Sa 8/15/20

 Sa 8/15/20

Up 645am: Partly cloudy with a chance of rain all afternoon- low 80's.

Watched Netflix disc 'A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD'.  How do you make a movie about a living saint without making it sanctimonious? The film rates about 85% on that score because honest beliefs need not be tedious or self-righteous; with Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Chris Cooper.

Then I watched 'CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN' (IMDB-TV).  Charlie's mom is removed from life support. She dies and as she heads off to the afterlife she tells her son (completely inexplicably) to go to Bucharest. On the plane to eastern Europe his seatmate dies and before he heads off to the afterlife he wants Charlie to deliver a hat to his daughter. After arriving in Bucharest he does find the man's daughter, she's married and involved with a criminal element. And then they fall in love and  run from the police and bad guys all over the city; with Shia Labeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Vincent D'Onofrio, Melissa Leo, and Aubrey Plaza. From Film.com-

"A pastiche of bad film cliches and scenes devoid of any real conflict or character development."

***Bucharest is the capital of Romania and Budapest is the capital of Hungary.

1 pm: Preparing to mow the lawn. Heavy storms should rock the neighborhood this evening.

110~210 pm...Cut/rake/trim backyard tree. 

215~325 pm...Biked to Wabash PO to mail disc. Read NIGHT SINS downstairs. Walked a mile on the treadmill.. 21 mins. Anthony Jeselnik. 

In the tub at 620 pm...NIGHT SINS and listening to WITCH, BOB MARLEY ~ 'Uprising', LOCAL NATIVES ~ 'Gorilla Manor'. 

Watched Netflix disc 'CHARLIE'S ANGELS'. Watched about an hour and went for something different. It's basically women doing dumb-ass shit the way that men have been doing dumb-ass shit since the beginning... "Violence, without thought, insight, or intelligence gets what we want, so let's do it"!

Watched an episode of 'THE INNOCENCE FILES'- The Prosecution: Hidden Alibi (Netflix). A black Houston man is convicted for robbery and the murder of a policeman. He wasn't even there. A witness called before the grand jury had evidence that would exonerate him, but her testimony was ignored, and she was jailed for perjury. Then, the district attorney withheld phone records that proved that the defendant was not at the scene. He spent ten years on death row, but was finally judged innocent and a settlement was made.  

 

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