Well, dear readers, we are in the thick of the play. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, we are in the thick of the play. Not the thin of the play, mind you, no, we are in the thick of the play. Things are becoming very intense now. Every day, I see more intensity. There is much density in the intensity. Last night, for example, we had our first full run-through in the theater. The set still isn’t fully dressed and won’t be until Thursday, which annoys me no end. It also annoys the actors no end. This is always the irksome thing about waiver theater – no one would dare pull this crap in the professional theater, because first off, they’d be making decent money, but more importantly, they’d be fired. There is one crucial component to the set that we need to rehearse with several times to make certain it’s going to work correctly, and that won’t be in until Thursday, too. Well, we start tech Friday evening, so just when we’re supposed to rehearse several times with this component is anyone’s guess. You see what I mean about intense. I think you can see the density in the intensity. The actors all had very low energy in the rehearsal – I think some of it had to do with just getting used to the space and the theater, so hopefully that will correct itself this evening. The theater is a sound-sucker – it has no “liveness” to it at all. So, the actors have to work a bit harder on their vocal energy. I also tried out some incidental jazz music last night – tried it exactly as I’d written it in the script. I found out that after about six minutes of it, that’s all we can have (it originally was supposed to play non-stop for the last twenty minutes of act one). So, we’ve added a bit, and now it gets shut off after about five or six minutes. We may bring it back for two minutes at the very end of the act – we shall see. There were some interesting and good things that happened, and that’s always fun. Tonight we tape video segment two, and then tomorrow night we tape video segment three – then all three segments have to be put into iMovie or some such program, and then burned onto one DVD with chapter stops. I’m probably going to have someone who knows what they’re doing come to my house and do it on my laptop. Our big posters for the outside of the El Portal will be going up tomorrow – that should be very exciting and I shall take photographs to share with you. Have I mentioned that things are intense and dense? That’s what I’M talkin’ about.
Yesterday, I watched no motion pictures on DVD. I am watching a motion picture on DVD in the bedroom environment – about twenty minutes every night. I really enjoy that, actually. I’m watching a motion picture entertainment entitled The Burglers, with Mr. Jean Paul Belmondo and Mr. Omar Sharif. It’s not so great, although it has a wonderful score by Mr. Ennio Morricone. I’m sure I’ll have more to say by the time I finish it.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because frankly the density of the intensity is giving me the propensity to want to do so.
I had a little scare yesterday. Whilst in my motor car, I turned on the CD player – I had the Arnold Bax second symphony on. Well, the player was frozen at ten minutes into the second movement. I couldn’t get it to fast forward, to switch tracks, nothing. I ejected the CD, and then put it back in again and got an error message. I tried another CD and got an error message. I thought for sure the player had given up the ghost, but thankfully, four hours later I put in a CD and it worked just fine. Whew.
I don’t know if everyone has noticed the rather incredible DVDs that are being released over the next few weeks – an amazing batch of stuff, led off this coming week by the Sam Peckinpah Box Set. I’ve been waiting patiently for my store to get an early copy, but they haven’t. I’ve got lots of credit now, so I do hope they get all the new stuff in – that way, I don’t have to spend any actual cash. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? And it’s not just the US. There are great releases coming from the UK and France, as well.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, buckle down Winsocki and write no less than two pages this very day, I must eat something interesting, I must do a few errands, I must hopefully pick up some errant and truant packages, and I must rehearse a play. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like, and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers, because that is the only way I shall be able to deal with the density of the intensity.