Well, dear readers, this week has flown by, like a gazelle in a coonskin cap. Does anyone still wear a coonskin cap? I’ll drink to that. Frankly, I’d wear a coonskin cap right now if I had one. I’d wear it hither and thither and even yon. I wonder when the last time was that one could go to their local department store and purchase a coonskin cap? Why am I going on about a coonskin cap when I have notes to write? Next thing you know I’ll be singing the entirety of Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier. Yesterday, I got up after a good night’s sleep. I answered e-mails and did some things that needed doing, then I went and had some bacon and eggs whilst making notes on one of the musicals I recently saw at a reading. I’ve agreed to help on one of them, and the other I have politely passed on. On the latter, there were just too many red flags for me to even want to attend a meeting. After that, I had my motor car washed, I picked up some mail but no packages, and then I came home and did some more work around the home environment. The book design session got pushed to today, so I just sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I finished watching a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Black Dynamite, a spoof of blaxploitation films. As a spoof, it’s pretty accurate, so that’s amusing for about thirty minutes. They really capture the look, including overt grain, cheesy sets, mic booms hovering in the shot, and the costumes are accurate as well. Some of it is quite droll, but ultimately, like most of these things, it runs out of steam and just huffs and puffs to its seventy-six minute conclusion (it runs just over eighty minutes with the end credits). The music is also very accurate and fun – there is a composer credited but also a ton of library music. I then watched this week’s episode of Lost which, for me, was no better or worse than any of the rest of this season’s episodes – I just am really trying to get with it but nothing has truly grabbed me and the alternate timeline story I find really annoying at this point. I wish they’d just get on with it and begin explaining things. I then watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Up In The Air, starring George Clooney. After all the raves I’ve heard I was just a little underwhelmed, just as I was with Mr. Reitman’s other raved about film, Juno. It’s a nice movie, but I certainly didn’t find it to be a great one, which is what I was expecting. Clooney is fine, and so is the rest of the cast, but it just sort of goes along and doesn’t add up to much. I also found the use of songs to be horrendous – just so lazy and pointless. The Blu-Ray looks faboo.
After my viewing, I had a couple of magazines to read, and I did a few things on the computer and basically it was a nice, relaxing day, the kind I really needed to have. The only thing that could have made it better would have been a coonskin cap.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because tonight I’m going to bed at a decent hour and getting my beauty sleep.
Today, I have some errands and whatnot to do, some packages to ship, a meal to have, and then we shall be having a book design session, which I am so looking forward to.
Tomorrow, I have to do a lot of organizing, and I also have to write the liner notes to our next two releases – the Kritzerland designer is leaving town for ten days and everything for those two releases must be ready before he goes. He’ll have the ability to have the titles go live on the site from wherever he is, but the design and everything has to be done prior to his departure.
Sunday, Cason will be here addressing packages and also setting the rehearsal schedule for the long musical’s staged reading. We’ve also set our first LACCTAA event for a week from tomorrow – it’s my pal Gordon Hunt, a terrific director and talent – so we have to get the word out on that.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do errands and whatnot, ship packages, hopefully pick up a package or three, have a meal, and do a book design session. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start: CD, Alexander Desplat’s score to The Ghost Writer. Blu and Ray – next up is The Go-Between. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and please pass on whatever information you have on where we can purchase a coonskin cap.