Today's title is a take off on the title of an old James Spader movie, Sex, Lies and Videotape. For the uninitiated or those too young to remember, videotape refers to the prehistoric precursor to today's DVD's. In the early days of home video recording, a bulky cassette containing coiled acetate film (aka tape) was utilized by a hand held camcorder to record analog videotapes for replay using a Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) the precursor to today's Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and/or DVD player. You could also purchase professionally recorded video tapesto play in your VCR or record movies and television shows with your VCR for play back at a later time. The issue which causes me to reference this particular movie title is the ongoing hassle I am experiencing in getting the work finished up on my apartment. You will remember yesterday's post in which I related my displeasure at the fact the painters did not arrive as promised in writing by my apartment management company. After getting yesterday's post up, I ran out and did the weekly shopping at Family Dollar and Kroger, returning home around 9:30 AM. I then called the office and spoke with Sherrie after asking for Monica the Assistant Manager who is more than familiar with my maintenance issues. She said she would speak to Monica and call me right back. Well Monica told Sherrie to tell me "The painters are on their way over." The only way that statement could in any way be construed as a truthful one would be if the painters were Andean Natives traveling by Llama Convoy via Macchu Picchu, Chichen Itza and the Alamo. Just like on Wednesday, the painters failed to show, again. In other words, Monica's message to me was just a big, fat, ugly lie! I am in a quandary as to how I should proceed. I do not know if I should go to the office and pitch a hissy fit or simply call Code Compliance to report that the work which was supposed to be done by last Thursday is still incomplete more than a week later. It seems that the only time I get a timely response out of these people is when I do call Code Compliance, whose officer in this area is one tough cookie that knows how to raise hell in order to get things done. She is also 'family' which makes working with her that much more pleasant (instead of having some redneck homophobe ignore me because he saw pictures of naked men on my walls). So there you have my problem in a nutshell, only I seemingly do not have a nutcracker at my disposal. Fortunately though, Officer Rodriguez of Code Compliance is more than capable of cracking the nuts or bursting the balls of recalcitrant Apartment Managers. So I guess it is really a no brainer, just call Code and let the dogs loose on them.
Your Musical Moment for the Friday features the Sonatas for Viola d'Amore and Harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti. Included are Sonatas K77-80, K88, K89, K90 and K91. The performance is by Valerio Losito on a 1775 Guadagnini Viola d'Amore and Andrea Coen on a replica of a 1620 Italian Harpsichord. These melodic rhapsodies are the perfect accompaniment to a slow scroll down the page to cruise and peruse this week's yummilicious collection of men who are Naked or Nearly So. Thanks for sharing part of your day with me, see you again soon. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
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