Screens Show Serious and Silly

Forgive me if I appear a little confused. We went back to BCIT today but due to yesterday's snow closure, it was a Tuesday for me. Consequently, rather than the usual 4-day week ending on Thursday, we'll need to make up our lost day by attending class on Friday. So tomorrow, although actually Thursday will be like Wednesday and the real Friday will end up being a pretend Thursday. Just trying to explain that has got me so exhausted, I cannot possibly put much effort into an entry today. Not putting in a lot of effort makes a nice segue to the graphic captured from a DVD. This is due to the fact the 1968 flick requires very little concentration to be enjoyed.



An enormous variety of things can put on film (and now disc). Yesterday, I watched a few chapters of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999). This was the one with Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Calista Flockhart. It was a bit quirky seeing them all riding around on bicycles. In a completely different vein, I've got a few documentaries squirreled away in my collection. The rather serious topics are not the only things that can be recorded on film.

Forty years ago, Jane Fonda was running around the universe saving us from Durand-Durand. I imagine myself old enough to have participated in life in 1968 but the fact is I was only nine years old. Ms Fonda hadn't participated in anti-war activities at this time but I'm still pretty sure I wouldn't have been allowed by my parents to have seen this movie. Too sexy, I'd venture. Yet now, I can totally appreciate the silly, often tacky, 98 minutes of sci-fi fluff. Long live, Barbarella!