TV & Red Herrings

Doesn't look like I would get much if anything at all done tonight, except to glue myself to the TV set, switching channels, and programme hopping. Most nights for far too long now there have been nothing worth spending more than 10 minute on. For a huge surprise, the silly programmers, lacking consideration for me, had put all the great oldies all in one night, at more or less the same time slot!! And here I am, have always denied to be a film addict! Until something real worthwhile crops up. Never counted on so many good films in one single evening.

Okay, I have seen all of them before. But I am faithful and loyal to whatever, or whoever, I consider good. If they were good and wonderful to me however long ago, then they are still so today. Those on tonight are: 'When Harry met Sally' - remember the restaurant scene where Sally (Meg Ryan) faked an orgasm screaming her head off, and an old lady who just walked in and witnessed this amazing display of climax in public, said to the waitress who came to take her order: "I'll have whatever she just had!"? Priceless. A classic now and a reference.

Then there are 'Fascination', a 1976 Hitchcock film with Cliff Robertson, Genevieve. 'Bandits' with Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett. 'Donnie Darko (2001) with Jack Gyllenahaal and Maggie Gullenhaal ..... (Any family relation between them?), and a couple more, all starting within half an hour's or so difference. Oh, there is also 'The memory of a Geisha', not particularly as good as it could be was how I thought when I saw it quite some time ago, but wouldn't mind catching a few glances of it again to confirm my first impression.

Before you shake your head and jeer that I am such an idiot without resorting to watching one and recording another, or use advanced programming; I have to confess that I do not have such facility any more. When the recorder broke beyond repair, it was never replaced. At the time I thought all TV channels had conspired to a mutual agreement of never to put on any good and worthwhile programmes ever again. Besides, I don't know how to manipulate the multi-function machines!!!

Just as well I am used to doing more than one thing at the same time, like my habit of working on my computer while keeping an eye, literally, one eye, on the TV screen. Most of the time I even manage to follow a whole intriguing story like a thriller or detectives surrounded by red herrings. Can they be grey I wonder? And, why herrings? I know some trouts are red, they are called rainbow trouts.

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Current Mood: Artistic

Sing It Again, Vonda!

I am sure many of us remember Vonda Shapard, with her appearance as a night club singer where many lawyers hang out after work, in the TV series 'Ally McBeal'? That series made her very popular and impelled greatly the sale of her discs, especially the themes she has sung in the series. With 16 platinum discs in her credit and after quite a long while without letting herself seen or heard much, Vonda emerged again to delight us a few years ago in the famous night club, the 'Bikini' in Barcelona.

I first knew of her precisely through her appearance in 'Ally McBeal'. I was captivated right from the start, hearing her very seductive voice and her excellent piano playing. She was capable of transporting the public to the intimate atmosphere, with suggestive and dreamy quality, that makes you sway gently and get lost in some sort of ethereal suspension of time and space. Come to think of it, I religiously turned on to 'Ally McBeal' just about solely because of her singing, much more than that weird law firm, the crazy lawyers and the ridiculous stories, lots of them developed in the common toilets for both men & women!

Of that TV series, in fact I remember little, not much of the actors and less still of the stories or plots. But there was another girl that sticks to my memory, apart from Shepard, the actress in her roll of a feisty, intelligent, and very funny 'dumb-blonde' who was anything but dumb, sings beautifully too and a great dancer. Pretty, sexy and very curvacious. Can anyone tell me her name? The actress I mean, not her role. I would love to find her in some other roles in other films or TV Series if I know what her name is.

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Current Mood: Artistic

Fun With Budgies - Very Entaining Video

Watching this fun and entertaining act called Fun With Budgies I have a new level of respect for Parakeets and their ability to learn and perform tricks. I can only imagine how many hours of practice and the bags of bird seed it takes to train the birds for this act.