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The Sleeptalker once added to one of our collaborations “Skoy is a boy who runs with lots of stupidity”. Well, you’re not alone, my friend, you’re not alone.
Back in November I bought a set of auxiliary loudspeakers (left/right/woofer). When they didn’t connect with either the tv or the DVD player I should have put them back in the box and returned them to Radio Shack for a refund.
Instead, I let them sit there bothering me for almost two months, then got the not-so-brainy idea of opening up the tv and connecting them directly to the internal speaker leads.
“Bad idea,” said Helen, quite accurately.
When I closed the tv set again, it wouldn’t turn on at all.
Woe was me.
Well, Helen had been planning to buy a new tv set, so advanced the plans and gave me her old one. Not only gave it to me, but lugged it into a taxi and ferried it to the house in the valley.
As I said to her, “beyond kind”.
And it’s a classic case of all’s well that ends well. With the now deceased set I couldn’t get about 40 channels but with this one, after some trial and consultations, I now get the basic 78 channels.
Including TCM, Turner Classic Movies.
Some days it could more accurately be called Turner Old Movies, because they do show many films which are certainly not classics.
On the other hand, in less than two weeks I’ve seen 42nd Street, Of Human Bondage, All About Eve, Petrified Forest, Sunset Boulevard and Jules et Jim, all of which definitely deserve the classic award.
And one which I’ve never seen before, the very strange Orson Welles film of Kafka’s very strange novel, The Trial. In his prime, Anthony Perkins was every bit as alluring as Brad Pitt is these days and in this film he was superb. I want the DVD because this is one film which deserves repeated viewings.
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