Little sweetheart, I had to replace our DVD player. It was doing something weird where the audio connection was a making a loud hum the moment you selected it as a input on the tv. I tried switching out the cables but it still made that hum. It would get a little quieter once a movie was running but then grow louder in a quiet scene. Gah!
Anyway, they’re not super expensive these days, so I got a new one, just to see if the sound improved and it did instantly.
Tonight, I thought I’d use it for the first time. I had a whole queue of DVDs I had been thinking about watching around my birthday but you may be surprised that I didn’t choose a Bergman film or Eric Rohmer or something arty like usual. I chose that old Steve McQueen movie, “Bullitt”.
Your dad really likes it. We talked about it not long ago when it was on TCM. But I think I wanted too see San Francisco, honestly, little sweetheart.
I think that’s what was calling me. There’s the whole famous car chase - the first of its kind - through the streets and across the bridge, but the parts I like the most are when he’s just walking along in his neighborhood - his apartment’s at Taylor and Clay - stopping by the corner grocery and picking up a few things along with a half dozen frozen tv dinners.
It reminds me so much our time in the Inner Sunset. The movie came out in 1968 and you and I were there thirty years later but its look is blessedly unchanged. Just iconic.
I just needed to see it. And think of you…
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