Well, dear readers, I’m feeling a general unease. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I’m feeling a general unease. Not a colonel unease or even a sergeant unease, no, I’m feeling a general unease. I do not really know why or, if I do know why, I’m keeping it from myself. Why do I always keep it from myself? Myself really likes it and yet I am always keeping it from myself. I’ve been feeling this general unease for a few days now – I suspect I do know the cause, but I’m not really sure. I’m not sure what to do about this general feeling of unease, should I, in fact, be correct about the cause. Oh, well, we shall see. Yesterday, for example, I felt a general unease all the livelong day and some of the livelong night. I also went to the editing room and watched tapes being transferred, which was fun in a random sort of way. After that, I came home, shipped some packages, ate some luncheon, finished watching a DVD, jogged, and then sat on my couch like so much fish, feeling a general unease.
Yesterday, I finished watching a motion picture on DVD entitled The Shoes Of The Fisherman. What a plodding, pointless, poor film it is. The actors are fine – Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Leo McKern, Frank Finlay, and the score by Alex North is excellent, but the film is basically a complete bore from start to finish, and it’s a long 162 minute start to finish. And what is with the subplot involving David Janssen? It looks like it was glued onto the film by an idiot – it basically has nothing whatsoever to do with the film, the subplot doesn’t get resolved, it just literally disappears, and if they’d removed it the film would, at least, be about twenty minutes shorter. The transfer and sound are very good, though. I then watched Liza With A Z. What a strange little TV special it is. Liza was at her peak, and it is fun to watch her do her thing. Fosse had just come off Pippin, and his choreography is very much in that style. The best number is Ring them Bells. The worst, Mammy. After watching it, I watched the Biography on Liza, which is included as an extra. Shot just after she and David Gest separated, it has some lovely home movies in it, and some good people. And Liza is both candid and not candid. The “restoration” looks as good as it can look – the show was shot on 16mm, and it looks like it. The sound is very good, too.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because frankly I’m feeling a general unease and I don’t wish to be in this section anymore.
I’m still feeling a general unease. Perhaps by the end of these here notes, this feeling will abate. I sincerely hope so, because I don’t like it one bit.
I’ve got a crazy week coming up – so much to do and not enough time to do it all. On Monday night, we may begin editing Deceit, which will carry over to Tuesday night. I’ll have to take Wednesday night off, because Tammy’s friend Lauren is making a Passover seder at my home environment. Then, Thursday, Hisaka gets into town, but I’m going to most likely have to finish editing that night, and maybe even Friday night, as well. We’ll have to see how it goes. In addition to all that, I have to write a few pages every day, I want to keep the jogging up, I’m getting together with Mrs. Julieanne Pogue one night, and I’ve got to start getting my staging concepts worked out for the musical. Isn’t that a crazy week?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, get rid of this feeling of general unease, I must continue on my weight loss quest, I may have to help Miss Tammy Minoff with a little project she has to do, and it is my plan to relax as much as possible. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we get to post about them. Let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, and hopefully I shall have no more feeling of general unease.