Well, dear readers, once again I must write these here notes in a hurry because CDs will be arriving bright and early and also early and bright and I shall have quite a few hours of packaging and shipping and schlepping and doing. Most of yesterday was spent addressing said packages – thankfully, I had the help of Mr. Cason Murphy. These days, it’s taking much longer than it used to because my overseas orders have overtaken my US orders and because of new USPS rules we now have to not only address the overseas packages we have to address little customs forms for them, as well. These packages weigh under one ounce and why they had to change this rule and cause all this fershluganah extra work is anyone’s guess. I had no time to jog, and that is really beginning to irk me, and an irked me is not a pretty thing. There are a few other things that are irking me right now, but I’m doing my best to not let them, I’m doing my best to shine it on, baby, shine it on. If I lose that battle, it will not be such a good thing for those doing the irking. In any case, enough with the irk. Cason and I had some lunch, then I had to deliver a box o’ CDs to a local dealer, after which I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I finished watching a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Red Desert, a film of Antonioni. It’s one of those alienation things he was so fond of doing, and it’s very well done, very long, very interesting stylistically, and with a lot of existential palaver spoken in Eyetalian. Monica Vitti is quite beautiful, and a dubbed in Eyetalian Richard Harris sort of hangs around for the entire film (sometimes the long shots and shots from behind are not even Mr. Harris, who apparently came to blows with Antonioni and left the film). The transfer is lovely, with excellent color and sharpness – the best the film has looked since its IB Technicolor prints back in 1963. I then watched another motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Up. I saw the film in three dimensions when it came out and loved it. I loved it even more in two dimensions. Pixar just knows how to do these things better than anyone and, for me, Up is the best film of this year, unless something in the next six weeks knocks it off the pedestal. The film is funny, sweet, and extremely touching. The quality of the Blu-Ray image is never less than astonishing. It’s highly recommended by the likes of me.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’ve got to get these here notes posted and try to get my beauty sleep.
Today, I shall be packing and shipping and shipping and packing and then packing and shipping. I also have liner notes to write, food to eat, e-mails to answer, telephonic calls to have – it should be a full day of doing things.
Tomorrow, I have a meeting and many errands and whatnot to attend to, and Wednesday is the same, plus a screening of The Informant, with Mr. Marvin Hamlisch doing a Q&A afterwards.
The rest of the week has meetings and other such things, and prepping our next release, as well as a meal or two.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog at some point, I must pack and ship, I must eat, and then I must rest my weary feet. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your all-time favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone, and what was the first episode you ever saw? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I do my best to shine it on, baby, shine it on.