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Well, I've been dealing with all the same changes everybody else on Earth is dealing with. Keeping a safe social distance while shopping, shopping online, making a homemade mask, warding off cabin fever, warding off being a hypochondriac, and watching the news on TV. And tearing myself away from the news on TV or the internet long enough to practice.
The news is like that Clint Eastwood film, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. but it is mostly ugly. Grim. But "this too shall pass".
It's also like an Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, only instead of crows perching on the schoolyard playground, these are viruses.
I've been reading about viruses, and the immune system. I normally take a lot of vitamins anyway, a LOT, but I'm loading up even more now.
I've also spent a LOT of time filling out the Florida unemployment application online, they call it re-employment down here. It took 12 days to finally complete it because I kept getting logged off the site, and then had to basically start all over again, and the bandwidth was overwhelmed with hundreds of thousands people who are now out of work. I finally finished the job Sunday, for some reason the bandwidth was great on Sunday and I breezed through in about 90 minutes.
Until it passesake time for good things, fun stuff. Watch a great old film you haven't seen in a long time, even if it's a grim tale about a lethal viral pandemic, lol. Here are some of my faves. Feel free to write back with some favorites of your own!! Please.
Pandemics (if you have the cohones): The Andromeda Strain, The Seventh Seal, 12 Monkeys, Contagion,
Comedies: A Night At The Opera, Bringing Up Baby, Doctor Strangelove, Modern Times, Harvey
Holiday Flicks: A Wonderul Life, Meet John Doe
Sci-Fi: The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951 or 1994 version, both great), The Thing From Another World (1951 version only)"
Westerns: Once Upon A Time In The West, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, The Searchers, White Buffalo, High Noon
Film Noir: Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Third Man (with a GREAT film score), D.O.A., Night In The City (1950 version), Key Largo,
Political Films: Casablanca, Bulworth, The Front, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Man In The White Suit
There's a lot of crossover, a lot of humor even among some of these films that are really dramatic if not grim. And humor is GOOD. Especially now.
Also, I will be posting some videos tomorrow of my music on YouTube or Facebook. I'll let you know.
And later in the week I'll do a live podcast on facebook.
Be safe.
Robert Ross
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