Well, dear readers, here it is, Sunday, a day of rest on a long weekend, and yet I will not be resting because I have to get up early, do the long jog, and then have a work session – basically the composer and lyricist of the long musical will be playing through the numbers that I’ve worked on with them, playing for one of the writers. I am going to do everything I can to make it the shortest work session possible – what I don’t want is for there to be an endless discussion after each number. I’d like them to play everything and then we can all go our separate ways and the writer can e-mail me any thoughts. If we start discussions it’s going to turn into three or four hours and I’m not doing that, so I will be very strong about how the time will be spent. No one should really mess with me right now because, frankly, I am so overtired because of these inconsiderate peckerwoods who are doing the work next door it’s not even funny. Yesterday, they were there at eight – not heavy equipment, just two complete idiots yakking away at eight in the morning right near my bedroom window. I really thought about going over there and giving them a piece of my mind, but then my mind would have one less piece and it’s already in tatters anyway, so I didn’t. Instead, I got up and did the long jog, then did some errands and whatnot whilst she of the Evil Eye did her thing. I then came home around noon and just relaxed, doing a little of this and a little of that. Mr. Handy Man came over and in just a couple of hours had the garage looking perfect again. At three I decided I was quite hungry so I went to the California Pizza Kitchen – hadn’t been there since about a month before I began dieting last year. I split some Spinach Artichoke dip and had the sausage and pepper penne pasta – it was all quite yummilicious. I had a couple of cupcakes from one of those new, trendy cupcake emporiums. They were tasty, but ultimately I don’t really need or care for cupcakes all that much and I shan’t be eating them for at least another year. After that, I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched two count them two motion pictures on Blu-Ray. The first motion picture on Blu-Ray was entitled The Enforcer, the third of the Dirty Harry movies. After the original, The Enforcer is my favorite, mainly due to the wonderful performance of Tyne Daly. But as good as she is, there’s the awful performance of DeVeren Bookwalter to drag the film down. Still, it’s enjoyable, and the Blu-Ray disc looks very sharp and colorful. I then watched Patriot Games, the second Jack Ryan film and the first to star Harrison Ford in the role. I’d never seen it (or if I had I completely have no memory of it), and I found it as enjoyable as Clear and Present Danger, mostly due to the excellent direction of Philip Noyce, and Harrison Ford’s performance as Ryan. Like Clear and Present Danger, this film takes its time, doesn’t overplay the action (although there’s more of it in this film), and all the actors are good. I don’t love the standard issue IRA but not really the IRA plot and villains – it’s just been used too many times to really have any impact, but the film moves right along and the last twenty minutes is very exciting. The Blu-Ray disc is very odd. It’s sharp and colorful and looks great a lot of the time, but it also exhibits some strange sort of pulsing, moving artifacts that are like nothing I’ve ever seen. The fact that several online reviewers gave this disc high marks without even mentioning this problem leads me to believe that they are either blind or watching the film on a computer screen and not a large one at that. I mean, it’s so OBVIOUS that you really would have to be blind to miss it. I googled the disc and finally found a reviewer on some site who thankfully wrote about exactly what I’m saying, and he, too, was baffled by no one else mentioning it. And yet, those same reviewers will nitpick transfers that don’t have enough (according to them) grain, as if these people knew what film grain was supposed to look like on disc – all they know is what they’ve read on the Internet because eighty percent of these people have never seen older films projected and therefore have no frame of reference and consequently the fact that they are acting as if they know what they’re talking about is laughable. Save me from these twenty-something reviewers – they’ve done a huge disservice to film and filmmakers because they simply do not know whereof they speak, most especially about color and grain. End of rant about young reviewers.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s after midnight and we’re gonna let it all hang out.
Today, I’ll do the morning work session and I best be back home by one, at which time I’ll write some liner notes, listen to some CDs, and watch some motion pictures on Blu-Ray. And then I’ll be supping with our very own Miss Alet Taylor at Jerry’s Deli.
Tomorrow is mine all mine – no plans, no nothing. Then on Tuesday, the main order of business is casting the final two Nudie roles – that’s where my full concentration will be. I also have two major get-togethers to attend, and several meetings, said meetings all to do with the Nudie Musical music.
Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the Monkey, because today is the birthday of our very own Chicken Pox girl, dear reader Jeanne. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to our very own Chicken Pox girl, dear reader Jeanne. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO OUR VERY OWN CHICKEN POX GIRL, DEAR READER JEANNE!!!
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, attend a work session, and then relax and smell the roses or the coffee or the hearts of palm. 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 I toddle off to the bedroom environment to let it all hang out.