Well, dear readers, the gardeners haven’t shown up yet and I actually got to sleep until eight-thirty, which was lovely. Thank you, gardeners. Also, I have had to call the Sprinkler Man once again, because there is a leak somewhere and he simply must come and fix it since the sidewalk is very wet. I can’t see where it’s coming from but I can hear it by the sprinkler controls. These are the little mundane trivialities of daily life we must all deal with at one time or another. For example, a light bulb in the kitchen has burned out – these are big bulbs in an overhead lighting thing and I must now go and buy a new bulb, climb on a chair, and replace the burned out bulb. A mundane triviality to be sure, but one simply must not have a burned out bulb for it is unseemly.
Today I shall be lunching with Mr. Kevin Chamberlin and soon he will be doing his Unseemly Interview right here at haineshisway.com, so stay tuned.
Last night I continued my journey into the world of anime by watching an anime television series (or three episodes of one, so far) called Serial Experiments Lain, a supremely strange show, which I’m enjoying very much. Apparently, this is a very low budget program but the basic animation kind of works in its favor, and the stories are so peculiar you just watch and not care that the animation isn’t more sophisticated. However, it’s certainly on a par with American animation TV programs. The show has an X Files feel (although about something completely different) and runs only thirteen episodes as far as I can tell.
In a late post yesterday, dear reader Nick Redman pointed out that in his liner notes to the CD of From the Terrace, many questions about Miss Ina Balin were answered, so I went back and looked and by gum and by golly they were. Apparently Mr. Nick Redman was as taken with her as I was. As someone else pointed out yesterday, she sadly passed away at much too young an age.
I got an estimate on my damaged car yesterday and it was actually much lower than I thought it would be, which I thought would thrill the person responsible. I gave them the estimate (less than nine hundred dollars) and then they decided to go through their insurance company after initially telling me they didn’t want to. So, I now have to deal with their insurance company and hopefully that will not slow down the process because I need to have it fixed now – of course, their insurance company will also be footing the bill for a rental car as well. When these people see how much their insurance is going to go up they will regret not simply having written me a check. Ah, well, these are the little mundane trivialities of daily life we must all deal with.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m quite certain there are more mundane trivialities to come.
I think the gardeners have finally arrived – although they haven’t started the heavy machinery yet. I am hoping the hardcover sample of Kritzerland will arrive today, and if it’s all kosher, then I’ll be able to place the order today, and then it’s a mere ten to twelve business days until it arrives, and they’ve promised me they will try to put a rush on the order. As I’ve said, all the envelopes are addressed and ready to go, so all I have to do is sign the book, insert it into said envelope and bring it to the post office.
I didn’t pick up any of today’s DVD releases early, but I don’t think it’s that great of a week. June is going to be a killer month for DVD releases, so one simply mustn’t make any frivolous purchases.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must lunch, I must write, I must attend to the little mundane trivialities of daily life and then I must sit on my couch like so much fish. Today’s topic of discussion: Let’s get in our haineshisway.com Time Machine again – if you could go back in time and attend any one motion picture premiere and Broadway opening night, what would they be and why would your choices be your choices. Now, post away, dear readers, and I shall be back with my choices in a bit.