Well, dear readers, it is at long last Friday. I am very much looking forward to spending a relaxing weekend – just writing, eating, sitting on my couch like so much fish, seeing Mr. Jason Graae in concert and having dinner with the Jones’. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but there were over two hundred count them two hundred posts yesterday – and I will tell you with a certainty that no other newsgroup or chat board had such a number of posts. I feel fairly confident that soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet, and let me tell you that we are jiggy with that, dear readers, oh, yes, we are jiggy with that. What a way to send off our best month ever.
I don’t know if anyone noticed but it’s August. I feel that August is a very august month, and I hope it bring happiness and health to all our dear readers. And I hope that we continue along the path we have forged – on our way to becoming the most popular site on all the Internet. We cannot lag. We must have no lagging. If there is lagging then I will be gagging and also I will be nagging and my spirits will be both flagging and sagging and my tongue will be wagging if we are dragging. What the hell am I talking about?
Last night I watched the newest Studio Ghibli anime, The Cat Returns. It’s from Hayao Miyazaki, although he neither wrote or directed the film. I think he conceived it, however, and oversaw it. It uses a cat character (actually a statue) from the film Whispers of the Heart. It’s a fanciful story, slight, but beautifully told and the animation, as always, is breathtaking and achingly gorgeous. The musical score (not by Joe Hisaishi) is so lovely and if you can find the soundtrack CD (it’s always available on eBay fairly inexpensively) I recommend you get it posthaste. The DVD just came out in Japan, and you must have an all-region player to get it – although, that said, there are Region One bootlegs floating around, although they are one disc instead of two, and they don’t contain the newest Studio Ghibli short subjects (called Ghiblis) that are on the official Japanese release. I cannot rave about these Studio Ghibli films enough, so if you’ve been procrastinating, get a few of them and be awed, amazed and delighted.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because I must hie myself to work, don’t you know?
Don’t forget, Donald has his best of radio replay shows up, so check them out before they disappear forever. And, once again I remind you, if you haven’t seen Miss Penny Peyser’s Unseemly Interview, do check it out, as well as the latest entries to Juliana’s Journal.
My goodness, that was an informative paragraph, wasn’t it? That was just chock full o’ information, wasn’t it?
About two hours ago someone’s car horn went off. It sounds like it’s a mile away but wouldn’t you think someone would go out there and do something about it, like take a fershluganah sledgehammer and smash that car to smithereens or, at the very least, jonesereens? Wouldn’t you think the battery on the car would die at some point? That is why I’m up so early, because who can sleep with that steady drone going on? I feel like going in search of that car and it’s owner, but I will not.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must work all the livelong day and then it will be the glorious weekend which is a glorious way to start off the glorious august month of August. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD and DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, the wonderful soundtrack to Mr. George Roy Hill’s film of Toys in the Attic, by the very underrated and brilliant George Duning. It’s a lovely score – I saw the movie at a sneak preview when I was a wee sprig of a twig of a tad of a lad of a youth and I was very taken with the score even way back then, so it’s nice to finally have a legit release of it. DVD, a region two release of Fritz Lang’s Secret Beyond the Door, with Miss Joan Bennett and Mr. Michael Redgrave. Your turn, and lets have lots of posts for me to read during the livelong day.