Well, dear readers, I must write these here notes in a hurry, for she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon. So, let’s trip the light fantastic as we Evelyn Wood Speed Write through these here notes in record time, or at the very least, in CD time. The first item of business is that we had us a very nice and helpful modern major miracle yesterday, so that automatically made it an excellent day. The second item of business is that I did watch a motion picture last night, entitled Random Hearts, starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas. On Amazon Prime the blurb, right out of the original press materials, calls it a “passionate romantic thriller”. Well, I like a good passionate romantic thriller, so I watched it. Certainly, the director, one Sidney Pollack directed an almost great thriller, Three Days of the Condor. But this was long after that. Well, their description is slightly off because what it actually should be called is a “lethargic, turgid romantic drama.” I’m sure it was the huge bomb it was because you can’t promise a passionate romantic thriller in the trailer and deliver a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute lethargic, turgid romantic drama. Everyone in the film looks like they have food poisoning, with super serious looks and grimaces and ACTING in ALL CAPS. The film has no pace, no momentum, and it just lays there like a dead herring in the moonlight until its non-conclusion. The movie was based on a novel by Warren Adler. Having read up on the novel, other than its central event, the film literally changes everything – every character name, the plot, what the lead characters do for a living – I mean, why buy the book at all, if all you’re going to do is change everything. Mr. Pollack has also given himself a nice role and I found him quite terrible. The Dave Grusin score was okay, but not his usual excellent work. Certainly, the film looks good, slick and glossy, but what a lethargic, turgid romantic drama turkey it was.
Otherwise, I did get eight hours of sleep, had the two remaining bagels with lox and cream cheese – excellent – chose three more songs, so there’s just one to go and I’ll figure that one out this morning, had a lovely telephonic conversation with an old friend I haven’t seen in maybe seventeen years, so that was fun, later, for my evening snack, I moseyed on over to Taco Bell and got some items – you can now no longer order at the counter – you have to order at the kiosk, which I find incredibly irritating. I came home and ate the items, then I succumbed once again to a slice of cherry pie a la mode. Then I watched the movie. After that, I did some stuff on the computer and here we are.
Today, I’ll be up by eight and out the door by eight-forty, I’ll have a light breakfast, do some errands and whatnot, probably go to Gelson’s to get a Caesar salad for my snack, I’ll choose the final song, pay some bills, and then watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow is more of the same, Thursday is my eye doctor appointment, which I’m happy and nervous about at the same time, and then it’s Halloween, but I’ll keep the lights out as we only get one or two trick or treaters on this street, and then it’s a new month.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eight and out the door by eight-forty, have a light breakfast, do stuff, get a Caesar salad for my evening snack, choose the final song, pay bills, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Your favorite Harrison Ford and Sidney Pollack movies. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, having completed these here notes in both record and CD time, and happy to have gotten a nice modern major miracle.