Well, dear readers, it is Tuesday. And they say we don’t have interesting information in these here notes. Damn them, damn them all to hell. I am quite excited because any day now I shall have my Region 2 Special 2DVD set of Once Upon a Time in the West, which is on its way from France, where, by the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) the women wear no pants. My Percy Faith CDs are on their way from amazon and I’ve got several Region 2 DVDs coming from amazon in Merry Olde England, including the Cybill Shepard The Lady Vanishes, the 1959 The 39 Steps, and Raise the Titanic, none of which are available here in the States. Lots of packages, which is what I like. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I like lots of packages, and I also like New York in June – how about you? Have I mentioned that it’s Tuesday. Tomorrow, if everything goes according to Hoyle, I shall be lunching with dear reader Michael Barnum in the Oaks of Sherman. I will, of course, have a full report.
There are two count them two incredible CD releases from Collectors – two I didn’t even know were coming. They’re both Stan Kenton two-fers from the sixties, and they’re absolute knockouts. One of them came out to coincide with the film release of Finian’s Rainbow, and it features five or six songs from it along with other movie themes. The companion to it is a mix of standards and film themes. The other two-fer features a lot of original music. Stan Kenton’s Capitol stereo albums are some of the best recorded albums ever made. They have amazing and stunningly clean stereo sound and I cannot recommend these Collectors’ remasterings highly enough. And, if you don’t have Mr. Kenton’s West Side Story album, bitch-slap yourself from here to eternity and go out and get it immediately. As the flappers used to say, “It’s a corker.”
By the way (BTW, in Internet lingo) it is Tuesday. If it’s Tuesday it must be Belgium, as the pundits used to say. Whatever happened to the pundits? I wonder if we could create a group today to revival the Algonquin group? I wonder if we could have pundits and wags and wits today? I’d like to think so, but I simply don’t know if the world would even understand such things as pundits, wags and wits. What if we had a group of witches along with the wags – then we could call it “From Wags to Witches”. We don’t allow groaning here at haineshisway.com. I, for one, always strive to be a pundit a wag and a wit, not necessarily in that order. Sometimes it’s better to be a wit a wag and a pundit, not necessarily in that order. What the hell am I talking about? Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, as the pundits wags and wits used to say?
I don’t know about you, dear readers, but it feels like a Tuesday, which is good since it is a Tuesday. Perhaps Tuesday will be our good news day, as the pundit and lyricist Mr. Ira Gershwin once said. I love Mr. Ira Gershwin. I think Mr. Ira Gershwin is too too. I think he’s written some wonderfully fine lyrics with a variety and also a hollywood reporter of fine composers, such as his bro, Mr. George Gershwin, Mr. Veron Duke, Mr. Harold Arlen, Mr. Kurt Weill and Mr. Jerome Kern, amongst others. That is as good as it gets, in my opinion (IMO, in Internet lingo). If I were talking about one of my favorite sax players, Mr. Stan Getz, I would say that is as good as it Getz. We do not allow groaning here at haineshisway.com, or so say the pundits, wits and wags.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must work all the livelong day, I must eat various and sundried foodstuffs, and I must come home and relax and eat snacks, not necessarily in that order. Today’s topic of discussion: Who are your favorite pundits, wits and wags? My all-time favorite is Miss Dorothy Parker. I also love the wit and wagdom of Mr. Ring Lardner and Mr. James Thurber. They don’t make them like that anymore. Also, Mr. Robert Benchley, Mr. S.J. Perelman and Mr. Alexander Woolcott. Sub-topic: Name your favorite Ira Gershwin songs, songs Mr. Gershwin wrote with each of the above-listed composers. I’ll start: With George, Someone to Watch Over Me. With Vernon Duke, I Can’t Get Started. With Kurt Weill, I Am a Stranger Here Myself. With Harold Arlen, The Man That Got Away. With Mr. Jerome Kern, Long Ago and Far Away and my new fave, Sure Thing. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely posts for yours and my mental delectation, shall we?