Well, dear readers, I have breaking bombshell news, so hold onto your collective hats – it is May. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it is May, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that May will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. Right now, as the midnight hour approaches, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to some excellent music from Star Trek, the original series – they really had some fine composers on the series, my favorite of which is George Duning. I did manage to watch a completely ludicrous Charles Bronson movie I somehow missed – naturally, one of the Cannon movies from the last part of his career, this preposterous piece of dreck entitled Assassination, also starring Jill Ireland. It’s based on a novel by Richard Sale, the man who wrote the novel that The Oscar was based on. He also wrote the screenplay for the Frank Sinatra noir, Suddenly. He adapted his novel for Assassination. I have no idea if the novel is as horrible as the movie, but it certainly is a completely inane plot. Directed by British director, Peter Hunt – he edited the early Bond films and then directed On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, followed by many not so hot films. I like Mr. Bronson, but his films for Cannon were not very good. The film looks good, but you just sit there like so much fish and roll your eyes at the silliness of it all. I will admit to fast-forwarding through its final twenty minutes. Then I watched the first half of the new Amazon series, Etoile. I know its creators are all the rage, but I’ve only ever seen a couple of Mrs. Maisel episodes, and have never seen a single episode of The Gilmore Girls. Thus far, I find this thing pretty bad – way overwritten, characters who do not talk like actual humans, over-the-top, looking like every other Max or Netflix or Amazon series. I decided to give it a go for only one reason – Lou de Laage, who I thought was great in Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance. Her introduction in the series towards the end of episode one is, I thought, ridiculous, but I’m hoping once she’s in her natural habitat, the world of ballet, that she’ll have something better to play than what they wrote her as her introductory scene. Simon Callow is, I hate to say it. awful, at least for me. I could barely watch him, frankly. I’ll give it another episode two, but it’s just not my cuppa thus far.
Prior to that, I got about six hours of sleep, had a brief visitor who came to pick up a CD, then the helper arrived and picked up the books to ship, then I ordered pasta papa from Hugo’s for food, along with a side Caesar, which I saved for later. Later, I ate it. And I don’t care who knows it. I moseyed on over to the mail place and thankfully picked up two important envelopes, then came home. I did some work on the computer, dozed off for over an hour, had many peculiar dreams, then the rest you know.
Today, I’ll try to be up by ten, I’ll do my banking and get that out of the way, I really do not want to eat much, so I’m thinking Gelson’s – maybe some soup if they have the creamy tomato, and maybe stuff for a sandwich or maybe a salad with some shrimp with Good Seasons Eyetalian dressing. We shall see. I’ll watch some more young people videos, make final casting choices, try to lock in the pianist for the June show (July is set), and then at some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Not sure what’s up for tomorrow or the weekend – perhaps a nice dinner out somewhere would be fun – but mostly I’ll hang around the house, I suppose, and do whatever needs doing.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten, do my banking, do a Gelson’s run, eat something light, watch some videos, finalize casting, hopefully set a piano player, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorites of the Star Trek series and movies? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I shall welcome May with open arms and it is my fervent hope and prayer that May will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.