We'll be right back after this message from my neuroses....

[captainsblog]

To whoever is running the film in the projection room of my subconscious:

1. On a night with a full moon so damn full even Bill Nye the Science Guy wonders if it might be producing its own light....
Hours before that light went temporarily out (I can has penumbra?)....
With a black cat on my bed....
And, most to the point, a day before my first dental appointment in months....
            Please, not to be running dreams for me about breaking one of my teef off.

   
2. Oh, and when I do get back to sleep after that, and up again and back to sleep again, I do not need an intense dream about running around like a crazyperson doing 17 work things at once.  If I'm gonna be dreaming that, I may as well just wake the fuck up, right?

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No weird dreams, somewhat surprisingly, connected to watching the intensity last night that is the movie Glory. headbanger118 had recommended it a week or so ago for the music, but I don't remember ever seeing it, so it arrived on Saturday. Once you get used to the idea of Ferris Bueller being a soldier, it works quite well and is amazingly touching.

Yet not without the occasional moment of oddness.

In the closing credits, I caught a familiar name: Alan North played the part of the Governor of Massachusetts, the man who authorized his state's 54th Regiment as the first African-American band of fighters in the war.

I said, nah, it couldn't be the same guy, but it is: yes, that Alan North, who in another role quite possibly met President Lincoln himself:

Fortunately, there weren't smartasses like me at the time to write in lines like this:

Dying soldier: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

Colonel Drebin: You're going to be fine, Soldier. And don't call me Shirley.

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Short day today- the church has gotten its first farm assignment, and we'll be picking peaches late this afternoon at some undisclosed secure location. Tomorrow's the long one- the aforementioned dental appointment, plus several work appointments with the kid in tow. This may be it for a couple.

Comments

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it. I showed it to my kids when I was student teaching in college. I wanted them to see something about the Civil War that wasn't the "Fiddle-dee-dee" of Gone with the Wind or North and South And yes, it's a bit weird to see Ferris as a soldier. I kept waiting for someone to sing "Let my Cameron Go."