Tonight's Bruckner Symphony is his 2nd, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. I've been listening for a few minutes and I can already tell that it's gonna be my favorite so far. It begins with beautiful and subtle string themes as opposed to the head-knocking brass booms of some of the other ones we've heard. Overall, though, I am liking Bruckner and will give repeat listens to all of his symphonies.
I'm sorry to report that I ran out of Humphrey Bogart movies (and will try to locate more!), but as such, tonight was a TV night. I watched a super scary episode of "Ghost Story" in which veteran actor Barry Nelson and his three children have just moved into a stylish apartment in San Francisco. Nelson is a recent widower, he and his kids are in a new city. They were lucky to have found this spacious unit which is located in a old building near the bay. His eldest daughter (Susan Dey) has just returned from her first year in college to live with her Dad and her two younger siblings, played by 12 year old Leif Garret and his real life younger sister Dawn Lyn, who you will remember if you are my age as the tiny little girl with long brown hair, freckles and a hoarse speaking voice who, as a child star, was featured on the sitcom "Nanny and The Professor" in 1970. If you saw her, you would instantly remember her, and there is no mistaking her brother with his trademark haircut. They are quite an acting team in this episode of the show, and I see by their IMDBs that they worked in tandem many times. They are natural together and very believable.
The kids have recently lost their mother, and big sister Dey tries to make up for the loss by watching over them. Dad Barry Nelson is often away at work. But the kids are footloose and have taken to exploring the building. Upstairs is an empty unit and they find the door unlocked. After entering, they discover a door at the rear from which a sound is emanating.....a sound of someone chopping wood.
Dad Barry Nelson has heard it too, from downstairs in the family apartment. He reports it to the superintendent (played by creepster character actor Henry Jones), who tells him it's just the sound of the building settling.
But eldest daughter Susan Dey (who every boy my age had a crush on because she was Lori in "The Partridge Family") is also aware of the wood chopping. She is having dreams of a man standing in the snow outside a cabin in the woods. He has an axe, and is raising it and chopping, raising it and chopping.....
He is a big man, with sideburns and a moustache - woodsman like. He is dark and handsome but also silent. Dey says nothing of her dreams to the rest of the family, but little does she know that the kids have already been inside the empty apartment several times, and have opened the door from which the chopping sound is coming.
It seems to be a portal into another world, for what they see is an extension of Susan Dey's dream. Snow is falling just past the door jamb. Frigid air blows into the empty apartment, which is decrepit and full of cobwebs. But through the door, the woodland scenery of Dey's dream has come to life. The big man beckons the children. He wields his axe, chops his wood, and invites them into his world.
Later, they tell Dad and Big Sister that they have met The Man Who Lives Upstairs. He is a nice man, they say, but he is sad because he has lost his wife. This is a coincidence, as Dad has lost his wife recently as well.
Big Sis Susan Dey accuses her younger brother and sister of inventing an imaginary friend, even though she has dreamed the same thing. But she is keeping her dreams to herself, because the whole thing spooks the daylights out of her.
The kids aren't spooked, though, because the man in the empty apartment is real to them, and he seems nice.
But then Susan Dey has another dream. In this one, we find out how the wood chopping man lost his wife. Though she is terrified, Dey summons the courage to enter the empty apartment herself......in the middle of the night, of course.
I really can't tell you any more than that, but as you can see, this is one heck of a scary episode of "Ghost Story".
If you want to see a truly terrifying movie with a similar theme, watch "Stir Of Echoes" from 1999, with Kevin Bacon.
My goodness peeples....now I've scared myself. And I have to be up in a few hours for church.
So I'd better get to sleep and have a nightmare or two beforehand, haha.
See you there in the morning. Love through the night. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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