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December 18, 2015:

YESTERDAY FELT LIKE TODAY

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Well, dear readers, this entire week has seemed off by a day to me, so yesterday it felt like today and today it feels like tomorrow. I don’t know why it is but it is, at least for me. Nevertheless, today is today and yesterday was yesterday and tomorrow will be tomorrow and I shall just have to deal with it. Have you ever dealt with it? It can be very difficult to deal with. Now, yesterday, which felt like today but was, in fact, yesterday, was a perfectly okay day, although I never quite got my bearings. I looked everywhere for those damn bearings but they, like the Pimpernel, remained elusive.

I was up at nine-thirty after about sven hours of sleep. Sven hours of sleep? What am I, Swedish all of a suddne? Sven? Suddne? Anyway, I had sven hours of sleepska yesterdayska. Then I got upska and the phone rang and I just never stopped. I also had to re-proof the chart for my song, and answer a lot of e-mails. I chose a couple more songs and am starting to get a handle on the show for January. Then I went and had a Cobb salad and a bagel, picked up some mail but no packages, then came home. I did some work at the piano, then on the computer, then sat on my couch like so much fish.

Yesterday, I finished watching Mad Max: Fury Road. I’ll say one thing for it – it moves like a house afire. It is relentless in its pacing. It’s basically a ninety-minute action/chase sequence with another twenty to twenty-five minutes of breathing room. The director did the original Mad Max movie and understands his genre well. I couldn’t tell you what the HELL it was about – but the action sequences are amazing but ultimately I found them a little numbing and repetitive. Charleze Theron was fine and Tom Hardy, who is definitely a flavor this year, really has little to do in the film other than jump around and drive and grunt – I think he must have about fifteen lines total in the entire film. The music thumps as relentlessly as the pacing, and then it’s over. Critics found the film surprisingly deep – I don’t know what movie they were watching, but I found it an action film and not so different from a lot of others in terms of its milieu and characters and make-up. The wags are actually saying that George Miller is the front-runner for best director. While he did a great job, I cannot imagine any scenario where he would win, and I’m not even sure he’ll be nominated. Anyway, for what it was I enjoyed it, kind of. Then I had a nice visit with Nick Redman and then I had to get ready for my evening out. At some point, I moseyed on over to North Hollywood. I went a little over an hour early to get a parking space. There were none anywhere near the theater, which is always shocking to me on a Thursday night. I found one in a parking lot a block south, then went to the Eclectic Café and had their appetizer mac-and-cheese, which is pretty small but good. I finished there, then walked to the theater and got there about twenty minutes before curtain.

This show is in its third week. It got very good reviews, and yet it’s been struggling to even have half houses and they’ve been comping a lot. Perhaps you need stars for this kind of run. The play is a British farce by the son of the King of British farce, Ray Cooney, whose plays are done all over the world. The son is not quite up to the father in terms of the writing and mechanics, but it has funny stuff in it and our half-house laughed once the mechanics kicked in. I had a lot of folks I knew there so that was fun – Wayne Moore, Kevin Symons, Josh Finkel, Gordon Goodman, Fred Willard and his ever-lovin’ Mary, Sheldon Epps and several others. One of our Li’l Abner actors works at the El Portal so it was nice to see him. I gather this was not a financial success, a shame. Ray Cooney, who is around eighty-three, directed his son’s play and was in it, too, so that was fun. Some of the cast was good and a couple less so, but it was entertaining and I’m glad I saw it. I’m fascinated by farce. I’ve certainly had farcical elements in my shows and movies, but I’ve never written an actual farce in terms of the mechanics and I’m thinking it might be fun to try it at some point.

After the show, I decided to be a bad boy and stopped at the all-night donut shop and got a couple of donuts to eat. Interestingly, if you get to this place around ten-thirty, everything is fresh. I came home, ate my donuts, answered e-mails and that was that.

Today, I’ll get my music guy another song to make a chart of, I’ll work at the piano and the computer, I’ll eat, hopefully I’ll pick up some packages, and I should be getting a screener of The Hateful Eight if all goes according to Hoyle.

Tomorrow and Sunday I have no idea what’s happening. My intention is to eat really light and reasonable meals, calorie-wise, from here until the Christmas Eve Do. I have lots of stuff to watch, and then I have to decide on Sunday if I’m going to get up very early and go see Star Wars at the DGA. There are four screenings, but I think the best shot is the ten o’clock. I’d have to get there around eight forty-five to hopefully be at the front of the line so I can get a seat I like. We shall see. And next week begins my two weeks off and brother I’m takin’ ‘em.

Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora and the wah-watusi, for today is the birthday of not very present dear reader PennyO (like so many others, she seems to only live on Facebook these days), and Dan (the Man).  So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to PennyO and Dan (the Man).   On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO PENNYO AND DAN (THE MAN)!!!

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, get another song to my music guy, choose more songs, write, eat, hopefully pick up packages, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray player? I’ll start – CD, who knows. Blu and Ray, The Detective and the other new Twilight Time Blus, including Born Free. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping that today will feel like today.

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