Today (in the morning, of course), my mom is coming over to my house! She wants to "help" me clean up my house. :o Yes, it needs to be cleaned, but I don't really want my mom to help me, but since I'm not really doing it myself, she's going to make me let her help me...if that makes sense.
Today (in the morning, of course), my mom is coming over to my house! She wants to "help" me clean up my house. :o Yes, it needs to be cleaned, but I don't really want my mom to help me, but since I'm not really doing it myself, she's going to make me let her help me...if that makes sense.
Remember to put "underneath the bed" out of bounds!
der Brucer
DR Matt Hough
I think you are making mistake by not going the see Avatar in a theater. It is not the best film I've ever seen, but it deserves to be seen in 3D and if possible in IMAX. I don't think the film experience can be duplicated by watching it on a TV set.
As a film reviewer who might review the blu-ray/dvd I feel that you should see it so you can compare the experience of watching both film formats. As a consumer I would like to know what the differences are and whether or not I would buy a copy.
Thanks for reading
DR elmore--looking foward to the Finian's Rainbow CD!
DR ELMORE what was the stage manager doing out in the audience?
DR Matt Hough
I think you are making mistake by not going the see Avatar in a theater. It is not the best film I've ever seen, but it deserves to be seen in 3D and if possible in IMAX. I don't think the film experience can be duplicated by watching it on a TV set.
As a film reviewer who might review the blu-ray/dvd I feel that you should see it so you can compare the experience of watching both film formats. As a consumer I would like to know what the differences are and whether or not I would buy a copy.
Thanks for reading
But it's not my job to review AVATAR as a theatrical experience, only as a home video experience. And where will it stop? Why wouldn't I also go see it in a 2-D theater so I could compare it to the 3-D and later to its home video incarnation.
The fact is I have limited time and limited money. Fox is not sending me a press pass to see the film in a theater (unlike when I reviewed movies for a newspaper where I was entitled to gratis attendance), and if I start that with AVATAR, it wouldn't be fair to the other three hundred DVDs and Blu-rays I review every year that I'm not watching the films in a theater first either. I am not and would not make an exception for AVATAR no matter how spectacular the experience may be in a theater.
Toys? Mr Machine!
DR elmore--looking foward to the Finian's Rainbow CD!
It's good, it's really good!
DR Matt H, the boys are on OLTL today and tomorrow.
DR Matt Hough
I think you are making mistake by not going the see Avatar in a theater. It is not the best film I've ever seen, but it deserves to be seen in 3D and if possible in IMAX. I don't think the film experience can be duplicated by watching it on a TV set.
As a film reviewer who might review the blu-ray/dvd I feel that you should see it so you can compare the experience of watching both film formats. As a consumer I would like to know what the differences are and whether or not I would buy a copy.
Thanks for reading
But it's not my job to review AVATAR as a theatrical experience, only as a home video experience. And where will it stop? Why wouldn't I also go see it in a 2-D theater so I could compare it to the 3-D and later to its home video incarnation.
The fact is I have limited time and limited money. Fox is not sending me a press pass to see the film in a theater (unlike when I reviewed movies for a newspaper where I was entitled to gratis attendance), and if I start that with AVATAR, it wouldn't be fair to the other three hundred DVDs and Blu-rays I review every year that I'm not watching the films in a theater first either. I am not and would not make an exception for AVATAR no matter how spectacular the experience may be in a theater.
Aside from the fact that I really didn't like AVATAR as a movie, I found the 3-D process to be both distracting and annoying.
The visuals are, indeed, spectacular, as is the 3-D process, but the novelty wears off very quickly.
I was looking at my watch during the film's first half-hour.
I wanted to have a Mr Machine.....but never got one.
DR Matt Hough
I think you are making mistake by not going the see Avatar in a theater. It is not the best film I've ever seen, but it deserves to be seen in 3D and if possible in IMAX. I don't think the film experience can be duplicated by watching it on a TV set.
As a film reviewer who might review the blu-ray/dvd I feel that you should see it so you can compare the experience of watching both film formats. As a consumer I would like to know what the differences are and whether or not I would buy a copy.
