Well, dear readers, can someone please explain to me how it can already be Friday? Has it really been an entire week since I was in Indiana and Kentucky? I gotta tell you. In any case, it’s Friday and there’s nothing to be done about it except to have a perfectly perfect Friday. That’ll show Friday. Fool around with me, sister. Yesterday, of course, was not Friday, it was Thursday. And a very nice Thursday it was. I had a lovelier than lovely night’s sleep, got up, and had to answer a plethora of e-mails. I then had to attend to some details for the new release, which, by the time you read this, will have been announced. The master for this one is somewhat tricky, since we had two different sources, but I think we got it all straight. I had lunch at Hugo’s – hadn’t been there in about two weeks. Had my usual, and then picked up several packages from the mail place. I came home and had to attend to more details and fixes with the new release. I then saw the booklet for the bonus CD that comes with the book, and that’s fine. It took me a minute to figure out what he’d used for the backplate image, but I did and we’ll see if anyone else does. I then spent two more hours giving fixes for another fifty pages of the book I’m helping correct. And then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish, with a few of Jane’s Karmels, which are so beyond yummilicious it’s not even funny.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron. After all the hype and hearing that the film is the Second Coming, it was great to finally see it and be able to weigh in with my thoughts. My thoughts weigh ten pounds, three ounces. This is a seriously beautiful-looking film, a film of astonishing visual and aural imagination. The world that is created is extraordinary and one buys into it immediately. Certainly it’s the best CGI work ever done, really breathtaking. And all the story bits within the world are fine. But Cameron can’t seem to stay away from the military thing he so loves to do, and in the film’s final third it just gets ridiculous with that clichéd military fanatic behaving, I suppose, as military fanatics do. I didn’t mind that the military was invading a country they had no business being in, ruining it for their own selfish gains, and acting like they were entitled to be doing so – I mean, this is the United States and it is what we do occasionally. But then it just turns silly with the guy in the big robot suit. But there’s a reason the film made a trillion dollars – it delivers in certain ways and it’s an event film. I wish Cameron were as adept a writer as he is at creating images and the world of wonder he creates here. The Blu-Ray contains not one single extra that I could find, so people will be double dipping on this title. Also, if you have a player that’s even a year old you’ll probably not be able to load this disc. It’s one of the great downsides of Blu-Ray and why it’s not being adopted as quickly as the studios would like – this endless having to do firmware upgrades. So, my Samsung player could not even get to the menu of the disc – my all region player loaded fine. The transfer, as you might expect, is might pretty and the sound will rattle your speakers majorly.
After the film, I prepared everything for our early morning announcement. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must be up at six in the morning and therefore must get as much beauty sleep as possible.
Today, I will be up at six to announce, and then I’ll go back to bed. Once I arise, I only have a few errands and whatnot to attend to, along with some work to do on the computer. And then I’m having dinner out, perhaps even at my beloved Genghis Cohen.
Tomorrow is our Jason Graae event at noon, then I’ll mosey on over to the Hollywood Show to hang out with my pals, then I’m going to see Andrea Marcovicci at the Gardenia.
Sunday, I’m waiting to see what’s what and once I see what’s what I’ll know what’s what and I’ll report forthwith or withforth or withfifth.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, announce a CD, sleep, do errands and whatnot, and sup. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, many upcoming Kritzerland projects. Blu-Ray – next up, The Lovely Bones. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we whilst I go hit the road to dreamland. It occurs to me that I have no title for these here notes. How unseemly.