The clouds crept in tonight, stealing softly over the valley. May they become fat with moisture and piddle upon us! Okay, I know it's not supposed to rain this week - in fact, it's supposed to heat up again in a few days - but I can dream. I love watching the clouds, even when they're just a nocturnal covering that will burn off shortly after sunrise.

We went and saw Dirty Pretty Things today. Just in time too, since this is the last week it's playing locally. It made we want to say, in my best Monty Python voice, "but I'm still using it!!" Actually, it was quite touching, and I really liked the main characters. Go see it if you get the chance. Willow started talking towards the end, so it looks like our days of sneaking a quiet baby into the movies are at an end. Oh well. On the way home we talked about how it would be neat if, instead of making sequels in the usual way, people (or film studios) would just do a series of movies about the continuing lives of particular characters (such as the ones in this film) without necessarily having any story/plot carryover from the previous movie. We're talking real life here, not some hapless action hero who gets trapped on a speeding vehicle or in a burning building or in a collapsing space station every couple of years. Let the characters move on and experience something completely different. Surprise us! Oh yeah, I forgot, surprises don't make money for the studio executives. It's good that there are still some people out there making films for reasons other than purely financial ones. Let's hear it for artists who take risks! Maybe if we all stayed away from Big Studio Action Movies, the stars wouldn't get it into their thick heads that they can enter politics. Okay, I'm starting to ramble. Goodnight.

cds I listened to while continuing on from the day before: V/A "Eisteddfod", V/A "Lucifer Rising", Uz Jsme Doma "Autumn, Spring, Winter, Hell", Paul Roland & the Hellfire Club "A Cabinet of Curiosities", and In the Woods... "liveatthecaledonienhall"