Well, dear readers, we had a splendidly splendid launch of our new website, with lots of visitors to both the main site and the discussion board. But before I get to that, let me get to this: It is June. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it is June. We knew it was coming soon, this June, and now it is here in all its June-ness. So may I just say that it is my fervent hope and prayer that June will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. The way I look at it is June is busting out all over. Of course it can also be a Dainty June. And there will be a moon in June, which we affectionately call a June Moon. So, just to put a point on it – it’s June.
The final day of May was kooky in the way that the final day of May usually is. I was up at eight thanks to the arrival of the workers. I had many messages from folks who found the new notes fun and fancy free, with all those new contraptions we can now do. For example, one contraption we can do now is give you Music To Read Notes By. Since yesterday’s The Brain from Planet X song in French went over so well, here is another Brain song in French, this one Here On Earth.
I did a three-mile jog and while I was coming home a stupid kamikaze bee flew right into my neck. I felt it immediately and brushed it off there with my hand. Of course, being me, I immediately thought I’d been stung to death and was dying. I figured I’d just drop dead right there on Moorpark (kraproom, spelled backwards) from a kamikaze bee sting. I do not like bees and I like them even less now. I was tormented by a bee when I was a mere sprig of a twig of a tad of a lad of a youth – I believe it’s in Benjamin Kritzer. I wasn’t stung that time, but I was stung at the beach in the early 1970s. So, I’m jogging and two minutes after the kamikaze bee dive-bombed me I felt a stinging pain in my finger. Now, I don’t think I was actually stung, but I was squeezing my finger really hard, as if that was going to do something, and the same thing with my neck. But the stinging in my finger disappeared immediately and nothing was swelling, which was swell.
When I got home I asked the worker if I should or could do anything about a bee sting, and he suggested I take a credit card and scrape it against my neck and finger. I got a charge out of that. We don’t allow groaning here at haineshisway.com. But I also was told that if nothing was happening after thirty minutes that everything was probably fine, and that proved to be the case. After that, my dinner was confirmed, so I didn’t eat lunch. In fact, I didn’t even leave the house. I just relaxed, played on our new discussion board, figured a few more things out that you dear readers wanted on the board, read through my commentary one more time and made some changes, including adding one really good and funny line.
One wonderful thing is that although the spambots are mercilessly registering for the site as always, with the exception of two that got through, none of that is working, thanks to captcha. Apparently, a couple of the spambots are so sophisticated they can get past captcha. To the people who put this stuff in motion I can only wish you pain and suffering for the rest of your born days. Really. You deserve every bit of it. You are everything that’s loathsome about the Internet and technology. As my mother used to say, “Go play in traffic” or “Go take a long walk off a short pier.” Really.
The workers are making fine progress and things are looking really good. Then I moseyed on over to the Eclectic Café for my early dinner with Caitlynne Medrick, who’s back in LA for a couple of weeks. She hopes to return permanently in September and we hope she will. I had salmon and brussel sprouts, along with a small Caesar salad, all very good. And I got Caitlynne to join our merry discussion board and she’s already been posting there, so check it out when you have a moment. And if you’ve thought about joining our merry troupe, get off your butt cheeks and do so. Then I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I finished watching a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Champion. I’m sure I’d seen it before, but really didn’t remember much about it. It’s quite a good film with excellent direction by Mark Robson and fantastic photography by Franz Planer – the look of the boxing sequences were obviously appropriated by Mr. Martin Scorsese for Raging Bull. Kirk Douglas really did play cads very well – he’s the lead here, but his character is truly a jerk – and just a couple of years later he would play another character who is an even more reprehensible jerk in Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival). The transfer is nothing to write home about, but I wrote home about it anyway. After that, I decided to do a second jog. And after that I just played on the computer.
I just thought of something fun I can do. I can take a photograph of these here notes being written and then post them in these here notes – isn’t that surreal and exciting? Let’s try it.
Ooh, that gives me bumps of goose. I just love this new-fangled way of doing the notes. Another thing I’m trying with today’s notes – I’m writing them an hour ahead of schedule, then scheduling them to post at midnight. I’m very curious to see if that works – if it does, then when I’m out of town I’ll have the ability to do that and that is very exciting indeed. I could never do that on the old form – I’d have to post and then manually change the date.
Today, there will be no sleeping in as she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon. I’ll do a jog, maybe have a small snack, do some banking, and then come back home. Then we have our stumble-through at three, after which a few of us will probably go get something to eat.
Tomorrow is sound check and show and I will, of course, have a full report. Next week I start prepping the next show – I actually have gathered together over half the music already, so I’m ahead of the game, and all we have to do is finish casting one male and one female and one guest star and then I can assign the songs and get everyone their material. Otherwise, I do have a set of liner notes to do, and I have some meetings and meals and I’m seeing a couple of things – one thing I will absolutely see at some point next week is The Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson Theater. And then, it’s our Annual Tony Awards Bash and you won’t want to be anywhere else but here for the fun and festivities.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, have a snack, do some banking, have a stumble-through, eat, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite films of Mr. Kirk Douglas? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I shall welcome in June with open arms, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that June will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.