Well, dear readers, we had us a pretty swellegant hainesiversary yesterday. Once again, we did over 300 postings and let’s face it, that’s a lot of damn postings. A wonderful celebratory celebration is what we had around these here parts. Speaking of these here parts, I had some McDonald’s earlier and it’s sitting in my stomach like so much lumpen fish and doesn’t seem to want to digest. I hate when that happens. I may now be completely through with McDonald’s for a few years. I once went twelve years without it, so I can do it again. If one has strength and purpose or at least purpose and strength, then it’s amazing what one can do, although, that said, I’m finding it hard to remember what I was doing five minutes ago. Earlier, I found it hard to remember I was alive, but I was, I was alive, but alive, but alive. And now, I am writing these notes like a whirling dervish, like a spinning top, like a Ferris wheel run amok. And say, who is this Ferris person anyway and why was a wheel named after him and does he get royalties? Yes indeedy, it was named after George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. in 1893. Apparently, Mr. Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. was a real wheel wheeler dealer. I have no idea what the HELL I’m talking about. And furthermore, I didn’t watch anything last night, not in its entirety. But I did do a free seven-day trial for the Broadway HD channel and did watch bits and pieces of a few things I’ll finish during the week. I began with Holiday Inn, the Broadway musical. I found the first twenty minutes pretty dire and pretty typical. We’ll see where it goes from there. Then I watched ten minutes of The Sound of Music Live – not the NBC version, but the London live TV version. I found it pretty dire. Then I watched the first thirty minutes of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, one of many Goes Wrong stage things. I find a little of this kind of thing goes a long way. It’s very funny and then you can start predicting the gags, which is never a good idea. And stretching it out to ninety minutes or more – well, I’ll watch the rest and see how it goes. Then I watched the first fifteen minutes of the Matthew Bourne ballet of The Red Shoes, set to the music of Bernard Herrmann. I saw the production here at the Ahmanson and really enjoyed all of it very much. It’s why I took the free week so I could watch it again. It translates very well to TV, and it’s very well done and I look forward to finishing it. And finally, I watched the first fifteen minutes of the recent London production of Ruthless! It’s fun to see the show again. I believe there are changes to the book and lyrics from when it was done here, the cast album of which I produced. The person playing Sylvia St. Croix is not nearly as good as the person who played it here, Loren Freeman. The Tina is very funny, but I still think Lindsay Ridgeway was the best Tina there will ever be. Here’s a little clip from the LA production – Born to Entertain, with Loren Freeman, Joan Ryan, and Lindsay.
Lindsay doing To Play This Part.
Anyway, the lady playing Tina’s mother is also good but not as perfect as our Joan Ryan was. They’ve also added instruments to the band, which is not a good idea, and tarted up some of the arrangements, also not a good idea. But I’m enjoying it anyway.
Yesterday, aside from being a joyous anniversary day here at haineshisway.com, was not much of a day. I was up at eight-thirty after only six hours of sleep. At ten, Kay Cole arrived to pick up a CD she wanted to borrow. We had a nice chat. Then I tried to go back to bed, but Marshall Harvey called with a question that needed answering so I called back, and he’d already figured out what to do, which is exactly what I was about to tell him. He’s well into episode one now. Then I moseyed on over to the mail place and picked up the second set of sheets from Amazon and then came right home. Upon opening the package, it was an easy decision to return them unopened. On their site, the color is listed as taupe, and the sample they show is a beige kind of hue. What I was sent was chocolate brown, which doesn’t work for me at all. So, I’ll be taking that back to the UPS Store and Amazon will credit me the full cost including tax.
Then I ordered a Cobb salad from Stanley’s. It arrived just fifteen minutes later and I ate it all up. Then I had a text volley, got some of the incidental short music cues we’re using for transitions in the web series and sent those to Marshall, and that was really about it.
Then I sat on my couch like so much fish and began viewing the bits and pieces of the things mentioned above and ate some McDonald’s around eight-thirty.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll eat something light and somewhat healthy, I’m off sweets for a while, I’ll work on the show order and cobble together the commentary, check to see if any screeners have arrived, and then at some point I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow is more of the same and then we’ll see what the weekend brings.
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, eat, work on the show order and commentary, check the mail place, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What specialty channels do you subscribe to and which have you let go because there wasn’t enough that you were interested in. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had a joyous hainesiversary.