…To Mark Curtin for the Operation Petticoat DVD. There are still several Cary Grant movies I’ve not seen, and this is one of them. Thanks also to Patrick Yella for the two Bogie flicks, Dead Reckoning and They Drive By Night. For some reason, I just enjoy watching b&w films at night, and I’d been running out. Bogart is one of my favorite actors, and I’m also a fan of George Raft and Ida Lupino.
Thanks, too, to Gary Schamburg for season one of “Alfred Hitchcock Present.” Great stuff—like “The Twilight Zone” with bookended drollery from Hitch himself. I’d also like to thank John Nowak for Quest for Fire and Dracula – The Legacy Collection. For some reason, Lugosi reminds me of Antonio Banderas. But that’s just the Klonopin talking. Speaking of which, Klonopin and caveman flicks? That’s some freaky stuff, man.
Thanks to Jeff Blehar for Mike Leigh’s Naked (which I’ve been dying to see, and has just recently come out in a very nice edition from Criterion); My Left Foot (which I haven’t seen since it was originally released), and “X-Files – The Complete Eighth Season.” That leave me with only season nine to pick up to complete the set.
And thanks to Bill Smith, who sent me a pound of genuine imported Costa Rican coffee, as well as to the guys at blogoram, who sent me and my wife a night out at a local restaurant and brew pub. Which is our kind of place.
I am extraordinarily grateful, and I thank you all, both for your generosity and for reading protein wisdom.
Finally, I’d like to thank all of you who were so generous during my recently completed fundraising campaign, either with your contributions or your words of encouragement and support. You have no idea how much your outpouring of support lifted my spirits. I am humbled.
Several of you have written to ask 1) if I made my goal (I did, and at the high end, too!); and 2) what is going on with my housing?
The answer to the second question is that I know no more now than I did when I first posted on it. I haven’t spoken to my landlord again (intentionally: he has yet to give me anything in writing, so I’m hoping that his failure to do so will allow me to stay longer, given that the 60-day grace period for moving out probably only kicks in once I’ve received written notice); if we can hold out until the end of September, I think we’ll be fine. If not, we’ll be cutting it close.
Which is to say, we could be living in a new house for 3 months without any furniture, and with a mortgage payment slightly higher than we’d counted on. Either that, or we’ll have to move to an apartment for a month or two, only to turn around and move again.
And that would suck hard.
Oh shut up ya big lug. Suck it up…
Really…
Jeff, thanks for all of the excellent work.
Does this mean that we’re all invited to the house warming to watch the Dillo dance?
Oh, a Bogie fan? Have you seen The Roaring 20s yet?
It’s particularly neat to me for two reasons:
1) Bogart generally plays an utter bastard who reluctantly becomes a hero. Here he plays an utter bastard who is indeed an utter bastard.
2) James Cagney is the star. Cagney was an intensely serious actor who took his craft very seriously, and so became one of the most beloved screen icons in history. Bogart regarded acting as a joke that any monkey could do, and so became one of the most beloved screen icons in history. Is that cool or what?
In our first house, we had one sofa and a “kitchen” table we got from my sister’s office furniture employer. Oh and a metal bedframe with a mattress. That’s it. It was quite klassy.
When you move, and especially if there’s a gap between when you vacate your current house and move into your new one, use those POD thingies. We had about six weeks to wait for our new house, so we packed up all of our old house in those big crates and they hauled them away and stored them until the new house was ready. WAAAAYYY convenient.
Hey! Maybe someone on this thread
is smarter than Jeffcan help me…!I’ve been trying to find a pre-code talkie comedy I saw a chunk of one night on PBS, about a scrawny little guy who suddenly becomes a raging lothario. I’ve heard it might be a Charlie Chase picture, but I don’t know.
Any ideas?
Heh, I slept on the floor for 3 months after I graduated while my bed was being built.
Not that bad, really. You have a lot more surface area, and there’s very little chance of falling.
