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Every Tuesday is cleaning day for me. I spend a couple of hours in the afternoon to work around the house with Windex, Pine-Sol, and the vacuum cleaner to get the place looking reasonably decent.  It’s not a comprehensive sort of thing, but it helps us to keep ahead of the kipple that would otherwise take the place over. As I clean, I usually pop the iPod earbuds in and listen to some music to help the time pass more quickly.  It occurred to me today that there are quite a number of remakes and cover versions of songs in my current playlists.  And then I started thinking about movies and about how frequently remakes and “re-imaginings” show up at the box office these days.

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Of COURSE I’m watching Independence Day.  Happy Fourth to those of you at home and abroad who celebrate the holiday!

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I watch movies late at night.  When there’s no-one else around, I get to watch all the really, really putrid movies that no-one of any taste or of even minimal intelligence would possibly admit to enjoying.  This makes me the perfect person to watch and to wholeheartedly embrace my love of the truly crappy movie.  That having been said, it appears that there seem somehow to be certain movies that manage to make their way onto the screen over and over again.

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