3 June
So, I went to the Virgin Megastore yesterday to get a present for a friend, and I thought I'd pick up the albums from Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies (apparently I have some sort of father fixation, of which I was previously unaware!).
Once in the Virgin Megastore, however, you don't get out without charging your card to the max, so I also got Four Bitchin' Babes' Fax it! Charge it!, the Indigo Girls' Rites of Passage and Strange Fire, Loudon Wainwright III's Little Sky, and Christine Lavin's Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind and Billy Bragg's Talking With the Taxman About Poetry, both of which I already have on tape, but I'm working on turning everything into cds.
We'll all know when I'm done, because the next day the technology will be obsolete.
Of course, this was right after getting two huge boxes from Amazon.com the other day!
I did, however, order and pay for them like two months ago, so it wasn't as though I really spent so much this week. Anyway, I got a ton of great children's books, most of which I spent getting from the library my whole life.
I got all of the Edward Eager books (Half-Magic, The Well Wishers, etc.), and the Diane Duanes (So You Want to be a Wizard, etc.), and Diana Wynne Jones' Dalemark books and the newest Discworld book, Jingo, and I'm just exactly as happy as a clam.
A clam with a big pile of children's fantasy books!
I'm becoming an out of control consumer!
Hey, gimme a break, I have a tax refund to spend...
So, I was walking to the van while watching the Sony JumboTron in Times Square with the Closed Captioning (talk about almost getting run down!) and they were talking about how nobody pays attention to tornado warnings, because most of them are wrong.
And they were interviewing this guy, and the interviewer said:
"The funnel was visible for fourteen minutes; when you turned on your car radio, they said that they funnel was visible and that everyone should go to shelters; when you got home, the police sirens were sounding and the police were driving up and down the street telling everyone to go to the shelters. And you ignored this?"
Stupid Guy: "Yep."
I: "What would it have taken to make you go to the shelter?"
SG: "I would have had to actually seen it going down the middle of my street."
I: "And that's what happened?"
SG: "Yes, I luckily glanced out the window and saw it, so we all jumped in the car and only just made it to the shelter ahead of the funnel."
Clearly, the man should not have lived--I call that natural selection. I mean, I don't live in tornado country, so I'm pretty certain that 80% false alarms would get to anybody, but honestly! Have these people never seen The Wizard of Oz? Not to mention that movie with the flying cows!
I'm interested in this whole Truman Show thing.
I mean, it looks really good and I'm looking forward to it, but why is everybody saying what an original story it is?
Personally, I've seen it twice before.
Once was on the anthology series Amazing Stories, an episode called "Secret Cinema" about a woman who slowly comes to realize that her life is being filmed, and that was actually a remake of a 1969 Paul Bartel movie (Paul himself directed and appeared in the remake), and the other was on the new Twilight Zone series,an episode called "Special Service" starring David "I'm a Pepper" Naughton about, ummm, a man who slowly comes to realize that his life is being filmed!
I'm sure this version 4.0 of this particular story will be great, but it ain't anything new, baby!
One year ago today:
The lights off indeed...
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