Well, dear readers, I did not think we’d have any action on Father’s Day, Indiegogo-wise, but I was happily proven wrong and about four hundred buck’s worth of contributions came in, bringing us up to 37%! I would have thought it would have taken us a bit higher, but I guess not. However, I’ll happily take the 2% – we are a mere five dollars from 7500 bucks. And that’s four days since we launched. I’m hoping the next three days will take us to 50%, that would be great. To that end, I’ve put up some new perky perks that are perk perklilicious. Check ‘em out and see if anything catches your fancy. I’m going to start doing a perk a day – where I talk about one specific perk and tell you fun fact. So, let’s start with one of the new ones – a hardcover book about the fifty-year history of the Masquers, a legendary Hollywood club and also the setting of the Adriana Hofstetter mystery, Murder at the Masquers. This anniversary book came out in both softcover and hardcover and sold mostly to members. However, there was a special limited and numbered version that came with a page that had 23 autographs of celebrities. Only 50 of those were for sale to members – this copy is numbered 45. Among those 23 autographs are people like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Walter Matthau, Glenn Ford, director Henry King, George Burns Fifi D’Orsay, Edith Head, Isabel Sanford, Jack Lemmon, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Blondell, Ryan and Tatum O’Neal, Jack Warner, Leon Ames and more. I’ve listed it at what I think is a very reasonable price, given that each of these autographs separately would probably cost you over two thousand dollars. The book itself is great – loads of history and congratulatory ads from all kinds of celebs and local jernts. There are currently no copies of this limited edition for sale anywhere. Here’s the handy-dandy link.
Yesterday was very short, since I slept eleven-and-a-half hours and I really needed to. I’d had what I think was a mild bit of food poisoning – very queasy and nauseous, but I fought it and fell asleep pretty quickly, only arising for a few trips to use the loo (ool, spelled backwards). Once up, I was thrilled to see the Indiegogo rise, then answered e-mails and did some cheerleading on the Facebook. At around five, I ordered a patty melt and potato salad from a jernt I knew I could trust – Paty’s coffee shop. It arrived thirty minutes later and was really good and a perfect amount of food. I had some See’s leftover from Saturday, so I ate that for a sweet. Then I did stuff on the computer, had a long telephonic call, and then finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on the Flix of Net entitled Inception, which I hadn’t seen in twelve years. I looked up what I wrote about it back then and basically feel the same. It held my interest, its central ideas about dreams are still interesting to me, especially one of the main ideas, since I’d had the same idea twenty years prior to that, which ended up being my short story, I’ll See You in my Dreams, which I wrote in 2004. Ahead of the damn curve again (smile emoji here). I still felt that mostly every scene in the film is exposition to explain whatever the new beat was, and I still felt the film wore out its welcome at two hours-and-twenty-six minutes. The score is irritating – lots of thumping and relentless – the actors are fine and it’s enjoyable for what it is. The ending seems to have confounded everyone, with everyone having their own wacky theories about its meaning. The writer/director hasn’t helped matters with his enigmatic, ever-changing answers – like any magician, he’s not going to reveal what was in his head. For me, it’s pretty obvious if you take your clew from the way it’s shot. I’ll say no more.
After that, I had a little waffle (ninety calories) and that was that.
Today, I’ll be up by eleven, I’ll let the populace know that there are new perky perks up and I’ll cheerlead. I’ll eat, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, I’ll cheerlead, and then I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I’ll be up by seven o’clock and to the car service jernt by 7:45 for my first servicing. They told me three hours, so I’ll mosey on over to a restaurant that’s just a few doors away. I’ll have a light breakfast and stay there as long as possible – at least ninety minutes, maybe longer. Then I can take a nice walk around the neighborhood. Then I have a work session with David Wechter at three-thirty to remove all the cuts we’ve made and talk through the question marks we both had and then make those cuts – or not. And, of course, I’ll cheerlead. Wednesday I’ll put up some new perks as we enter into week number two of our Indiegogo campaign. The rest of the week will be more of the same.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven, let everyone know about the new perky perks, cheerlead, eat, hopefully pick up packages, cheerlead, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your all-time favorite film endings? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to be at 37% thanks to some Father’s Day action.