Well, dear readers, I am reminded of the story of The Randy Vicar and the Bean Dip, although I can’t for the life of me figure out why. I just was suddenly reminded of the story of The Randy Vicar and the Bean Dip, just like that, out of the blue and also out of the green. I mean, I didn’t have bean dip today, I didn’t see bean dip today, I didn’t think of bean dip today or, for that matter, the Randy Vicar. I suppose that one is just occasionally reminded of the story of The Randy Vicar and the Bean Dip – it’s a corker, by the way (BTW, in Internet lingo). Now that I’ve got that off my chest, I shall continue. That loves to get on my chest and sit there like so much fish, so it’s always a relief to get that off my chest. I got that off my chest by telling that the story of The Randy Vicar and the Bean Dip. Did you know, for example, that dip is pid spelled backwards? Just asking. Yesterday was another almost-relaxing day in which I almost relaxed. I managed to sleep until nine-fifteen, and was awakened by the ringing of the telephonic device. Then we had a forty minute The Mystery of the Missing Phone, which I finally found in the DVD closet. Go know. It was just too chilly to jog so instead I did some work on the computer, answered e-mails, printed out our advance orders and then went to the Studio Café and had some wings and one of their scrambles with mushrooms and onions. After that, I picked up a couple of packages, and after that I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I managed to watch two count them two motion pictures on Blu and Ray. The first motion picture was entitled Subway, a French film from France, starring Christopher Lambert, Jean Reno and several other actors from the movie I saw last night, The Last Battle. Subway was Luc Besson’s follow up film and while it’s very stylish and fun, it just sort of meanders along and isn’t very compelling viewing. Still, I enjoyed it – Mr. Besson, in retrospect, was quite influential on filmmakers of the 90s and 2000s, visually-speaking. The transfer was very nice – some of it looks fantastic, but a few scenes look less so because they were shooting in low-light on a faster film stock, which creates a lot more grain than usual. It’s certainly not a fault of the transfer. I then watched the second motion picture, which was entitled Red Cliff, which was not the sequel to the Blue Ridge or the Green Mountain. Red Cliff was directed by John Woo and is a telling of a very famous and old Chinese war story, The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms, which takes place way back in 208AD, just a few years before I was born. There is a lot of information imparted in the first twenty minutes of the film and because there were so many characters being introduced and so many things going on, I couldn’t figure anything out and was almost going to give up. But the film was so stunning looking that I stuck with it and boy am I glad I did. It’s a fantastic picture – an epic in the grand style, filmed with Woo’s customary style and flair, just on a much larger scale than ever before. There are two major battle scenes in the two hour and forty-five minute film – the first was amazing, but the second was mind-boggling and my mouth was on the floor (no mean feat) for the entire thirty minutes of the sequence, and frequently I couldn’t help but cheer for some of the incredible staging and ideas in the scene. Red Cliff is actually part one of a two-part film – the second half, The Battle at Red Cliff I’ll watch today. The characters, once you get the lay of the land, are really interesting and fun, and the performances are great. And the score, by Taro Iwashiro is as good as the rest of the film, and I immediately ordered the soundtrack album. The transfer is amazingly amazing – sharper than sharp, great color, great robust sound, and I just thoroughly enjoyed the film and look forward to part two.
After the film, I wanted Chinese food but I was still full from my wings and scramble, so instead I had a couple of chocolate covered macadamia nuts and was reminded of the story of The Randy Vicar and the Bean Dip. It was a corker.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’ve got to get my beauty sleep, don’t you know, so that I can be beautiful as I walk around the home environment in my smoking jacket, my bunny slippers, and my leopard-spotted dickie.
I love my leopard-spotted dickie. How many of you have a leopard-spotted dickie or any dickie? Today, I shall try to jog if it’s not too too chilly, and I shall try to relax if it’s not too too chilly, and I shall try to eat something reasonable and amusing, although I haven’t a clew as to what that might be.
Tomorrow, I have to pick up tapes for a potential upcoming release, and we officially announce the new title first thing in the morning and I’m praying it will get lots and lots of orders. The eBlast has been prepped and everything is ready to go. I would advise paying a visit to the Kritzerland site just so you can hear the audio clips and get a preview of these two amazing scores. Tomorrow is also the final day of November, and then we’re into December, which I’m hoping will be a wonderful month for all of us. We have many birthdays to celebrate in December, including mine own.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog if it’s not too chilly, I must relax, I must watch a Blu-Ray or two and I must eat something amusing. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers 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 we all put on our leopard-spotted dickies and do the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance).