Well, dear readers, I am having a lovelier than lovely restful weekend. Therefore I have little to write about, so I think I’ll keep these here notes short and sweet, not necessarily in that order. In fact, I could just end them right here. What do you think of that idea? That would be a novelty, wouldn’t it? Novelty Notes – I like it. I used to love novelty toys, too. You remember, those things you’d see in comic book ads – whoopee cushions, whistles, fake vomit, fake doggy doo. There were several stores in LA and especially at the beach where you could buy such novelty items. I bought them all, as many as I could lay my hands on, whether from stores or from those vending machines. But I loved anything like that – pop beads (does anyone remember those), little chains (do you know what I’m talking about with little chains), all sorts of weird little goodies that I wish I still had. For example, right now I wish I had some fake vomit. That would be ever so much fun to take into a restaurant and put on the table after your meal. Why am I waxing nostalgic about novelty items? Don’t I have notes to write? I do, and I shall, not necessarily in that order. So, here come the novelty notes, which, coincidentally, will be filled with fake vomit. Yesterday was a totally relaxing day. I slept till nine, I did the long jog, I delivered the album covers for our next CD release, I ate a foot-long Subway turkey sandwich, and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I watched way too many episodes of Lost, Season Four – six in all. I must say, I’m rather liking the fourth season, even though it’s going in very odd directions, with not only flash-forwards, but flashbacks, and in one episode, a flashback and flash-forward running concurrently (although you don’t know that until the end). There are some interesting surprises along the way, including the death of another major character, although we don’t know how the death will happen. The season four Blu-Ray is up to the standards of the other three seasons. Since season four is very brief (only fourteen episodes), I’ll probably finish the season by Monday. After that, I decided to watch Never Say Never Again on Blu and Ray. It’s the only Bond film I’ve never seen more than once. I remember really not liking it when it came out, and I liked it even less watching it all these years later. I do love Sean Connery as Bond, and that part is fine. But the direction is leaden, and the musical score by Michel Legrand is, for me, not only the nadir of his career, but the worst Bond score ever (and there are some pretty bad ones). And that awful title song is pure unadulterated crap. And then there’s the transfer – it’s reasonably sharp and all, but the color is awful – brown, drab, and looking nothing like it looked when it came out. Note to idiots doing the transfer – the water in the Bahamas is not gray and brown.
After that, I just sat at my computer like so much fish and dreamed of whoopee cushions and fake doggy doo and fake vomit and I was quite happy. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I want to go to bed early and get a lot of sleep.
Today, I shall have a day like yesterday. I shall do the long jog, I shall eat light, and I shall watch episodes of Lost, and then a motion picture later in the evening.
Tomorrow, I have a lunch meeting, and various and sundried things to attend to, and the rest of the week is looking like the same, and that includes trip number two to Dr. Chew.
And, of course, there is no rest for the weary in terms of Kritzerland releases, and I have to start writing the liner notes for our next release.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, watch episodes of Lost, eat something amusing, and relax. 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 search online for some fake vomit and other novelty products of old.