A few days before Solstice, I was chatting with a friend, another early bird, who was looking forward to the days getting longer, since she and I both get up and work for a few hours before daybreak. I burst her bubble by sharing that while the days get longer starting December 20, the dawn itself continues to be later for some time, and doesn't get back to its December 17 time until January 13. The truth hurts.
Hanukkah was noted by inclusion in the Hallmark Channel's Holiday movie lineup (Love, Lights, Hanukkah! with Ben Savage and Marilu Henner among the cast), I guess as part of the ongoing diversification efforts of that most vanilla of cable channels. Neither I nor that selfsame friend from the prior paragraph could last more than twenty minutes: it was just the same old stuff, but with latkes.
Xmas has been looming large this year. Perhaps because of the pandemic and our not being in Hawaii or Palm Springs, Coco is feeling particularly nostalgic for the old days of her Rudolph Christmas traditions - we actually watched the 1969 animated Frosty the Snowman special the other night, and I have to tell you, it is objectively awful. Seriously bad. I am not sure I will be able to stand sitting through any more, and I am sure there will be some.
Isaac Newton's Birthday has been pretty low-key lately - that has always been a more public sort of affair, and with friends at a remove this year, the apples and prism and rainbows will have to wait. Of course there's a new Apple Day tradition rising in our house, although it's hard to say how it is related to the Father of Modern Science...
Here's a picture of that solstice wreath in situ, as it were:
But what's that new piece of art over the TV?
Why yes, it's the Criterion Collection Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975. You may remember that last year saw a running festival of 11 Godzilla movies (plus two Mothra films) from the 80s to 2000. This year we go top shelf with the original run starting with the classic Gojira. We'll open the package tonight, drool over the artwork and special features included in the set, and start 30 hours of rompin' stompin' Godzilla action.
For those who care, here's the entire ouvre:
Showa Era (this is what's in the new set)
Gojira
Godzilla Raids
Again
King Kong Vs
Godzilla
Mothra vs
Godzilla
Ghidorah, the
Three Headed Monster
Invasion of the
Astro-Monster
Ebirah, Horror
of the Deep
Son of Godzilla
Destroy all
Monsters
Godzilla's
Revenge
Godzilla vs
Hedorah
Godzilla vs
Gigan
Godzilla vs
Megalon
Godzilla vs
Mechagodzilla
Terror of
Mechagodzilla
Heisei Era
The Return of
Godzilla*
Godzilla vs
Biollante*
(*These two are very hard to find and were not included with the rest of Heisei and Millenium eras in last year's set)
Godzilla vs
King Ghidorah
Godzilla and
Mothra: Battle for the Earth
Godzilla vs
Mechagodzilla II
Godzilla vs
Space Godzilla
Godzilla vs
Destoroyah
Millennium Era
Godzilla 2000:
Millennium
Godzilla vs
Megaguirus
Godzilla,
Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack
Godzilla
Against Mechagodzilla
Godzilla: Tokyo
SOS
Godzilla: Final
Wars
Reboot Era
Shin Godzilla
(anti-bureaucracy version - this is next on the list)
Miscellaneous
Always Sunset
on Third Street (Sounds like a charming art film with a Godzilla appearance
treated matter-of-factly - rare and I want it)
Americanized
Films and American Reboots
Godzilla: King
of the Monsters (American version of 1954’s Gojira with Raymond
Burr)
Godzilla 1985 (American version of 1984’s Return of Godzilla
- with Raymond Burr reprising his role!)
Godzilla (Awful Matthew Broderick version)
Godzilla (New shared monsterverse franchise)
Godzilla:
King of the Monsters
Godzilla vs
Kong
Perhaps we'll have all of these someday, plus some more Mothra for Coco (she loves Mothra) and we can implement the Twelve Days of Kaiju...
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