Haines His Way

Good Afternoon!

Back from Mass MoCA - The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.  Quite an interesting museum, and a bunch of the current exhibitions tended to run toward the bizarre and disturbing.  The type of stuff you really take your time looking at and absorbing, or just make a cursory glance or two at.  For most of the works currently on display, I chose the "glance" approach, but there were some other pieces I did linger over/at for a while.

There is one set of installations by the artist, Cai Guo-Quiang, called "Inopportune".  It's sort of play on Chinese scroll painting, but done on a much larger and actually non-abstract scale.  The main piece is called "Stage 1" and it's built around nine white Ford Tauruses with "fireworks" coming out of them.  Quite a sizable installation.  I believer there's a picture of it on the museum's website.

http://www.massmoca.org

Before heading over to the Mass MoCA, I stopped for lunch at the Water Street Grill where I had a surprisingly good lunch of fried oysters.  The oysters were very fresh, just the right amount of breading, just the right amount of crisp, and still juicy on the inside.  And eight nice-sized oysters for only $6.00.  Not bad at all.  Truly a very pleasant surprise.

Another surprise was that Curtis, the composer, let me use his car to get to Mass MoCA, and I also happened to pick up my director, Carlos, on the way.  We had a very good time at the museum, and since he had not had lunch yet, we sat for a while in their Cafe Latino.  Lots of finger foods: empanaditas, wedges of queso blanco, tostones, etc.  Oh, and I had a very, very, very smooth mojito.



-Now, I just need my ice cream fix, and that will complete my culinary adventures for the day.



OH!  And in a WAFFLE cone!

I just read that the release of the BAKER STREET cast album on CD has been delayed until 2006. Drat!

Good thing it's DVD day here at haineshisway.com.  The last couple of weeks has been very slim pickings over at my little DVD place, but they called me today and we hit the mother lode.  I just picked up the following: Dressed to Kill, starring Mr. Lloyd Nolan (playing our very own Mr. Michael Shayne), the '62 remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which I've never seen and which I'm really looking forward to, Whirlpool of Otto Preminger, The Doctor and the Devils with our very own Twiggy, two Sherlock Holmes films, Terror By Night and Prelude to Murder (colorized, but the DVDs include the newly-restored black-and-white as well), The House on 92nd Street, Somewhere in the Night, The Innocents, Red Garters, Casanova's Big Night, and The Miracle at Morgan's Creek.  Whew!!!

Well, as much as I dread thinking about it, it's Friday and that means kitchen mopping time. I'll be back later tonight after hopefully having spent a more fun amount of time with TOP HAT and MONTY PYTHON/HOLY GRAIL.

WAFFLE, baby, WAFFLE.

I had a turkey sub.  It was oke.  Also a cup of clam chowder, which was good.  Nothing yummilicious, I'm afraid.  I've saved room (calorie-wise) for some sort of dessert later.

I believe this'll be the next cd I buy!

Betty Garrett was an established musical actress on Broadway (starring in the 1946 hit show “Call Me Mister” where she introduced “South America, Take It Away”) when MGM beckoned. Fans of Hollywood musicals will remember her in films such as “Words And Music”, “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”, “Neptune’s Daughter” and the classic “On The Town” where she played Brunhilde Esterhazy, the man-chasing taxi driver.

Married to actor Larry Parks (star of “The Jolson Story”), the late 1940s were good for Betty and Larry. They were popular and made many films but in 1951 Larry Parks admitted he had been a Communist. From that day onwards the couple were shunned and blacklisted. The film offers dried up so the couple toured Britain with their act and headlined The London Palladium where they scored a great success with the British public. They toured Britain 4 times.

It took Betty Garrett 20 years to recover from this setback. In 1973 she joined the cast of TV’s “All in the Family”, the American version of the British “Till Death Do Us Apart”, where she remained for 3 years before moving to another TV hit show, “Laverne and Shirley” in 1976. In 1989 Betty returned to Broadway starring in the stage musical of “Meet Me In St. Louis” and was recently seen in the 2001 Broadway production of “Follies”.

The 28 tracks on this CD were recorded between 1947 and 1953. We have included standards and novelty numbers; songs from her films; her only US Top Ten hit - Buttons and Bows; and the duets with Larry Parks, Gene Kelly and Jimmy Durante. This is the first Betty Garrett solo CD and almost all of the tracks are appearing on CD for the first time.




Title: Star of Stage and Screen
Artist: Betty Garrett
Catalogue No: SEPIA 1038
Barcode: 842704003822
Release Date: 4 October 2004


 
Tracklisting:
1. Ev’rything I’ve Got - Betty Garrett & Milton Berle
2. Manhattan - Betty Garrett & Vic Damone
3. Ok’l Baby Dok’l
4. There Ought To Be A Society
5. Don't Blame Me
6. I'm Gonna See A Lot Of You
7. Buttons And Bows
8. The Matador
9. The Pussy Cat Song - Betty Garrett & Jimmy Durante
10. Any State In The Forty-Eight Is Great - Betty & Jimmy
11. There’s A Small Hotel
12. Yes, Indeedy - Betty Garrett & Gene Kelly
13. Take Me Out To The Ball Game - Betty & Gene
14. The Humphrey Bogart Rhumba
15. Can I Come In For A Second? - Betty Garrett & Larry Parks
16. Reckon I’m In Love - Betty & Larry
17. Side By Side - Betty & Larry
18. Hand Holdin’ Music
19. Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep - Betty & Larry
20. Written Guarantee - Betty & Larry
21. A Lazy Lack-A-Daisy Day - Betty & Larry
22. I’m Strictly On The Corny Side
23. It’s A Quiet Town
24. Home Cookin’
25. Poison Ivy
26. Don’t Throw Cold Water On The Flame Of Love
27. The Soft Shoe
28. Go

new cd selection; Celtic Women

Am I the only one who finds the "40 Year Old Virgin" movie commercials crass?  


I mean I don't think I would be considered a "prude" but it drives me crazy that we try to keep only appropriate shows on the TV when the Vixter is watching (and she normally goes to bed at 9 so she's not watching late) and in between the shows you get inundated with that kind of garbage.

Bless her soul she said," Well if he's not married of course he's a virgin" but it drives me crazy that material like that is shoved in your face

Or am I being a curmudgeon again?

Do they know the mantra?

Oy, whatta day.


that's my mantra

Am I the only one who finds the "40 Year Old Virgin" movie commercials crass?  


I mean I don't think I would be considered a "prude" but it drives me crazy that we try to keep only appropriate shows on the TV when the Vixter is watching (and she normally goes to bed at 9 so she's not watching late) and in between the shows you get inundated with that kind of garbage.

Bless her soul she said," Well if he's not married of course he's a virgin" but it drives me crazy that material like that is shoved in your face

Or am I being a curmudgeon again?

I'm afraid this is the kind of "cultural" world we live in!
It's the same in movie theaters and trailers when one attends a family fare!

On the other end (hand?!) some stuff goes over children's head and don't affect them the way we, adults, think they do!
We are more "pervert" than children can be!

Yes, this is definitely not a Disney world, full of princes and princesses!
(I found that out only last year.... and I'm over 50! )

A quiet day on the home front.

BB6 Live Feeds have been all fish tank the past four-plus hours.  They're exhausting themselves, I'm sure with veto competition, veto ceremony, eviction ceremony and new HOH competition all being done today for airing tomorrow night.

I have watched "Top Hat" today on DVD.  Funny that DR Matt H, who was SO antsy about getting the boxed set, STILL hasn't managed to ignore other diversions so that he can start watching.