Yup, I’m STILL reading Mel Brooks’ book, “All About Me!”, so I’m looking for more classic movies he talks about. The most recent ones are The Artist, an academy-award-winning silent movie from 2011 that I never watched before. Probably because it’s a silent movie. But Mel talked me into it, so I’ll give it a shot. The Elephant Man (1980) – another movie that’s supposed to be great, but I never watched it, 84 Charing Cross Road, one I’ve never heard of before, but now I want to watch it, and Solarbabies, another one I hadn’t heard of, but it was a huge problem for Mel Brooks’ production company, BrooksFilms, costing tons more money than what was budgeted. It doesn’t seem to be good as far as ratings go, but I gotta check it out.

I recently made the mistake of putting on “100 Greatest TV Themes”, an album on Spotify, to listen to something in the background as I was working. I like to work with a little background music playing low, nothing intense, just sort of like elevator music playing softly. So I’ve taken to listening to a lot of movie and TV soundtracks. But when I hit played this particular album, it often triggered memories of old TV shows, so I had to dig up things I rememebered that I hadn’t dug up previously. Like 21 Jumpstreet, Lou Grant, and Who’s The Boss. At the time they were awesome. We’ll see how they hold up over time.

We watched the movie Superintelligence this week and I really enjoyed it! It’s about an A.I. that decides it’s going either enslave, save or destroy humanity, so it contacts Melissa McCarthy’s character by taking over all of her smart devices in her life and manipulating her to test how humans work and interact to help make its big decision on what to do with humanity. I found it pretty amusing.