Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much nauseous fish – my own damn fault – I was kind of feeling better but I bought some Gelson’s potato salad and it was really weird – I ate it, but am now paying the nauseous price ($6.30). I can’t even get the taste out of my nauseous mouth. Well, I’ve popped some Pepcids and will hopefully hope for the best. Otherwise, I am sitting here like so much fish listening to Mantovani have his way with the songs from Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, and that’s very enjoyably enjoyable. And I did watch a few motion pictures yesterday. I finished Men in Black III. The final thirty minutes kind of redeemed it for me, but Tommy Lee Jones is absent for too much of the film. It’s a time travel thing so we get Josh Brolin as young Tommy Lee and I must say he does a very good job of it, but there’s really only one Tommy Lee Jones. After that, I watched a Blu and Ray of Charley Varrick, a Don Siegel film starring Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Andy Robinson, and others. The auteur crowd loves it because – it’s Don Siegel. I’ve seen it twice before last night and I have never been able to quite get with it. It should be better, given its stellar writing team – the same as Dirty Harry. Apparently designed to star Clint Eastwood, who turned it down because he could see no redeeming features to the character. And Matthau disparaged the film, which Siegel thought hurt its box-office, but no, that’s not what hurt its box-office – it just doesn’t land, that’s what hurt its box-office. After that, I watched the first two-thirds of Jet Pilot, starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh, directed by Josef von Sternberg. Filming began in 1949, lasted eighteen months, but producer Howard Hughes kept tinkering with it and it wasn’t released until 1957, at which point it died a quick box-office death. As much as I love von Sternberg, it’s really not very good. Of course, who knows how much is him and how much is Hughes. It’s presented in Academy ratio and widescreen 1.85, which is how it was released to theaters, even though much of it was filmed pre-widescreen. That said, it doesn’t ever look compromised at 1.85. I’ll check out the Academy version when I’m done.
Yesterday was a sleepy sort of day. I got six hours of sleep, got up, and was out of the house before nine. I went to Uncle Bernie’s Deli and had an omelet and a bagel. After that, I went to nearby CD Trader and looked around, then went to the mail place, stopped at Gelson’s and got the awful potato salad, whose nausea is getting worse as I type these here notes, then finally came home. Once home, I was true to my word and did no work at all. I added another well-known NY actor to our web series cast – not sure what he’ll be doing yet.
Then I alternated between viewing and dozing and that was pretty much it.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, but mostly I’ll try to soldier on and do these screenplay adjustments and perhaps even finish them. Then I can watch, listen, and relax.
This week will be devoted to the Kritzerland anniversary show, figuring out our next two CD releases, and organizing the shoot for the web series. I’ll reveal a bit more about what it is this week. I think we’re also going to put out a press release, just to announce it.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, do screenplay adjustments, eat, 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, happy to have had a ME day and just wish it wasn’t a nauseous ME day.