Well, dear readers, it’s Sunday, a day of rest and relaxation. This is the kind of day where we hainsies/kimlets like to sit around in our lounging pyjamas, smoking jackets, dickies, and bunny slippers. And that is what I shall be doing on this Super Bowl Sunday. Certainly I will not be like the rest of the world’s sheep – no, on this Super Bowl Sunday I will not be bowling. I may not even leave the home environment, although, now that I think of it, I will have to leave the home environment to get food, since I have nothing in the house, food-wise. Yesterday ended up being quite a pretty day – the sun finally broke through around two o’clock and it was just pretty as all get out, and all get out is pretty damn cute if you ask me. I had luncheon with my pal Barbara Deutsch, and we discussed many interesting things, and we laughed and laughed and just when we thought we could laugh no more, we laughed again. And, of course, being Pie Day, I had a slice of custard pie. I did end up writing a little bit, and we’ll see if I like any of it when I take a gander at it later today. I’m not sure if I’ll attempt to do any pages today, but it simply depends on my mood. But, the one thing we know we will not be doing is celebrating Super Bowl Sunday. I shall not even have any food in a bowl. I am boycotting the bowl, and I’m also girlcotting the bowl. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Last night I saw a motion picture entitled Hide and Seek. I don’t have much to say about it except I didn’t like it much except for the actors. I do wish Hollywood would get past this “twist” phase, especially the one used here, which has been around for years and has been used in too many movies recently. It’s a device which works much better in novels, and it’s been used successfully in at least three that I’ve read. We then watched another motion picture, this one entitled Double Indemnity. A film made at a time when scripts were really scripts, not flaccid things written by people who’ve been taught to write in a formula by the various screenwriting “gurus”. The script to Double Indemnity is, in a word, quite brilliant. Well, that’s two words, isn’t it? Every word of it is cherce – there are no throw-away lines, the plot (courtesy of James Cain, as adapted and written by Mr. Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler) is a corker, and Mr. Wilder, a very underappreciated director (the appreciation for him has always been as a writer), provides crisp, clean, simple and perfect direction. The three leading players couldn’t be bettered – Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson, and Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes. The score by Miklos Rozsa is one of his authentic masterpieces.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’ve decided we’re going to have a bash here at haineshisway.com, and it’s too late to have a bash in this section.
I have decided that we shall have our own Super Bowl Sunday celebration right here at haineshisway.com. Let others guzzle beer, and belch, and yell like banshees. We will drink Diet Coke and belch and yell like banshees whilst we dance the mambo Italiano and eat cheese slices and ham chunks.
I’m having a delightfully delightful time playing through songs every day. I have now decided on about seven keepers for the new Guy Haines project. Of course, a couple of those may change depending on what the next eight choices are. And we’ll probably record a couple of extra songs with just one instrument accompaniment, just in case we want to swap out anything. I learned that lesson on the first Guy Haines album. We’d recorded Here’s that Rainy Day, and both Guy and I just weren’t all that happy with the track. It was okay, nothing terrible, but it just hadn’t come out the way I’d thought it would. On a lark one day, I just handed Mr. Haines and Mr. Todd Ellison, the musical director, the music to You Must Believe in Spring. We did one rehearsal and then one take and that was that. We knew immediately it would replace Here’s That Rainy Day.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must stay in the home environment until I need food, at which time I shall drive in my motor car to wherever I decide to get food from. I shall bring said food back to the home environment and eat it whilst we have our haineshisway.com Super Bowl Sunday celebration. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to choose the topics and we all get to post about them. Let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely posts, as we dance the mambo Italiano on this Super Bowl Sunday.