Well, dear readers, I have more breaking bombshell news – it is Friday. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it is Friday, which means the weekend is upon us. The question is, is us upon the weekend? I mean, turnabout is fair play. I mean, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. I mean if the goose is loose and the gander is grander, then what does that say about the price of horseradish? I mean, if it’s Friday couldn’t it be Saturday due to turnabout being fair play, being what’s good for the goose is good for the grander gander? I have no idea what the HELL I’m talking about and frankly this is starting to sound like an early Marx Brothers movie. Well, let’s move along, shall we? But first, if there’s a fork in the road can there be a spoon in the driveway? Can there be a knife in the freeway? And who thought bringing cutlery into the road was a good idea? I did manage to watch two motion pictures. I thought I’d only watch the first ten minutes of Taken but once again I was taken in by Taken and watched the whole thing. For the type of film it is, it’s very well done and really does the get blood boiling. And the fact that sans credits the film only runs about eighty-six minutes is a big plus. After that, I watched A Few Good Men – the movie, not actual good men. I’d only seen the first fifteen minutes before. There’s nothing special about the plot or anything – we’ve seen stories like this forever. But it’s well done, the acting is fine, Jack Nicholson is always fun to watch, Demi Moore is the best she’s been, the late J.T. Walsh was a wonderful actor, and Tom Cruise is fine if a bit actorish in the first part of the film. What’s interesting is that Aaron Sorkin adapted his play for the screen, but director Rob Reiner brought in William Goldman to do an uncredited rewrite (he gets a thank you in the end credits) and Sorkin liked Goldman’s changes so much he put them in the play, or so the legend goes. Anyway, it was enjoyable. What was NOT enjoyable in the year 2024 is taking a scope film and making it fit a widescreen TV shape of 16×9. That bastardizes every shot in the movie. I thought we were well past those days but apparently not. Shame on Columbia Pictures for not only doing it but foisting it on streaming services. The main and end titles are, of course, in the scope ratio. Then I tried to finish Green Perfume, but fell asleep due to it being boring. And now I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to Mahler’s third, in a marvelous performance by Rafael Kubelik. His whole cycle is quite good, actually. This ia a VERY long symphony, running around ninety-four minutes. That’s longer than Taken. And now, since turnabout is fair play, let us end this long paragraph with a whimper rather than a bang, goose and gander-wise.
Earlier, I got around five hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails and then got the Kritzerland show announced on the Facebook, both as an event and on my personal page. Then I sent out an eBlast. I got back in bed but couldn’t fall asleep, so up I got. Then around noon, I made another batch of faux chicken stroganoff, this time over farfalle pasta. It was every bit as good as the day before. That was basically the food for the day. I did some work on the computer, had some telephonic conversations, and then began my viewing. And here we are.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll go to the mail place and pick up AAA and AA batteries so I can put them in all my remotes so that they work again. All My Remotes – that’s the title of my next novel, a story of greed in the Adirondacks. Not sure if I want to do a third day of pasta, so I may just make an omelet or some kind of egg thing and then have an artichoke – I bought two the other day. Then I’ll start to think about a show order for the Kritzerland show so that I can get the commentary out of the way. At some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow may be a meal with a friend, Sunday can be a ME day, Monday I’m having an early dinner with Marshall Harvey, and then the week will be mostly working with our new MD on the Kritzerland show, writing commentary, setting our rehearsal schedule, and doing whatever else needs doing.
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, go to the mail place and pick up batteries, eat something other than pasta, start figuring out a show order, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray/streaming player? I’ll start – more Mahler. Blu-ray, One, Two, Three – just in the mood to laugh. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, safe in the knowledge that turnabout is fair play.