Thursday we were listening to Beethoven’s 7th symphony as done by the Orchestra of the 18th Century, conducted by Frans Bruggen. Just beautiful.
Which means I rented “Zardoz” through Netflix. Had not seen it in a long while and had forgotten how bad much of it is. Marty is encouraging me to send it back after one viewing, but I, being still a fan, will watch it one more time through.
Because H.o.p. is a little too young to watch the movie and was going to be just as satisfied to hear the score, we pulled out the 7th for him, which I’d not listened to in far too long. I will probably have it on the remainder of the week.
Other than that, I spent part of my day helping H.o.p. make pipe cleaner people. We have major television limits going on with the arrival of Direct TV, which means he can only watch a couple of PBS shows in the morning right now. But he saw the beginning of Sesame Street and recognized it as an episode with a stop animation film using pipe cleaner people and so we put off spelling until after he was able to see it, because he was eager to record it and study the stop animation. So, he recorded it and studied it and had me study it with him and then he went into the back room and dug out all our pipe cleaners. So, after science we did pipe cleaner people.
Wednesday night H.o.p. was disgruntled about the television limits again. “But you get to watch what you want to watch,” he said.
“We watch very little,” I reminded him.
“But you get to watch whatever you want, while I can’t, and that’s not balanced.”
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