Hard on the kid to pull that – although it could be endless excitement with boxes and unpacking and such.
(Not much fun as for me as an adult moving from base to base, tent to hut, etc.)
At least nobody should be shooting at you where you are going, right? I mean, I don’t know Colorado that well, but…
Hey. Maybe this landlord thing is a ruse. Maybe the Kos Kidz & Atrios’ Assholes are out in Colorado looking for Jeff.
Don’t worry Jeff, I’ve put out an urgent message to Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer. They’re on their way.
Shhhhhh! That is not for export coffee from Costa Rica. What the locals drink. Aproveche!
CHERNOBYL! FACT!
yeah, if we ever have to move again, i’m just setting the place on fire.
Last August, I was in a similar situation as you are, Jeff. I was renting a condo and the owner(s) decided to put it on the market. I had 30 days notice to leave, completely not ready to move anywhere.
I ended up getting an extension to 60 days (if I agreed to show it while I lived in it). I ended up buying my first home and closing in 45 days.
It was a beating – but it rocks to own your own place.
Kick me out now, bitches!
I got nothing but a movie recommendation: Ushpizin. An Israeli heartwarmer.
If you can’t afford furniture, do what college students do: raid construction sites at night for bricks and 2×4’s. Great do-it-yourself projects, limited only by your imagination and the laws of physics.
hmmmm, just hope the Cowboys won’t want to move anytime soon. ;D
I have only one word for you…. Kelo.
Muhuwahahahaha
Sorry ‘bout that.
Now, naturally you are going to report all that income to the IRS, and send them an advance payment on all the tax you owe, as the law requires…right?
Right?
INAL, but individual, completed GIFTS of less than $11,000 each are not income? Your mileage may vary.
Either way, since Jeff made the high end of the goal, we should expect a commensurate increase in overall level of funniness, right?
Bootlicking Jacobian shocktroops, the lot of you!!!
I mean Jacobins, of course. I know you all suck at math!!
bah. Existed for years on “borrowed” or homemade furniture. Amazing what you can find in the hours before trash pickup. Wife frowns on that sort of thing nowadays tough….
Back when I used to sleep at night, I had the color on my bedroom tv tweaked so that everything was in black and white, probably for the same reasons.
Some movies were hugely improved by itâ€â€most ironically, Natural Born Killers. And all David Lynch movies became The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (which they are anyway, but you can’t see it). Almost everything just looked better-shot, and better for sleeping on.
One problem with doing this is that you can’t watch movies like, say, Belly or Manderlay, because well-photographed black people turn to just teeth and shirts in fake black and white, and it looks ridiculous.
I did this years ago, and not in Colorado, so there was no hate hotline to report my racist tv settings to, and I got away with it. YMMV.
Jeff,
Found this little place for sale.
Maybe you could hold another fund drive – sorta like a “moving pledge” instead of moving sale.
Of course you would have to relocate to Cal.
High Sierra is great with MadDog Earl and his girl Marie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/
You’ve never seen Operation Petticoat? That is a very good movie. It has one of my favorite Cary Grant lines from any movie:
That, and I really like Tony Curtis. Even if he usually just plays himself.
Hey Jeff, if you really want to thank me, you’ll start a series of hallucinogenic posts inspired by the X-Files Season 6 episode “Field Trip.” (Trust me, if you remember that one – one of the all-time great episodes, IMO – you’ll know what I mean.)
THAT would indicate true gratitude, my man. Otherwise, enjoy your bonanza DVD haul. And remember: Season Eight is way better than Season Seven, so if you’re just watching it for the first time (the sixth season was the last one I watched regularly…college life intervened after that), you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how well Robert Patrick does filling Duchovny’s shoes.
Turing word: “nations,” as in “Alien black oil/bee husbandry run out of the United Nations SCSG.”
Thanks for the update, Jeff! Hope all works out well!