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April 16, 2006:

SUNDAY – A DAY OF REST

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Well, dear readers, it is Sunday, a day of rest, and that is just what I hope to do – rest on a Sunday. This past week was a whirlwind of activity, and starting tomorrow there will be more of the same. In fact, this coming week will be even busier, I suspect, what with the musical theater workshop back in session and my having to teach and begin staging the musical that we’re working on. But why get ahead of ourselves, or even aknee of ourselves when it is Sunday, a day of rest. After all, if I begin thinking about the upcoming week then I’m not resting, am I? No, I shall not think about the upcoming week until tomorrow. Today, for example, I shall think about yesterday, for example. Yesterday, for example, we got sort of a late start editing because my editor forgot to get his card key (usually no one’s there on Saturday) and we had to wait until someone came down and let us in. Once that happened, we were up and running very quickly. I honestly didn’t think we’d be working all the livelong day, but we did – almost until six o’clock. We finished the second act, and now I have tapes of both acts to watch, so that I can figure out where we’re inserting the pickup shots. Once I have all that noted, then we will watch all the pickups, choose the replacement shots, and then slug them in – it shouldn’t be all that difficult, really, as it’s already pretty obvious where they go. By the time I got home I was so exhausted that I had to cancel dinner with dear reader Hisaka, which I felt bad about, but I just would have been horrible company and I probably would have nodded off at dinner. Instead, I sat on my couch like so much fish and ate a sandwich, nodded off, watched a DVD, nodded off, took a Jacuzzi, nodded off, and then began writing these here notes, which I will hopefully finish before I nod off again.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on DVD entitled Roman Polanski’s Pirates. I believe it was the only Polanski film I had never seen. Upon its release, Pirates was critically reviled and publicly ignored and was a complete financial disaster. I wish I could say it was Polanski’s forgotten masterpiece, but it isn’t. It was made during a period in his career when he was floundering. It’s not that the film doesn’t have its pleasures – it’s wonderfully directed and photographed, has a terrific performance by Walter Matthau, a rousing score by Philippe Sarde, and a good supporting cast. What it doesn’t have is an interesting script, surprising given that it’s written by Polanski and longtime collaborator Gerard Brach. It just sort of meanders from scene to scene – and yes, some of those scenes work really well, but the thing never comes together as a whole. Still, I’m glad I saw it, especially in all its anamorphic scope glory (the DVD I got appears to be a DVD-R cloned from a Polish DVD, but the quality is really excellent).

What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it is Sunday, a day of rest, and I must get ready to rest because it is Sunday – a day of rest.

Today, for example, is Sunday, a day of rest, and so I shall rest. I will try to have a meal with dear reader Hisaka and I shall try to connect with my friend Jim Brewer who’s in town from San Francisco, and I shall try to write at least three to five pages (since I only did two yesterday, but I think they were a good two), so I won’t really be resting all that much, but I will be doing whatever I’m doing at my own pace and at my leisure.

I shall also be watching the tapes of Deceit and making notes, and I shall also watch last week’s episode of The Sopranos, and I shall also try to finish watching The Black Belly of the Tarantula, one of those weird Eyetalian giallos that I find amusing, all of which seem to have scores by Ennio Morricone. This sounds like a very busy day all of a sudden, doesn’t it? And here I thought it was Sunday – a day of rest.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I’m already exhausted from talking about all the things I must do even though I will be resting. 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 all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings as well all spend a wonderful Sunday together and have a day of rest.

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