With the world sleepwalking ever closer to the abyss, it was time to take a break from all that depressing news, and what better way to get away from it all than to break out the popcorn and watch an old classic movie?
What with the overnight partial destruction of the Crimean bridge, watching one of my old favourites, "The Bridge on the River Kwai", would have been too much like looking right into the abyss, and so I settled on "The Magnificent Seven" which, lucky for you, is on YouTube.
This old 1960 Western has a great musical score - for many years repeated in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes - and Yul Brynner , Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson as three of the seven lead actors.
"Rented rooms you live in - five hundred! Meals you eat in hash houses - a thousand! Home - none! Wife - none! Kids... none! Prospects - zero."
For many years I could identify with Steve McQueen's words. Now I've got a home - sort of, as I'm still hankering for a warmer place to live in, and a wife, but, given my advanced age, my prospects are also zero.