Thanks for reading
But it's not my job to review AVATAR as a theatrical experience, only as a home video experience. And where will it stop? Why wouldn't I also go see it in a 2-D theater so I could compare it to the 3-D and later to its home video incarnation.
The fact is I have limited time and limited money. Fox is not sending me a press pass to see the film in a theater (unlike when I reviewed movies for a newspaper where I was entitled to gratis attendance), and if I start that with AVATAR, it wouldn't be fair to the other three hundred DVDs and Blu-rays I review every year that I'm not watching the films in a theater first either. I am not and would not make an exception for AVATAR no matter how spectacular the experience may be in a theater.
Here you go, DR DRUXY! Enloy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgIm1mJCyRU
Thanfully, yes - it is a personal favorite. The dieticians should be pleased with one of my favorite lunches - sardines and avacado on whole wheat bread.
DR DtM - not only is it in color....it is in COLOR!!! Lots of eye makeup and jazzy print dresses on the gals and lots of cool jackets and loud ties on the guys.....C O L O R!!!!!
A Quinn Martin Production.
This morning I went birding in the light rain. Our best birds were about 300 Lawrence goldfinches (a rarity out here), a snipe, and a northern harrier scaring up all the ducks and wading things.
There was a parade in Phoenix today?
Good news and good news and good news department:
Betsy had a little "Couric" procedure done this a.m. and seems to be A-OK. We also had the drainage guy at the new house and he thinks the leak is easily remediable and not structure-threatening at all. And also, this was the first clear day we've been out there and I must say the view is breathtaking.
It is really raining now. Pouring. So much so that I'm sitting here writing away and the power just goes out - only for the computer and what's on that circuit. IN THE MIDDLE OF WRITING. Thank heaven I save every few seconds, but I lost two paragraphs - really annoying. They weren't hard to redo, but the redo is not quite as smooth so I'll go back to it later. The power only was out for about five seconds, but that's all it takes.
JMK, when you said "Couric procedure," I thought you meant some botox. Then I figured it out.
Ginny, HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY to DN and goddaughter Lauren!
Manhole fires?
DR DtM - not only is it in color....it is in COLOR!!! Lots of eye makeup and jazzy print dresses on the gals and lots of cool jackets and loud ties on the guys.....C O L O R!!!!!
A Quinn Martin Production.
I just told Tivo to record some of these. Was Season 2 released on dvd?
Thanks to everyone at Haines for yesterday's wishes; you make me feel good all under. I thought of you opening gifts when I spotted Edisaurus' name on a Johnny Mercer album (!)
I had a lovely day, an open house, where talented singers stopped by, proffered a song or two, and cleared out before the tiny apartment ran out of places to sit; then the next batch arrived. The big challenge was when we couldn't find the music to I've Been Here Before/It's Never That Easy so I had to play it by ear, in A-flat minor (that's seven flats). More fun was a major cabaret singer's impromptu rendition of Love Life; she claimed never to have sung it before.
To top off the day, I learned that another song of mine's being done in London. I've had songs in many a cabaret show there over the past 16 months, and a whole show hit the British boards in November.
Meanwhile, I'm rewriting Such Good Friends - probably the third or fourth new draft since NYMF, and starting on a new show that's a radical departure from everything I've done before (no piano, for one thing).
TOD: I had a Casper the Friendly Ghost doll that I loved for a while, even after I spilled some of the Creepy Crawlers green goo on him.
Damn them, damn the all to hell. I jeans are sopping wet.
The make-up and photography on THE INVADERS makes everyone look very good.....Susan Strasberg was so beautiful, I almost didn't recognize her....not that she isn't pretty....but she looked beautiful.....as does Roy in all of his EXTREME close ups.
DR Matt Hough
I think you are making mistake by not going the see Avatar in a theater. It is not the best film I've ever seen, but it deserves to be seen in 3D and if possible in IMAX. I don't think the film experience can be duplicated by watching it on a TV set.
As a film reviewer who might review the blu-ray/dvd I feel that you should see it so you can compare the experience of watching both film formats. As a consumer I would like to know what the differences are and whether or not I would buy a copy.
Thanks for reading
But it's not my job to review AVATAR as a theatrical experience, only as a home video experience. And where will it stop? Why wouldn't I also go see it in a 2-D theater so I could compare it to the 3-D and later to its home video incarnation.
