Well, dear readers, I am now officially exhausted and brain dead. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I am now officially exhausted and brain dead and I would appreciate it if one of you fine hainsies/kimlets would simply put me out of my misery. Everything finally caught up with me yesterday. Up and I didn’t mean to be caught, especially by everything, but there we were in a compromising position. What the HELL am I talking about? For example, I walked into my musical theater workshop (MTW) and I could barely function, although I did get the finale of act one staged, so that’s two big numbers out of the way. After that, I had to go to the post production facility, where I spent six hours listening to the audio mix go down. It took two complete passes – the first to smooth out the dialogue, and the second to put in the music and effects and sweetening. I must say, he did a marvelous job of making everything sound smooth and present, and he was able to get rid of some pretty annoying sound problems. While that was going on, my editor finished letterboxing the show and doing the end credits. The idea was, that after the sound mix was finished that the sound guy would send the editor the mix and the editor would line that up with the picture and the whole thing would be output to digibeta, our master, as well as a DVD and VHS copy for me to proof. When said proofing is done, then we go in and do some final color correction and whatever tweaks I may think are needed. So, the sound man attempted to send the mix at seven o’clock. Something kept going awry, though, and it just dragged on and on and I finally left at nine. I got a call at nine-thirty saying they’d finally managed to get the thing imported and they were ready to go. I got a call a ten-thirty saying they’d just started to output because things kept going wrong. So, hopefully things are proceeding apace and I’ll be able to pick up the DVD/VHS copies tomorrow morning. We shall see. I could barely keep my eyes open driving home. I had a visitor and that took about an hour and I tell you I am now officially exhausted and brain dead. The End.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because when one is officially exhausted and brain dead it’s really the only thing to do.
Have I mentioned that I am officially exhausted and brain dead? Today, for example, I have things to do but I am officially exhausted and brain dead and I don’t have a clew as to what they are. Oh, I have to pick up the Deceit DVD, I have to ship out a couple of CD orders, I have to watch the Deceit DVD and approve it, I have to make a final decision about its release which, if I make a decision in the affirmative, I then have to prep for a June release. If we do go ahead, I’m going to do two count them two commentary tracks. Oh, I have to jog and eat reasonably and relax and return a bunch of telephonic calls and try to get over my exhaustion and brain death as soon as possible (asap, in Internet lingo).
I think part of the problem is having finished the play. I always get very strange when I finish writing anything, especially when whatever I’ve written was written in an intense burst like this play was. And I now have to set about the task of seeing if we can actually perform it somewhere, and if that’s possible I also have to come to terms with the fact that the person I wrote it for probably won’t be doing it, because of her own wackiness about having to play opposite me. Oh, well. It’s the role of a lifetime, frankly, so the whole mishegas is really bothering me. We shall see what we shall see. Meanwhile, I’m trying to settle on which idea I’d like to turn into a novel.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do errands, drive about in my motor car, pick up whatever silly mail that may have arrived, and try to perk the HELL up. 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, as I try to officially get over being exhausted and brain dead.