You young people and your "attention deficit syndrome"!

Hah! Tonight, I'm reading the liner notes to Lee Perry's dub classic "Super Ape" while half-watching Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage". I haven't seen "Scenes" for years, and I'm certainly not watching it again -- I still remember scenes of gut-wrenching emotional torment as Ingmar shows a young marriage torn apart by a husband's affair -- the scene where he leaves the house while Liv Ullman tries to hold onto him screaming is just too much to revisit. I watched a bit at the end, and had forgotten how much of an self-satisfied idiot the husband is, but I did remember accurately how beautiful and radiant Liv Ulllman was (oh, and the part where she says her love life has perked up considerably since he left is priceless!)

Okay, so not much of an entry this time, but I'm working on the next one: some of my classical favorites, including Mahler, Rameau and Sibelius.  I was trying to come up with the list of my Top Five Classical Composers (shades of "High Fidelity"!), and for today, at least, I'd say: Debussy, Ravel, Mahler, Handel and Stravinsky -- but truth be told, I'm not really a list-maker anyway; just trying to amuse myself on the way to work.

I'll most likely write my draft tomorrow night -- my wife's 3/4 of the way through a bad Elizabeth Taylor bio, and on her insistence, I checked out a DVD copy of "Cleopatra". Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near THAT turkey....