No movie tonight. Instead I watched an episode of "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" that guest starred a young Robert Duvall as an Alien who is rescued from the ocean floor when he is discovered by Admiral Richard Basehart and crew amidst the debris of an ancient underwater city. What happens is that the Seaview (the "Voyage" megasubmarine) is cruising along in the deep, when a strong earthquake strikes. The seismic wave roils the sea. The massive sub is tossed around, as are gigantic ocean boulders. An enormous amount of silt is lifted, revealing the gridlike patterns of the lost city. Strewn about are dozens of metallic tubes. Baseheart sends his divers down to retrieve one.
Man, was that ever a huge mistake.
The divers bring the tube back to the Seaview, and of course - owing to the Rules Of Alien Construction - it is made of some unknown alloy that cannot be cut, nor melted. Finally Basehart, a genius engineer as well as an Admiral, gets the idea to deep freeze the tube. This does the trick, they are able to crack the thing open, and out pops an extremely weird-looking, weird-acting, bald headed and no-eared Robert Duvall, one of the last survivors of a 20 Million Year Old Civilization who lived on Earth before the Biblical Flood. He has been ensconced in his metallic coffin for all of that time, in a state of suspended animation.
Admiral Basehart and his Commander David Hedison soon come to regret their decision to free Duvall from his tube, because he is a Nutcase Extraordinaire. He has it in for modern humans, and in the pocket of his silky one piece getup he carries a small electromagnetic weapon of the type that we are now reading about in Tom Bearden books.
Soon he is using his device to zap the Seaview's high voltage communications system, leaving them without the ability to navigate.
I loved this episode, mainly because of Robert Duvall's high pitched and eerily modulated voice, and because he is Robert Duvall playing an Alien. But I had to admit that my credulity was strained at certain points.
I mean, if it was your sub, and you were driving it around on The Bottom Of The Sea, would you stop to pick up a twenty million year old tube with a bald guy inside? And even if you did, would you allow him to walk around the interior of your submarine unsupervised?
That's what Richard Basehart did, and I was surprised at him. For shame, Richard Basehart!
He does redeem himself, though, so don't worry. Duvall gets what's coming to him (in a big way), and they leave that tube-strewn ancient undersea wasteland for good......and they never look back, as you undoubtedly would refrain from doing yourself, in your own submarine. ///
Tomorrow night I will be back with a movie, probably another "Thin Man" sequel. I actually had some unwatched dvds on hand at home, but I wanted some time this evening to start a new drawing, because I just received in the mail yesterday a set of colored pencils I was eager to try out. They are Prismacolors, a 48 pencil set, and Elizabeth, I remembered that brand from several years ago when you mentioned you had used them for your own drawings. I finally bought some for myself, and on first try tonight - just doodling - I really like their saturation and ease of use. Nice creamy colors, not dry like ordinary colored pencils. Tomorrow night I will begin my first new drawing of 2019, and I will also watch a movie.
I am reading a new book, too : "The Polka Dot File" by Fernando Faura, who was a newspaper reporter on scene during the immediate aftermath of the Bobby Kennedy assassination. In the circumstances he found himself in during the chaos, he specifically wound up, as a reporter, searching and tracking down leads for the infamous "Girl In The Polka Dot Dress", who was seen with Sirhan prior to the assassination and also in the company of a major witness named John Fahey, who Faura interviewed extensively in June 1968 as he tried to ferret out the truth of what had taken place on the night of June 4th.
Fernando Faura, a graduate of CSUN when it was still SFVSC, has written an on-the-spot book of the type I hope to eventually publish myself about 1989, a detailed, blow by blow, moment to moment eyewitness account of the investigation that he was not only a part of, but that he initiated, using informants that had not yet been stifled by the police.
Man, what a book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
See you in the morning. Colts over Chiefs, Rams over Cowboys. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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