Well, dear readers, it’s our Annual Tony Awards Bash here at haineshisway.com and this is the place to be for all things Tony – this is the best partay in town, so join us for the merriment and mirth and laughter and legs. You won’t want to miss a single second. I am still, at this time, very overtired from my late night last night – I did manage to get about six hours of sleep, but I kept dozing off during the day, twice for an hour. So, therefore I don’t remember much of yesterday. I remember some of yesterday. For example, I remember yesterday was yesterday, so that’s really good, I think.
I know I got up at eleven (I didn’t fall asleep until about four-thirty), had a visitor, answered e-mails, had another visitor, then went and had some penne pasta in a creamy tomato sauce – it was quite yummilicious and just what the doctor ordered. The doctor ordered it after seeing me order it – yes, the doctor was derivative. After that, I moseyed on over to the mail place where I picked up two small packages, after which I came home, where I immediately sat on my couch like so much fish.
One of the packages contained seven DVDs, six of which were the 1993 and 1994 series of Swedish films based on the Beck novels of Sjowall and Wahloo. I’d watched the film from the 1970s and hadn’t much liked it, but these 90s films are terrific. The actor who plays Inspector Beck is wonderful, and the supporting cast is great. I watched two of them – Roseanna (based on the very first Beck book) and Man on the Balcony, a compelling story about a child killer. These aren’t whodunits – halfway through Roseanna we know who the killer is and the film’s suspense and story is the catching of the killer – and suspenseful it is. In the second film we know who the killer is from the get-go and also the go-get. The production values are very high, and the direction is solid and thankfully not of the shaky-cam school. In fact, the director is the man who would go on to direct The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the last two films in the Dragon Tattoo series. Also, these first two films had wonderful music by Stefan Nilsson. So, I’ve got four more of those, plus the guy I got them from sent me a Dutch adaptation of one of the Beck books, The Locked Room, so I’m looking forward to that. The only downside to the two I saw (and I assume it will be a downside to the others) is that the English subtitles are completely literal and therefore occasionally make no sense – they’re awkward and hard to “get” sometimes, but once you’ve watched for about ten minutes you can kind of paraphrase them in your head as you read them. An example is “Will you sweetly sit down.” That might be the literal English translation of what’s being said, but what the subtitle should read is, “Will you please sit down.” But there are many more obtuse examples that I won’t bore you with.
I also listened to two new Henry Mancini soundtrack releases, the first ever release of the original tracks for Hatari and Charade. After waiting all these years, neither was a home run for me, but it’s mostly because of personal preference in terms of sequencing. That aside, it’s great to have the original tracks, at long last, and they both sound very good. At some point I went to Gelson’s and got a little snack. And that’s about all I remember.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get as much beauty sleep as possible, although I have to be up no later than nine-thirty.
Today, Adryan Russ is coming by at ten-thirty and we’re going to Mr. Grant Geissman’s home environment to take a photograph – she’s on the board of the Society of Composers and Lyricists and wants to put a photo in their newsletter, which is fine by Grant and me. Then I’ll come home and prep the eBlast for our new release, and then I’m meeting a family who has two young teens who are aspiring performers – since I now have to annoyingly recast two Outside the Box episodes (and I really wish I didn’t – this whole damn drama is just so stupid it makes me ill). Hopefully, one of the kids will be right for one of the episodes, and I’ve already talked to another mom about her daughter doing the other one – and she’s fine with that. Then I’ll come home and settle in for our Annual Tony Awards Bash.
Tomorrow, I wish I could sleep in, but I’ll be up at six in the morning to announce our new title. I’ll then try to go right back to bed. Other than that, this week is very busy – meals to have, meetings to have, shows to see, and then I shall be on my way to New York, New York on Thursday, will do the book signing on Friday, rehearse with the East Coast Singer on Saturday and Sunday and then her show is at nine-thirty Sunday night at the Metropolitan Room. She has graciously offered any East Coast dear readers to be her guest at the show. So, take advantage of it, please. If you want to come, just send me a message and let me know how many you are. I shall be on my way home Monday at noon.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, take a photograph, I must prep an eBlast, I must meet two young teenage gals and their mum, and I must attend our Annual Tony Awards Bash. 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 – but you can also post your Tony predictions, favorite Tony moments, and all that jazz. Let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, ready for our Tony doings.