Shetland March 30, 2022

Taking a break from Criterion Channel movies to start another dismally scenic UK cop show, Shetland. I think Laura watched some of it. It’s right up her alley. Of course, this show’s cop’s malfunction is that his wife is dead. It’s not making too big a deal of it so far, at least, but still, enough already. Hmm. Based on novels by Ann Cleeves, who also created the character Vera Stanhope. Laura definitely watched a lot of Vera. She must have watched this, then. I didn’t have anything against these shows, but she binged so many UK cop shows, from Midsomer Murders to Death in Paradise to Happy Valley to Scott & Bailey, that I burned out and tuned out. Gives me something to watch now, I guess.

University days… well, nights, mainly March 28, 2022

I was in Halifax for my university years and didn’t see a lot of bands, but then not a lot of bands I was interested in seemed to play there. So I saw… Teenage Head, Blue Peter, the Tenants, 39 Steps, Katrina and the Waves, Skinny Puppy, Grapes of Wrath, Moev, and some local bands like (I think) Sebastopol, Euthenics, and the October Game, the last one memorable because it was Sarah Mclachlan’s first show in front of a live audience. I remember not bothering to go see the Beach Boys, Billy Idol, or Bryan Adams, but I don’t remember many other big names coming through.

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