Vox Hunt: Coffee Table Book
Book: Show us a great coffee table book.
This is just a quality book. Lorna bought it for me as a present.
QotD: Passing The Drive Time
When driving alone, what do you do? Sing along to the radio? Think about your day? Something else?
Submitted by carapiccoladiva.
I listen to podcasts. I have a dock for my iPod in my car (actually, the pic shows my old one, which died about this time last year. I got a new 80Gb one from Lorna & Mum for my birthday).
I spend just under two hours in the car each weekday, so it gives me plenty of time to catch up on the latest podcasts on a while range of subjects.
Sure, sometimes I listen to music, especially if I'm pretty tired, but I do like the intellectual stimulation of talk podcasts when I'm driving the same old route for the umpteenth time.
I spend just under two hours in the car each weekday, so it gives me plenty of time to catch up on the latest podcasts on a while range of subjects.
Sure, sometimes I listen to music, especially if I'm pretty tired, but I do like the intellectual stimulation of talk podcasts when I'm driving the same old route for the umpteenth time.
DVD Review: The Mother
![The Mother [2003]](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/wp-content/772/2007/08/6a00d8341da3af53ef013486acf7a5970c-200pi-1.jpg "The Mother [2003]")
I'm catching up on a backlog of Amazon DVD rentals in Lorna's absence, and first up was The Mother.
The heart of the movie is actually a relationship between a mother and daughter, which is strained, if not out-and-out damaged. When the father dies, the mother gets involved with the daughter's (already married) boyfriend.
There's a reek of controversy about this film. "Oh, look, an old woman having sex with a young man! Fancy that!" But somehow, it all come across as mundane. The relationships feel cold and distant, and almost brutally uninvolving.
The problem at the heart of this movie is that none of the characters are in any way likeable. Can you imagine watching a train wreck and not really caring if anyone lives or dies? That's much how I felt about the movie. Sure, the performances are great, and the cinematography often excellent, given the blandly suburban nature of much of the story, but there's something profoundly empty at the heart of the movie, that no veneer of seriousness does anything to conceal.
There's a good movie to be made about older people's sexuality, but this is not it.
1960s Builders
More scanning, this time of a series of pics of my parents' first home in Hazel Grove. Here's one of the builders, from 1968:
QotD: What My Name Means
What does your name mean and why did your parents choose it for you?
Submitted by mommy2two.
"Adam" means red earth.
And my parents chose it…
…well…
…because they heard it on The Archers and liked it. The original idea was to call me Matthew, but they didn't like the clash of 't's in Matt Tinworth. They also prefered shorter names with the long surname.
So, I was named after Adam Macy, illegitimate son of Jennifer Archer, who is now in a civil partnership with Ian, the chef from Gray Gables.
And there you go. That's how I became Adam.