Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much seasoned fish, listening to the final two Louis Lane CDs. I did double check and found out that Louis Lane is not related to Lois Lane, so that’s good information. The penultimate CD is Beethoven’s The Creatures of Prometheus, which, believe it or not, I’ve never heard, or at least I have no memory of hearing. Otherwise, I did attempt to watch a motion picture last night. I did, I really attempted to watch a motion picture last night, but it was so impossibly awful that I shut it off after twenty-five minutes. It was entitled The Confession, starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Kingsley, Amy Irving, and others. I really couldn’t get past the awful structure of the script, nor could I get past the awful direction. I gather it’s a courtroom movie, but I was so bored after twenty-five minutes that I shut the damn thing off and watched the beginning of The Music Man, which always perks up an evening. I watched an episode of The Flip Wilson Show with guest stars Jack Benny and Pearl Bailey. Naturally, Benny is timeless – Flip Wilson and his writers, not so much, although I always liked Flip Wilson. I also watched an episode of Man with a Camera, a short-lived TV show circa mid-1950s that I watched when I was a kid. It’s not very good, though. Of course, I watched some irritating YouTube videos. I may have watched the beginnings of a couple other movies, but I don’t remember. That was pretty much the evening. The day was okay. I got ten hours of excellent sleep, got up, answered e-mails, called the mail place but once again they hadn’t put out the mail, so I have no idea if the residual arrived. I’ll check today. Then I ordered a Chinese chicken salad from Stanley’s, that arrived, and I ate it all up. Hadn’t had it in a while and it was excellent. I must say, even though I’m not all that, Beethoven-wise, I’m enjoying The Creatures of Prometheus. Really great stereo sound, too. Then I had to do a bit of work, after which David Wechter and I had our phone meeting and that went well. I also had a brief visit from a Group Rep friend, who brought me the complete with commercials broadcast of the dubbed in English The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Previously, he’d brought me the dub but had married it to the Blu-ray transfer. But I thought it would be fun to have it just as it was broadcast here in LA on Channel 13. Now, if I could only locate my old 16mm IB Technicolor scope print of the English version of The Young Girls of Rochefort that would be amazing. I sold it a collector who died about seven years ago. Where his film collection went is anyone’s guess. I surely would love to get it back and have it transferred. Around six o’clock I had some matzo ball soup from Art’s Deli and that was a good evening snack. No sweets were eaten and that’s a good thing. The rest you know, and here we are.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll call the mail place and see what’s what and either go there or go there tomorrow, then I can relax until three, at which time David and I will converse again. Then I’ll shave and shower and then I’ll mosey on over to a nearby restaurant for the belated birthday dinner for David. I’ve looked at the menu and there are many choice choices for food, depending on my mood. After the dinner, I’ll come home and watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I think something may be happening, but I can’t remember what it might be so maybe it’s nothing. I do have things to do and hopefully we’ll hope for some modern major miracles, hopefully the residual will have arrived, I think I’ll check with Catalina and see what the story is with reservations, I have a bit of writing to do, and then the rest of the week is more meetings and meals and doing and going and going and doing, and a work session with the musical director of the upcoming Kritzerland 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, call the mail place to see what’s what, relax, have a brief telephonic meeting with David Wechter, shave, shower, attend a birthday dinner, and then come home 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, sorry that these here notes have been so meandering and lethargic and without pizazz, style, or witty repartee. It happens.