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Musings on anything. |
 My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one. |
| The movie marathon was a disappointment. The very first one was one I had seen only a month or two ago. The true star was Richard Burton, and Eastwood a sidekick with little acting to do. Where Eagles Dareis a World War II story set in snow covered Alps with a lot of unexpected twists. I just didn't want to watch it again so soon, so I found other things to do. The next one is the very familiar Kelly's Heroes. Granted I didn't see it until it was an oldie, but I encountered it a few years go and it has been run frequently on cable. In it, Donald Sutherland plays a hippie type character who seems more typical of the 60's than the 40's. Dad had it turned on for a few minutes before supper, and I could hear his voice in the kitchen. I knew exactly what was going on; so I was glad I wasn't watching that one either. We watch Jeopardy almost every night. So by the time I tuned into the marathon once more, I caught the end of Dirty Harry. You know the lines about the Magnum 44 and "You have to ask yourself if you feel lucky." Long pause "Well, do ya? (pause)Punk?" The lines are so often quoted that they are easily recognizable. They become the opening lines of Magnum Force without the punk question. So that one I watched in its entirety. It wasn't a bad story. It wasn't a great story. There wasn't a lot of great acting. It obviously captivated the viewing public. He played a good cop (he may have been brutal and didn't play by the rules, but he was honest). I think at the bottom line, we want to see the good guy win, even if he's no saint. We want to see good triumph over evil. Maybe we have degrees of good and evil. Hal Holbrook, the boss, was a corrupt cop, which we don't find out until the end. David Soul is a bad cop, and we suspect that the moment we first see him. Tim Mattheson is a bad cop, but he comes across as so sweet and kind that we don't want to believe it until we know for sure. When he was killed/sacrificed, it made me sad, because I have learned to like him for his cowboy roles. Since he was charming and amiable in this role, it felt like a loss. The last one in the marathon was The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, which I feel like I know by heart. So the only movie I watched was Magnum Force. However, I was caught up in my crocheting and had a tangle in my yarn. I turned off the TV and sat in the quiet for hours rolling a large skein into a ball and fighting knots. After all that, I ended up cutting it with the scissors. The fibers had gotten entwined somehow and it was threading through itself. I was getting cross-eyed and tired, but was determined to get it straight. It gave me lots of time for thinking about a lot of topics. Apparently, I am at peace with my own company. |
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I marvel at the things I'll be able to tell my grandkids about someday. Life is accelerating - or maybe it just feels that way!
I completely sympathize with your desire to declutter. I have more stuff than you can shake a stick at that didn't actually belong to just my wife or myself throughout the house.