The fact is I have limited time and limited money. Fox is not sending me a press pass to see the film in a theater (unlike when I reviewed movies for a newspaper where I was entitled to gratis attendance), and if I start that with AVATAR, it wouldn't be fair to the other three hundred DVDs and Blu-rays I review every year that I'm not watching the films in a theater first either. I am not and would not make an exception for AVATAR no matter how spectacular the experience may be in a theater.
DR DER BRUCER - From last night:QuoteThanfully, yes - it is a personal favorite. The dieticians should be pleased with one of my favorite lunches - sardines and avacado on whole wheat bread.
Following in the footsteps of Alton Brown's Sardine-Avocado Sandwich Diet (http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/01/alton-browns-sardine-avocado-sandwich-diet.html)?
DR MB, do any prints of your films survive? Can we expect a dvd release?
DR MBARNUM the Greek Gods films you sent me were most entertaining.
DR MBARNUM the Greek Gods films you sent me were most entertaining.
I thought you would enjoy that JRand! Thank Elmore for sending it to me in the first place.
I wonder how many of the guys in this scene have been interviewed by DR MBarnum?
"Sextette" - A Visit to the Gym (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hctzwKRVzY)
DR MBarnum et al - From today's/tomorrow's New York Times...
Bollywood's Rhythms Felt Worldwide (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/arts/19iht-JESSOP.html)
I jeans
Thanks to everyone at Haines for yesterday's wishes; you make me feel good all under. I thought of you opening gifts when I spotted Edisaurus' name on a Johnny Mercer album (!)
I jeans
Will those Apple people stop at nothing? ;D
JMK, when you said "Couric procedure," I thought you meant some botox. Then I figured it out.
Methinks BK just removed a post. Which makes this post a non sequitur:
Psst...I think it's the wrong Susan:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Dey/1666055016
Yes, I did hear back - that was this morning's call. She hadn't seen any of the messages.
Methinks BK just removed a post. Which makes this post a non sequitur:
Psst...I think it's the wrong Susan:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Dey/1666055016
TOD:
Lite Brite, Spirograph, a Barbie doll and an Easy-Bake oven (I had to borrow the the Barbie dolls and Easy Bake Oven from the girls in the neighborhood.)
Thanks to everyone at Haines for yesterday's wishes; you make me feel good all under. I thought of you opening gifts when I spotted Edisaurus' name on a Johnny Mercer album (!)
I had a lovely day, an open house, where talented singers stopped by, proffered a song or two, and cleared out before the tiny apartment ran out of places to sit; then the next batch arrived. The big challenge was when we couldn't find the music to I've Been Here Before/It's Never That Easy so I had to play it by ear, in A-flat minor (that's seven flats). More fun was a major cabaret singer's impromptu rendition of Love Life; she claimed never to have sung it before.
To top off the day, I learned that another song of mine's being done in London. I've had songs in many a cabaret show there over the past 16 months, and a whole show hit the British boards in November.
Meanwhile, I'm rewriting Such Good Friends - probably the third or fourth new draft since NYMF, and starting on a new show that's a radical departure from everything I've done before (no piano, for one thing).
I just watched PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
Very well done. Best scare movie I've seen in a long time.
I jumped 2-3 times.
I made lots of cakes in my Easy Bake Oven. Then there were the creepy crawlers and the edible creepy crawlers. I'm more surprised we didn't burn our hands off
Well, yesterday certainly was a day...what with the opera that I went to and catching up on all the Golden Globe posts after not watching any of the Golden Globes. I'll speed through the rebroadcast on Friday.
Today (in the morning, of course), my mom is coming over to my house! She wants to "help" me clean up my house. :o Yes, it needs to be cleaned, but I don't really want my mom to help me, but since I'm not really doing it myself, she's going to make me let her help me...if that makes sense.
Pray for Rosemarie's baby...me. Because my mom's name is Rosemarie. ;)
It is really raining now. Pouring. So much so that I'm sitting here writing away and the power just goes out - only for the computer and what's on that circuit. IN THE MIDDLE OF WRITING. Thank heaven I save every few seconds, but I lost two paragraphs - really annoying. They weren't hard to redo, but the redo is not quite as smooth so I'll go back to it later. The power only was out for about five seconds, but that's all it takes.
