Yes, yesterday was ostensibly my “day off”.

I don’t have another day off until next Sunday. That thought alone made me really tired yesterday.

Well, “tired” is not really the word. I was reluctant to do anything because I felt like there just wasn’t any time. Just for me, I mean.

Still, I managed to take care of the 722 cats. And do laundry. And meditate, do prayer work, do yoga. Do some editing for the TV pilot package. Speak to Peitor on the phone.

And also!

I finally watched “Emilia Pérez” — that movie that Sandra had asked me to watch and so I re-joined Netflix recently just for that reason.

I watched the movie yesterday, finally. Curiously, it is described as “a 2024 Spanish-language French musical crime comedy film “.

I wouldn’t describe it like that, personally. Having now seen it.

It did drum up a TON of controversy, worldwide. At awards shows, mostly. Because the movie’s central theme is about a cartel drug lord in Mexico who surgically transitions from male to female — and the lead actress in the film, Karla Sofía Gascón, did the same thing in real life. And, as I’m sure you’re aware, there is currently just truckloads of hate and ugliness being spewed at transgenders right now.

Which obfuscated the fact that “Emilia Pérez” was a really good movie.

It didn’t seem like a comedy to me. Not in any way, shape or form. It’s a very dark film, but peppered with hope for the nature of humanity. And it IS a musical — done in a very unusual way. It was in no way predictable. I can’t say if the writing was good, because it’s in Spanish and so I was reading subtitles throughout. But the acting was really good.

But in my opinion, it’s a very dark film. But a really good one.

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Okay, Phil is supposed to do a livestream tonight at 8PM eastern time. I guess we’ll see, gang. Check here later to confirm.

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Yesterday, I was looking at the archived texts I still have on my phone from my dad, and I discovered that most of the texts have disappeared!! This made me so sad.

I grabbed a screenshot of what was left, before it disappears, too — the final text from my dad (his is the white background):

End then, a couple weeks later, he was gone.

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And then on an unrelated note — Times Square used to look exactly like this in the decades that I lived in NYC:

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And really, other than that, I gotta scoot!!!

Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Two versions of the same great song, separated by about 30 years.

If you weren’t aware — at one time, Johnny Cash was Marty Stuart’s father-in-law and Marty played in Johnny’s band. If you don’t know Marty Stuart, he is a fantastic Country guitar player.