No ifs, ands, or buts

Today I clean. Massively clean. Vacuum, scrub, dust, pick up all odds and ends, etc... I have friends coming over tonight and tomorrow so this place had better be spic and span!
Yesterday Lisa and I went back to Ikea and bought a coffee table, 2 duvets, napkins, gingersnap cookies, closet knobs, surge protector, and a tall plant. Lisa talked me into the coffee table, it was cheap and very much what we wanted to buy. So we bought it with the thought that we could return it if was horrible or give it to the Salvation Army if after a year we grow tired of it. As it turns out, it looks quite nice; we're keeping it.
I think my body is refusing to wake up because she knows my brain is going to put her to work. Sometimes I wish I had that Joan Crawford need to clean. "I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt!"
Yesterday I looked up Die Blechtrommel on Imdb.com. Oddly enough, the boy who portrayed Oskar, has a few Web pages devoted to him. Looking through the one gallery, I noticed that Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle bears an uncanny resemblance to David "Oskar" Bennent. Here, look. From the interviews posted on the David Bennent Web site, he seems to have turned out okay despite having starred in such a perverse movie. I've wondered how child actors cope when they are in films that have such an adult tone-- Björn Andrésen in Death in Venice, the little boy in Fellini Satyricon, etc... I couldn't imagine performing their scenes as a child. Or even, wanting to.