Michelle Williams

            On Friday morning I finished working out the chords for “J’aime les roses fanées” by Serge Gainsbourg. I still have to run through the song in French and English before posting it.

            I worked on my journal

            The morning got away from me but I hopped on its caboose and did some cleaning in the bedroom anyway. At the southeast corner of the room I pulled out the little three-drawer dresser that used to be the pedestal for my daughter's student desk. I washed, brushed and scraped that area. It was mostly difficult next to the baseboard because of splattered plaster and paint. It was a little past lunchtime when I'd finished. I don’t think the bedroom floor will be done before the New Year but probably before I start school on January 6.

            I had some turkey for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. This story begins with a flashback to twenty-two years before when Kingfish had first proposed to Sapphire. She tells him that her parents are worried about his financial situation. He assures her they are worried over nothing.

            Returning to the present of 1948 Sapphire is complaining that Kingfish hasn’t gotten a job through their whole marriage. Kingfish says he doesn’t want to become a big success at something and then find out later he’s not fitted for it. He tells her he’s handicapped because he doesn’t have an education. Sapphire says, “Don’t tell me that you’re dumb!” He says, “I can prove it to you! I married you didn’t I?” Kingfish later learns that Andy is interested in taking a correspondence course and so he pretends that he represents a correspondence school. Andy gives him $50 for tuition but weeks go by and he’s received no lessons in the mail. At first Kingfish says that the school is on holiday for most of the year. Later, just when Andy is ready to beat Kingfish up, Kingfish tells him that the Worldwide correspondence school has gone bankrupt and so he won't get his money back. He offers to just give Andy the school as compensation and Andy is satisfied with that. Later Sapphire tells Kingfish that she’d been thinking about what he’d said about being handicapped by a lack of education and so she enrolled him in a course at the Worldwide Correspondence School for $75.

            I worked on my journal.

            I had three small potatoes, some turkey, cranberry sauce and gravy for dinner while watching Venom.

            Even though Venom first appeared in Spiderman this movie was presented as somewhat separate from Spiderman’s universe. I don’t know if they will try to bring them together in later movies or not.

            A pharmaceutical company called The Life Foundation has its own space program because its president Carlton Drake is extremely idealistic. He believes that the Earth is finished and we need to begin to seriously think about living on other planets. One of his probes has found samples of alien life inside of a comet, but the probe crashes and some of the samples are unaccounted for. Drake’s research is unethical in that he tests human subjects with drugs long before clinical trials are legally allowed. Eddie Brock is an investigative reporter trying to expose Drake's criminal negligence but he winds up getting fired for his efforts and he gets his girlfriend Ann fired from her position as a lawyer for a firm for which Drake is a client. Ann leaves Eddie and he’s down and out. Meanwhile Drake has learned that the aliens are symbiotes that require a human host to survive. Drake is luring or kidnapping homeless people to test as hosts for the symbiotes but the subjects keep dying. Finally Dora Skirth, one of Drake’s scientists can’t stand it anymore and contacts Eddie. She brings him to Life Labs where he takes photos. In a glass cell he sees a homeless woman that he knows from his neighbourhood. He breaks her free and she attacks him. The symbiote that was in her oozes into Eddie. Security is alerted of an intruder but Eddie manages to escape with his strength suddenly enhanced. Not realizing yet that he has a symbiote inside of him, Eddie is hearing a voice in his head and he is extremely hungry. He also requires live food and so he begins eating lobsters from a restaurant tank. Anne’s new boyfriend is a doctor and does an MRI but high levels of sound are the symbiote’s weakness. When Drake learns that Eddie is the first compatible host for the symbiotes he wants him brought in at all costs. He sends his security team and drones after him. By this time Brock has been introduced to Venom and he emerges to fight the private military force, biting the head off one of the men. Brock builds more of a relationship with Venom and uses him to break into the office of his old boss to give him the photos he took on his phone. A symbiote called Riot arrives from Malaysia after hitchhiking in several hosts. Riot is the leader of the other symbiotes and he bonds with Drake. Venom and Riot fight because Venom has always been an outsider like Brock and does not want to be part of a collective. He likes Brock and he likes Earth. Venom warns Brock that Riot is a much better fighter. Riot rips Venom from Brock’s body. Brock is captured and Venom enters a small dog and meets Anne. Brock is about to be killed by Drake’s men when a female form of Venom kills the men and through a long kiss transfers the symbiote back to Brock. Drake and Riot plan on using his spaceship to go to the comet for the rest of the symbiotes. Brock and Venom stop them by causing the rocket to explode. In the end it appears that Venom has been killed but Eddie has convinced Venom to keep him in control. He must only eat very bad people when Brock says so. In the mid credit scene Brock goes to a maximum security prison to interview serial killer Cletus Casady who is played by Woody Harrelson. Cletus promises Brock that when he gets out there will be Carnage. Carnage is an even more brutal symbiote than Venom in a more brutal host.

            Anne was played by Michelle Williams, who started acting at age 13 and became legally recognized as an adult at 15 so she could pursue work on her own. She was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award for her role in Brokeback Mountain and entered into a relationship with Heath Ledger, with who she had a child. She won a Golden Globe for portraying Marilyn Monroe.