Though it still hurts a lot after nearly three weeks of the injury, I found out today that there are no broken bones in my foot. Not sure what it is. Bruised bone? Damaged tendon? I see my own physician in two weeks.
In local news, our old backyard deck has been removed. A new frame will be constructed Monday, and hopefully the new deck laid down soon after that.
In piano news, Jim P. is coming by Saturday afternoon to play some pieces. I will perform a few of the harpsichord works I have been practicing. I am approaching ten weeks since I began a new program. I can more or less play a few of them, including two Scarlatti sonatas and one of the Scriabin,and a couple of Couperin pieces, too. The Etude by Philip Glass is playable also. I recently began the final work on the program, a Debussy prelude. I have played it before, though it will still be a few weeks before it sounds like it.
In Train Sim World news I now own 30 different services, with several of them linked together to make longer runs. Steam had a sale where many of them were 75-90% off, so I basically stole them. I have only played ten so far, some of them just once. I have a lifetime of train driving ahead of me.
In film news there are two to report. Never Open That Door is from 1952, another Argentinian noir based on two stories by Cornell Woolrich. The first one is about a young woman who commits suicide because of her gambling debts and her brother's attempt to avenge her. The second one sees a man return to his mother's house years later, a criminal on the run. Both story endings rely heavily on irony. Effectively photographed and directed, the film is nowhere near as good as If I Should Die... (see previous blog).
Sicario is a fast paced thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve from 2015. It deals with the problems encountered by law enforcement at the US/Mexican border, specifically in Arizona. We also get grim glimpses of life in Ciudad Juarez, the large Mexican city across from El Paso TX. It stars Emily Blunt as an FBI agent brought along on a bizarre and violent CIA mission to capture a major drug lord. She is there merely as a legal proceeding, as the CIA cannot act within the USA without such an agent on board. While she agrees to join the mission she doesn't really have an understanding as to what it will entail. She ends up being pretty naive and a bit too much on the side of morality to do much of anything during the mission. Lots of twists in the plot and when we finally do realize just how the CIA works, and with whom, it is more than a bit eye opening. An excellent film, though violent and almost a horror film in places.
Mapman Mike
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