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December 9, 2005:

THE MALADY LINGERS ON

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Well, dear readers, I had a lovelier than lovely birthday, mostly because of the warm wishes emanating from this here site – who needs parties and fru-fru when I’ve got the best batch of people anyone could wish for right here at haineshisway.com. I was and am under the weather (from all my sleep loss), but I didn’t let it bug me yesterday. I just sat around like so much fish, not doing much of anything. Oh, I paid a bill or three, did an errand or two, and then I was taken to an early dinner by our very own Mr. Nick Redman, after which I went to rehearsal for our very own play. I was given a surprise birthday cake by Susan, Tammy’s mum, and it was very festively festive and I blew out all the candles (three) on the cake after making a very important wish. Then, we went to the top of the show and I made a bunch of small blocking adjustments (we’re not even working on the acting yet), to smooth things out, and make things have more flow, and it’s starting to look very good. Then we blocked one character’s three-page monologue, and that came out very well, I think. And then, we got into the mayhem – I will say no more, other than to say it’s being staged very slowly and carefully, and it’s being choreographed to within an inch of its life. I suspect will finish that tonight, and by Monday we’ll be moving along to act two. Now if I can just shake whatever malady I have so that I can be malady-free, that would be great. I do not like having a malady, do you? And yet, I like a pretty girl. And yet, they say a pretty girl is like a malady. We don’t allow groaning here at haineshisway.com. Anyway, I hope this won’t be a case of the malady lingers on.

Yesterday, I managed to finish watching another Fritz Lang DVD, this one entitled House By The River. It’s one of the few Lang’s I’ve never seen. I must say, despite his usual fine direction, I find it amongst his worst films – the script is poor, the acting by Louis Hayward and Jane Wyatt is perfunctory, and the whole thing just rambles along to its 85 minute conclusion. The transfer is not nearly as good as that of Scarlet Street – still, I’m always happy to see a Lang picture.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, whilst we all watch Walt Disney’s Malady Time.

Is it really already the 9th? I tell you, time goes by much too fast, like a gazelle on dolls. Sparkle, Neely, sparkle. I’ll plant my own tree. What am I, Jacqueline Susann all of a sudden?

Today I shall be staying home, trying to get rid of my malady. Today I shall be doing nothing but relaxing – I shall stop and smell the roses or the coffee or the burrito. I do have to ship a few packages (and need to buy more small shipping bags), and I do have to make a few telephonic calls on the telephone, but that’s about it. And then, I shall attend rehearsal. I may not eat, so that I can go out after rehearsal for a nice meal. Then again, I might eat and still go out after rehearsal for a nice meal. And I’m being taken out for dinner sometime over the weekend.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do nothing, and whilst I am doing nothing, I must attempt to get back to the short story that I’d been working on – I’m only five or six pages from finishing, but I have to get myself back in that mode, so that after I finish that one, I can begin the next (only two more to go before I have a “collection”). Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player, and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, several soundtracks by a French composer named Philippe Rombi, who I’m very fond of, and also Maurice Jarre’s score to Top Secret. DVD, next up Death Race 2000 of Paul Bartel, and then arriving next week from France will be the von Sternberg/Dietrich films, which I cannot wait to get my hands on. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all sing songs with beautiful maladies.

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