Still more surgery vibes for DerBrucer.
Well, I won't go into details, but my living room and kitchen are now very, very clean. My mom came over at about 10 am and directed the cleaning...she's very good at it. I, obviously, didn't get the cleaning gene. I got the procrastination gene. We broke for lunch at around 1:15 (for about an hour) and everything was done by 5:30. My sister and niece came over at that time (just to see it all clean and tidy) and they were impressed. I didn't have any trouble "letting go" of stuff....
TOD:
Lite Brite, Spirograph, a Barbie doll and an Easy-Bake oven (I had to borrow the the Barbie dolls and Easy Bake Oven from the girls in the neighborhood.)
I made lots of cakes in my Easy Bake Oven. Then there were the creepy crawlers and the edible creepy crawlers. I'm more surprised we didn't burn our hands off
Creepy crawlers!!! How could I have forgotten all about those? I loved making those! They were so disgusting. They would never let a little kid play with those things today. Could you just imagine the recalls and lawsuits?
I wonder how many of the guys in this scene have been interviewed by DR MBarnum?
"Sextette" - A Visit to the Gym (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hctzwKRVzY)
I have interviewed one of them, and I've known a couple of the others.
I made the big mistake of going out to get a sandwich. First of all, this is the hardest rainfall we've had in five years. Second of all, drivers are INSANE in the rain. Third of all, the streets are a mess, completely flooded. As I've said many times, there isn't a day that goes by when streets aren't closed and everyone is inconvenienced, but the one thing these oafs who do the work have NEVER done is fix the drainage system in the Valley. It's outrageous. Fourth of all, I went to Jerry's Deli. At NOON. NOON. The parking lot was completely full. I had to wait ten minutes to get seated. At NOON. Why? Well, it's Martin Luther King day and apparently that means that the entire population of Studio City has to go to Jerry's Deli at NOON. In the pouring rain. And the bowling alley that's attached to Jerry's was jammed, as well. Jerry's is not exactly McDonald's, price-wise, so the fact that these families of six people are sitting there stuffing their faces and their checks will be close to $100 - well, it's madness. The signals are out everywhere in the Valley. At some point I need to go pick up the big box of boxes that's waiting for me, so I'm hoping the rain abates at some point. And Cason is coming tomorrow instead of today, and tomorrow's session with the long musical is now pushed to whenever I have time to do it.
Thanks to everyone at Haines for yesterday's wishes; you make me feel good all under. I thought of you opening gifts when I spotted Edisaurus' name on a Johnny Mercer album (!)
I had a lovely day, an open house, where talented singers stopped by, proffered a song or two, and cleared out before the tiny apartment ran out of places to sit; then the next batch arrived. The big challenge was when we couldn't find the music to I've Been Here Before/It's Never That Easy so I had to play it by ear, in A-flat minor (that's seven flats). More fun was a major cabaret singer's impromptu rendition of Love Life; she claimed never to have sung it before.
Thanks to everyone at Haines for yesterday's wishes; you make me feel good all under. I thought of you opening gifts when I spotted Edisaurus' name on a Johnny Mercer album (!)
I had a lovely day, an open house, where talented singers stopped by, proffered a song or two, and cleared out before the tiny apartment ran out of places to sit; then the next batch arrived. The big challenge was when we couldn't find the music to I've Been Here Before/It's Never That Easy so I had to play it by ear, in A-flat minor (that's seven flats). More fun was a major cabaret singer's impromptu rendition of Love Life; she claimed never to have sung it before.
To top off the day, I learned that another song of mine's being done in London. I've had songs in many a cabaret show there over the past 16 months, and a whole show hit the British boards in November.
Meanwhile, I'm rewriting Such Good Friends - probably the third or fourth new draft since NYMF, and starting on a new show that's a radical departure from everything I've done before (no piano, for one thing).
Howdy, DR Noel! Long time, no see...
NO PIANO, FOR ONE THING would make a good title...
