Go-o--o-d morning!

[alexpgp]

I have decided to start each day - ceteris paribus - with an hour of cleaning activity on top of what I/we have been doing to maintain basic hygienic standards. It would appear to be about the only hope I have for getting exercise in what is turning out to be a very sedentary lifestyle.

* * *I spent probably more time that I should have tracking down one last problem with 'zion', which had to do with the curious fact that the machine could talk with the outside world and ping other local machines, but could not browse the local network. The key is to make sure you log in (Drew had some user name of his set up as the default login; I'd been hitting ESC to have it go away, as I didn't have the password). As Windows is generally very good about allowing new users to use machines, this was not a problem.

* * *Virus was a fairly run-of-the-mill sci-fi horror flick. I just can't figure out how Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, and a Baldwin-who-is-not-Alex got snookered into starring in the thing, body parts and all.

Watching Stagecoach later on TCN made up for it. It was the movie that earned John Wayne his spurs, if I'm not mistaken, and the film was nominated for a number of Oscars, albeit in the same year as Gone With The Wind. If you look beyond the simple story and stereotypes, the acting is actually pretty good.

* * *The larder is empty, so it's off to the local market for some victuals. I plan to get the fixings for Keith Zimmerman's famous turkey and sausage gumbo (though the ingredient "two bags of gumbo vegetables" kind of have me stumped, unless such a product is sold ready-frozen at the store).

Who knows... maybe I'll even get some translation in today!

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I think Stagecoach was the one wherre Yakama Canutt did his famous stunt (as John Wayne) dragging on a rope between the horses to the back of the coach.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I recall two stunts involving the stagecoach horses. The first involved an Indian who, having jumped off of his own horse onto the lead pair of stagecoach horses, was shot by Wayne and then proceeded to let himself down onto the ground and allow the remaining four horses and stage to drive over/past him.

The stunt you may be talking about occurs after Andy Divine is wounded, letting go of the reins. Wayne jumps forward successively onto three pairs of horses to save the day.

Great stunt work.

Cheers...

Re:

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I think Yakama did both of them. He was great ;)

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

Stagecoach is on my list of the 100 greatest movies ever made.