Well, dear readers, I just wrote an opening sentence and it so bored me to tears I almost fell asleep twice whilst writing it, so I nuked it and created a brand spanking new opening sentence about nuking the first opening sentence and I’m much happier with this opening sentence because it has some pizazz (zzazip, spelled backwards) and oomph and razzmatazz even though it’s a run-on sentence that just keeps going like the Energizer Bunny and it cannot stop until I throw in one of these here periods. Now, THAT was an opening sentence par excellence, although I don’t know what the par has to do with the excellence. My original opening sentence had something to do with the unseemly heat we’re having her in the City of Studio. Maybe someone forgot to tell the City of Studio weather person that it’s October not July. I mean, it was already 90 degrees when I got up yesterday and did a three-mile jog. That’s just grotesque in October. Grotesque in October – that’s the title of my next novel.
Once I finished the jog, I went and had some chicken tenders for my meal o’ the day. They were very good, the chicken tenders were. After that, I went to the Apple Store because my new iPhone 5s’s power button was really difficult to use, which made no sense to me as it’s always been easy to use. I actually got the guy who sold it to me, and I asked him if he thought it was the bumper guard that was making it difficult. I let him try to shut off the phone and he couldn’t and he confirmed it was indeed the bumper guard, which was ill designed (wish he’d told me that when I got it). So, he gave me full credit for it, and instead I got the actual Apple case that goes with the phone. They’d been out of the black case, which is what I wanted, but they had them back in stock and it was only a ten dollar difference so he put it on the phone for me, the power button is now easy/breezy and I paid and left.
Then I went over to the mail place where I picked up no packages, which I found surprising. Then I came home. A new master was waiting for me to hear, so I downloaded it and listened and it’s just grand. And I finished listening to another upcoming project that sounds so amazing it amazed me. Then I decided to take a drive in the motor car and visit Mystery and Imagination Books – they’re struggling again and all of us fans of mom and pop bookstores don’t want to see them go away. It’s such a great store. So, I hung out, bought a couple of books and the new issue of Firsts Magazine. After that, I stopped at Gelson’s and got some melon balls, red and green grapes, and some various and sundried liquid refreshments. Once every few years, I go to a weird land and want to try all sorts of new liquid refreshments, just to see if there’s anything I like. I got some diet lemonade, some diet black cherry something or other, some diet root beer (a brand I’ve never heard of) and some diet Dr. Brown’s cream soda. Then I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled The Medusa Touch, starring Richard Burton and Lee Remick, along with some great character actors, including Lino Ventura, Harry Andrews, Jeremy Brett and lots of other folks. I knew I’d seen it once before, so I searched the notes here at haineshisway.com and there it was – in 2006 I wrote about the UK DVD and said that I thought the movie was really entertaining – well acted, well directed, good music, and fun performances. It was a little discovery for me. I really didn’t remember much of anything as I watched it last night, but I felt exactly the same – just very enjoyable all the way through. And I have to say the transfer of this little seen film is stunning – just a perfect transfer from great source material, looking just as it should, with absolutely perfect color.
I then finally buckled down, Winsocki and watched the first of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series – I looked up online for the order in which they aired and found that – the Blu-rays are in order, I just didn’t know which end to start on. So, the very first one to air was A Scandal in Bohemia and Pogue is completely right – it’s superb in every way, and Brett, even seeing just this one episode, is absolutely the best Holmes I’ve ever seen. He’s so subtle, so sly, so amusing, and it’s just great screen acting. And his Watson, David Burke is every bit as good. I know that starting with season three there’s a new Watson and I only hope he’s as good as Burke. The guest star was Gayle Hunnicut and it was a swift sixty minutes of grand fun. I’m looking forward to enjoying the whole seven seasons, although I gather by the end it was getting weak. The transfer on the first episode was fine for what it was, which was a made for TV low-budget film.
After that, I popped a Claritin because my allergies were bothering me a little. I ate some red grapes, which I didn’t love, and I ate some melon balls (not a great batch – they vary wildly in flavor) and four little mini vegetable egg rolls, which added together wouldn’t equal one regular sized egg roll. I also had a few Wheat Thins. And that was that. Sometimes that is this but last night that was that and it was ever so much fun for that. What the HELL am I talking about?
Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep, I will hopefully be over the allergies, I will do a jog, and then we have our stumble-through at three, after which I’ll go dine, unless I decide to dine prior to rehearsal, which I doubt I will unless I do.
Tomorrow I hope to hear some positive things about various upcoming stuff and then at five we have our sound check, then it’s show time. I’m sure I’ll go out to eat after and I will, of course, have a full report for you.
The rest of the week is all meetings and meals and writing liner notes and hopefully getting approvals on the packaging of two projects and casting the first two Outside the Box season three episodes and figuring out the dates we’ll be shooting.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, have a stumble-through, eat, and relax. 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 hit the road to dreamland, after which I will arise and hope that it we will be over the unseemly heat.