Everything is Broken
Jul. 9th, 2021 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogLast night, Seeger. Tonight, ya get Dylan.
You also get photos of things:
That's around the corner from us on our street. I suspected there had been a lightning strike or some other trauma during recent days of heavy weather, but Eleanor noticed the sawdust on the ground and believes it was a town takedown. They've been trying to contain ash borers around here, and it was sad to see this one go.
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Right after that walk, we finished removing the vanity from around the sink:
We've since put a slab of wood under the sink to prop it up, since there's very little holding it to the wall. But the more interesting unbroken-as-yet thing there is finding that much of the original "Scrabble tile" that probably dates to the building of the house. The rest of it didn't hold up terribly well, and after previous owners just slapped cheap linoleum over it, we ripped out most of it except what was under the vanity close to 20 years ago when the then-new tile floor went in. Said floor is now coming out, and we needed to access the area under the vanity to put the new vinyl flooring down.
Progress.
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Tonight's film was the ending of World's End, the final film in the Frost-Pegg "Cornetto trilogy" that we hadn't rewatched in years. This is where my frequent phrase "let's boo-boo" comes from, and I could spend hours tracing all the Easter eggs to this and the previous two films that they and Edgar Wright pop into it. (This piece has one of the better analyses of it I came across.) I always have trouble remembering that Gary King and Scotty are played by the same actor.
You also get photos of things:
That's around the corner from us on our street. I suspected there had been a lightning strike or some other trauma during recent days of heavy weather, but Eleanor noticed the sawdust on the ground and believes it was a town takedown. They've been trying to contain ash borers around here, and it was sad to see this one go.
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Right after that walk, we finished removing the vanity from around the sink:
We've since put a slab of wood under the sink to prop it up, since there's very little holding it to the wall. But the more interesting unbroken-as-yet thing there is finding that much of the original "Scrabble tile" that probably dates to the building of the house. The rest of it didn't hold up terribly well, and after previous owners just slapped cheap linoleum over it, we ripped out most of it except what was under the vanity close to 20 years ago when the then-new tile floor went in. Said floor is now coming out, and we needed to access the area under the vanity to put the new vinyl flooring down.
Progress.
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Tonight's film was the ending of World's End, the final film in the Frost-Pegg "Cornetto trilogy" that we hadn't rewatched in years. This is where my frequent phrase "let's boo-boo" comes from, and I could spend hours tracing all the Easter eggs to this and the previous two films that they and Edgar Wright pop into it. (This piece has one of the better analyses of it I came across.) I always have trouble remembering that Gary King and Scotty are played by the same actor.
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Date: 2021-07-11 02:54 am (UTC)There is a crack, a crack in everything -
that's how the light gets in.
Hint: this is who I thought should have got the Nobel awarded to Dylan.
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Date: 2021-07-11 12:02 pm (UTC)Proof that record companies are asses: Columbia turned down the album containing his signature song. They didn't think "Hallelujah" was anything special, and it took years to gain traction, particularly after Dylan started covering it in concert.