Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to the twelve-tone music of Anton Webern. Therefore, I shall write twelve-tone notes and they shall be very radical and jagged and filled with both serialism and cerealism. For serialism, they will be in the style of Commando Cody and his rocket jacket, and for cerealism, they will be in the style of Kellog’s Frosted Flakes. I truly believe that Mr. Webern’s music could cause someone to become a serialism killer. This is a nice box set of the complete orchestral music by Webern, a pioneer set of recordings conducted by Robert Craft. It’s all very interesting and some of it is even oddly enjoyable, just like these here notes. I did manage to watch a motion picture last night, entitled Man on Fire, a remake of a motion picture entitled Man on Fire. The first film was made in 1987. The second was made in 2004 and starred Denzel Washington, directed by Tony Scott. It’s quite a nice little revenge film and what I commend about it is that it takes fifty minutes for the actual plot to kick in. It spends those first fifty minutes letting us get to know the characters and their deals. And that makes everything that follows work better. The person who almost walks away with the film isn’t Mr. Washington, who is excellent, it’s little Dakota Fanning, who gives a wonderful performance as the child Mr. Washington is protecting.
Yesterday wasn’t so bad. I was up at eight-thirty and out the door before nine. I went to Hugo’s and had pasta papa. After that, I picked up two packages – Pepcid and floss, not necessarily in that order – then went to the Apple Store and checked out the new iPhone 14 Pro Max. I was told the big difference is the camera is even better than the 13 Pro Max, which is what I have. Since they’d give me a ton for my phone, it would be very inexpensive to get it – about ten bucks a month on the phone bill for a few months. But as it always goes with the new phones, you can’t actually buy one – they have none in stock and it’s several weeks before you can get one online. I find that so weird, but Apple does it every time there’s a new item. Whilst there, I also looked at the twenty-four-inch iMac that came out earlier this year. I’ve been waiting for the new twenty-seven inch but am beginning to think they’re not going to do it – there hasn’t been a new twenty-seven-inch for three years now. There is talk that one may come in 2023, which, of course, is just around the corner, hard as THAT is to believe. I also looked at the new 15-inch MacBook Pro – very nice machine, and at the big iPads. It was a nice way to kill time.
Then I came home, answered e-mails, had a visit from a CD dealer who needed a few things, and then I listened to music for a bit, tried to find a movie to watch and finally settled on Man on Fire. After that, I got a chicken salad sandwich from the Cheesecake Factory, and it arrived soon thereafter and was very good.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, and I’m having a ME day and I don’t care who knows it. I shall certainly watch a motion picture or two, and I shall certainly eat, and I shall certainly relax.
Tomorrow, I begin the process that will hopefully result in a lovely miracle, part two, so please send your strongest most excellent vibes and xylophones for all that to work out as it needs to. And it needs to. The rest of the week will be planning the Kritzerland show and getting Cindy Williams’ song filmed as well as her phone calls for the first eight episodes. And now, Miss Marni Nixon is singing some lieder by Mr. Webern. None of these twelve-tone songs made the Hit Parade.
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, have a ME day, eat, and 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, where I shall hopefully not dream of twelve-tone music and cerealism.