Well, dear readers, yesterday we had what is known in day parlance as an uneventful day. One needs an uneventful day every now and then, although even though I was enjoying it part of me wanted a damn eventful thing to happen, just to break the monotony. Have you ever broken the monotony? Did you have to buy a new one or could you repair it. So, let me recount for you the completely uneventful day known as yesterday. If this doesn’t put you to sleep, I don’t know what will.
I got up at eight-thirty and she of the Evil Eye arrived twenty minutes thereafter. I did some stuff on the computer and then did a jog. I now have a very strict jogging routine – I run the opening patter for the Kritzerland show, as I now like to at least do the first half of the opening patter by heart. In this show, Guy Haines is supposed to sing a song, but having learned my lesson the hard way, I also learn it just in case he doesn’t show up. So, after I’ve run the patter a few times, then I run the song a few times. It’s a song I’ve known since I was twelve, and it’s on the second Guy Haines album, but it did take me a while to get the lyric back in my head, but I have it down pretty well now.
After the jog, I left the home environment and went and had a cheese and onion omelet and a bagel for my main meal o’ the day. Then I picked up a couple of packages then came home. My goodness, this is giving me goose bumps. I answered e-mails, had a very long telephonic conversation, then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled It Follows. It Follows is a horror motion picture and I normally don’t care for that sort of thing much, but I’d read a few things about it (it was really well reviewed) and then Robert A. Harris wrote about it and quite enjoyed it, so I thought I’d take a chance and I’m glad I did. It’s quite a nice little low-budget horror motion picture but without much horror in it, which is a plus for the likes of me. They don’t really explain much, other than you get whatever it is by someone passing it along to you via sexual intercourse. Then you start to see someone following you – that no one else can see. It never seems to be the same person following either. There aren’t any fake, bogus scares, just a quiet dread, some suspense, and the whole thing has a kind of creepy effectiveness. What really sells it is the performance of the young leading lady, Maika Monroe – she is a terrific actress and makes a lot out of little. I suspect she’s going places. The rest of the cast is fine, too. The music is all synth and a throwback to the 80s. But then this writer/director’s biggest influence both visually and musically is clearly John Carpenter. In the end, I kind of felt like this was a modern day Val Lewton film. If you like something a little off the beaten track, you might want to check this out.
I then went to the Flix of Net and watched a movie I’d missed entitled Perfect Stranger, a title which makes no sense, but then neither does the film. It stars Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, and has a very irritating performance by Giovanni Ribisi. The film came out in 2007 and actually begins with a rather prescient sequence of Miss Barry confronting a senator who is homophobic with damning photos of the senator and – a young man. Oops. Sound like 2015? Miss Berry plays a reporter, but unfortunately that little prologue is not the story of the film, which is too bad. The story of the film is so convoluted and so not interesting that the poor actors just drown in the mediocrity. I’ve never liked the director, James Foley, and his work is just so filled with “arty” touches and set decoration that is so unrealistic, just for effect. And then there’s the ending. Just when you think you know the deal, you don’t know the deal, then the deal you don’t know is replaced by another deal you don’t know. Then, of course, I read that they shot three completely different endings, each with a different reveal. Well, sorry, writer and director – that is a mistake you will NEVER overcome and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Anyway, if you’re looking for utter tripe, this might be right up your alley.
Then I just relaxed and played on the computer and also finished writing the main part of what will be my first contribution to the LA revue we’re about to embark on. For anyone who knows me, it won’t be much of a guess as to the subject of this song.
Today, I have a couple of meeting things to do, I’ll eat, I’ll jog, and then I’ll relax.
Tomorrow is our first Kritzerland rehearsal, which is followed by a meeting I’ll either make or not make. Tuesday I have a lunch with Miss Kay Cole. Wednesday two singers who couldn’t be there on Monday have their first rehearsal. Thursday is everyone’s second rehearsal, then we have our stumble-through on Saturday and our sound check and show on Sunday.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, have meetings, 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, happy to have discussed the uneventful events of the day.