Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, well, so much procrastinating fish – I have, in fact, been procrastinating for many hours, like an entire day and evening. Sometimes it happens – a malaise sets in, and procrastination follows, like a rabid dog on steroids. Oh wait – I know what the problem is, it just dawned on me or afternooned on me or eveninged on me – it’s the last day of July. Let’s face it, July has flown by, like a gazelle involved in a high-speed chase trying to avoid the pit maneuver. And as night follows day, that must mean that tomorrow will begin a new month, namely August, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that August will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. I will say that July ended our very successful Indiegogo campaign, and it was also the highest posting month – I’ll have those final figures for tomorrow’s notes, but they’re mighty impressively impressive. And now, no more procrastination, we must barrel ahead like a rabid dog on steroids, mainly because these here notes should have been up fifteen minutes ago. Otherwise, I did manage to watch a motion picture last night, entitled The Eyes of Tammy Faye, based on the documentary entitled The Eyes of Tammy Faye. This motion picture starred Jessica Chastain, who won an Oscar for her performance. It also stars Andrew Garfield, who did not win one for his performance. Unfortunately, the actual best actress wasn’t nominated – that would have been, in my estimation, Emilia Jones for CODA. For me, The Eyes of Tammy Faye is pure Oscar bait – it doesn’t seem to have any idea of what it’s trying to achieve – they want you to love Tammy but given who she was that’s not entirely possible. It’s all surface – sometimes it thinks it’s a satire, sometimes it’s serious, but it never settles on the tone and that kind of does it in. I didn’t mind watching it. The critics fell all over themselves in praising Ms. Chastain – they do fall for anything with fat suits and prosthetics – and blaming all the shortcomings of the film on the writing and directing, shouldering no blame for any of that on Ms. Chastain. That would be fine were her name not writ large as a PRODUCER of the film. Well, the PRODUCER is responsible for the writing and directing being top drawer. The film was a huge flop, but it is the kind of film that always wins its leading lady the prize.
Yesterday was certainly a day in which I procrastinated. I only got about five hours of sleep, then she of the Evil Eye arrived and I moseyed on over to Art’s Deli, where I had only a bagel and a side of bacon. I managed to kill an hour and fifteen minutes there, so that was good. I then picked up a package and thankfully two important envelopes. Then, whilst sitting in the motor car, I had a long telephonic conversations, after which I killed more time at Best Buy looking at – or drooling over – TVs that are not in my budget. I love the LG OLED TVs but the Sony OLEDS were very impressive, too. All the TVs I saw can be had much cheaper on Amazon, although I do think Best Buy will price match. I really am in desperate need of a new TV – hard to believe, but my Samsung TV was purchased back in 2007. That’s fifteen YEARS ago and a lot of technology has happened since then.
After that, I came home. The Darling Daughter and I had already decided that today would be a better day for her to come, so I sat on my couch like so much fished and dozed off for an hour. Then I finally figured out how to open episode nine and I wrote that, and I think it’s a cute opener. At some point in the later afternoon, I ordered an actual meal – the salad I’d meant to get the day before from Stanley’s – a honey walnut, asparagus, and chicken salad with raspberry vinaigrette. It arrived twenty minutes later and was quite good. Then I watched the movie.
After that, I wrote more but hated all of it – I mean, HATED all of it. So, that’ll all get thrown out as soon as I post these here notes, and then I have an idea for the second sequence that will be much more fun. It’s hard when, after eight episodes, you completely change the setting, and you don’t have the things you’ve relied on. So, it will take a while to get this right, but I will get it right and I don’t care who knows it.
Today, I’ll be up by eleven, the Darling Daughter will arrive around noon o’clock, we’ll do as much organizing of Indiegogo stuff as we can stomach, then we’ll go have a nice meal somewhere fun. Then she’ll be on her merry way and I’ll write more of episode nine and maybe even try to finish it, as I know how it ends. And thankfully, I’ve already figured out episode ten, so I won’t have to experiment with that one. Then at some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I’ll have a Zoom work session for the Kritzerland show, which is in need of a LOT of reservations. Then it’ll be some banking, trying to finish the rest of the writing, and whatever else needs doing. The rest of the week is more of the same, plus cutting down the screenplay. Once the episodes are finished, then we can make a list of all the characters we have to cast and start that process.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven, organize with the help of the Darling Daughter, eat a fun meal, write, and then watch, listen, 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, hoping that the malaise followed by the procrastination has run its course.