Well, dear readers, as most of you are aware, it is June, and, being June, we are currently under siege from an attack of the Junebugs. These Junebugs are, perhaps, the most irritating bugs ever. First they sit there like so much fish just sort of making irritating noises on the floor or window or wherever. Then suddenly they start flying around weirdly, diving at anything human, and then just circling and diving and being very difficult to catch and kill. I got about six of them last night. But even if you don’t catch them, they just expire suddenly, just like that. It’s like the sit there like so much fish, fly for a few minutes, then have a heart attack and die. Of course, the oddest thing of all is where exactly are they coming from? They just appear. I suppose I will have an exterminator come out and bomb the house – I haven’t ever done it here in the six years I’ve been living in this home environment, so it’s probably time. Damn them, damn them all to hell. Other than the Attack of the Junebugs, I had a pleasantly pleasant Saturday. I slept right up until she of the Evil Eye showed up. I answered some e-mails and then moseyed on over to my designer’s home environment to deliver several things he needs for our upcoming release. I then did a bunch of errands and whatnot, then moseyed on over to the Sunset Strip Hamburger Hamlet, where I had a lovelier than lovely luncheon with dear reader Jeanne. I had a turkey Reuben – turkey, coleslaw, and Swiss cheese on grilled rye. It was small but good. I then came back to the San Fernando Valley, picked up some mail and no packages, caught up on some Kritzerland bill paying, and did some other work around the home environment, all the while listening to about seven CDs. And then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I finished watching Al Jolson in Mammy, a very peculiar movie that features one of my all-time favorite songs – Irving Berlin’s Let Me Sing (and I’m Happy). After that, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Burn After Reading, another smart-ass film from the Coen Brothers. I enjoyed A Serious Man, but this one, while having interesting things and good performances just added up to nothing at all. The box promises an outrageous and hilarious spy comedy – of course, the film is none of those things. Austin Powers, maybe, but not Burn After Reading. The tone is wildly all over the map, and the musical score doesn’t help, in that it’s very serious and you just don’t ever know if it’s farce, satire, serious, or what. The Blu-Ray looks great, and the cast is really good – John Malkovich (looking odder and odder), Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Brad Pitt (in over the top mode), and J.K. Simmons (who looks like John Malkovich).
After the movie, I listened to more CDs as I put labels on a LOT of boxes. And I offed a few Junebugs. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because tomorrow morning will be here all too soon and the helper will be here and we’ll be addressing lots and lots o’ packages and then putting postage on them, and then driving some packages to the post office. Why the packages can’t just get a little exercise and walk over there is anyone’s guess.
Today, as noted, we’ll be working doing Kritzerland stuff until the early afternoon, after which the day is mine all mine. I do want something interesting to eat – a change of pace. Perhaps I’ll try a new jernt, or maybe I’ll just rustle something up here. And then I’ll listen to CDs and then I’ll begin prepping the next soundtrack release, which will either be announced concurrently with the show release or, more likely, be announced the week after.
This coming week I will have some work sessions, I’ll write, I’ll have several meetings, and I may see a couple of shows here and there.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, try to jog, address packages, put postage on packages, drive some lazy packages over to the post office, eat something fun, and then relax and enjoy my day and evening. 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 continue to fight the Attack of the Junebugs.