Well, dear readers, try to remember for here it is, September, and still Labor Day Weekend. If you weren’t with us yesterday you might not know that this here site had a small crash and we were down until about one o’clock. This has only happened once before and Mr. Mark Bakalor and I are looking into ways to make certain it doesn’t happen again. However, these things do happen in the age of computers and software. Other than that small little hiccup, we’ve been having a fine Labor Day Weekend celebration. Small and funny and fine.
Yesterday, I stayed home all the livelong day (except for a brief sojourn to the market) and I wrote most of the livelong day, close to fourteen pages. I also watched a DVD entitled Titanic, with Mr. Clifton Webb and Miss Barbara Stanwyck. It was a very enjoyable film, and the transfer looks lovely. Back when the film was made I must say it was quite daring for a major studio to release a film without a score, especially as dramatic a film as this one, but the score by Sol Kaplan consists of a main title cue, and one other cue late in the film. Other than that, there’s a bit of source music and that is it. I also watched the first half of a Clint Eastwood movie called Tightrope, actually written and directed by first-timer Richard Tuggle. I hadn’t seen it since it came out, and it holds up pretty well, although I don’t find it one of Mr. Eastwood’s best.
Today I was supposed to go to dear reader Mark Rothman’s house for supper, but I have asked for a raincheck because I must get through the chapter I am writing. Normally, I wouldn’t take a rain check, I’d just pick up when I got home, but I just feel I need to finish this chapter before I start work again tomorrow. So, hopefully Mr. Mark Rothman will give me said raincheck and all will be well with the world and environs.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I simply must get them posted, mustn’t I?
Don’t forget, there’s a brand spanking new radio show up, and there’s a brand spanking new Unseemly Interview up, so listen and read and then post your thoughts. Most importantly, tonight is our Unseemly Live Chat and hopefully all those errant and truant Hainsies/Kimlets will be back and available for chat this evening. I do thank the Hainsies/Kimlets who stayed with us this weekend and kept the spirit of haineshisway.com alive and well and living in cyberland.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must relax, I must watch DVDs, I must write until the cows come home and then I must chat the night away. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite low-budget movies – you know, those movies that took you totally by surprise despite having been made on a shoestring. It doesn’t matter if they won Academy Awards, or if they were made by well-known folks, they just have to have been low budget. I’ll start – I love David and Lisa, The Miracle Worker, a whole slew of low budget film noirs such as T-Men, Raw Deal, Detour, the low budget westerns of Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott, such as Ride Lonesome and Seven Men From Now, many of the Roger Corman horror films, Black Sunday (the Mario Bava), The Honeymoon Killers (a recent addition), and many others. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely posts on this lovely beginning of September. In fact, let’s try to remember the kind of September when we had loads of lovely posts, shall we?