with Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, ...

 Mo 10/5/26: Pre-colonoscopy; 230pm 815am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 11am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 315pm (3-B: Green Crack). 435pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 530pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 835pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack....Different company).  ***Mary Klunick; West Campus, 2nd floor: 230pm*** Up 710am: Sunny with temps to mid 70's.  Watched 'LION' (Netflix). The kid gets on the train and goes 1600 kilometers which is just about 1,000 miles; from Ganesh Talai, India to almost Bangladesh on the eastern border. His brother was struck by a train and killed the same night that they got separated. His name in Hindu meant 'Lion' and he had been mispronouncing it; with Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman. "69" Metascore and I would go to "81" and I think it was rated so low because "we don't like movies where ya gotta read".   I asked AI Mode and was surprised that it located the answer so quickly. It said that last night's power failure was caused by "an equipment...