Well, dear readers, what a wacky week it’s been, but it’s over now, for all intents and purposes and also for all purposes and intents. Yesterday the wackiness factor was in high gear just about all day long. For example, I got up. That was wacky. But the interesting thing is that I was not awakened at seven by hammering and yammering – in fact, I didn’t get up until nine-thirty because the workers seemed to be quieter than usual and working on the front of the house rather than in front of my bedroom window. So, I got a good night’s sleep. I did the long jog, then had to hie myself to Genghis Cohen for a lunch meeting, which was not only fun, but quite yummilicious. Many upcoming Kritzerland projects were discussed, and there will be some fun things coming, and I do think I have releases now scheduled through the end of the year – at least one a month, and occasionally two in a month. I came back to the Valley, did some errands and whatnot, picked up a few packages that finally arrived, and came home and began addressing packages. That took the rest of the afternoon and I’m about halfway done. I then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu-Ray entitled Basic Instinct. I originally saw the film at a screening, at which time it received much derisive laughter, especially in its closing minutes. Nobody at that screening really seemed to care about the film all that much, but there was an audible gasp at “the” scene, even though “the” scene is mild compared to a couple of the other scenes. I think I’d seen it once subsequent to that screening, and hadn’t much cared for it once again. But, apparently it was the right film at the right time and was a huge hit. Watching it last night did nothing to change my opinion of the movie – I find it to be quite a dumb little thriller. Oh, I think with better dialogue and a director who wasn’t so, well, this IS the man who directed Showgirls, so you know what I’m saying, I think there probably was a better movie to be made. Some of it is so risible that it still makes me laugh. The overwrought sex scenes and the film’s final sex scene with the most overly bombastic music I think I’ve ever heard from Mr. Goldsmith, it just induces the giggles, I’m afraid. Michael Douglas is Michael Douglas and he clearly LOVES doing the sex scenes and I think between this and Fatal Attraction and his well publicized personal proclivities, that it’s not really about the acting. Sharon Stone is fine and memorable in the female lead. The club scenes are pure Hollywood sleaze and embarrassingly bad. The Blu-Ray is obviously sharper and more colorful than the DVD, but it really is not very stellar and has that smeary look that occasionally happens with some poorly encoded Blu-Ray discs.
I also entered all of my proofer’s fixes into the new novel, and I think one more person will now give it a once over and then we’ll design the book and get it to the publisher within the next two weeks. I’m thinking very early September it will be ready.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m hoping some of the wacky stuff that’s been going on is through and we can settle down and have a less wacky but fun final few days of June, and then we can welcome in July with fireworks.
Today, I shall finish addressing the rest of the Show Girl packages and then affix postage to same. Other than that, I just have a few errands and whatnot to attend to, and then I shall find something amusing to eat, and then I’ll watch a Blu-Ray or three, or maybe even one of the fifty DVDs that have been sitting here for the last five months that I haven’t even opened yet.
Tomorrow I’ll be going through the book again, just to make sure I’m happy with a couple of little sections that I was thinking about making small adjustments on. Other than that, it will be a day of rest and lounging about in my lounging pyjamas.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, address packages, affix postage, do errands and whatnot, and eat. Today’s topic of discussion: Per dear reader Laura – what is the weirdest, funniest, or most outrageous thing you’ve overheard? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we wind up the wacky week.