Well, dear readers, these here notes should have been posted six minutes ago. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, these here notes should have been posted six minutes ago and yet there were not posted six minutes ago as they haven’t been written yet except for the six stultifying sentences you’ve just read. I read them and even I was stultified. I’ve also been stupefied, but that’s another story for after I’ve had some Yokumberry Tonic. Anyway, if you want the main topic of yesterday – sleep. It was a crazy day of sleep. First, I went to bed at one and woke up at ten – nine hours of good sleep. So far, so good. I worked at the piano a bit, and then the food I’d pre-ordered via UberEats arrived from Kabuki in the Bank of Bur – my usual teriyaki chicken, tempura, tiny salad, uneaten miso soup, and some white rice. That was all very good. Then I had a long conversation with Doug Haverty and then at three I sat on my couch like so much fish and began watching the latest Patrice Leconte movie, Maigret. One minute into it, I dozed off for five minutes. Woke up for a few minutes, dozed off, woke up, dozed off – fifteen minutes in and I had not a single idea of what the HELL was going on. I paused it, dozed off, woke up, dozed off, woke up – it was an amusing routine in a way I haven’t figured out yet. Finally, at four I shut off the TV and plopped down on the bed, fell asleep immediately and woke up at seven. I had a hankering for a slice of cheesecake and so ordered one from the Cheesecake Factory. It arrived and I ate a third of it – very good indeed. I have the rest for tomorrow. Oh, and when the Kabuki arrived a fly got into the house. This damn fly was WAITING for me to open the door to get the food. The second I did, it just flew the HELL in here without an invitation, just like that. It irritated me for a while, wouldn’t land anywhere, and then I didn’t hear from it again until just before the cheesecake arrived, when it became very hyperactive, would still not land, and kept doing kamikaze runs around me. Just as I was unpacking the cheesecake slice, I glanced at the fork I was about to wash, which I’d used for the earlier meal, and there was the fly, sitting on the fork. I told it to stay there, got my fly-killing magazine, silently and surreptitiously snuck over to the fork and with one fell swoop la mouche etait morte, as the French would say. Not only did the fly do a death loop into the sink, the fork did a triple flip. The fork went into the dishwasher, the morte fly went down the drain to fly heaven, and I ate a third of the cheesecake. That was a riveting story.
Then I sat down and began Maigret from the beginning. I must say and will say that I enjoyed it very much. Gerard Depardieu is wonderful as Maigret, and the supporting players are all excellent, as is the score by Bruno Coulais. The movie is based on the book, Maigret and the Dead Girl. The mystery isn’t much – it’s clever – but it’s more of a character piece and it has some very surprising emotional depth to it. I don’t know if it’s streaming anywhere. I does make me want to re-watch some of the Bruno Cremer series – they’re in the garage somewhere, those DVDs, and I’ll see if I can find them. The running time is a crisp 89-minutes. I recommend it if you can find it or have a multi-region Blu-ray player handy. And here we are.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll have me a ME day, I’m thinking I’ll go to Gelson’s and get something to make here – sandwiches or lox and bagels or hot dogs – something fun. I’ll eat, but mostly I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I have a dinner to do, and I’ll finish choosing the songs for the holiday show and then gather together all that music so I can get it to the singers posthaste. I set the sound guy for the show and that worked out just as I wanted it to. The rest of the week is more of the same, and, of course, we sure could use a nice big modern major miracle right about now.
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, do a Gelson’s run, 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, having recently been stultified and stupefied.