Happy Late Night, Sweet Baby,
I hope you had a nice day today and yesterday as well. That was a good picture of John this morning. Are you guys working on new music, or maybe a video? I know I have said it before, but you both really nailed it on your cover of the Slowdive song, and that was a great video as well. If you are working on something new, I will look forward to seeing it as always. :)
Yesterday was good singing in church. We nailed the Scarborough Carol and had a long practice for the songs we will do for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I also drove to Burbank to take my sister Sophie shopping, then straight back to Pearl's, and by the time I got home at 6:45 for my evening break, I was toast. I fell asleep, lol, but then recovered enough to do a little reading.
Today was Ultra Windy and Freezing Cold, so I entirely skipped any walking. Now that's a rarity, SB. For me to forego all exercise takes a lot, but I really can't stand wind, and tonight it was blowing gale force. So, I stayed inside and watched a great movie instead : "The Shop Around The Corner" with Jimmy Stewart and the very talented but tragic Margaret Sullavan. Man, what a great movie! It is famous both as a comedy and a Christmas movie, but I had never seen it. Jimmy Stewart plays a clerk in the "Shop" of the title, which sells various types of gift items. The owner of the shop is played by Frank Morgan, the legendary "Wizard Of Oz" himself. Margaret Sullavan is the down-on-her-luck young woman who comes in to the shop looking for work. She is hired, and All Kinds Of Romantic and Other Hijinks Ensue.
The film was directed by a Hollywood legend named Ernst Lubitsch, who specialised in romantic comedies with intelligent dialogue and social commentary. "The Shop Around The Corner" has all kinds of sub-themes, of Depression-era America, of loneliness, adultery, even suicide. It's heavy stuff for 1940, but the heaviness is all overridden by, and under the surface of, the sparkling comedic performances of Stewart, Sullavan and the entire cast. For me, Jimmy Stewart was as good as it gets - he was so great in everything he did, and if you every wonder why I go on Endless Tirades about The Golden Age Of Hollywood, well, just see this movie for a case in point. I give it an 11 out of 10 on a Ten Scale. An absolute classic. On a side note, and a sad one too, I called Margaret Sullavan "tragic", and that is because she had a tumultuous life, with several marriages, one to Henry Fonda. Two of her children committed suicide, and then she herself succumbed to a drug overdose in 1960, at the age of 50. But never a more talented comedienne ever graced the screen.....
Well, that's all I know for tonight. I saw your other post, the FB memory-post from Florence in 2014 on this same day. Yep, time flies. And that's what I've been saying about how much has happened since then. One the one hand, it seems like you were just there, in art school. And in another way, it feels like quite a while ago. And I think that's because you are in your natural state now, in your element, as it were (is it okay to say "as it were"? Sometime I hate that phrase, but I have to use it now...)
Anyway, you are "in your element", as it were, and so it just feels natural now, because you are doing what you have always wanted to do, and so everything before, even art school - which was an amazing experience - seems "before", and therefore more distant.
But that's Time for you. A really weird thing, is Time. Both slow and fast, as we have discussed.....
And that's all I know for now, at this particular time!
See you in the morn. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxo :):)
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