Can't count

Turns out I actually have 5 black cardigans, who'd have thought? And I think I'll have to revise the 3 scruffy to 2 scruffy and 1 ratty really.
But while on the subject of counting, I watched 'Drowning by numbers' again at the weekend. This site lists where all 100 numbers are. I have never found more than about half and reading where some of them are, I am not suprised.
I am not altogether sure I get the whole counting thing which crops up in all Peter Greenaway's work (that I have seen). Some of it I like, the counting sequence with the pills in the 'Pillow Book' immediately occurs, but the ones in 'Vertical features remake', just got boring. And does it mean anything, or is it weirdness for the sake of weirdness?
I am sure I could find out but my knowledge (and interest) on the subject is strictly limited and I don't think it really matters. I have come to the conclusion that my taste in films is actually very different from my taste in books. I find Thomas Pynchon unreadable, but I think he'd make great films (although a film adaptation of his novels would probably be appalling). And while I am a Trollopian, I view with horror the idea that he is going to be the next best thing in costume drama. Not because I am a purist (how can one be about an author so honest about being in it for the money), but because the things I like about Trollope are things that you just can't film, or not well anyway. The Victorian politics and values and class consciousness for example, although some of that will no doubt be jetsioned to pander to popular taste and political correctness rather than for artistic reasons. But character is the driving force of most of his novels and while many current films attempt to be character studies, I just don't think that the medium is suited to it. So you end up with pedestrian films. So a little weirdness for its ownsake, is not a bad thing in a movie.

And changing the subject completely, I read a Herald report that research by the Heart Foundation has found that food manufacturers have greatly decreased the amount of salt in their food, the greatest decrease being in breakfast cereals. Now I don't eat breakfast cereals, haven't for years, but what I remember of them they came in 2 varieties, pure sugar and tasteless chewy fibre. I never remember thinking, 'Mmm salty'.