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July 18, 2010:

JUST PLAIN FUN

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Well, dear readers, some days are just plain fun. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, some days are just plain fun and yesterday, for example, was just plain fun. Nothing important happened, nothing bad happened, it was just plain damn fun from start to finish, or, if we were in Finland, from start to Finnish. I began the morning by arising. That was just plain fun. I answered some e-mails, and then did a three-mile jog – that wasn’t that much fun, but do it I did and did it I do. After that, I went over to the Apple Store to see if they had any of the free cases for the iPhone – of course, they didn’t and don’t have a clew as to when they’ll be getting any in. I then went to Foot Locker because I needed new feet – I mean, new shoes. So, I bought a nice pair of Adidas shoes for regular wear, and because I have never liked my jogging shoes that I purchased a year and a half ago, I bought new jogging shoes – this pair seems much lighter and more comfortable, so jogging should be a little easier. We’ll know that soon. I also bought four plain t-shirts – three black and one gray – four for twenty bucks. Can’t do better than that. I wore one of the black t-shirts and my new regular shoes out of the store and that was just plain fun. I then headed out to the Lake of West to have a lunch with film composer Dana Kaproff. Mr. Kaproff, who wrote the score for the Kritzerland release, Empire of the Ants, is moving to New York and has entrusted all his personal score tapes to me. There may be a title or two we can do, and I may try to do a first time license with a certain studio because the one score he did that I know would sell is When A Stranger Calls. We had a very good time, and whilst having it I had poaced eggs and an English muffin. After that, I headed home, stopped at the mail place and picked up three nice packages and the envelope I was expecting. Then I walked to the bank and did some banking, and then I walked home. Yesterday was an amazing 103 degrees in the City of Studio – rather like a sauna bath. One of the packages I got contained DVDs of the three Millennium movies, all with English subtitles. Of course, I had the Blu and Ray of the first film, but I was anxious to see the other two, and I didn’t really want to see the second one in a lousy theater. The DVDs are region 2, basically bootlegs of some sort, but I was happy to get them.

After all that, it was time to do the radio interview on KFWB. One of the hosts of the show is my old pal Jeff Maxwell, who was in my show Together Again. The interview lasted about twelve minutes and boy was it just plain fun. We were all very irreverent, they asked great questions, and then they had a surprise mystery guest call in – Jeff’s cast mate, Rick Waln, who was also in my show The Good One. Jeff was great about plugging the book relentlessly and the fact is we must have sold a few books on amazon.com because we jumped about a million four hundred thousand point in the sales rank, all the way to 103,000. Then I went to dinner with a friend and her seventeen-year-old son. I was warned that he might be surly, but he was, in fact, delightful and we got along just fine. We went to the Daily Grill, where I had a salad and a double chicken breast that was out of this world. It was filling, but I’d done my three-mile jog so it was all fine. After that, I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on DVD entitled The Girl Who Played With Fire. Some critics and the usual suspects at the imdb were very disappointed by this second film in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. They felt it didn’t come close to the first film, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and wished it could have been more like that one. Note to the usual suspects: That was one film and this is entirely another. Different story, different tone, different style. They did exactly what they should have done – there would have been no way to compete with the first movie – that was what it was. Again, I haven’t read the books so I don’t know how faithful they are, but all I can tell you is I really liked the second movie. The story is compelling, the performances, especially by Noomi Rapace, are wonderful, and I was engrossed throughout. No, it does not have all the levels of the first film, but this story works just fine on its own terms and was very satisfying. I imagine the ending is a little bothersome to some types being that it ends with a bit of a cliffhanger that will be resolved in the third film, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. I’ll be watching that one tonight. The score, once again by Jacob Groth, is great.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I have to get my beauty sleep, which will also be just plain fun.

Today, our very own Mr. Nick Redman will be stopping by to pick up some stuff, and then I’m lunching with the photographer. After that, the rest of the day is mine all mine and I shall watch the final film in the Millennium trilogy, which I’m very much looking forward to.

Tomorrow is a busy day that culminates with a meeting with writer Sam Bobrick. Tuesday is more of the same and that night I see a play reading, then I have meetings and meals and Friday I’m going out to see the opening night of a production of Cinderella.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, visit with Mr. Nick Redman, lunch with a photographer, and then relax and watch motion pictures. 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, and let’s hope for another day and maybe even week of just plain fun.

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