I mentioned on Saturday that normal posting would continue if we didn't lose power again from the ice storm. And therein lies a tale. The power went out around lunchtime on Monday, and when I look at the utility's outage map, it claimed there was only one customer affected by the outage we had reported. That, of course, would be Dad and I. And sure enough, everybody else had power. We live at the end of a dead-end road, with a 1000-foot driveway uphill, and wouldn't you know, but the problem was on one of the poles on our driveway. Lovely. Anyhow, the utility came out to fix it and found a tree had fallen over onto one of the transformers, shorting it. The problem is, it's a customer-owned pole, so the utility isn't allowed to assume the liability to fix it, which meant necessitating a call to a tree service before calling the utility and informing them that the tree issue had been fixed. In any case, normal electric service resumed about 10:00 AM today, and with temperatures having reached 40F, most of the ice has melted from the branches so we shouldn't have that sort of electric issue for a while.
I actually have two movies that I've watched recently and will blog about, possibly tomorrow and Friday, although tomorrow is still the Thursday Movie Picks. A few weeks back I had thought about watching Harry and the Hendersons off of my DVR, but noticed that it was getting a new Blu-ray release on Feb. 8, which was yesterday. So one of my plans had been to watch it in anticipation of the Blu-ray release, and doing a post on it then. But the power outages screwed up those plans.
It looks like TCM's lineup for tonight is boxing pictures, with what may be the TCM premiere of When We Were Kings kicking the night off at 8:00 PM. That's followed at 9:45 PM by Fat City, one of the few later John Huston movies I really like, and is absolutely worth watching. Tomorrow morning and afternoon is noir, while the Thursday prime time lineup is comedies with trains being a big part of the story. Over on FXM, the one movie I haven't much mentioned before is Quintet, a post-apocalyptic movie starring Paul Newman that to be honest I don't particularly care for.
One death of note would be Douglas Trumbull, the special effects genius behind movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner. He was able to take that knowledge of effects and use it on the one big film he got to direct, Brainstorm, which I like but is a mess thanks to Natalie Wood's having died during production. For some reason I thought (wrongly, as it turns out) that Trumbull was one of the presenters of the TCM Spotlight on MGM special effects man A. Arnold Gillespie back in 2015.
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