Well, dear readers, August is flying by, like a gazelle doing the Texas Two-Step whilst playing Three Card Monte and reciting, “Four score and seven years ago.” That damn gazelle has TALENT and if vaudeville was still with us, we could book the gazelle on the Orpheum Circuit. I’m currently listening, the to final three cues from Fahrenheit 451 by Bernard Herrmann, perhaps the most moving music he ever wrote. It’s absolutely magical in the film’s finale and one of the great marriages of film and music. Earlier in the evening, I finished watching the always entertaining To Catch a Thief. It really is a delight from start to finish. The only real remaining issue with the transfer is the green-tinted scenes are just TOO green and they’re also too dark. But the color pops, it’s finally sharp like a VistaVision film should be and Grace Kelly is so beautiful it takes the breath away. I also like the performance of Brigitte Auber and you can’t top Cary Grant for handsome and charm, Jessie Royce Landis for caustic comedy line readings (great lines, courtesy of John Michael Hayes – “I’m sorry I sent her to finishing school. I think they finished her there”), and John Williams as the insurance agent. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore. The score by Lyn Murray is also fine. Otherwise, yesterday was okay. I was up at ten after eight hours of sleep, was on my way to do banking at ten-fifteen, and what normally takes two minutes at bank one, the cashing of the check, took twenty. My gal was out with a family emergency and others were out, too, as there were only two ladies working in the entire bank. When I walked in there was one guy who hustled himself in there just before me, and it’s always someone like that who takes the most time. One of the tellers was on the phone dealing with something, which was ridiculous, the guy who dashed in to get in before me got the other teller and had so much banking to do that after twenty minutes he was only halfway through. I would have taken two minutes, but selfishness apparently knows no bounds just as bounds apparently knows no selfishness. The teller on the phone was on the phone for twenty minutes – outrageous – and while all that was going in, four more people came in. Keep in mind, I have NEVER seen a line in this bank and mostly I never see anyone at all. I was sad my gal was out because she always has a smile and asks how I am and she knows me and it goes quickly. The gal I had had what looked like five-inch fingernails – how do people even work with five-inch fingernails? I explained to her I was not an account holder but was in their system. I gave her my license and she couldn’t find me. I reminded her that I wasn’t an account holder – THEN she found me instantly. After that, I was out of there in two minutes, and Mr. Selfish was still doing his endless banking.
Then I walked over to my bank. There were only two people ahead of me and they were quick, so I was in and out in five minutes. Then I headed toward my Gelson’s. For a brief moment I thought about In ‘N’ Out, because it wouldn’t be busy a six minutes past eleven in the morning, but the thought of eating a burger at that hour was not one I wished to entertain. HAD I wished to entertain it it wouldn’t have mattered because at six minutes past eleven the drive-through line was a block long and it was packed to the rafters inside. Who eats burgers and fries at that hour? Just weird.
So, I went to Gelson’s and got tuna and onion pockets, came home, answered e-mails and did stuff on the computer, then I made two tuna sandwiches and ate them, and they were excellent. After that, I had several telephonic conversations, had to sign some documents online, Doug did an updated flyer and I got that to our cast, I got a track for the big six-song put-together and sent that to the kid who’s doing it, and then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish and finished the movie, 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 to mail a couple of checks whilst hoping for a much-needed modern major miracle – we need several over the next few weeks – I’ll eat something light, I’ll send an eBlast for the Kritzerland show, and then I’ll be attending an opening night and afterparty.
Tomorrow has to be a ME day and so does Sunday – lots of rest and relaxation as we head into our busy Kritzerland rehearsal week and show.
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, hope for some modern major miracles, eat, send an eBlast, and then attend an opening night and afterparty. 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 – CD, probably more Herrmann. Streaming, maybe some Hitchcock. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, whilst I dream about booking the gazelle on the Orpheum Circuit.