Well, dear readers, yesterday was one of those days. One of those days where all you can do is sit back and marvel how one’s universe can be so off its axis. However, today is already better and the universe and its axis seem to be back where they belong, like Dolly. The singing bird is out there and has been joined by three of its bird friends, and they are doing Standing on the Corner from The Most Happy Fella (they’ve done a clever lyric change, too, to “Watching all the birds go by”). The sun is shining and so am I or, conversely, I am shining and so is the sun. Today’s notes will be short since yesterday’s were long. What am I, a fortune cookie all of a sudden?
I watched some more of Mr. Trevor Nunn’s Oklahoma! last night, on DVD, and it’s just awful. As I said yesterday and will reiterate now, I’m sure this production was visually lovely on stage, but the way it’s shot is so wrong it’s almost unwatchable. I couldn’t put my finger on it yesterday, but the guy who’s playing Ali Hakim, who I would like to brain, sounds like he’s doing Jon Lovitz doing a spoof of Ali Hakim doing Oklahoma! The only thing that’s keeping me going is Miss Susan Stroman’s dances, which despite the wrong camera direction are still fun to see.
Tonight is the second of my full shows on Penn and Teller’s Bullshit. It’s called Sex, Sex, Sex, and I warn you now there is nudity aplenty. I had a good deal of fun putting the show together, especially figuring out what types of music would go with the different bits. Also, later today our very own Unseemly Interview with Mr. Brent Barrett will be up and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it very much. He’s very charming, funny and candid about many things.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below so that we can make a short hop to the next section where you will find fame and fortune and love. What am I, a fortune cookie all of a sudden?
You see, you have found fame and fortune and love just by clicking on the Unseemly Button. Just think of haineshisway.com as your personal fortune cookie, where you will find daily pearls of wisdom scattered throughout the various and sundried sentences. For example, if you seek you shall find. Isn’t that profound? That is just a pearl of wisdom or, at the very least, a rosemary of wisdom. What the hell am I talking about?
Now, as most of you know, tomorrow is the weekend, the final weekend of the month known as February. So, let’s keep the traffic up here – after all, we’ll have notes, we’ll have Brent’s interview, we’ll have a brand spanking new radio show, in short we’ll have it all, including pearls of wisdom scattered throughout the various and sundried sentences in a happenstance fashion (bell-bottom jeans and a tie-dyed shirt).
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must make notes, I must do a spot of writing, I must drive in my automobile, I must eat foodstuffs, I must, in short, do stuff. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD and DVD/video players? I’ll start – CD, John Williams’ marvelous score to Catch Me If You Can, and Michel Legrand’s oddly endearing score to Ice Station Zebra. Also, Monica Mancini’s new CD of film songs, about which more over the weekend. DVD player, Oklahoma! and Mr. Francois Ozon’s Water Drops on Burning Rocks. Your turn.