Barkerburgh

(The only reason I look at those sites…)

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There could be more.  Be glad I got bored.

The other night on CITY there was an hour long documentary on Forrest J Ackerman, the creator and longtime purveyor of Famous Monsters of Filmland, one of my favourite magazines when I was a teen.

I came across the show by accident while surfing. I saw this old Ramses of a living man looking quite chipper and lively all things considered, and thought “I should know who that is…”, and then they id’d him.

Well, I spent the next hour having great flashbacks about the magazine itself, the movies I learned about from it - and often eventually saw, sometimes decades later - and the great ads for movie monster stuff, like rubber masks and costumes, posters, memorabilia and so on, et cetera.

Lotsa fun.

FJA: Did you hear about the new cafe on the Moon? No atmosphere.

I was watching ‘Princess Mononoke’ on YTV when I suddenly remembered I have it on disk somewhere.  I mean, why would I watch an edited TV version with commercials when I  can totally immerse myself in that world for like, what? - 2 hours?

Done.

I had almost forgotten how weirdly trippy the second half of that movie is.  I haven’t watched it for maybe a year and a half / two years and a lot of the imagery that sticks in my mind is from the first half.

Well,  not anymore.  Wow.  The imagery: the heads of the wolf and boar clans, the forest spirit, the kodama (maybe my favourite…), Yakul, and so on, on and on.

I’ve just listened to the original Broadway cast soundtrack, with Zero Mostel as Tevye and Bea Arthur as Yente (I would have thought Golda, but, enh, go figger…). It’s been years since I heard the movie soundtrack which I loved (both the movie and the soundtrack) but I’ve never heard the Broadway recording before. I think it’s better.

Does anyone have the movie on DVD?

1. Make a longhand list entitled “Ten Things To Do During A Power Failure While You’re House-sitting.”
2. Read an entire book. (”X-Treme Latin! Unleash Your Inner Gladiator”; it’s basically a phrase book. From the Country Music Favourites page - ‘Sine Te Tam Miser Sum Ut Videaris Etiamnunc Adesse‘, which translates as ‘I’m So Miserable Without You, It’s Like Having You Here‘.)
3. Read Monday’s Globe and Mail, front to back, even Sports.
4. Ingenuously ask the neighbours if their power’s back on.
5. Disingenuously ask the other neighbours if their power’s back on.
6. Worry about the old lady across the street who seems okay but you’d feel bad if you found out something happened to her when you didn’t check.
7. Stare longingly at the blind TV. It can’t see you, so it’s not fulfilling its destiny. (Me! It can’t see me!)
8. Believe Reality when the power comes back on for about 3 minutes but then, haha, goes off again.
9. Try to teach yourself piano but give up when you realize that while you may never be the new Keith Jarrett, you just might be the new Charles Ives and that’s dissonantly disturbing.
10. Clean out the freezer. By eating.
11. Add some items to the list after #10.
12. Phone some local friends to ask their voice-mail, in all seriousness, “Is your refrigerator running?” But use a funny voice and an accent.
13. Read an entire Mad magazine. (March, 2007)
14. Make anagrams in fridge magnet letters out of “Squarebob Spongepants” (”Barges Squab Opponents”, “Abbess Pang Toque Porns”, etc) and “You talking to me?” (”Image Look Nutty”, ” Teat Ugly Kimono”, etc).
15. Return from the Stone Age when the power comes back on after almost exactly 3 hours.

and bows and keyboards and frets and woodwinds and…

Happy 14th Anniversary, Urban Tapestry. I’ve only ever heard you live once but you’re still hot.

Y’all should do a calendar!