Well, dear readers, I hope everyone had a merry little Christmas and that Santa was good to everyone. Because remember how the old song goes – When You’re Good to Santa – Santa’s Good to You. Oh, wait… I didn’t sleep all that well – maybe five or six hours, mostly due to having eaten way too much food at and after the Do. I was up by ten and the Darling Daughter had already texted that she was on her way. I answered some e-mails and then I got ready for her arrival.
She arrived, we unwrapped presents – I got my usual two cherry loafs – my favorite thing. I made some pasta for her and we loaded it up with spaghetti sauce and she, too, thought it was one of the best batches of sauce and she’s had ‘em all pretty much. She also had a healthy helping of tuna pasta salad. I didn’t eat at all. I had all this sauce left over but nothing to put it in, so we went for a drive, which we love to do and which we’ve done since she was a baby. We drove here and there as well as there and here, laughed a lot, then ended up at Ralph’s, where we bought a Tupperware thing for two dollars and fifty-cents. We came home and put all the sauce into the container, so that was all good. Then we watched a bunch of YouTube videos she’d never seen – some Kritzerland show stuff and other assorted things and that was really fun, and then she had to be on her way back to her mother for some dinner party. She also had just finished part one of GEE and she really really likes it, so that was nice to hear.
After she left, there was a tiny bit of pasta left, probably less than two ounces, and a tiny bit of sauce left in the sauce pan, so I had that, and a large amount of the tuna pasta salad, leaving some for today. I had some cherry loaf, which was yummilicious, and that was pretty much my food intake for the day. Of the presents we unwrapped, dear readers Amy and Mark gave me a huge fruitcake from Costco, and I mean HUGE. It’s scary. Then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a DGA screener called The Favourite, which I didn’t really know anything about, other than the usual Oscar bait talk about the performances. I’d never heard of the director, a Greek fellow whose made a couple of movies I’ve never heard of that have tiny cult followings. And I knew it was a period film like Mary, Queen of Scots so I knew I’d probably turn it off as I did that one.
But I didn’t turn it off because the style of it was so weird and kind of interesting and a bit off-kilter, and the three lead actresses all gave really great performances – Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz. Any of them could get a nomination, but if it’s only one it will be Ms. Colman. It’s very funny at times, and as I said, the style is really interesting – kind of Stanley Kubrick meets someone or other – the settings are great as are the costumes, and some of the anachronistic dialogue really is laugh out loud funny. It runs a little under two hours including the long end credits roll. Sadly, the director commits the cardinal sin (for me) of including not one, not two, but THREE vomit scenes – I take away a star for that stuff. I think this one is worth watching, certainly more than Mary, Queen of Scots, which has no style at all and a lousy script.
After that, I did stuff on the computer, listened to music, and relaxed.
Today, I have to lay as low as I can and pray for no drama. I’ll eat at some point, hopefully pick up packages, I’ll do a show order, proof booklets, and get the commentary done and the Facebook event page up for the Kritzerland show – we haven’t done anything for that show yet and half the seats are already gone, which is why we like doing the young people show – the parents and friends and relatives always insure a sellout. Then I’ll relax and watch another DGA screener.
Tomorrow will hopefully be a lunch with dear reader Jeanne – not sure where exactly, although if we can do it on the early side I will have a suggestion, then it’s just more of the same and praying for no drama. Friday we begin our final weekend and our final three shows. Sami and her mom and I are supping before the show, then friend David Wechter and his ever-lovin’ Barbara will be there and we’ll go out afterwards. Then Saturday night, and we finish up the run with our Sunday matinee. I do believe all three shows will have nice houses. After the matinee, Doug is having the cast partay, so that will be fun. His wife loves the tuna pasta salad, so I’ll make a batch for the partay. In fact, I’ll make it and bring it Saturday night and then she can keep it in the refrigerator for Sunday.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, lay low, pray for no drama, eat, hopefully pick up packages, do a show order, write commentary, and then watch something. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear readers any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had such a lovely Christmas Day with the Darling Daughter.