Well, dear readers, we’re smack dab in the middle of April. The rest of April shall be quite busy for me, but it will be fun busy, if you get my drift. Do you get my drift? How is my drift? I get my drift, of course. If you don’t get my drift, that’s your problem, I’m afraid. I find my drift ever so amusing. I simply have to stifle my chuckles because my drift tickles me so. You know, it has come to my attention that I no longer have a clew as to what the HELL I’m going on about, if you get my drift. Enough with the drift already. I wish the drift would just drift, don’t you? Where was I? Oh, yes, the rest of April shall be quite busy for me, but it will be a fun busy, if you get my drift. For example, I shall be doing the Ray Courts celebrity show. For example, we’ll be finishing up all the tracks for the Guy Haines album. For example, I shall be in the studio with Mr. Guy Haines, doing the vocals for his album. For example, I’ll be working with Mr. Kevin Spirtas on his show. For example, I shall be having several meetings, several luncheons, and several dinnereons, as well. Speaking of gazelles, I had a very nice day yesterday. I got up very early and called AppleCare, the best support group ever. They calmly talked me through rebooting the computer, we ran a complete checkup, and everything seems fine. They weren’t sure what caused the problem – it may have been a glitch. I’ll be keeping my eye on the computer to make sure that all is well and that well is all. Of course, if I keep my eye on the computer I’ll be walking around with one eye, but we do what we must, if you get my drift. After the computer was up and working, I saved all the important files to a zip (and I’ll be buying a backup hard drive today or tomorrow), and then went back to bed for an hour or so. I then attended to things that needed attending, and then I worked with Mr. Kevin Spirtas and his musical director, Mr. John Boswell. I specifically worked on the first of our three medley sections, smoothing out the songs they’d chosen, cutting it down to size, and working out the musical transitions between the songs. I love doing that sort of thing. I then joined our very own Pogue for a lovely repast at The Cat and the Fiddle Pub on Sunset Blvd, located directly next door to the very first studio (which elmore will remember fondly) where I used to record. Dinner was heavy but excellent, the conversation was wild and wooly and also wooly and wild, and we adored our waitress, who had a great boisterous laugh. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Last night I watched two count them two DVDs. The first DVD was entitled Captain Blood, starring Mr. Errol Flynn. As you know, I am working my way through the Flynn box set. This is my first time seeing Captain Blood, and frankly I found it a bit clunky. However, when it’s entertaining it’s very entertaining, and Flynn, in his first real leading man role is wonderfully natural and fresh. You simply can’t take your eyes off him, even when comely Olivia de Havilland is on screen with him. The film has a very weak villain, which is its main problem. Oh, he’s mean, all right, but he’s related to Olivia, so he can’t be all mean, and he never really gets dealt with as villains must in these sorts of films. But, as I said, when it’s rousing it’s very rousing. I then watched the ninety minute documentary on Flynn, entitled The Adventures of Errol Flynn. It has lots of good anecdotes, some very rare footage, and they actually interviewed interesting people for it (save for the hideous Richard Schickel, who is irritating and truly uninteresting. Why they keep using him is a mystery to me. Flynn died at the relatively young age of fifty, yet he looks more than a decade older than that. They showed clips from The Sun also Rises and Too Much, Too Soon, his last two films, and it made me want to see them.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because one never knows what one will find in the next section, if you get my drift.
My drift is especially nice in this section. That is because I showered and my drift is as fresh as new mown hay on a summer’s day, and my drift is as Spring-like as a gazelle doing cartwheels on Ventura Blvd.
This afternoon I shall be going to Mr. Grant Geissman’s home environment, where we will be overdubbing additional piano tracks, which will be played by the aforementioned Mr. John Boswell. Then Mr. Geissman and I will be going off to a restaurant to have a dining adventure. What restaurant is unknown to me at this time.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must do a spot of work, I must do a spot of shopping, I must eat and egg-and-onion matzoh with butter, I must answer e-mails and return calls, I must pick up packages, and I must do piano tracks. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, an Academy Promo CD of four scores: Birth, The Notebook, The Sea Inside, and Vera Drake. The latter is not available on CD at all, and I rather liked the music. Also, a Nelson Riddle two-fer – Paris When it Sizzles, and Nelson Does Movie Themes. DVD, a new Shirley Temple two-fer from Universal (not out for a few weeks), which includes Little Miss Marker and Now and Forever. I’m looking forward to watching them. Also, the original BBC TV versions of the three Quatermass stories – The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, and Quatermass and the Pit. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, if you get my drift.