2014-11-21 sha-sha ®edemption

2014-11-21             sha-sha ®edemption 

                   

                It would break up the trip home / he said, it would put a dent in his endless week-end and loneliness / he said.  It was important to go on a matter of principle / he said, to the International Film Festival taking place right / in his backyard.  And he was right on all three counts, but boy when his Crackberry started buzzing as is its wont to cindicate 21 hundred hours, right at the end of the Finnish film that he was just after finnish-ing haha videeing, the buzzing could not have come / too soon.

                'Your excellency' the programming director of the festival said it better by way of cintroducing the Finnish ambassador, also in the house, and 'your excellencies' the ambassador himself said by way of greeting the audience as he took / the stage.  It went south or rather north from there, 'only in Canada' the programming director said it better by way of introducing the movie itself and the standing room only audience who had come to videe it, 'would you have people coming to videe a film about a road trip / in Finland / in November.' 

                What it was was that a Finnish pianist (this isn't the beginning of / a punning / joke -id., though he wished / it were) returns home from a concert to find a 'dirty old' - little Alex says it better in Kubrick’s take on Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, apropos the homeless guy whom Little Alex and his droogies rough up under the tunnel in that film - 'debauchnik', sleeping in front of his Helsinki apartment.  Your man in the loud shirt is of course the Finnish pianist's (that's enough -id.) long lost Da, and off they go on a series of (m) / (s) / (b) adcap / adventures up the Finnish coast, dirty old debauchniks is all / we gots.

                What the Finnish ambassador made of the local audience members coming and going at will during the screening, we may never know - 'brutal' the various members of the fictional metal band Dethclok, itself of no small Scandinavian DNA, say it better to describe their (s) / (m) / (b) and just plain / adventures in the sadly little-known cartoon TV series 'Metalocalypse', and just 'metal' to describe a particularly spectacular event or series / of events - but it may have had something to do with the fact that the film's subtitles were visible only on the very bottom of the screen that had been set-up for the occasion, and therefore required constant head and neck adjustments from a significant percentage of the audience in order to try to see over the heads of the audience members / in front.

               

                Course you're not 'assupposed to complain at the film festival - 'would you like some fromage' a colleague aksed it better of another faux-whingeing colleague, 'with that / whine ?'- but surely someone / noticed the craning necks and the need for a different ratio or wtf on the screen?  This wasn't the high-school gym, this was a full-fledged screen in a screening room, at the National Library and Archives no less, where Cin last visited during an office-wide meeting last month, and heard the following slogan, better / than most from the Chief Warrant Officer aka head / of discipline, 'there are always three sides / to a story : my side, your side, and what really / happened', if there is a better description of the triangulation of any damn thing / story / faction, Cin has yet / to hear it. 

                'Tie pohjoiseen (Road North)' / the film this evening was certainly ambitious in its scope.  Between the two of them, the film's Da-and-son protagonists hot-wire a car to serve as their stead - 'a certain Chevrolet' the Finnish ambassador called this 3rd wheeled protagonist, strangely enough in his opening remarks before the film, to whooping laughter strangely enough from the audience, 'Camaro, with a 300-cc / engine', though the car in question in the movie was evidently and obviously from the branding on its grill / a Pontiac - and then go on a series of picaresque (s) / (m) / (b) and just plain / adventures, showing up unexpectedly and unannounced at the homes of a series of ex-wives, step-sisters, adoptive mothers, demented grandmothers and so on. 

                Cinsidered (considered / to Cin -id.) seperately, these visits - which lead of course, spoiler alert, to the two becoming BFFs before, spoiler alert, one of them ®IPs be©ause bathos - are touching in their way, however when you do the math and realize just how many people you can visit unannounced and unexpectedly, and then see / what happens, you are looking at more of a Lord of the Rings-style endless trilogy, endless surprises good / and bad, and by the time that these two erstwhile latter-day Huckleberry Finns haha started getting shot at by their mother / ex-wife's current husband on the current husband's horse farm, at which our two protagonists had yet again shown up unannounced and unexpected after 35 years in the middle of the night, you were pulling for / the gunman.

                Metal.  All that Cin can hope for is that, like your man the protagonist of the film, the Finnish pianist, he will return home from his series of (s) / (m) / (b) adcap adventures and his art will be all the richer / for it, hoping that returning home from series of (s) / (m) / (b) and just / adcap adventures all the richer / for it, for art, is all / we gots.

                Course Cin is about to embark on a series of (b) / (m) / (s) and just plain / adventures on his own with his own Da, thus his cinterest in videeing the movie this evening, which Finnished haha with your man the son the protagonist, after getting his comeuppances, hulk-smashing away at the piano at one concerto or another in the Helsinki symphony hall, his newly-reunited wife and daughter, not to mention his long-lost maternal mother, in attendance, much as your own man Cin, your humble / humbled / humiliated narrator, after getting his comeuppances, hulk-smashes away even now at one cincerto or another within this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore flog symphony.

                'There's not' Cin said it worse last week - after being aksed whether he 'minded' doing the same, of agreeing to stay overnights with their Da in Luskvegas early next week, when their Ma goes in for cataract surgery - 'much choice to it'.  Cin's choice of living arrangements for their Ma and Da,  namely the hiring of a man F®iday to keep an eye on their Da, and not insignificantly allowing their Ma some time / to herself - codenamed 'the Sha Sha ®edemption' in honour of their uncle, and of your novel of the same name, innit Mr King, who when faced with the same circumstances finally relented and agreed to having shifts / of nurses to keep an eye on him in / his home - has been vetoed by these same principals, and more / than once.  Now as a result Cin is your man Friday, heading out to Luskvegas of most Sundays be©aue the Golden ®ule, (s)he with the Gold Makes / the Rules, , and this week coming up from Sunday to WTFednesday as well, the Sha Sha ®edemption is all / we gots.

                'I took care of her', the younger of the protagonists said it better in the Finnish film from earlier this evening, speaking to his long-estranged father, of their mother who died from 'colon cancer' according to the subtitles - in truth Cin thinks that this entire bit of dialogue may have been mis-translated, but as it serves his purpose up on out on up on out on this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and slog, he will use it / regardless - 'once a week / for three years', and Cin is one a similar-sounding / schedule as of late.

                'If you'd like' Cin offered their Da better earlier this week, trying to cinvince his Da to come into town during the day, so that he can be better kept an eye on, 'you can come to / the office', though this plan has some haha impediments, though it has some appeal too, their M and P have no idea what is it that ©in does - 'I wonder what it is that he does' little Alex's M says / akses it better to his P, of little Alex, in A Clockwork Orange to the same effect and for the same reasons, 'of an evening' - other of course than what Cin hulk-smashes away up on out on up on out on up in the pixels and pages of this this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and (s) / (f) / © / (b) log - about which not cincidentally his Ma had some strong words of encouragement to Cin to counter the otherwise complete wall / of cindifference, save for the occasional / cintervention, that has met the same - but surely they must / be fas-cin-ated (hooker please –id.) to find out.                             

               

                Good times, Cin really cannot afford to leave work early ever, and next week is no / exception, he will have to park the car downstairs here in the cindominium, walk to the bus stop, commute to work, and then repeat the procedure on the way home after work, getting back to Luskvegas hopefully in time before their Da goes all 'Top Chef' as is his wont and starts in with the culinary arts in the kitchen, turning on elements on the stove, and then forgetting the same, before doing it all / again.

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