The Smell of Wetsuit in the Morning

the "Ride of the Valkyries" scene

When Francis Ford Coppola shot the classic war movie Apocalypse Now, using a tiny village in the Philippines as a stand-in for Vietnam, little did he imagine that he would bring a new sport to the area ~ surfing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21941069
   My parents were the victims of war ~ World War II ~ and I inherited my mother's deep dislike of war movies. For some reason, though, I did see Apocalypse Now. It is, IMHO, one of the best movies ever made. One of the most ingenious things about it is how it is based on Joseph Conrad's amazing novel Heart of Darkness (one of the best books ever written) but set in a different time and different place that makes equal sense. For more and a link to where you can read the novel gratis, see http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2012/12/heart-of-darkness.html.