Well, dear readers, on my lunch hour yesterday I went over to Mr. Grant Geissman’s and listened to the pre-mixes on about six tracks. We did some work on them and they all sound excellent – all that’s left is for our very own Vinnie to put the hot fudge on top. The vocals sound excellent as do the tracks and all in all I think it’s going to be a really swell album. The other news is, although I’m afraid I must remain enigmatic at this time, that I have decided what my next album is going to be and we’re actually going to try to do it before the end of the year. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time and, in fact, tried to do whilst at Varese Sarabande. I never tried to do it at the label I created because I knew I would be greeted with “Who?” just as I was when I said I was doing the Sherman Brothers album. There’s only so much “Who?” you can take before you roll your eyes heavenward and move along. In any case, I’ve decided to do this, and Grant will be working on it with me (along with a couple of other people) and I’ve already even cast the first song – with the lovely Liz Callaway. As I get a little further along I’ll reveal some more details – to reveal them now would run the danger that someone might see it and suddenly and magically have, wait for it, the same idea. I’m very excited about it, though.
Yesterday I received in the post a Region Two DVD of Mr. Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, from Japan (it’s quite rare, as the DVD has been out of print for some time) – it’s letterboxed but not enhanced, but the quality is excellent. Repulsion, which I shall try to watch tonight, is one of the creepiest movies ever made, but it’s creepy in a very quiet way. For years I simply couldn’t watch it at all because it weirded me out so much. It’s quite brilliantly directed, with a really interesting score by jazz legend Chico Hamilton (arranged and orchestrated by Gabor Szabo). If you’ve never seen it, try and get hold of a copy – although the DVD that was released briefly here by Koch was reprehensibly bad.
It is ever so much fun to be at work and see all your excellent posts – which have been growing and growing with each passing day. It gives me lots and lots to read, plus they are simply the best posts on all the Internet.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get ready to work all the livelong day.
Today at lunch I must go and sign Important Papers. Sometimes one simply must sign Important Papers, especially when said Important Papers will be very helpful to the signee. Keep your fingers crossed that all goes according to plan – I need lots of positive Hainsies/Kimlets good vibes for the next week or so, so send them along and mean it.
By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), did anyone happen to notice that we had over three hundred posts yesterday? I would say we were havin’ ourselves a posting frenzy, that’s what I would say and I did say it, by golly and by gum. We were havin’ ourselves a posting frenzy – there, I said it again. I think that is rather an amazing feat or, at the very least, an amazing feet. I think it’s sweet, as the kids today say. I also think it’s a treat and neat and we can’t be beat. We didn’t cheat, we just have the heat, we’re the posts elite, we’re the site complete. What am I, a rhyming dictionary all of a sudden?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must work all the livelong day, I must sign some papers, I must eat various and sundried foodstuffs and I must do a bit of writing, too. Today’s topic of discussion: Taking our cue from Repulsion – what is the creepiest movie you’ve ever seen – a movie that totally weirds you out. Not the scariest, not the one with the most jolts – just the creepiest, the one that gives you the willies. Post away, my pretties, and let’s have lots and lots of excellent posts, shall we?