This is a Montreal Gramophone company. The picture is from the McCord Museum Collection on Flickr creative commons.
This is an appropriate picture as I am still procrastinating on editing my first chapter of Flo in the City, about a girl in the pivotal 1910 era, based on the the letters of http://www.tighsolas.ca/.
I was going through our DVD collection, to find movies dubbed (our double , as they say in French) in French. I noticed Miss Potter was missing from its case. Mamma Mia was in it instead.
I then noticed something, that many of my FAVORITE movies are missing. No surprise. I can’t find either Bridget Jones. No surprise. I don’t put movies back in their case. Maybe they are in (or around) the DVD player downstairs, but I think I have lost them. Must buy them again. I feel insecure without my favorite movies to watch at a pinch.
We have come so far from the 60′s or 70′s, when I’d watch a movie on TV (and if it was a dreamy one, say with Robert Redford, I could only dream of watching it again one day.) Now I can watch a movie on a big HD screen or on my little but very clear computer screen and if I want, I can ‘capture’ a picture of say, a favorite actor in a particularly endearing pose and even close up on the shot. I guess directors today have to rethink shots, with this in mind!!
I love Miss Potter. It takes place in the Tighsolas era and is about Beatrix Potter. I’ve seen it many many times. It has Ewen McGregor and Rene Zellwegger teaming up again. Oh, I just realized, I have lost my Down with Love as well. Where can these movies be??? (Maybe my husband secretly disposed of them, so he doesn’t have to hear them playing in the background.) He resents the fact he can’t play his movies, except with earphones, because they are all LOUD boy style movies. They give me a headache. But I think my movies give him a headache too, for different reasons. (Altough he tends to tolerate my Colin Firth Porn as he calls it. He knows where his bread is buttered.)
Oh gosh, I got to get back to Flo in the City. In a few weeks I start my online course at Athabasca College, Introduction to Heritage Studies. My new career as a museum person. Of course, by the time I finish this diploma course, I will be a museum piece. I have six months to finish each 3 credit course, and I must take 8 of them and a ‘stage’ as they call them in Quebec.. I feel like a kid (with a sore back and creaky knees). I had to take this course because I have to get rid of that repeating dream where I am enrolled in some course and I have an exam and I haven’t studied at all PLUS I can’t find the examination room. It’s annoying. Very annoying. Sometimes I am in university, sometimes high school and occasionally elementary school. I say to myself, But I’ve been to school.
Come to think of it, it doesn’t auger well that I am studying to be a curator when I can’t keep track of my DVD’s.
