So, the new old thing for me is the Nordic Track. I've been watching movies whilst doing it, trying to take my mind off the searing side pain.
My first was a rewatching of Waiting for Guffman. It's hard enough to keep those ropes going in sync with the skis when you're not laughing... impossible when you're watching the mayor explain that Blaine is the Stool Capital of the World. Eminently scatological.
Tonight, a mere six days later, Christoper Guest enters my regimen again. As Nigel Tufnel, rocking out atop a VW, in a new ad for a buy-a-car-get-a-guitar promo (which I think is really dumb, but anyways). What the...? Apparently, he directed the vdubsrock ads, including the Slash one ("rock out just like Slash... if you're Slash"). I checked Youtube... no one's got it up, yet. Probably by morning.
And, For Your Consideration's coming out next month. That man is freaking everywhere.
1 comment:
I don't know if I'm the first person to point this out but... the subjunctive is not a tense. It is a mood.
Anyway would anyone here like to enlighten me as to why Americans seem to love this outdated mood when the rest of the English speaking world has largely moved on? Not meaning to flame or anything, just if anyone has a historical insight (maybe to do with the conservative puritans moving to the states?)
Anon
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