Tuesday, June 30, 2026

 

 TIMELINE OF THE WORLD/LITERATURE

The book: The Bible

NEXT UP: Songs 6

[Songs 6 is a romantic poem depicting a reunion and mutual delight between lovers. It features the "daughters of Jerusalem" searching for the beloved, the famous declaration "I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine," passionate physical descriptions, and a collective plea for the Shulamite to return.]

 

GOING THROUGH THE YEARS OF FILM/EARLY 20th CENTURY WORLD EVENTS

Today's film: The Love Light (1921)

Mary Pickford said I'M THROUGH PLAYING A TEEN, I AM A WOMAN!

Her character, Angela, has two brothers and a homie that get shipped off to war (WWI I assume) and she soon gets news that her older brother died so naturally she starts tripping over her other brother that just left to join up with the war. She has a job tending a lighthouse where she sees a dude wash up on shore. He ID's himself as an American and she takes him in.

It's not long before she falls for him and they secretly marry. One night he has her send him an "ILY" text via the lighthouse and the next day it's reported that an Italian ship carrying wounded men back home got sunk at midnight. Naturally, Angie's other bro was on that ship and perished.

Angie's hubby is taking off and he has her steal him some chocolate bars to survive on (I'm diabetic so I feel you, homes) but the shopfolk trace her back to her crib. The hubby murmurs some German in his sleep and it dawns on her that she got completely played by a German spy. The shopfolk tell Angie about the ship that had her brother on it and she justifiably throws her hubs under the proverbial bus.

The hubs tussles with the shopfolk and the tussle ends up cliffside where hubs breaks away from his opponents and throws himself over the cliff and onto his doom.

I'm a little fuzzy on the next part. Angie gives birth to a baby girl but some wack ass woman who lost her own child (RIP) hatches a scheme to take Angie's girl and it works. The convent deems Angie mentally unfit and gives her child to Maria.

There's some shots here that really stood out to me. They were those closeup shots of Angie telling the convent crew "I know you think I'm crazy". That was perhaps my most memorable shot of the movie and this girl Angie's been through hell and back.

 

Her homie, Giovanni, makes it back from the war but he comes back completely blind. They end up together and agree that if they wed then the convent would deem her fit to care for her child again. However, at the same moment, Maria is bouncing and leaving town on a boat to who knows where.

The town homie Beppo tells her and the ship crew that a storm is coming and they'd be idiots to leave but they leave anyway. Angie learns Maria's on the doomed boat and she goes to use the lighthouse to help the boat but it's out of commission so she sets her own house on fire to do the job.

The eventually find the boat and it's GG's for Maria who they find deceased but the baby is luckily unharmed. The film gets a happy ending with Maria and "her two children".

The movie's not going to make my top ten or maybe even top 100 (or maybe it might crack the bottom half...) but it's always interesting to me how disinterested I often am when I start a feature like this (unless it's something from Georges Melies or The Cabinet of Caligari) and then I slowly get into it as it goes on.

It's akin to not watching soaps but then a loved one has it playing in the background and you get invested a little bit. 

NEXT UP: The Devil (1921)

FUN FACT: Gory Guerrero, the legendary patriarch of the Guerrero Family of professional wrestling and lucha libre, is born around this time on January 11, 1921. A few days later on the 14th, Wladek Zbyszko defeated Jim Londos but several newspapers apparently roasted the allegedly boring affair.

 

DRAGON BALL Z

NEXT UP: Z Warriors Prepare 

 STAR WARS

NEXT UP: The High Republic: Into The Dark: Wookiepedia Plot Summary: Darkness 

She hasn't turned heel yet but I remember that Nan is a Nihil member.

NEXT UP: The High Republic: Into The Dark: Wookiepedia Plot Summary: Return to Coruscant

GTA TUESDAYS

GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS

(First Time Playthrough)

No time for a sesh tonight.

  

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING/PRO WRESTLING GAMING

WWE 2K26

Did four of the Randy Orton BDay Bash Finisher matches and got one of the required cards needed to unlock diamond J'evonn. Not that I care but it's still a W.

WWE 2K20

Booked the ensuing RAW as the landscape for WWE Hell in a Cell 2019 starts to develop.