Well, dear readers, I don’t know if I’d call yesterday a Scintillating Saturday, but the world didn’t come to an end, so there’s that. The fact that yet another scintillating end of the world moment has passed by will not, of course, stop the same people from jumping on the next doomsday bandwagon. It’s quite unbelievable, actually, but if it makes people happy then it makes people happy. Because the world didn’t come to an end, I had a waffle. Yes, I went to Vivian’s Café at nine in the morning, where I had a waffle and two eggs and two slices of bacon. I’d only gotten about five hours of sleep and I was feeling much heartburn from all the pepperoni of the night before. The waffle was good, the eggs were good, the bacon was merely okay. Then, because the world hadn’t come to an end, I did some errands and whatnot whilst she of the Evil Eye did her thing. I ended up at the mail place where I picked up one small package and no important envelope. This is the third week in a row when an envelope coming from Virginia takes almost an entire week. Hopefully it will be here on Monday. I then came home, printed out more orders, then left, had a work session, did more errands and whatnot, and then came back home after stopping at Gelson’s for something to eat. I was still feeling a little yucky, but I managed to jog a mile and a half and that actually helped, except I kept thinking I was going to fall asleep during the jog. I was also happy to find that all the Nudie Musical elements were picked up by dear reader Laura and are now safely in her hands until we meet up, at which point they will be safely in my hands. Then, because the world hadn’t come to an end, I sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I managed to watch two short motion pictures on DVD. The first short motion picture on DVD was entitled The Ambulance, starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, and Eric Braeden. It was a film written and directed by the extremely wacky Larry Cohen. And wacky was his film, but also a good deal of fun, because Larry Cohen makes films like no one else and I kind of like that. There’s nothing quite like a Larry Cohen film, whether the nutty It’s Alive, God Told Me To, Q, The Winged Serpent, and The Stuff. All his films are quirky and weird and The Ambulance fits very much in with his oeuvre. Seems an ambulance is picking up certain people, but not taking them to a hospital, but to a private clinic, where they are used as human guinea pigs for an experiment having to do with diabetes. Everybody’s over the top in this one, but it moves right along and there’s some laughs and some just downright peculiar things.
After that, I watched another short motion picture on CD, which was entitled The Caller, starring Malcolm McDowell and Madolyn Smith. It’s from Albert Band, who made very low-budget films – this one is literally a two-person cast shot in Italy (masquerading as the US) in basically one location. It’s an irritating little film, and one ends up shouting at the screen a little – but then there’s a reveal at the end and suddenly what you’ve been watching at least then makes sense, even if the Twilight Zone-ish reveal is completely outré and comes way too late. The two leads are good, but because of what they’re asked to play (before the reveal is revealed) nothing they do makes much sense. The film has a nice little score by Richard Band.
After that, I posted the event page for the next Kritzerland At The Gardenia show – Call Me Cy – The Music Of Cy Coleman. As soon as it was posted I got a nice Facebook message from Miss Daisy Eagen, asking about the shows we do. I told her she could come play with us if she’s in town. We’re going to have lunch in the next couple of weeks. I haven’t seen her since we did the Broadway Bound CD back in the late 90s.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I really need a good night’s beauty sleep and then hopefully a Serene Sunday.
Today, I have a lunch/work session with Mr. David Wechter that will probably take two hours, maybe a bit more. I’ll then do a little writing on our project, as well as some writing on my other project. Other than that, I really do hope to have a Serene Sunday.
This week is filled with work sessions, rehearsals, meals, meetings, and I even think I have to see a show or something, although I can’t remember what it might be. Hopefully I’ve written it down somewhere.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a lunch/work session, I must do some writing, I must try to jog, and I must try to have a Serene Sunday, happy in the knowledge that the world didn’t come to an end. 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 get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all sleep easy that it was the end of the world that wasn’t.