Reading: just finished Double Cross
Music: Great Big Sea
TV/Movie: Fanboys
Link o' the Day: artist Greg Stones



Rumor has it... The cult-favorite TV childrens show from the 70s The Land of the Lost was a popular hit among Hollywood's A-list. It was considered fashionable for certain stars to don a full-body Sleestak costume and make cameo appearances--usually under an assumed name. These included Roy Sheider, Mia Farrow, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, and on six different occasions--Dustin Hoffman.

Rumor has it... Quentin Tarantino's break-out script for True Romance was originally set in Thailand and featured two brothers trying to make a difference in the lives of a group of Buddhist monks. It was Harvey Keitel who convinced him to alter the story to one about an American man and woman pulling a drug heist in Detroit.

Rumor has it... E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was originally just going to be titled E.T. It as during a preview screening at the White House that then-President Reagan suggested the full title because he didn't understand the meaning of the initials and thought it too complicated for the American public.

Rumor has it... Disney's Song of the South has not been permanently warehoused due to its racist content, but because of the five-minute nude scene toward the end.



Rumor has it... There have been five different attempts to bring the 2008 election story to the big screen. All failed before scripts could be completed due to the unbelievability of the plot and characters.

Rumor has it... In the movie Lawrence of Arabia there is not a single line spoken by a woman.

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Busy day. Busy week. Welcome to the tag end of a three-day weekend. Usually us self-employed types don't take holidays off, but because I worked the last holiday, I decided to take this one off. We had a pretty decent weekend. On Sunday we visited the Westerly Virtu Art Festival. This is a yearly thing for us. We usually come home with some prints and this year was no diifferent (see link of the day). Lots of people out and about at Wilcox Park despite the occasional flashes of rain. That night I had a pretty killer evening at Ward's Pub playing tunes. There were only three of us playing, but we had a fantastic crowd in attendance and we were all pretty much "on" that night. Yesterday we saw Margaret's mother, and did some driving around. We had hoped to catch the Star Trek movie at the IMAX, but it's no longer playing. Boo. Double-boo. Ah well. Maybe it'll come back.

Good weekend. A mixture of activity and relaxation. And spent together. I can get behind that.

But now it's time to get back to work.

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Today's link takes you to the website of artist Greg Stones. This is the second year in a row we've bought works of his at the Virtu Art Festival. He does some finely surreal minimalist watercolors featuring penguins, zombies, flashers, UFOs, mermaids, robots, and more. Check his webpage out and check out his work. Prints are pretty cheap, as prints go. I recommend the collection Goodbye, Penguins. It's a Very Special book.

Cheers!