DAILY CALL SHEET: FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) A researcher hires an attractive, soft-hearted nanny to care for his chimpanzee in hopes of proving that nurture is stronger than nature. However, after getting a look at her, the doctor's fiancé calls shenanigans. Yes, future president Ronald Reagan comes across as a little bland, but to be fair, a simian is always going to steal the scene no matter who else is there. I bet if you put a monkey in a Meryl Streep movie, nobody would even notice the perennial Oscar winner.

TIL: The Church acknowledges that nature, that which a thing is at birth, and nurture, that which is acquired or added from external sources, can both heavily influence human behavior. However, by maintaining a moral viewpoint founded on human reason illumined by faith and consciously motivated by the desire to do the will of God, a Christian should eventually be able to overcome both.

Dad Rock Diary: The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire (1981) Debut studio album from Nick Cave and his post-punk pals in which they make noise. It's kind of like a jazz band continuing to play as their bus with no brakes hurtles down the side of a jagged rock quarry while a poet in the back seat screams out lines that came to him in a fever dream. Laudable Lyrics: I gagged it with a pillow but awoke the nuns inside my head. They pounded their Goddy-Goddy fists (from the inside - so from the outside). I got good: I stuck it. Dead.

I HAVE SOME NOTES: Penciled ponderings on my daily Scripture readings.