Happy Late Monday Night, Sweet Baby,
I hope you had a nice day. I saw a couple of music-related posts, one was a pic of a guitarist and the text read "music video half finished", so perhaps that means you? I am guessing as always, but if so congrats once again. :)
Not much to report here. Still freezing and overcast, though not raining. I can't recall a Winter like this one ever in my lifetime (which is nothing compared to you guys, I realise), but still, even more than the rain we have had, which is certainly in the top ten rainiest since they began tracking it in the 1880s, what is even more significant to me is the constant cold. It got cold at the beginning of December and has not let up for three solid months, just like a real Winter season. We have had a handful of 70 degree days since then, but basically it's been cold - mid-50s - and overcast for three months. With the rain too. Our usual pattern is a cold but clear December, followed by a similar January, but with periods of warm weather up to 85 degrees. By February, which is usually about half-rainy - the average temp is at least 65 degrees and very often it is warmer. Spring usually begins here in February. But here we are almost in March, and I am still wearing a sweatshirt with heavy down jacket over it.
I'm a California Cold Wimp, I am aware, but still..........it's never been like this.
I still managed a quickie hike at Aliso this afternoon. The hills look like Ireland, but I still want my heat back.
Tonight's movie was "The Infiltrator" with Bryan Cranston as a Federal agent who goes undercover to break up a huge cocaine ring run by a Columbian drug lord named Pablo Escobar, who was infamous in the 1980s. It's quite a story, and the movie also focuses on the involvement of a bank, which was also infamous at the time, called BCCI. This bank was later nicknamed "Bank Of Crooks And Criminals" (BCCI) when it's involvement surfaced in the Iran/Contra hearings of the late 80s. As it turned out, the government of the United States, always a Stellar Cast Of Characters (not), was importing tons and tons (literally) of cocaine, to finance illicit wars, in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. So, in the movie, while Fed agent Cranston is trying to bust these guys, who were famously known as the Medellin Cartel, the CIA was actively working against him, even trying to intimidate him, because they were working with the Columbian drug lords to import the coke. This all happened on Ronald Reagan's watch, and it was of course swept under the rug, though a few lower level people did go to prison for a day or two, and a few drug lords did do more serious time.
The movie is excellent as a thriller, and especially as it explores the human aspect of going undercover and pretending to be someone you are not. Cranston's character actually befriends one of the top drug lords and his family, and he is conflicted emotionally when it finally comes time to bust the guy, but in the end his conscience is clear because cocaine is a very evil drug.
I give "The Infiltrator" a big thumbs up. Though it is strictly a Hollywoodised thriller, and not a film of emotional depth or metaphorical elements, it works very well as a reporting of a historic event, during a time when cocaine was at a saturation point in America. The Medellin Cartel was ultimately broken up, but the biggest and most important operator still exists..........the CIA, of course. They, and other hidden elements within the US Government and it's agencies, are some of the worst people on the planet. I am glad that your generation doesn't seem to be as caught up in the drug thing, although I know marajuana is bigger than ever, and not a good drug either. But overall, you guys don't seem to be caught in the middle of it, and that is good, because by abstaining, you help to put all these criminals out of business. If nobody wants their product, they lose all their power.
End of sermon. :)
That's all for tonight. Keep praying for sunshine and warmth for Los Angeles. :)
See you in the morning. I Love You. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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