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April 15, 2006:

THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING PHONE

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Well, dear readers, the editing of Deceit continues apace. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, the editing of Deceit continues apace. It’s looking very good, and I’m hoping that the sound anomalies (we’re cutting using only the rough camera audio, but we have all eight mics on separate tracks) can be smoothed out. So far, we only have about three shots in which you can see audience members, and I’m praying we have pickups, which I think we do. We finished act one yesterday (I hadn’t seen about fifteen minutes, which the editor had done on his own, so I tweaked that footage, as well), and today we hope to do all of act two. At the end of the day, I’ll take home a VHS of the whole deal, plus all of the pickup footage with time code. I’ll then sit figure out exactly what shots and bits need to be replaced and then on Monday and Tuesday, we’ll insert those and lock the video. Then, on Wednesday, we’ll start dealing with the audio. When picture and sound is locked, we go into a different edit bay with a system called Symphony, and there we letterbox the image and adjust each shot for color and sizing. We also create the main and end title sequences, too. So, it will be another busy week, and then, if all goes according to Hoyle, we’ll start on the Kevin Spirtas tapes. Yesterday, I also wrote three pages, and am now on to act one, scene three (it looks like act one will have five scenes) – I’m about halfway through the act, maybe a bit more. I am really going to try and knock out between five and ten pages this weekend. I also shipped some packages, picked up some packages, and did scads of other things.

After the editing session, I picked up dear reader Hisaka and we drove to Musso and Frank. There, we met up with Julieanne Pogue. Just what up was doing with Julieanne Pogue I have no idea. We had a wonderfully wonderful supper, and we laughed and laughed and just when we thought we could laugh no more, we laughed again. We even called our very own Pogue to regale him with our dinner stories. By the end of dinner, I was totally and completely zonked, so I drove Hisaka back to her hotel, and I hurried home to sit on my couch like so much fish, and then to write these here notes.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I have to be at the editing room between nine-thirty and ten o’clock and I must get my beauty sleep because if I don’t I look scary and I frighten dogs and children in the street.

Today I shall be in the editing room all the livelong day, and then, if I’m up to it, I’ll go gather up Hisaka and take her for an early meal. I really need to catch up on my sleep this weekend as I’m getting to that really overtired place that I don’t enjoy.

Here is a funny moment that happened: I was sitting in my car, talking to our very own Miss Tammy Minoff. A thought passed through my mind that I had to call Hisaka to tell her to come downstairs to go to Musso and Frank. I looked over on the passenger seat where I always keep my phone and it wasn’t there. I felt my pockets. It wasn’t there. I started to panic and I told Tammy I couldn’t find my phone and I thought I’d have to drive all the way back to the editing place. As I was telling her that, it suddenly dawned on me that I was TALKING on the phone, and thus the mystery of the missing phone was solved – I felt so senile and ridiculous it wasn’t even funny. And yet, it was.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, finish editing Deceit, I must come home and watch the footage and make notes, I must do some errands and, if I’m up to it, I must sup with dear reader Hisaka. Today’s topic of discussion: What is the most mind-bogglingly inane thing you’ve ever done? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we?

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