Sa 7/3/21

 Sa 7/3/21

930am. 115pm. 945pm. 

Up 820am: Reading some of the menu at Ascend at 630am. Bright and sunny with temps to low 80's.

Watched Netflix disc 'ANTEBELLUM'. Another production that uses 'Horror' to define the experience of American Black Slavery. Forty minutes into a film that seems to be set in the mid 19th century on a southern slave plantation, a smart phone rings. That was a real shocker! However, the 'twist' is that all of the action was taking place in a 'slave theme park'  in contemporary Louisiana. How this fictional park came to be might have made an even more interesting film;  with Jena Malone, Eric Lange, Janelle Monae, Tongayi Chirisa, and Jack Huston...."The unresolved past can wreak havoc with the present".

Then I watched an hour-long bonus feature about the film and then a couple of YouTube videos about 'ANTEBELLUM'

1pm: PC is 'Off' and preparing for a walk downtown to mail back the disc. 

130pm: Out Edwards, {the center of downtown was blocked for July 4th Fest}, 2nd south to South Grand Alley, west to Wash. Pk., up the hill, Parkview, Fairway, and up to 940...2 HOURS AND A BIT... Mp3... DRIVE BY TRUCKERS, 91.9FM.

Home to read/nap 'THE FINDER'.

615pm: In the tub with 'THE FINDER' and listening to THE GRATEFUL DEAD~ Live/  DICK'S PICKS.

Then I watched the last episode of 'SOPHIE: A MURDER IN WEST CORK' (Netflix). A few days before Xmas, 1996 a French woman is brutally murdered in a tiny Irish village. A local stringer/journalist/poet seems the likely suspect, but nothing physically links him to the crime. However, townspeople maintain that he told many local people that he was the killer, but he denies these allegations. Many years after the crime the French judicial system sentenced him 'in absentia' to twenty-three years for the murder, but Irish court refused to recognize this verdict and also blocked extradition. A strange True Crime and I liked it a lot.