Sunday night older movie made by Monte Hellman

Tonight we went over to see a movie made by Monte Hellman, one of his earliest movies, called the Shooting. It was totally weird, and was one of Jack Nicholson's earliest. He had been a director I believe, and perhaps had had a hand in writing the movie. Monte Hellman spoke, and he had made 4 movies in that year.

The plot was as follows: It had a tracker who was hired by a woman to take her to a place on horseback, no reason given. There was very little dialogue, and Jack Nicholson appeared during the movie, following the woman, also not explained. At the end of the movie the woman shot the tracker's brother, and that reason wasn't explained either. Both Jack and the woman were very violent, also no reason given.

Neither of us was very impressed with the film, but before in the lineup we met a very nice lady from Chicago who was staying at the Welk Development where Sal and Russ had been, her husband had died last August at 63 while they were in Yellowstone on holidays, and this trip had been planned before his death, so she came out here, kind of in his honour. And I think to get away from the snow.

Another one of the film days we had also met a nice pair of men who live here locally and we'd been chatting to them too. Waiting in the lineup for the film to start you get a chance to talk to your neighbours in the line. It's fun to discuss the films.

Earlier today we had gone over to Desert Hot Springs to Radio Shack and bought cable to connect our amps to the mini microphones, so we were torturing the neighbours out on our patio with our amplified flutes, both sets worked well, we both had wee mikes attached to our flutes, and were amped. Worked well for us. But then the wind came up and we got very cold, so came inside.

Yesterday, Saturday we had gone up to the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument to their monthly art show as Annie was out there playing all day, so we joined her, Lesley Currie was there playing from our flute circle, and we got a chance to play a bit, and I bought a small bird whistle from Annie. We also stayed and helped Annie and her neighbour a very nice lady pack up Annie's car with her, she had it full to the brim with flutes, didges, whistles, CDs, and all sorts of other stuff. Her big amp weighs a lot. Lucky that she has a Honda Element so it can take a lot of stuff, and it was really full. It all is somewhat fragile too, Annie packs it all up very carefully. It's like a jigsaw puzzle going together.

Then we attended a dinner and dance at the clubhouse here, it was put on by the board of our park. There are elections coming up but we will be away on our cruise at that time.

The music was a bit loud, but we danced a bit to the music of Remember When. The Hermans, Mike and Pat, were at our table with an older couple from Cat Spa, and Ted, Paulette's husband was with us for the meal, Paulette wasn't feeling well so was at home. Pat Herman recommended to us the fundraiser, a House Tour to be held by the Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert, she thought it was to be in February. She said that the houses are just incredible, and that many of them aren't even lived in more than a month or two each year. We will look into that.