The Cheese Stands Alone

Th 2/1/18 Up 715am; Partly cloudy and high twenties early, but temps dropping all day with lots of wind. Below zero wind chills for tonight. Watched the Netflix disc, THE KILLING OF THE SACRED DEER. Very odd, yet compelling film about a teenage boy who's father died during heart surgery. He blames the surgeon, and feels that one member of the doctor's family must die to compensate; Colin Firth/ Nicole Kidman. Stripped the browsers of the Avast Add-on's that were revealed by Malwarebytes. The PUP's are in quarantine and everything seems to be about up to normal speed. The last episode of season one of TRANSPARENT, and then the first of season two. Bought two more months of Tracfone for $28- it went up?! 230pm and still here. Coming down with the sniffles?! Definitely getting a cold, but not the usual flu symptoms. Usually there's throat problems, but no sign....so far. Got an email from Janny inviting me to a birthday party for me and Jonas on Saturday....

We 1/31/18 Up 7am; Mostly cloudy 'n breezy; temps in mid 30's to high 40's, but the wind made it feel chilly. Wrote up THE QUIET GAME and ordered another novel (TURNING ANGEL) by this author, then watched a Paul Schrader film with Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandan called, THE LIGHT SLEEPER. Dafoe as an elite drug dealer in early 1990's on the mean streets of NYC. During a garbage strike on labor day weekend an old girlfriend resurfaces. He hasn't seen this 'love of his life' in over ten years, she jumps or is pushed out the window of one of his client's high rise apartments, and he murders who he thinks is responsible. Five to ten in the pen, and his boss Sarandan waits for him. TAXI DRIVER is a better film, but they share the same dour and depressive tone and feel. Trouble with Security Essentials. It just won't update, so I installed Avast. Don't like it- they really give the hard-sell to buy, and the system seems to lag.  Anothe...

Tu 1/30/18 Write up THE QUIET GAME- Copy Cheese Stands Alone- (Didn't do either of these very important things) Up 715am; Fourteen degrees, sunny; temps to upper 30's later. Netflix disc, MARSHLAND. Won over forty film awards and nominated for over forty more. Fantastic film set in the south of Spain near the marshlands adjacent to Seville.  Netflix-'DIRTY MONEY'- Valeant Drug Company 1pm- Beginning THE FOUR FINGERS OF DEATH, Rick Mooney. 220pm on the machines at Planet Fitness after dropping the disc at the Wabash PO. 45" Walk. 3.8/0. 45" Recumbent Bike (4 FINGERS OF DEATH). 45" Cross. 28" Bike (very crowded, so I got off to snag a Cross). 32" Cross.  To the Fairhills County Market for the weekly shopping. $56.00. Home to soak and read more of Rick Mooney/ a compilation of House Music.  The last episode of season #1, DEADWOOD. I was surprised that it didn't have more punch, I'll watch more, but it went...

Mo 1/29/18 Up 640am; Cold and gray with flurries. Not expected to get above freezing all day. KRISHA (Amazon Prime). Another truly amazing film that turns 'the addiction genre' on its' head- feels more like horror. The director did the film THEY COME AT NIGHT; this was his second film and it concerned a family's dilemma after a post-apocalyptic plague.  Then I'm watching the last two episodes of GOLIATH. This is the real Golden Age of Television!  1050am- crafting the email to The Brandenburgs. Why the news blackout about the trip to Phoenix?? Finished GOLIATH 1230pm; totally blown away! To the 'Y' and on the machines by 230pm. 45" Walk. 3.8/0. 45" Recumbent Bike (THE QUIET GAME). 45" Cross. 42" Bike. 37" Cross. A little extra... Didn't want to fight the nuts about the 'cool steam', so I went home and did an hour plus soak/ first Byrds album- finished THE QUIET GAME. I require many more by Greg Iles...

Su 1/28/18 Up 715am; Wild and crazy dream about 'the crane trailer'...no new ground broken. 30 now, to high 40's; sunny and calm. ROAD TO THE WELL (Amazon Prime). Another noirish Lo-Fi film that's probably a fave on the Independent film festival circuit. Friends become killers, and then kill again in lovely, scenic California.  Watched a YouTube interview with the director and some of the cast. 1040am- The weekly cleaning Watching the next episode of GOLIATH- 1145am. 1pm- out to do a little raking on the front lawn. Got a full barrel and one bag of sour-gum balls, and at FitClub and on the machines by 230pm. 45" Octane (Led Zeppelin Centennial). 45" Recumbent Bike. 45" Cross (The Jack Asshole is certainly a problem, and much worse during the Trump Era). 45" Recumbent Bike. 20" Old Style Cross. No shower or whirlpool; home to soak for 45" and listen to the end of the Live Elvis and Attractions and then "The Up Escalator" ...

Sa 1/27/18 Up 640am. Fifty already and this is about as warm as it gets; mostly sunny and very breezy. 'LIVE A LITTLE' (Amazon Prime). This is a black/ who-dunit/ film noir set in Washington DC. After a drunken bar fight a man feels that he might have committed a murder. I guess it's true to the 'best of noir' because nothing is entirely resolved at the end, yet the plot is very suspenseful and the characters are well developed.  Two episodes of GOLIATH- My new fave series! Cannot access Amazon Prime on Explorer! I ran the Malwarebytes program and then downloaded the latest version of Internet Explorer (11). Watched another episode of DEADWOOD with no problems. The High Definition is crystal clear.  I was going to run outside....but...2pm left for Planet Fitness, forgot THE QUIET GAME, remembered at Cherry and turned around. 50" Walk. 3.8/0. 45" Recumbent Bike (THE QUIET GAME). 45" Cross. 30" Bike (read). 40" Cross. 3 1/...

Fr 1/26/18 Up 640am; Sunny and high 30's. To high 50's with more clouds and high winds from the south later. Wrote up Kim Gordon's memoir, GIRL IN THE BAND, and listened to GIANT SAND. 8am; Netflix disc, LOVELACE. A well-done film and it's evident that the directors are documentarians. And, Lovelace was a much more complicated figure than portrayed in the film. A highly sympathetic rendering strictly from her point of view- it's a good thing in that it made her more appealing, however, it's slightly misleading. Made a dental appointment for Buddy on Wed.Feb. 21st; All Day- $225. 2 episodes of GOLIATH; this is now my fave TV series. The 'Chez Jay' is the best law office of all time! Left the house at 130pm and drove over to the car wash behind the McD's on Monroe. Eight bucks and it looks good. On the machines at FitClub South by 2pm. 45" Best Cross (Tummler- 'Early Man'). 45" Recumbent Bike (THE QUIET GAME). 45" Cr...