Fr 6/22/18

Fr 6/22/18

Up 640am; overcast and light rain predicted for most of the day. We got about an inch yesterday, and temps are much cooler- today they'll peak in the low 70's. 

Wrote up 'SMILE' Roddy Doyle for the blog. This one will certainly provoke the book club. 


Began, 'THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS' (Amazon Prime). A surprising ensemble of famous actors (even Marilyn Manson) create a moral uproar in a pretty grim screenplay about child abuse. The documentary about 'the real' TJ LeRoy makes a better movie. And, the argument about whether it 'really happened' and 'to who' I think is a lame position to take. It's enough that these stories are worth telling- end of discussion. 

Then, 'GRANT HART- EVERY EVERYTHING: THE MUSIC, LIFE AND TIMES OF GRANT HART'. Bob Mould was clearly NOT Husker Du's only innovator. I wonder if Greg will ever get to set his story straight! Strange to learn how close Grant was to his mother. He seems to have spent most of his adult life living in his childhood home. Also, odd how in this film he spends so much time in this 'imaginary home'. He's doing this because the house burnt down in 2011.

Added some more albums to 'My Music'. I've found a way to make Amazon Prime well worth the money!

130pm- to the 'Y', and re-routing the basement stuff to the trash will live to fight another day.
45" Walk (Amazon Music- Live Dead/ Lydia Loveless/ Husker Du/ Elvis). 45" Cross (More Amazon Music). 30" Recumbent Bike (RAY DONOVAN). 15" Bike (finished DONOVAN). 45" Cross (Live Dead from 1977). 30" Walk (more of the Willem Dafoe interview).

To Fairhills for the weekly shopping at County Market. $47. Home to soak, with 3 beers, THE PURPLE BOOK- Philip Jose Farmer, and an unidentified soul album from the 80's- 90's?

A documentary about Phil Spector and his lady lawyer on Amazon Prime for tonight. CHANGE OF PLANS- this is an actual movie, and I'll save it for another time. Will begin a doc about Courtney Love's band, HOLE, from Patty Schemel's perspective- she was their drummer.  called, HIT SO HARD.

 Got a Netflix disc about the Billie Jean King- BATTLE OF THE SEXES for tomorrow morning.  

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