And today was my 45th
Birthday, but because of Covid-19 is was a very quiet affair, I did have a
cake, but no visiting family, due to the Government guidance not to mingle for
the foreseeable, and no going out with friends for a film and a few drinks and
maybe a bite to eat afterwards…partly due to social distancing, but also
because Odeon had closed all its branches (due to Covid-19). Although I did get
my haircut, reasoning that the lockdown will be here very soon and it’d be
helpful to spend a little money with local business before they would have to
close, under the lockdown, so that they would have a little more money to help
tide them over…
…I also watched ‘The Omega Man’:
…which is about a
virus wiping out mostly of humanity, leaving most of the survivors as weird
creatures of the night. A virus that hits in March 1975, the month and year I
was born. If one was paranoid or given to fanciful thinking, you might think
that something odd, something synchronistic was happening! Anyway, the films
not bad, a fun apocalyptic romp through a ravaged Los Angeles, with Charlton
Heston as some kinda Jesus-like lone survivor battling the evil survivors, who
seem to exist only to torment Charlton. And there are some glorious ‘70’s
fashions and attitudes. A fun film 7/10.
…as we’re under
partial lockdown, I’ve been doing a bit of spring cleaning and found an old
note I made for a possible compilation/mixtape:
…based on a line
form the Regular Friessong ‘The Prayer’, “…there are 20,000 deserts at the
bottom of the ocean…the non-specific ocean…” and a line from the Sex Pistols
song ‘Submission’, “…I’m on a submarine mission for you baby…”, which prompted
me to make an edit of ‘Submission’ that would better fit onto this
compilation/mixtape.
Basically I slowed
the track down, pitched it up so that the vocals sounded “normal”, or at least
don’t sound like they have been dramatically slowed down and added some delay,
so it sounds a little like hearing it through water or on a submarine!
…and I did today’s
G2 Crossword:
…which, compared with yesterday’s, went a tad worse, with
having to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 25), but at least we now
know the name of more than one port in France – Calais and Dieppe. And we know
that ‘Dieppe’ is opposite Kent. And that ‘Arbour’ means ‘Bower’ and that both mean
a “a shady garden alcove with the sides and roof formed by trees or climbing
plants trained over a framework.” And that WH Auden’s first name is ‘Wystan’…
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