FM radio nearly changed my life.

While driving home tonight I was listening to FM radio. Donnie Iris's "Ah! Leah!" hit my speakers. This is not an unusual occurrence; Dahnie's a Pittsburgher, so we keep his signature song in frequent airplay. After it ended, I scanned around and landed on the last half of Train's "Meet Virginia." That song kicked out, and with buoyed spirits I started hitting the seek button furiously in hopes of completing the trifecta. I only needed to hear a note or two of "Ruby" by Kaiser Chiefs or "Ruby Tuesday" or, creepiness-be-damned, Kenny Rogers's "Ruby," or one of the 482 other songs with my middle daughter's name in the title. I seeked (sought?) up and down the digital dial, but I was denied.

This bumper sticker...

...was awesome before I started watching the Venture Bros. Now it is transcendent.

November, 2008 Film Viewings

11/1 Creature from the Black Lagoon (Arnold, 1954)
11/2 My Night at Maud's (Rohmer, 1969)
11/3 The Lookout (Frank, 2007)
11/4 Vampyr (Dreyer, 1932)
11/5 Buffalo '66 (Gallo, 1998)
11/7 The Pilgrim (Chaplin, 1923)
11/8 Gates of Heaven (Morris, 1977)
11/10 Waltz With Bashir (Folman, 2008)
The Trap (Golubovic, 2007)
11/11 Samaritan Girl (Kim, 2004)
11/13 My Father My Lord (Volach, 2007)
Three Monkeys (Ceylan, 2008)
11/14 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (Rozema, 2008)
11/15 Ballast (Hammer, 2008)
11/16 La Promesse (Dardenne and Dardenne, 1996)
11/20 Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger, 1947)
11/21 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
11/22 One Day You'll Understand (Gitai, 2008)
11/23 Synechdoche, NY (Kaufman, 2008)
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Thurber, 200-whenever it slouches onto DVD)
11/25 Repo Man (Cox, 1984)
11/26 Time (Kim, 2006)
11/27 Vernon, Florida (Morris, 1981)
11/30 The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)