OK, this is cool. I'm listening to my iTunes music playing over my stereo via an Apple TV. The Apple TV is set to show a screen saver while music is playing, which is showing pictures from Tom Scola's flickr account.

Nice pictures, Tom. Although they go oddly with The Cure.

OK, people in my neighborhood have finally figured out what happened today. There was a fire and a domestic disturbance around the corner at the same time. People saw the big mess o' fire trucks and cop cars and ambulance and assumed it was all one event.

(Although Robert J. Lurtzema is dead, right?)

Yup, but I spent years waking up to his Morning Pro Musica. Jazz and birdsong.

Apparently if I google "british rocker actor" the third image result is actually the actor I was trying to remember. Michael Des Barres indeed.

Man....I thought I'd gotten rid of all the moths--I hadn't seen evidence of one in weeks, even months, maybe.

But I just opened a box of cereal on the other side of the kitchen, and the two boxes of food on that side are crawling with life. I WANTED CEREAL. Fuck you, fauna. I don't want a visible ecosystem in my apartment. I don't want to have to be an apex predator, because I'm not interested in eating anything killable in here. And that takes the fun out of killing.

So...Cloud Atlas...

If I hate Tom Hanks, it's a no, I'm guessing? He's unctuousing all over the trailer and I'm already queasy. And I don't think Halle has the *it* to defuse him and distract me.

Hey, wasn't Taye Diggs on Private Practice just sleeping with the female lead? Why is he snogging someone else? Did she choose Bratt and he's rebounding already? I only watch the trailers. I feel they're only one or two minutes shy of what I need to know to follow the key guidelines, and protect me for the tear-jerking reproduction-related plots of the week.

At first I thought "Hey! Latina woman in juice ad!" And then there were the men with the frilly sleeves and her son started shaking his cha chas, and aha. That's why they needed a Latino family to hawk the juice. It's fiesty juice!.

That means you have to sleep on your back?

That works better, but I mostly sleep on my side and it still seems to help.

I'm not sure if I can tell the difference between sadness and anger, because I tend to shut down all feeling under stress. The only place I'm really angry is in the car. I yell a lot. A small child riding with me would pick up a terrible vocabulary and say "Drive it or park it" a lot.

A small child riding with me would pick up a terrible vocabulary

As Matilda has with me!

"Drive it or park it"

Mine is "Don't you have a somewhere to be???" But now I have an alternative. Good going.

I have a glass eye question--do they move? I have an aunt with a glass eye (Can you believe one of her daughters didn't find out until she was 15 or so? And then was really angry that other people seemed to know? DUDE. MOTHER. GLASS EYE. How did you not notice???) and it doesn't move like her flesh eye. But it's an old eye, and it's a third world eye. Is shit different, now and here?

And my sister wants to know why all of the Community cast doesn't hang out together. What even is that question?

ita,

I have been hearing amazing things about Cloud Atlas and I don't know how to parse it. I am very skeptical the movie is as good as some of the critics make it out to be, but my skepticism is based on nothing concrete.

I happen to find Hanks okay in general. I don't have a Mel Gibbs-like hate on for him, so he would not be the reason I would want to avoid the movie. Halle Berry on the other hand...

And then was really angry that other people seemed to know? DUDE. MOTHER. GLASS EYE. How did you not notice???)

My mother reportedly didn't realise her father had a moustache. Until my father pointed it out to her.