Well, dear readers, here we are on the last day of September. My Jeepers Creepers CDs arrived yesterday and I must say it’s quite a handsome package. Richard Valley tells me that orders are shipping and all of you who preordered should have theirs very soon. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Today I am meeting up with Guy Haines who will be recording vocals for most of the Kritzerland CD. When we finish today there will be two songs left to do and we’re hoping to do them within the next two weeks and then get this fershluganah CD out to those who bought their copy of Kritzerland here at haineshisway.com. I’m determined that we will do the Kritzer Time CD way in advance so that I have them in hand to ship with the book come next April (or perhaps sooner, I haven’t worked out the exact publication date yet). I am not printing up a huge quantity of Kritzerland CDs – I’m basically printing up enough to cover the orders I’ve had, so if you haven’t ordered the book and are intending to, the next couple of weeks would probably be a good time.
Last night I watched Mr. Howard Hawks’ version of Scarface, which is quite a good little film, featuring quite a good performance from Mr. Paul Muni. It’s interesting to note how much Oliver Stone kept from the original. This DVD is only available as part of the gift box set, the big black case version which is quite spiffy if I do say so myself which I do. I also began watching the divoonly strang Macao, a film sort-of directed by Josef von Sternberg (his footage is umistakable). Mr. von Sternberg apparently got along with no one and was replaced by Mr. Nicholas Ray. It’s short, it’s got great things in it and how can you fail when you’ve got Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez and Gloria Grahame. You can’t. Especially when Miss Russell croons One for my Baby. There are also a couple of Jule Styne songs hovering around.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because soon I must go to record those pesky vocals.
Remember, there’s a new entry to Juliana’s Journal and there’s a fun new radio show up, so check them out. Someone asked if our Unseemly Live Chats will go back to alternating between Sundays and Mondays. Why not? So, our next chat will be next Monday. I’ll remind you.
Certain dear readers have admitted that they occasionally skim part of these here notes. So, I’m going to skim part of this paragraph, hence you’ll be able to skim it, too. We must all skim together, in my opinion (IMO, in Internet lingo). So, even though there are words to be read in this here paragraph, please skim them. When properly skimmed this paragraph should read like this: Certain occasionally skim it properly.
There, we have had our first official skimmed paragraph and I, for one, enjoyed skimming it very much. Ted Chapin’s new book on Follies comes out today and I’m going to try to pick up a copy this morning if any bookstores around me actually have the thing. I like Mr. Chapin very much and I’m sure his book will make fun and excellent reading.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must record vocals, I must proof, I must buy a book and above all I must skim. Today’s topic of discussion: Since I see very few new motion pictures, let’s have a report on the ones you’ve seen most recently. Tell us which you recommend and which we should stay away from. In short, the good, the bad, and the ugly of your recent movie visits. Now, let’s have loads of lovely posts on this loaded lovely last day of September.