Well, dear readers, it is the first Sunday of 2009. I ask you, where else on all the Internet can you find such information? Nowhere, that’s where. Therefore I shall write a Sunday sort of notes. A Sunday sort of notes should be lazy and relaxed, like a gazelle in bunny slippers or, for that matter, a bunny in gazelle slippers. Sunday notes should be laid back and have a certain tranquility. A Certain Tranquility – that’s the title of my next novel, a story of quiet lust among the auto workers of General Motors in 1963. What the HELL am I going on about? Speaking of quite lust, yesterday was a perfectly fine day. For example, I got up. That was perfectly fine. I then did the long jog, and then went on my merry way to do some errands and whatnot, whilst she of the Evil Eye put the home environment to rights. I then came home and did some writing, and finished the first chapter. I then satisfied my craving for the Kansas City Barbecue by going to the Kansas City Barbecue and having some Kansas City Barbecue, namely a half-rack of baby back ribs and a side of their unbelievably wonderful baked beans. It was just what the doctor ordered, but then again the doctor is always copying everything I order. The jernt actually had patrons, which was a first. In fact, most of the tables had occupants and I was glad to see it, frankly, because the last few times I’ve been there I’ve been the only one. After that, I came home and packaged up the last of the big orders (save for two online dealers’ smaller orders, which I can’t ship until the rest of the CDs come in – which I hope will be tomorrow or Tuesday). After that, I began chapter two, and then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I watched two count them two motion pictures on DVD. The first motion picture on DVD was entitled A Reflection Of Fear, starring Mr. Robert Shaw, Miss Mary Ure (then Mrs. Shaw), Miss Sally Kellerman, and Miss Sondra Locke. At first I thought it was one of those 1970s TV movies, but I found out later that it wasn’t shot for TV. That became obvious anyway, since the story strongly hinted at incest, and the final twist would not have been acceptable for TV back then. Also, Miss Kellerman had some brief nudity. Anyway, this film was completely incoherent, terribly written, and weirdly directed by the great cameraman William Fraker, who should have stuck to being a DP. I gather that it sat on the shelf for two years, and had stuff edited out, which makes sense given the herky-jerky result. Also, the imdb lists its aspect ratio as scope – this transfer was full frame but I saw no evidence of any pan-and-scan, which means either Fraker framed everyone dead center or the imdb is wrong. Somehow, knowing the “accuracy” of the imdb, the latter would be my guess. The transfer on this region 2 DVD had great color and was nice. But what a bad movie. I do like Miss Locke, and it’s always nice to see Robert Shaw and Mary Ure, but the whole affair was leaden and just peculiar. I then watched the second motion picture on DVD, which was a deliriously demented and bad and yet wildly entertaining motion picture entitled The Man From Hong Kong. This was sort of Enter The Dragon in Australia. There are endless Bruce Lee-type fights, endless car chases, and endless action as a Hong Kong detective tries to bring down a drug czar played by George Lazenby. The film opens with a great hang gliding title sequence accompanied by the song Sky High, which I gather was a hit for the group Jigsaw. The movie, predictably, is a favorite of Quentin Tarantino. The scope transfer is fantastic, with eye-popping color – it puts to shame so many of today’s tepidly colored brownish/yellow transfers – THIS is what color looks like and every one of these ninnies in the telecine room should be forced to watch this transfer and take note of the color blue. In any case, the film has great bad dialogue delivered poorly but amusingly, and the whole thing just moves along at a steady clip and is a whole lot o’ fun.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because these here notes have a certain tranquility and when there’s a certain tranquility then one simply must click on the first available Unseemly Button.
Has anyone noticed that these here notes have a certain tranquility? I have. Today, I, BK, shall also have a certain tranquility. I shall do the long jog, I shall do some writing, I shall do an errand or two, but mostly I shall listen to CDs and watch DVDs. And I shall eat something fun and reasonable, too. I also have to read a script, which I’ll try to do over the next couple of days, since I’ll then have to have a meeting about it.
Tomorrow, I’ll be setting the meetings for the week, I’ll be writing, of course, and I’ll be making plans for the rest of the month, and also trying to get the next Kritzerland release ready for preorder.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, write, do an errand or two and watch DVDs and listen to CDs and read a script. 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, shall we, whilst we all have a lovely Sunday filled with a certain tranquility.