Under the Street Light

I am admittedly not an Alfred Hitchcock fan.   I blame it on the movies The Birds and Psycho .  I know that they are both  classics, but really, what kind of mind thinks up something as odd and demented as a town being violently attacked by a bunch of black birds?  Or, a guy who takes orders from his dead mother?  Seriously.  I am also not a big fan of silent movies.  Well, actually, I have never sat through and watched a silent movie.  I've only seen snippets here and there.  Those snippets did not entice me at all.  I find that the facial expressions of the characters are cheesy, and while I am not  a grand conversationalist myself, I still prefer to hear my entertainment, instead of reading expressions.  Regardless of all of the above , the film that I am about to review is not only an Alfred Hitchcock movie, but a silent one at that.  The film's name is The Lodger .  It was released in 1927 and was one of Hitchcock's first movies.  The story takes place in London an

A few years ago (maybe 3 or 4), one of my best friends and I had a standing, weekly date with Spin Street.  Spin Street is a music & movie store.  Memphians will probably remember it as a former Goldsmith's Department Store, many years ago.  Spin Street has cd's, of course, but also, a lot of vinyl as well.  Anyway, back to the story at hand.  Spin Street used to have a couple of rows of used or hard to "sell" cd's.  They ranged in price from $1-$5.  Best friend and I would comb through the cd's and look for anything that looked unusually good, even if we had never heard of the artist.  Anyway, we did this for several months and probably spent much more money than we should have on music.  We had a great time, though.  And the sales staff got to know us pretty well.  So, I came up with a somewhat brilliant idea.  I am going to listen to every single cd that I bought from Spin Street and do a review of them, right here, on my blog.  I am brilliant, aren

Today is the first time that I have blogged since 2010.  So, yeah, it's been a while.  We'll see if we can make a go of it this time. So, here I am, writing a blog and watching HG TV's Extreme Homes.  While I'm not totally against having an extreme home, at this point, I just want an organized home.  I am a random person with a short attention span.  My personal experience is that those of us who are random with short attention spans have a very difficult time keeping up with things.  Things like a toothbrush, tax returns, and the time.  I have read many books on organizing and homemaking.  They were fun to read, but not terribly helpful.  Why?  Because the people who wrote these books are born organized and don't understand why people like me can see a sock on the floor and walk over it for an entire week before I pick it up.  To be honest, I don't understand it either.  It makes perfect, common sense to pick the sock up and put it in the dirty clothes hampe