Well, dear readers, it looks like my New York, New York trip will be somewhere around the 20th of January – we should be booking the flight today or tomorrow. Although it will be a busy and short trip we will, of course, make time for a rousing and lively Hainsies/Kimlets get-together. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Last night, after finishing the CD of the new television version of The Music Man (it sort of evens out after awhile, and the rest of it was bland but all right), I put on the DVD of the original film and watched the first half and it’s truly wonderful in every regard. Every single role is brilliantly cast right down to the great Hank Worden who has one count them one line. I think the mentality is that kids today (or the TV audience) won’t sit still for the “old” stuff – that we have to pander and make it easier to get, and have to make it more au courant, film-wise. Why? It’s a period piece, so the original film is not dated at all. Other than young people probably not being aware who Robert Preston is, what’s the deal? The pace of the film is terrific (it’s not short but it does move right along with one great number after another) – well, I’ll reserve any judgment until after I see the new one.
May I just take a brief moment to sing the praises of Mr. Meredith Willson? What a score The Music Man has – it’s really a show that sings, in the best sense of the word. It’s spectacularly entertaining. And even though Molly Brown is not as good, I’m still quite partial to a lot of it. Even Here’s Love has lovely things.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because as you might recall I promised to keep this first section more seemly and shorter. I am one to keep a promise, so click away, dear readers.
I’ve been having a delightful time watching the two Jacques Demy documentaries on my two PAL DVDs of his classic films, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort. Of course, they’re in French with no subtitles, these documentaries are, so I don’t know what the hell they’re going on about, but they are delightful nonetheless.
Today I shall try to pick up the new DVD of Mr. Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life – it used to be so easy – I could just walk over to Dave’s Video, five minutes from my very own home, but Dave’s Video has closed its doors and now I have to drive to Tower or to Westwood to get my DVDs.
Today’s notes are quite informative, aren’t they? I have learned so much from today’s notes. I feel I am a better human being for today’s notes. Today’s notes are quite melodic (A/C/D/E), in fact I will be singing today’s notes (A/C/D/E – key of F) all the livelong day and evening and I will be a better human being for it. What the hell am I talking about?
I am supposed to have a massage tomorrow evening. I haven’t had one in six months so my masseuse should have her work cut out for her. I’m also supposed to have dinner with our very own Tammy Minoff, either before the massage, or on Friday. Tammy will be coming to New York to repeat her performance in our Tourette’s Syndrome benefit.
Today I will hopefully be getting together with our very own Grant Geissman so that I can lay down some demo tracks for the new songs in Nudie Musical (Lisa Richard will be singing the female ones) and also for the upcoming film. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must go to and fro and also fro and to, I must weigh the pros and cons of going to and fro – last time I weighed the pros and cons I was shocked and I put them on the Eileen and Chet Atkins diet immediately. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, so ask your excellent questions and tomorrow I shall answer each and every one of them. Ask away, my pretties.