woke up late (nothing new there), strolled downstairs and chatted amiably with G & E, idly opened timeout to see if there was a film on and saw that....
i'd already missed the first half an hour of to have and have not...
so i raced up to the top of the house, found spski watching the blessed film..
and blessed it is ladies and gentlemen, not only lauren bacall & humphrey bogart (they met on this film, had an affair, later got married...) but also hoagy carmichael, the great songwriter... lauren bacall improvised a little wiggle at the end of the film to signify to hoagy carmichael's character that she was happy...
somehow it resonated with the alexandria quartet... that i'm reading, particularly clea, the last one... set in alexandria as the second world war is breaking out, to have and have not set in martinique around the same time, humphrey bogart's drunken friend eddie reminding me of scobie from the quartet...
saw 3-iron last night with K, who is, as joni mitchell puts it, strung out on another man, (california, coming home), the film was great, mad ending which she hated and i loved, we saw it at the curzon soho which is a lovely cinema, i left her getting on a bus @ highbury corner & strolled up holloway road listening to gillian welch, most of time, the revelator with the really long last tune finishing as i got to crystal kebab and ordered a halloumi & falafel pitta, first time for that combination and it was nice...
came home to K, M & G and we played cards awhile...
you know how to whistle don't you steve, just put your lips together and blow...
x
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