Happy Epiphany to those who celebrate. Sherlockians also traditionally celebrate January 6th as Holmes's birthday, but it's based on silly reasoning; they claim that Holmes and Watson have hangovers on January 7th in Valley of Fear because they apparently got drunk the day before. But why couldn't they have got drunk over celebrating Epiphany aka Twelfth Night that Holmes loves to quote from? Maybe Holmes just loves that Shakespeare play because of all the cross dressing disguises, or because he acted it on stage once. It doesn't have to be his birthday. Sherlockians make such strange leaps of logic. But I don't want to be a nitpicky killjoy, so I let Sherlock fans online celebrate as they wish.
Of course today is also the anniversary of the January 6th attacks on the Capitol. And they still haven't put up the plaque commemorating it. Plus Trump has attacked Venezuela and is claiming that we'll run the country to steal its oil. It's all madness, and to probably distract from the Epstein files again. I can't stand that political blogs like Daily Kos are sitting around arguing over whether we're at war or not. Technicalities don't matter. We need some idea of what we can do, other than wishing that Canada or somebody decide to intervene in the US to stop the madness.
Anyway, yesterday I went to see Song Sung Blue starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. I understood that it was not an biopic of Neil Diamond himself, but of a married couple who had a Neil Diamond tribute act for years. I enjoyed the many songs, and they did find obsure songs that I had never heard of before. I was shocked by the traumatic things that kept happening to Claire Sardina; the film deals with her sudden injury and her post-amputation depression. Ella Anderson is interesting as Claire's daughter Rachel dealing with the blended family and her own pregnancy. The movie compresses all the drama happening over only 3 years or so, when in real life this stuff happened over two decades. That's Hollywood for you, trying to make things more heightened and tense. Overall an enjoyable movie if you need a distraction from the madness of the world.
