Happy Birthday, Elizabeth! Wow, 25 already. Man, I can hardly believe it's been almost six years since you created your Alcest video. That was a game-changer for sure - the reason we met - and the rest has been history! I hope you have a great birthday with friends and family, and maybe even have a Genuine Elizabethan Birthday Adventure like flying an airplane or something along those lines. :)
I am of course SuperDuperAliceCooperMegaMondoBigTimeTired. If there was a tug-of-war tonight, between me and a Black Hole, for the ownership of this tiredness, the Hole would've thrown in the towel before there ever was such a thing as energy. Or some such type of Black Hole physical dynamics. I am way too tired to look up exactly what Black Holes do, other than collapse, spin, and suck, and mess with time.
We did have good singing in church this morn, however. That deserves an exclamation point, I think, so here it is : ! , delivered after the fact but no less worthwhile.
I did not watch a movie tonight, but I did see my first ever complete episode of a show called "Inspector George Gently". I first saw bits of the show a few years ago, here at Pearl's on PBS. This was before we switched to watching TCM all the time. But anyway, around 2014 or so, I'd be puttering around the house and I'd see a minute or two of this series, which looked like a hard boiled cop show, but set in England. The actors were great, one older guy, one younger. Two detectives, going after some really bad guys in the mid-60s. The writing appeared to be really good from the few minutes here and there that I'd seen, and the show stuck with me, even though I'd never really seen much of it, and never a full episode. But just a couple of weeks ago, I found a dvd set of the complete first season for just 9 bucks! There are only three episodes included, but each one is 90 minutes long, so each show is like a movie.
The main thing is that it's a great show. Now, for the most part it has television-quality production values, meaning that the lighting is a bit flourescent, the colors too white-balanced. I mean, it still looks good, but it has that "shot on videotape" look that soap operas have. I used to notice that look way back as a teenager, and I couldn't identify it back then except to think to myself that it was flat or smooth.
That is the way soap operas look on television. "George Gently" looks far better than a soap opera, but you can tell it is shot on video, digital or otherwise (it premiered in 2007). Aside from all that, tonight's episode was pretty great. The two leads are the main attraction, the way they play off of one another, the traditional uncorruptible old guy and the brash, rule bending younger man.
It is so good that I will have to eventually buy the whole series. They made 25 of 'em (same as Elizabeth Years), so you get 25 well produced BBC movies, each with a great story and top notch British acting replete with varying accents from different characters. I watched tonight's episode with the subtitles turned on, because some of those guys up in Northern England are hard to understand. They sound almost Scottish.
That's all for tonight. You should know that I finally had to wear a jacket on my walk this eve. A heartier Winterite could have easily withstood a fair wind and temperatures down into the low 50s. But me, I get cold at a certain point, and so I say with regret that today may have been the final day of Summer for Southern California in 2017, a day on which the temps reached 84 degrees here in the Valley. I can't recall it being so warm for so long, so deep into the year.
Gotta get to sleep, so I will wish you a Happy Birthday once again, and then I will see you in the morning! :):)
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