Called Uber next. It was getting late, and I wanted to make it to the 11:30 showing of Snow White. The driver picked me up in 9 minutes, but he was a pleasant man who dodged what little traffic there was. I was at the Cinemark theater in 15 minutes. Dashed into Dollar Tree to grab a Diet Pepsi and snacks for the movie before heading into the theater.
I got in probably about half-way through the commercials. I have no more desire to see King of Kings today than I did last week. I really don't need to see a remake of Lilo & Stitch either, but Elio still looks like something worth checking out this June. I wasn't a fan of the Karate Kid franchise in the 80's, and I'm not interested in more films now.
As for Snow White, I go further into this Disney live-action retelling of their first animated feature at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Also, for the second time in a little over a month, the theater was filled to capacity on a day it shouldn't have been full at all. There were at least three groups packed in the theater with me. I think they may have been special needs or autistic high schoolers, from what I heard their teachers say. At least they were a lot more pleasant than the middle schoolers who saw Captain America: Brave New World with me last month. They didn't talk through the movie, and no one made dumb jokes. (And when they did talk, they often weren't saying anything I wasn't thinking myself.) I was more concerned about their teachers constantly getting up and down to tend to them and disrupting the early goings of the movie.
Dodged all of the groups after the movie and hurried to Applebee's for lunch. Unlike the theater, they were quiet, despite it being 1:30 and still lunch time. I ate a delicious, juicy bacon cheeseburger and well-seasoned fries in wonderful peace.
Made a very brief stop at Walmart next. I didn't even bother with the housewares side of the store this time. I haven't found anything interesting over there in months. I grabbed cough drops and Alka-Seltzer medicine to combat my allergies and moved on.
It was too gorgeous of an afternoon to go home right away. The sun was shining, the breeze was blowing, and it was soft and warm, probably in the lower 60's. Strolled down the White Horse Pike, stopping at WaWa for a green pineapple smoothie so I could take that allergy medicine. The smoothie wasn't bad, very sweet, but full of earthy tropical flavor.
I hadn't explored Sun Valley Records in a while. They're a small record and head shop on the other end of the White Horse Pike near Lindenwald. While they have a decent used DVD collection, their records and CDs are mostly new, and thus, far more expensive than most of the other record shops in the area. Not to mention, they specialize in rock and jazz, with some R&B mixed in. No cast albums, no country, and soundtracks only if they have songs in the aforementioned genres. I did pick up a few things. The DVD was the 1933 horror film The Mystery at the Wax Museum. The one record was:
The Beatles - With the Beatles (I haven't been able to find this anywhere else.)
The CD was:
The Animals - The Best of the Animals
Walked back to WaWa to pick up the bus and throw away the smoothie cup. I waited, and waited, and waited. The bus was at least ten minutes late. At least it didn't take long once it did arrive. The traffic wasn't bad for almost 5 PM. I was in Oaklyn and at home by 5.
After I took out the trash, I put on Snow White and the Three Stooges. Snow White has a lot in common with this live-action version from the 60's, including the prince not being a prince, the comic relief characters being relatively subdued, and the lovely music and production. I went further into this one at my musical review blog way back in November 2018.
Finished out the night with two of my recent jazz and vocalist acquisitions. Pearl Bailey was taking Broadway by storm in the black cast of Hello Dolly! when she recorded The Real Pearl Bailey. Her gritty, laid-back style can be heard on songs like "I'm Gonna Keep On Doin'," "The Color of Rain," and "A Tower of Strength." (Interestingly, we have another song from How Now, Dow Jones here, "Walk Away.")
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz Volume IV takes us into the post-world jazz scene of hot Dixieland bands and cool modern jazz that became the choice dance music of swinging college students, even as rock began encroaching on its turf. I recognize many of the songs here, like "Criss-Cross" by the Thelonius Monk Quartet, "My Funny Valentine" by Sarah Vaughn, Monk's solo "Bag's Groove," and the Modern Jazz Quartet's "Django."
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