Coincidences
Thursday, December 14th, 2006 at 8:46 pm#1 I must be settling in here good, because the other day I went out to check the prices of secondhand pianos (and some new ones, too). The only one I liked from among the affordable ones was a Yamaha I couldn’t really afford anyway, so today I tried a digital Kawai and was pleasantly surprised. Sounds like a piano, feels better than a lot of the cheaper acoustic pianos, can be made to go very quiet (a bonus when you live in a flat), has a cool button that turns randomly pressed notes into music, and it’s affordable. (Did I mention it has a button that turns random notes into music?) So in the elevator I mentioned to my boss that I’m thinking of buying a piano, and she says, “Oh, I have one. I can sell or rent it to you. I don’t have time to play it.” It’s a digital piano. She thinks it’s a Kawai. I’m going to go over to her place and try it out.
#2 I saw Casino Royale (the new one) last night. A couple of scenes made me think of The A-Team for the first time in years (and a couple of other scenes made me wonder if it might be time for a female Bond, a la the new Starbuck; if Bond can’t be Bond anymore, I’d prefer a Bonde)…anyway, I just heard the A-Team theme in Napoleon Dynamite. Now, I love coincidences. I like to take notice of them and investigate where they point, because sometimes they point to interesting places. But I’m having trouble working out where this A-Team thing is going, other than that “sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit” reminds me to hurry up and finish the post about David Hicks that I’ve been meaning to put up here. On the other hand, maybe it’s a warning to beware of vans?
December 15th, 2006 at 7:07 am
A Bonde girl? Hmmm… Interesting idea! The female Starbuck was a brilliant one, why not a Bond girl. I haven’t seen Casino Royale yet, but I consider it a duty for me to go see it… I have translated the book in Romanian and I have a soft spot for this particular Bond title…
December 15th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
“First time is happenstance, the second is coincidence, the third time is enemy action.”
Goldfinger (on continually running into Bond from the book Goldfinger).
Also in Goldfinger (the book) was the scene finally used in Casino Royal Where Bond is strapped to a bottomless wicker chair and has his yarbles smacked. In the Goldfinger film they changed it to a laser.
December 15th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Horia - I loved Dirk Benedict as Starbuck when I was a girl (he came somewhere between Cookie Monster and Batman in my romantic affections), but Katee Sackhoff, wow. Love all over again. I had mixed impressions of Casino Royale. I’d be interested to hear your views when you see it.
Paul - I had to close my eyes halfway through that scene, and I don’t even have yarbles to be thinking of. I’ll bear that in mind about enemy action - thanks for the tip.
December 17th, 2006 at 6:44 am
I’ve missed the last two or three bond movies, but they were thinking of doing a spin-off with the Jinx character from #20 Die Another Day.. but apparently killed the idea off before anything came of it.
The only problem I see with making a female James Bond is that’s what it’d be, beginning, middle, and end. I would love to see a new character that pressed the same buttons James Bond does, but in new and exciting ways, regardless of what direction the character’s gender compass points.
December 17th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
I was half joking about a female Bond. But re what you say, Aeon Flux always did it for me. Liked the cartoon better than the movie, though.
What I missed most in the new ‘rebooted’ Bond was the glamour of the old Bond. The new character seems to miss pressing that button entirely - as a deliberate choice by the filmmakers.