Well, dear readers, this week is already flying by, like a gazelle with an in-grown toenail. Did you know that we have made the gazelle more popular than it has ever been? I’ll bet if one Googles gazelle that one will find haineshisway.com. Conversely, I’ll be if one Gazelles google you will find something wholly other. Right now I am trying to fight allergies. I just gave an uppercut and then some crashing blows to the allergies but they are not yet down for the count or even the earl. Whenever I’m fighting allergies my head feels very convoluted and spacey. Kevin also occasionally feels spacey, but he’s into that sort of self-love thing. What the HELL am I talking about? I feel we should all be Googling the Gazelle. Googling The Gazelle – that’s the title of my next novel. Speaking of my next novel, yesterday I wrote eight pages of my next novel. My guess is that by the end of this very day I shall be halfway through, which pleases me very much. I got up early, but it was too gray out to do the long jog, so I wrote the first six of the eight pages right then and there and also right there and then. I then boxed up some stuff I’d been looking through, and then finally did the long jog, for the sky had cleared and it was quite nice out. I then wrote two more pages and by that time it was already after four. I then drove over the hill to have a little something to eat before attending the DGA screening of Slumdog Millionaire. There aren’t all that many restaurants around the DGA, but I’d pretty much made up my mind that it was going to the Gaucho Grill or CPK. I found a good parking space and walked to the Gaucho Grill and I just decided that would do. Only it wouldn’t do because the Gaucho Grill is gone, empty, kaput, soon to be replaced by another Argentinean restaurant. The Gaucho Grill has been there for about fifteen years, probably more, and it just disappears in an instant. Go know. I then walked to CPK, which is located in the complex where the Sunset Five movie theaters are, and where Virgin used to be. There was a sign on the door saying that CPK was closing as of November 2008. I think it’s the first CPK that’s ever closed. I couldn’t believe it. So, I ended up in the strip mall across the street at a hole in the wall jernt called John’s New York, an Eyetalian jernt. I had the spaghetti and meatballs and I must say it was quite yummilicous. I started with a small Caesar, which was merely oke. After that, I toddled back to the DGA and got my favorite seat. I sat there like so much fish until the motion picture began.
Last night, I watched a motion picture entitled Slumdog Millionaire. I was a little worried that I’d hate it as soon as it began, since the sound was excruciatingly loud and the frenetic cutting and disjointedness put me on my guard. However, I soon got engrossed in the story and as soon as I understood the structure I really got into the film, and I ended up thinking it was the best picture I’ve seen from 2008, although I haven’t seen that many, although I’ve seen more than what I saw in 2007. The film is very well written and the acting is superb. The direction, at least visually, was a little too now for me, but that didn’t matter because the storytelling was done so well, and very cleverly. The pacing was excellent, and I enjoyed the score by Bollywood great A.R. Rahman. If Mr. Rahman gets nominated for an Academy Award he’ll certainly be top Rahman. We don’t allow groaning here at haineshisway.com. It’s really not a score in the traditional sense, but it works very well in the film. I can’t give this my highest recommendation as it features a vomit scene, but I do recommend it highly. It really shows how manipulative and self-important movies like Benjamin Button are. The transfer was… oh, yeah, I watched film. As always, the projection at the DGA is the best there is.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because frankly I think it’s all time we were Googling The Gazelle.
I thought I had some kind of meeting or something or other today but it appears I don’t, and I’m jiggy with that. Therefore, I will do the long jog and I will write at least five pages and hopefully a few more than that – I will hopefully finish the chapter I’m in and begin the new chapter which, fortunately, I have mapped out. Other than that, I shall eat something amusing, and hopefully I will pick up some packages.
Tomorrow appears to be free from encumbrances, too, but Thursday I have quite a long work session. I also must get a haircut in the next couple of weeks, and I have to figure out what day to record the Nudie Musical demo (omed, spelled backwards).
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, write, eat, and do some errands. Today’s topic of discussion: When you were younger, what was your favorite late-night hangout? And what were your favorite early-morning breakfast places? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and now let us all go about the business of Googling The Gazelle.