The most trivial blog post this month, and that is a promise

If you needed to summarize Wagner in two words, you could hardly aspire to do better than “mostly loud.”

When I put the DVD of The Last Samurai in the player’s tray, the disc would not play.  I tried repeatedly to clean the disc’s playing surface (which, actually, was pristine), but NBG.

I am posting this in gratitude because I’ve never had this experience before, and I am grateful it happened with a movie in which I was not particularly invested.