h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This conversation reminds me of the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph:
'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.'
I think I've got to the red hat stage!

I got a red hat for Christmas. It is knitted, and has a visor...very picturesque.

Nobody around here cares about fashion.

I have a red knitted hat -- two, actually, though one is contaminated by mouse smell ).

I basically spend about four months a year wearing knitted hats when I go outside.

Here is a film you might enjoy. Okay, 'enjoy' might be pushing it. But it's intriguing. Jean-Luc Godard's version of 'King Lear' as French New Wave Cinema, with Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, and Peter Sellers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzxW-vR3C8o

It certainly messed with my head. Though I enjoyed the references to Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. I mean, why not?

I will look at that movie later tonight. The casting seems unique -- Molly Ringwald with Burgesss Meredith and Peter Sellars (and Woody Allen!) -- but on closer inspection this seems more akin to "Canticle for Leibowitz.

And, Peter Sellars is *not* Peter Sellers. And, this s classified as a comedy. It has Jean-Luc Godard xeroxing his hand, and humanoid goblins following one character.

hey, I might enjoy this! What am I waiting for?

As a side note, Peter Sellars was a huge celebrity in Boston thirty years ago, as director of pace-setting classical music productions. His "Don Giovanni" (which is available on youtube) was made for television, and was set in Harlem using twin baritones ho sang the roles of the Don and Leporello. I have seen it, and would like to share a link to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXU5pjhPTM

It seems kind of neat that he would be an actor, not a director, in this "Lear."

Yes! I love the description of the Italian alders, mvp.

My mystical fountain froze not long after I wrote about it here. The recent cold weather was too much for it. However, it now floweth again.

Is it two weeks since I've been here? How time zoometh along. Actually I kind of hunkered down during the cold weather, got even more nerdy in my room. I'm like a rodent in my hollow. I'm making some fine beats though. A rat with a drum machine. heheh.

Cor honestly, we think we had it cold, a mere minus two at nights. What about Texas??? I can't believe the temperatures in Texas.



Why am I writing zoometh and floweth? I think I just flipped to old English.



We had our first covid vaccs this morning. So efficient, NHS are incredible. No queues.

And what a miracle is all this science.

The Roman fountain at Aachen. And the smell of sulphur. That's atmospheric.

I've been thinking about the Romans. There's this programme on TV at the moment, its great, a team of achaeologists turn up and dig up peoples' back gardens. . Of course its all pre planned, although the people pretend to be surprised.

Last week there were Roman thingies, like bits of pottery and tiles.

There was a great lady who said she came home from the pub one night a few years ago, and saw the ghost of a Roman soldier on her lawn.



I think I need a drink. Can you mix brandy and covid vacc? About to find out.



The trailer for the programme this week showed a human skeleton. Dug up. In the back garden. Medieval I think.

I had to read up about the Romans after, I didn't even know when or why they were all tramping about in Britain. To be honest, I need the entire story boiled down to a single sentence , but I doubt that's possible.

The temps in Dallas-Fort worth would not be exceptional in Boston, but they aren't used to dealing with that level of cold.

We had almost the same temps for three or four days straight.

But But can the trees take it?

There may be coneflowers in Texas. Chances are, they survive all the way north into canada.

Here's a link to weather extremes for all 50 states

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/scec/records

Now there's a start to a story.

SashaQ never wore her deep purple homburg, with a lilac rim but ...

I love the pic It Was A Gas ...

Splendid!



Was that the Bath Thermae that you visited? A free glass of sulphurous water, eh? heheh. It does sound mineral rich. Can you buy it? In bottles? I really need a drink of sulphurous water now. To wash down the brandy.

I always meant to visit the Thermae when we lived in the West Country. Now we don't live there any more. Hmm. Bath is lovely city I think.

I've never been to an outdoor hot spring, like they have in the USA, and Iceland and places. I'd love to. There's another place famous for them, we had a friend who went there, erm .. where? where? Begins with B. Could it have been Bucharest? I shall find out.

That's weird. The site just crashed after posting to a conversation. Had to sign in again, and took ages to get back.

Could be my laptop.

So if I disappear in mid sentence, then I've gone to the place where disappearing websites go. I wonder where that is? Do you still get red knitted hats there? I hope so.



I love that poem also mvp. I'm at the red hat stage.

hmmm things really slowing down here, re post to conversation.

Think will cool off my laptop for a while. Hope to reappear soon.

Damn. I was just in my flow.

I wanted to discuss Gurdjieff. What about Gurdjieff then?

I need one sentence. Like the history of the Roman Empire.

Laters

Mary Poppins was invented by a student of Gurdjieff. (She's really the Sophia.)

How fitting that Sophia Loren should host a screening of "Mary Poppins returns"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/sophia-lorens-mary-poppins-returns-event-a-hit-academy-members-1175661

Sophia "Wellbeloved" wrote research papers on Gurdjief.



Travers was influenced by Gurdjieff.

Oh, this may be closer to what you meant, Dmitri

http://lxg.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Poppins

Er, no. Not interested in fandoms much. I was only referring to Ms Travers' work with Gurdjieff. Which was why I liked the books when I discovered them as a teen. (I didn't really enjoy the movie, it lacked the real magic.)

http://www.gurdjieff.org/travers.htm

There were two movies. Did you see the second one? Emily Blunt starred in it, with Lin-Manuel Miranda. I know that you are no fan of "Hamilton," which Miranda was associated with, so my hopes are not high.

Another Mary Poppins movie? No, haven't seen it. I did see 'Saving Mr Banks', which wasn't thrilling, either.

Mary arrives and leaves three times (the first three books in the series). I think I read two or three of the books.

It would be hard to get Mary's personality right in a movie or stage show. I wonder who has come closest over the years?