Well, dear readers, my head is spinning. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, my head is doing a Linda Blair and frankly I wish it would stop. The days are now going by so fast that I cannot keep up. I get up in the morning and the next thing I know, I’m writing the next day’s notes. On top of that, I am extremely congested and coughing like a maniac. For example, yesterday my head was spinning like a dreidl run amok. For example, I woke up at eight-thirty, sat down at Ye Olde Laptop, answered a bunch of e-mails, then did some fixes on what I wrote yesterday, plus added a little ditty to the script. That is a funny story in itself. The last thing I remember dreaming before I awoke was being handed some sheet music for a song called Feet. When I woke up, I suddenly reached for my bedside pad and pen and wrote a little ditty entitled Feet, which I then put in the play immediately. I love when that happens. After that, I did some things around the house then went off to an early luncheon with Miss Susan Egan. We had a good deal of fun catching up, and it was grand seeing her. After lunch, I had to come back home to find out when editing would begin. For a while it looked like I wouldn’t get in at all, but then everything changed, and my editor freed up at four, and off I went. We worked until seven and got everything but the last six or seven minutes done, and that will be fairly easy. The pickup shots went in nicely and we’re almost through having to use them. I then went and joined Miss Tammy Minoff, who’d asked me to accompany her to a movie at The Grove.
Last night, I saw a motion picture entitled Inside Man, a Spike Lee Joint. This seemed to be Mr. Lee’s bid to make a high-concept mainstream film, but I found most of it extremely tedious and filled with way too many “hip” neo film techniques. The actors were all very good, but the script was inane and trying to be too many things at once, and the Terence Blanchard score tried mightily to imitate what must have been a heavily John Barry temp track. I think the film ran two hours, but it certainly seemed like it ran two-and-a-half, as the pace, despite all the herky-jerky filmmaking, was lethal. We also saw a whopping ten minutes of commercials, pre-film. This was the first time I’ve been subjected to such a thing and it was fairly annoying and I guess that’s why I don’t need to go to regular movie theaters anymore. There were also coming attractions for several awful-looking movies. After the movie, I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish, after which, my head began spinning and I began writing these here notes.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because my spinning head is out-of-control, like a gazelle with a hickey.
Today my head will continue its spinning ways, because it is a non-stop day of merriment and mirth and laughter and legs, starting with the musical theater workshop (MTW) – we’ll be recording and learning the songs from the musical for all of today’s class. I will then head directly to the editing room to finish editing, and then I’ll head home to do some writing and a bunch of errands that need doing. There is a dinner tonight for the ASCAP panelists for this weekend’s convention at The Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood. Since I’ll be doing a one-on-one session on Saturday, I’m invited to said dinner – I haven’t RSVPd yet, and don’t know that I want to go. There’s also a cocktail party for us tomorrow night, which I might go to. Right after I finish my session on Saturday, I’ll meet up with our very own Mr. Nick Redman and we’ll be going to the Ray Courts show, where our very own Miss Cindy Williams will be in attendance. That should be amusingly amusing.
I’m hoping to finish act one of the new play or whatever it is I’m writing – perhaps by Sunday if I put some elbow grease into it. Then I have to decide whether to have some folks over to read it, or to just move on to act two. I can’t remember what we did with Deceit, but I think we might have read the first act prior to my writing the second act. Or, we might have read the first act and a partial second act – I know when we did our first read-through that the second act wasn’t complete.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, drive about in my motor car, I must edit, I must write, I must ship, I must either attend a dinner or watch a DVD or two, and I must try to stop my spinning head. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s cheese day – what are your favorite cheeses, and please describe their flavors in exquisite detail, and also tell us some different and interesting cheese dishes you like. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we?