Day 614

Aka Saturday 6^th October 

Woke up feeling a touch better and was like 80% better by the end of the day. As I was recuperating the postman delivered these comics:

…’Jazz Creepers issue 1’ and ‘More Horrible Folk’, which I'm saving for Halloween!

…I made a simple edit of Link Wray’s ‘Rumble’, extended certain sections and slightly slowed some down, so before the guitar frenzy, the dah dah dah’s slow down for a bit, in a kinda Mogadon haze, before going back to normal and into the guitar frenzy, although now I’m thinking that it shouldn’t go back to normal before the frenzy…

…I also watched 'True Grit', the John Wayne version, not the Coen’s brother's version, in which a young woman, Mattie Ross (played by Kim Darby), hires Rooster Cogburn (played by John Wayne) to track down her father’s killer, Tom Chaney (played by Jeff Corey) and bring him back to stand trial. They are joined on this hunt by La Boeuf (played by Glen Campbell), a Texas Ranger, who wants to take Chaney back to Texas to stand trial for murdering a Texas Senator. At the start of the hunt Ross is very upright and proper and Cogburn is very much unconcerned about abiding by the rules, just as long as the bad guys are caught/killed and he is left alive. But, during the hunt their sharp edges rub off against each other and they develop an almost father/daughter relationship.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen the Coen’s version and I’m tempted to get a copy to compare and contrast, but from what I remember this version of ‘True Grit’ is more light-hearted and hopeful than the Coen’s version. In part I believe this is because of the time it was filmed in, as it wasn’t normal/possible to go as dark/gritty as the Coen’s were able too. Also, I think that Wayne preferred to film hopeful stories. For example, in the Coen’s film the hunt takes a definitely physical and mental toll on Mattie, but in the Wayne version it doesn’t, if anything it seems to have improved her, that she has a better understanding of how the world works and is less rigid. This does make the Wayne version slightly unrealistic, but I think it makes it a more enjoyable (maybe I mean comforting?) version that, for me, slightly edges it over the Coen’s version. 7/10

…and I did the G2 crossword:

…which reversed the nosedive, with only needing to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 23), the answers just flowed easy like from the clues, I should have gotten ‘wheedle’ from ‘deploy sweet talk’, but I did learn that ‘Malawi’ is a ‘landlocked country of south central Africa’ and that ‘asinine’ means ‘senseless’.