I was watching Ghostbusters tonight with Gary, and I was bored, because I’ve seen Ghostbusters.
Gary, on the other hand, can watch a movie one day and watch it again the next. He says he’s so forgetful, every viewing it’s like a new movie. That wasn’t his excuse for watching True Blood Sunday evening, then watching it again right before I went to bed.
I said, “You just saw this two hours ago!”
“High-def. It’s like a whole new show.”
I can’t see that much distinction between normal and high-definition, but I was content to watch Ghostbusters just to see my two favorite lines:
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Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it’s true. This man has no dick.
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Dana Barrett: I want you inside me.
Dr. Peter Venkman: It sounds like you’ve got at least two or three people in there already.
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BOTH lines were so edited to be unrecognizable. So what else could I do but withdraw my elbows and leave for my stripey blue nest, where the pillows take up a third of the bed? Unfortunately, I decided to watch two of my tiVoed documentaries.
Hitler’s Hidden Holocaust I am so thankful Gary’s family left Germany during WWI. The “Hidden” part happened pre-concentration camp, when the Nazis shot all the Jews in the Ukraine. There was an especially hideous recounting from a child’s perspective.
So, with “Never forget” ringing in my ears, I started up:
White Light, Black Rain In which we are reminded Americans are as capable as Nazis of killing large numbers of people. WLBR is about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unlike HHH, it is decidedly not in black and white. White Light Black Rain is illustrated with crayon drawings children did of the bombings. It was awful, but the thing that mad my jaw drop was the “This Is Your Life” episode honoring the young Japanese women disfigured by the fire and radiation. The co-pilot of the Enola Gay came on and apologized to them. Of course, after 1.5 hours I was ready to personally write everyone in Japan and apologize, so his apology seemed pretty lame.
It was a dark night of tv viewing. On the upside, while researching the two Ghostbusters lines above, I read this on IMDB: “Factual errors:The Hittites, an actual civilization, had quite a sophisticated religious mythology and have been unfairly dragged into association with the Evil Gozer.”
OH and NOW Teddy Kennedy’s dead. Fuck it. Going to bed.
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I have always liked actor David Margulies, the chap who plays the Mayor in Ghostbusters; in the sequel, they even gave him a name (Mayor Lenny). He also played Tony’s lawyer on The Sopranos. I probably saw him for the first time in All That Jazz, my favourite musical that features open-heart surgery.
I’ll guess I’ll have to keep trolling the Internet for something uplifting this morning…
Gary is like my husband, who has a litany of about 20 movies that he will watch any time, any day, and at any interval already into the movie. Dances With Wolves has been on for 3 hours and 20 minutes? Not a problem. He knows exactly what he’s missed and exactly what’s coming up. It’s like being hugged by a friend.
Which explains why I had to endure the last hour of the Postman yesterday. I really wish Kevin Costner would stop making movies for good.
Oh no, another dead Kennedy! When I lived in Orlando, before the days when CVS and Walgreens ruled the earth, there was (I swear) Kennedy Drugs.
I guess the only good ones they have left to trot out are Caroline and Maria. The men keep killing themselves in bizarre ways.
I pray for a day when it will not matter one whit that a Kennedy died.
Ha. I just heard here today that a couple of years ago they brought a team of Kiwi goat hunters to Galapagos to eliminate the ferals on Santiago Island that had eaten all the iguanas’ food and led to their extinction. What did they call the team? Goat Busters, of course.
Shell – I don’t know what gave me this opinion, but I always thought Ed Koch, former mayor, played the mayor in Ghostbusters. Where would I get that idea? So weird..75 – you came here looking for uplifting?Candy – Same here. The Freaking Matrix, damn it to hell. Becs – one survives: Jean, mother of Wm Kennedy Smith. I do like that Kennedy who warns us of Nuclear Disaster, though.Big Dot – are baby goats Goat Bastards?