Well, dear readers, can you believe it’s January 2nd already? I don’t know where this year has gone, frankly. As I posted late last night, I pushed answering your excellent questions of yesterday until tomorrow’s notes. I’ll tell you why – because I started reading the new book yesterday. So, I was quite engrossed, being nitpicky and correcting spelling and grammar errors and the like. It was very interesting – I read all of Part One and a quarter of part two. Now, you must understand, when I write and finish whatever number of pages I do, the next day I go back and read them and rewrite them endlessly until I’m happy enough to move on. I know this is not how you’re supposed to do it, but I can’t leave bad things, I just can’t, and I simply don’t have the ability to move along until they are at least in the ballpark of where I want them. However, once I do move on I never go back and reread anything. So, I hadn’t read any of what I read yesterday in quite some time (in fact I hadn’t read the first part of the book since last April, really. I am happy to tell you that I am very pleased with it thus far – in certain ways it’s different than the last book, even though the structure and style – prologue, two parts and epilogue – is pretty much the same. I don’t want to say anything else at this time, other than I was not bored and it seemed to move along and have real momentum. Within the next few weeks I’ll be revealing my “plan” for the book, its title and various and sundried other details.
On the Nudie Musical front, I am hopeful to be finished with my first pass by tomorrow or, at the very latest, the end of the weekend. I think it’s going well enough – yesterday, I did Eunice, the script girls scene and song (the one that was cut from the film) but in typing it in I realized I was not so enamored of the song’s lyrics, so I pretty much rewrote them in total. A little history of the song – it wasn’t, in fact, written for Nudie Musical at all, it was in my musical of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, and was sung by the character of Luce. I adjusted just a few of the lyrics when I put it in Nudie, but I found them a bit off-putting then (Eunice is not exactly Luce) and I found them a bit off-putting yesterday, and now the song has been fitted with new lyrics that aren’t off-putting and which will hopefully convey the same thing in a better way.
Today I shall write Nudie and then this afternoon I’ll finish the book and then tonight I shall start in on your excellent questions. How’s that for a schedule. In between, I shall have to eat various and sundried foodstuffs. Yesterday, I cheated just a teeny bit on the Eileen and Chet Atkins diet, but one must do what one must do.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below so we can see what unseemly things await us.
Mr. Mark Bakalor has been working on our photo gallery, and I think I can safely predict it will be up and running very soon. It will be located in the same section as the Guy Haines Photo Gallery and can be accessed on our home page by merely clicking on that icon over on the left (by the way, BTW in Internet lingo) if there are some of you who haven’t explored all the wondrous wonders of this here site, you really must take the time to do so. There is a complete history of the Haines Family Tree (it’s an interesting tree so why not have a history of it – I’m thinking of doing a history of the tree in my yard), there’s our interview section, our unseemly products section, it’s a veritable cornucopia of imperfections – oh, a Sondheim reference. Do check it out if you haven’t it.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must write until the cows come home, I must take Luckie on walks, I must do a few errands and so forth and so on and also so on and so forth. Today’s topic of discussion: Have you ever won a contest or a raffle, and if so, what was the contest or the raffle and what did you win? Second topic – if you could go back in time, what era would you go to and why and what would you do there? Post away, my pretties, and post lots and lots. If you didn’t see, we sneaked by by the skin of our teeth and December was our best month ever. Onward and upward from there.