Well, dear readers, we have survived Moving Day, barely. I am now in my new home environment, which I will really enjoy as soon as I unpack two hundred boxes and get my life back to normal. There’s still a tiny bit of stuff to bring over today and then that will be it. Dear reader Panni helped with the move all the livelong day and evening, which was very nice of her. Our show last night was a very good performance to a very quiet audience. I know they enjoyed it but it is just beyond me how some audiences can sit there and smile and not be vocal while other audiences are so vocal it’s practically ear-splitting. Because of the audience, it was just about impossible to gauge how the new song went. I do know that the person who is performing it is not up to it yet – he’s too energetic, all over the map and is wearing himself out before he even gets to the dance break, which is only ten measures long – when he has to then sing the final two verses and the big ending he’s completely winded and can barely spit out the words. Jose and I have both told him how to help himself in this regard, but I’m afraid it doesn’t sink in. It did get a bigger hand than the other song usually gets, so that was good. If it doesn’t get better, I’ll probably reinstate the song we cut for the rest of this run.
Mr. Wiring Man is coming this morning, and I have to go buy a new piece of equipment to replace an antiquated piece of equipment. She of the Evil Eye will also be here, and I’m hoping she can help unpack the kitchen stuff, since there won’t be all that much to clean, save for the bathrooms. I’m ever hopeful that by the time I return from tonight’s show that my media room will be up and running. I really love the new house, but it’s going to take some work to figure out how everything fits, since the rooms are all slightly different, size-wise. I can’t wait until the notes can be about other things than this fershluganah move. Just a day or two more of excellent vibes and xylophones should do it.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must replace my antiquated equipment, if you get my drift.
I am so sore from all this lugging and moving and also moving and lugging. I’ll tell you one thing – when I’m done with all this moving and lugging and unpacking I am treating myself to a ninety-minute massage of my antiquated equipment, if you get my drift. I shall luxuriate in my ninety-minute massage, oh, yes, I shall luxuriate in my ninety-minte massage.
I haven’t even begun choosing selections for Saturday’s reading. I will have to do that, too, today. I’ll also have Saturday morning to figure it out.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must unpack, I must be wired, I must clean, I must shave and shower and then I must be on my way to the theater. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, the new Film Score Monthly CD of Ride the High Country, a perfectly perfect score by George Bassman for Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece. Wonderful liner notes by our very own Mr. Nick Redman. Also listening to The Manchurian Candidate. The Rachel Portman score is a big droning bore, but the CD (from Varese Sarabande) also contains some cues from the original film score by David Amram – that score is brilliant and worth the price of the CD. DVD, as soon as everything is up and running I’ll be starting in on a 21 disc set of Laurel and Hardy from the UK (region 2). Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I go and replace my antiquated equipment, if you get my drift.