The TTC started relaying the street car tracks on Roncesvalles last week (Finally!). So far they are only at the south end, but already its making me have to pull all sorts of interesting parking manoeuvers to get to some places. Benna's Bakery and The Film Buff are both in the construction zone and both are shops that I frequent.
Anyway, today there was a bit of chaos on the street. Some guy pulling a really long trailer was trying to get from one of the side streets onto Ronces. With the big ditch in the middle right now, there was no way that he could do it simply. By the time I came on site it already looked like he had been stuck for a good 10-20 minutes. The cops had to shut down the only lane going north and try to direct him, back and forth, gradually turning inch by inch into the street. There were several close calls as his wheels almost dropped into the construction ditch. Finally they gave up and decided to lift the whole thing. As I was heading from The Film Buff, they were placing the trailer onto blocks and reading a large Bobcat to lift the rear end and swing it over into the street.
I wish I had my camera with me. It was quite a sight, with tons of people gathered around for a look. The moral of this story is, if the sign at the far end of a one way street says "Local Traffic Only", it might be a good idea to pay attention and not drive in with a 50 foot trailer. I would have hated to be the driver, total embarassment!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Oops! I did it again
So, I've been renting a lot of movies this summer. One of the reasons is that Ronces has one of the city's best independent video rental stores - The Film Buff. They carry a lot of obscure titles that either don't make it to the big chains, or end up lost among the hundreds of big releases along the miles of "New Release" shelves. The Film Buff only has about three meters worth of New Release shelving and things get moved to the regular shelves much sooner than they do at the big outfits.
Add to this the fact that The Film Buff charges less for the rental, lets you keep the movies for longer, and has a late fee of 25-50 CENTS!!! depending on the movie, how can you go wrong? Oh did I forget to mention the ice cream parlour that is attached to the store? No wonder there is always a crowd of people out side, families, youngsters on dates, friends sitting around chatting. Its a real community sort of place.
So I've been renting all manner of films that I likely would never have even known existed. I'm focusing mainly on zombie, post-apocalyptic, and noire, with a sprinkling of horror, sci-fi, foreign and historical dramas (I highly recommend Zombieland to anyone who has a dark sense of humour, also the Defendor - come one you just can't go wrong with Woody Harrelson).
But I guess that eventually, seeing so many movies means you end up appreciating each individual one less. This just happened to me yesterday. I rented a movie called "Capitaine Alatriste" a Spanish movie starring Viggo Mortensen. Something seemed familiar about it. But as I stared at the cover I saw nothing obvious.
Well, once I popped it into the dvd player,turns out I think I've seen it. Though still not too sure, since I have for sure seen the opening sequence and a scene or two after that, but the rest does not seem familiar. Did I rent it and then fall asleep watching it? Was it so boring that I couldn't bear to watch it to the end? I don't know. I ended up pulling that one out and trying to watch "Army of Darkness". Now that's a funny enough film, but I guess I was tired or something, fell asleep before the army of skeletons was even properly awakened. Oh well, I'll have to watch both films tonight.
Add to this the fact that The Film Buff charges less for the rental, lets you keep the movies for longer, and has a late fee of 25-50 CENTS!!! depending on the movie, how can you go wrong? Oh did I forget to mention the ice cream parlour that is attached to the store? No wonder there is always a crowd of people out side, families, youngsters on dates, friends sitting around chatting. Its a real community sort of place.
So I've been renting all manner of films that I likely would never have even known existed. I'm focusing mainly on zombie, post-apocalyptic, and noire, with a sprinkling of horror, sci-fi, foreign and historical dramas (I highly recommend Zombieland to anyone who has a dark sense of humour, also the Defendor - come one you just can't go wrong with Woody Harrelson).
But I guess that eventually, seeing so many movies means you end up appreciating each individual one less. This just happened to me yesterday. I rented a movie called "Capitaine Alatriste" a Spanish movie starring Viggo Mortensen. Something seemed familiar about it. But as I stared at the cover I saw nothing obvious.
Well, once I popped it into the dvd player,turns out I think I've seen it. Though still not too sure, since I have for sure seen the opening sequence and a scene or two after that, but the rest does not seem familiar. Did I rent it and then fall asleep watching it? Was it so boring that I couldn't bear to watch it to the end? I don't know. I ended up pulling that one out and trying to watch "Army of Darkness". Now that's a funny enough film, but I guess I was tired or something, fell asleep before the army of skeletons was even properly awakened. Oh well, I'll have to watch both films tonight.
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