Well, dear readers, we had a lively and sparkling Unseemly Live Chat last night, even though I was late in opening the room and even though I couldn’t stay long. The reason for that was because I was at Mr. Grant Geissman’s studio finishing the Kritzerland CD and it took just a bit longer to finish than I thought it would. We actually finished in time and I was simply going to open the room from Mr. Geissman’s computer, but for some reason I couldn’t open it from there. I then had to rush home to do it hence the room opened eleven count them eleven minutes late. In any case, the Kritzerland CD is now to bed, I’m taking it to the duplication place today and I should have them back tomorrow or the next day and then I will ship them to those who bought their copies here at haineshisway.com or at one of my signings. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
As you all know, we had a terrible crash here at haineshisway.com and were down for twenty-two hours on Friday. Mr. Bakalor assures me he is switching us over to our new server as we speak and that we are on the fast track for our changes. Even though many of you played errant and truant over the weekend, we were here and it was fun so check out what went on. Actually, I don’t know if the archive has been fixed so you might not be able to, but give it a try. I anticipate hearing from Mr. Bakalor today about the archive and whether the radio show is up and running yet.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’ve got lots of things to do today and I must prepare myself for a long night of going over the second batch of fixes.
We did have a rather big celebration here yesterday, and if you missed it you should send your happiest wishes to dear readers Joy and Noel on their wedding.
I’m hoping that today we will revert to the most excellent place we were prior to the crash. The traffic was somewhat light this weekend, so we need to make up for the lost day and the light traffic because soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet.
Last night I watched a DVD entitled Raise the Titanic. It’s not a very good movie, although it could have been. It was quite expensive for its day (forty million in 1980) and it’s one of those movies where the expense is not really on the screen. It’s adapted from Clive Cussler’s novel and Mr. Cussler was so incensed by what they did that he has steadfastly refused to allow another movie to be made from his books. The film is directed by Jerry Jameson, basically a TV director with no style or flair – why Lord Grade would have given him this big a film is an enigma. Add to that the bad casting of Richard Jordan as Dirk Pitt and not-very-good TV-like photography and it just sort of sits there. Dirk Pitt needed a real star and good actor though Mr. Jordan was he did not have movie star charisma. The one area in which the movie absolutely succeeds is Mr. John Barry’s score, which is one of his greats.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Don’t I have lots of things to do and hadn’t I better do them?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must duplicate CDs, I must scan things, and I must do many other little errands because to not do any other little errands would make me errand and truant. Today’s topic of discussion: Mr. John Barry has had a rather amazing career, in jazz, in films and on stage. What are your favorite John Barry scores and which of his stage and film musicals do you love? I’ll start – film, Goldfinger, Robin and Marian, Raise the Titanic and Somewhere in Time. Stage, I’m quite partial to Passion Flower Hotel and I like Billy, too, but my favorite of his stage scores is Lolita, My Love, which is pretty terrific. Of his film musicals, I like his Alice in Wonderland. I leave the rest to you. If you don’t know from Mr. Barry, our second topic of discussion: Where in tarnation were you all weekend?