Well, dear readers, I may have figured out the bird conundrum. I had to go out rather late last night, to pick something up, and I happened to look up at the moon, which was very bright but not quite full. Well, that might have been the problem – it was full and it was really bright earlier and that might have just confused the bird, who might have thought the moon was a spotlight and we all know that when you put a spotlight on a bird who sings show tunes that the bird who sings show tunes can’t just sit there like so much fish, its gotta sing, its gotta do its thing. In any case, last night there was lovely silence (save for the crickets) and I slept very well once again.
Today I must hurry because any minute now the cleaning lady will be here and she will cast her evil eye upon my countenance and my countenance does not like to have her evil eye cast upon it, therefore I must hurry and exeunt from the premises.
I took a day off from the Chet and Eileen Atkins diet and ate fast food yesterday – which was very enjoyable in its own fast way – and to top it off I had some fat-free but very good frozen yogurt. Yesterday, I also completed my interview with our very own Craig Brockman, which will appear on another site. As soon as it’s up we will link to it. In the interview I am extremely frank and also extremely arthur. It is that duality that makes the interview interesting, the frankness and arthurness of things. I have many things to say about many things and I hold nothing back, which wasn’t easy because nothing hates to be held back.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button because I don’t wish to have my countenance looked upon by the evil eye.
Yesterday I received a lovely package from one of our dear readers, Mr. William E. Lurie, and in said package was a new CD of Mr. Dave Brubeck’s brilliant jazz ballet for two pianos, Points on Jazz. I was thrilled to see this on CD and even more thrilled to hear it. No, it’s not the original Columbia recording from 1962 by duo-pianists Gold and Fizdale (with a vocal track by Carmen McCrae) – I tried to license that piece from Sony for ages back in the Bay Cities days – in fact, I could have but it was too short to put out by itself and to couple it with another recording (which I’d already chosen) suddenly became prohibitively expensive. But now we have this new recording and its really quite good – it doesn’t quite have the brilliant sheen of Gold and Fizdale and that incredible Columbia stereo sound of the era (the original album was produced by Teo Macero), and it doesn’t have the vocal track (which is on a Sony compilation CD), but the music is absolutely glorious and I can’t recommend the CD highly enough. It’s on the dreaded Koch label, but don’t let that stop you. A big thank you to Mr. William E. Lurie because I probably would never have known it was out if not for his generosity.
Don’t forget, our Unseemly Live Chat is tomorrow night at six o’clock Pacific Mean Daylight Savings Time.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must drive about aimlessly until the cleaning lady is through doing her thing, then I must return home, do some writing, and then be off to see some films at a friend’s screening room. Today’s topic of discussion: Since Mr. Gregory Peck passed away a few days ago – what are your favorite Gregory Peck films? I’ll start: To Kill a Mockingbird (such a wonderful film and performance by Mr. Peck), Spellbound (my favorite early Peck), The Omen (my favorite later Peck), Roman Holiday, and a strange little movie called Mirage. Your turn. Post away, my pretties, and I shall check back upon my return. Let’s keep the weekend alive, shall we? Let’s keep this here site jumpin’.