I went to the dentist as planned, but what I did not plan was that insurance was not going to cover the job. $2800+. It is not life-threatening, and no one really cares what I look like. Old and fat and long past being of romantic interest to anyone.

I did get my inhaler prescription. The humidity is coming on hard and fast,

On the way to Open Door, I notice 3 or 4 men on the picnic tables belonging to the First Baptist Church. There was a family there with a car, kids, and dogs, too. They were cleaning the car. I hope they were not living out of their car, but I fear it is possible, 

Decided to clean out the videos I watched on YouTube yesterday. 

Once upon a time, like more than 50 years ago, there was WTTV in Indianapolis. It was the independent station, and it had shows like Cowboy Bob and Sammy Terry. The latter did horror movies on Friday. It was a big deal when Mom let us stay up to watch Dracula; my sisters and me on the couch, ready to be scared. Mostly he showed the old Universal movies (towards the end, he was showing Japanese monster movies), but he also showed things like The Aztec Mummy. 

 I have not seen them in more than 50 years, and I am glad my childish opinion was not wrong. They put me off of Mexican movies until Like Water for Chocolate. One thought I had while watching the video: if Brendan Fraser is coming back with another mummy movie, why not go to Mexico? Do the job right.

Back in the day, the movie theaters at Castleton did foreign and art movies. Breaker Morant was one that I drove down from Muncie to see. Pretty sure TJ was along for that trip.

 Not sure if I really care about the rightness of Morant's conviction as I am reminded that it has been about 46 years since I saw the movie. It sticks in the mind, even if not in its entirety. For all that we have the internet and all our ability to stream movies, we seem to have also shrunken our notions of quality and importance. Not even freedom by way of algorithm, but the bondage of our imagination by mathematical formula.

Didn't TJ and Randy K and me see Heavy Metal at the Anderson Mall theeater? The really old ones? I remember being disappointed that it was not as wild as the magazine. I had been reading that since I was seventeen, maybe younger. Listening to the video, I found why it did not reach the mark I expected. 

 The movie I thought got the magazine vibe right was The Fifth Element.

I can no longer count how many times we watched Game of Thrones in prison. Three or four times, I think. Peter Dinklage and Sean Bean were all that I knew of the cast at the start. I have to admit until this video, I always assumed Dinklage was English. Worth listening to two intelligent men talk about their work.

 

Back to the research, getting inspired to have some fun tonight:

 

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