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There's not much for me to tell today. I had no plans last night. I walked to the Central Library after work—I finally had
Dune Messiah to pick up. That's the exciting news from the evening, I suppose.
Shobhit had a TPS board Zoom call from 6:15 to 7:30. I spent a lot of that time making a playlist of different versions of ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)," including four versions of Madonna's "Hung Up," which samples the same keyboard riff. I searched for other songs that sample it, and came up mostly short. The playlist is otherwise mostly covers of the original song, including the regular and remix versions of the Cher cover. The only non-Madonna cover of "Hung Up" is from season four of
Glee. I think I probably gave up on that show by that season.
Anyway. It does make for a pretty great, if riff-repetitive, playlist. I'm enjoying it.
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After Shobhit's meeting was done, we watched my library DVD copy of the 2001 Robert Altman film
Gosford Park, which Shobhit was unfamiliar with.
Shobhit's brain just about short circuited with all the familiar faces he saw in that movie's huge ensemble cast, and he was constantly wanting to look up where else he's seen them. He asked me to stop the movie several times because of things like this, and the runtime is already two hours and 17 minutes.
I looked up Robert Altman
on MetaCritic, where it has his films sorted by MetaScore. Among films he directed,
Gosford Park, which has a MetaScore of 90—an insanely high score—ranks
third. It's no surprise that his 1975 film
Nashville ranks first, with a score of 96. Second is the 1971 film
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, with a score of 93. Have I ever even seen that? I haven't logged it on Letterboxd, so I have no record of having ever seen it. Maybe I should put it on my list.
Anyway.
Gosford Park was great, and as far as I can tell, my third time watching it. I last watched it ten years ago, in 2014. Shobhit would have still been in Los Angeles then, so he wouldn't have watched it with me.
I have a couple of other, older but apparently famous Maggie Smith films on hold at the library, in addition to the other DVD I already have at home, a documentary called
Tea with the Dames. Hopefully I can find some time to watch that sometime later this week. Tonight and tomorrow night, though, it's back to movies in theaters. I'm leaving early to see an early showing in the U District with Laney, of a Saoirse Ronan film called
The Outrun.
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[posted 12:30 pm]