I made the big mistake of going out to get a sandwich. First of all, this is the hardest rainfall we've had in five years. Second of all, drivers are INSANE in the rain. Third of all, the streets are a mess, completely flooded. As I've said many times, there isn't a day that goes by when streets aren't closed and everyone is inconvenienced, but the one thing these oafs who do the work have NEVER done is fix the drainage system in the Valley. It's outrageous. Fourth of all, I went to Jerry's Deli. At NOON. NOON. The parking lot was completely full. I had to wait ten minutes to get seated. At NOON. Why? Well, it's Martin Luther King day and apparently that means that the entire population of Studio City has to go to Jerry's Deli at NOON. In the pouring rain. And the bowling alley that's attached to Jerry's was jammed, as well. Jerry's is not exactly McDonald's, price-wise, so the fact that these families of six people are sitting there stuffing their faces and their checks will be close to $100 - well, it's madness. The signals are out everywhere in the Valley. At some point I need to go pick up the big box of boxes that's waiting for me, so I'm hoping the rain abates at some point. And Cason is coming tomorrow instead of today, and tomorrow's session with the long musical is now pushed to whenever I have time to do it.
Isn't NOON the traditional time for lunch? Just sayin'...
I made the big mistake of going out to get a sandwich. First of all, this is the hardest rainfall we've had in five years. Second of all, drivers are INSANE in the rain. Third of all, the streets are a mess, completely flooded. As I've said many times, there isn't a day that goes by when streets aren't closed and everyone is inconvenienced, but the one thing these oafs who do the work have NEVER done is fix the drainage system in the Valley. It's outrageous. Fourth of all, I went to Jerry's Deli. At NOON. NOON. The parking lot was completely full. I had to wait ten minutes to get seated. At NOON. Why? Well, it's Martin Luther King day and apparently that means that the entire population of Studio City has to go to Jerry's Deli at NOON. In the pouring rain. And the bowling alley that's attached to Jerry's was jammed, as well. Jerry's is not exactly McDonald's, price-wise, so the fact that these families of six people are sitting there stuffing their faces and their checks will be close to $100 - well, it's madness. The signals are out everywhere in the Valley. At some point I need to go pick up the big box of boxes that's waiting for me, so I'm hoping the rain abates at some point. And Cason is coming tomorrow instead of today, and tomorrow's session with the long musical is now pushed to whenever I have time to do it.
Isn't NOON the traditional time for lunch? Just sayin'...
Um, maybe where you live, but not in LA. The normal weekday lunch time is one, as a matter of fact. Some do 12:30, but one is ALWAYS safe at noon. Except today. I can walk into Jerry's or Hugo's or anywhere else any day of the week at noon and get seated instantly.
I made the big mistake of going out to get a sandwich. First of all, this is the hardest rainfall we've had in five years. Second of all, drivers are INSANE in the rain. Third of all, the streets are a mess, completely flooded. As I've said many times, there isn't a day that goes by when streets aren't closed and everyone is inconvenienced, but the one thing these oafs who do the work have NEVER done is fix the drainage system in the Valley. It's outrageous. Fourth of all, I went to Jerry's Deli. At NOON. NOON. The parking lot was completely full. I had to wait ten minutes to get seated. At NOON. Why? Well, it's Martin Luther King day and apparently that means that the entire population of Studio City has to go to Jerry's Deli at NOON. In the pouring rain. And the bowling alley that's attached to Jerry's was jammed, as well. Jerry's is not exactly McDonald's, price-wise, so the fact that these families of six people are sitting there stuffing their faces and their checks will be close to $100 - well, it's madness. The signals are out everywhere in the Valley. At some point I need to go pick up the big box of boxes that's waiting for me, so I'm hoping the rain abates at some point. And Cason is coming tomorrow instead of today, and tomorrow's session with the long musical is now pushed to whenever I have time to do it.
Isn't NOON the traditional time for lunch? Just sayin'...
Um, maybe where you live, but not in LA. The normal weekday lunch time is one, as a matter of fact. Some do 12:30, but one is ALWAYS safe at noon. Except today. I can walk into Jerry's or Hugo's or anywhere else any day of the week at noon and get seated instantly.
Well, I'm sorry that the people of L.A. chose today to inconvenience you.
;)