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June 28, 2006:

THE FREAKOUT

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Well, dear readers, my computer is still doing weird things. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, my computer is still doing weird things and I, for one, am getting freaked out. For example, last night the updater icon appeared and there were several updates available, including the latest version of iPhoto. So, I did them all. Then I opened iPhoto and all my photos were gone – in the library and in all my subfolders. I went into my iPhoto folder and the folder that is usually there, iPhoto Albums was gone. At first I thought it was the update, so I plugged in my backup drive, which was updated two nights ago, and guess what – it’s gone from there, too. Certainly it was there last Friday, so how could it just disappear like that? That freaks me out. It’s like an Erle Stanley Gardner mystery – The Case of The Missing Photos. Luckily, Mr. Computer Man still has my stuff on his computer, so I can recover them from there, but it’s most annoying that this weird stuff keeps happening. It makes me afraid to even backup to my external drive. I’m petrified that something really important will get nuked. Then, after all that happened, I opened my desktop folder with all my documents and it was completely weird, everything in two columns instead of three like it’s always been (I use icons, not the list). That freaked me out. I resized the window, opening it up to the side and suddenly everything went back into three columns. But how did it get to the wrong size, that’s what I want to know. That freaks me out. Well, I hope that there will be no more weirdness because I am bored of the freakout. Enough about that. Yesterday, until the computer weirdness, I had no freakout moments. I awoke early, did a little this’a and a little that’a, with an emphasis on the latter. I delivered the conductor score to our conductor, who is in the midst of a reading of a musical version of Zorro, with music based on The Gypsy Kings. Then I came home and jogged, then wrote a bit, and then got ready to toddle off to my recording session. We were a bit concerned about the studio, but it turned out to be very nice, with a really terrific piano. Vinnie was already set-up by the time I got there, and we were ahead of the game the entire way. The band arrived and we got sound, and then Gerry, our conductor, began rehearsing them. Thirty minutes later we had excellent takes of both versions of the music – a sixty second version and a thirty second version. And just what is the music we were recording? It’s a music bed for the radio and TV spots for the upcoming production of Kander and Ebb’s Curtains at the Ahmanson Theatre. They had one of the songs orchestrated (by Bill Brohn, who is doing the show) especially for the commercials – a song from the show entitled Show People – very catchy, I must say). We then let the musicians go early, and we mixed the two tracks in about thirty minutes, and delivered them and that was that – one of the easiest sessions I’ve ever had.

Last night, I watched the last of the Ozu movies I have on DVD – fittingly, the last film he made prior to his death at sixty years of age. An Autumn Afternoon is basically the familiar Ozu plot of a father having to marry off his daughter, even though he’ll end up lonely when he does. Ozu made this film many times and it always works. An Autumn Afternoon is a lovely film, beautifully acted and directed in typical Ozu style (no style – not one camera move). It’s funny, it’s sad, and it’s very human.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below before there are any more freakouts.

Today, I must finish proofing the Kevin Spirtas DVD and then I’ll have to go in and fix about three things so far, all very simple. I must also have a decent meal – I’m quite bored of Gelson’s and chicken tenders and side dishes. I need something wonderful, yet not too caloric. I might do Chinese food if I can rustle up some company to accompany me to Genghis Cohen, my favorite Chinese restaurant. Other than that, I will try to write some more pages.

Have I mentioned that I am freaking out about The Case of the Missing Photos by Erle Stanley Gardner? Have I mentioned that I am freaking out about my folder suddenly resizing itself? I’m supposed to do a complete hard drive back-up this evening, but I’m nervous about it. We shall see what Mr. Computer Man has to say. I may also call Apple.

Now wait just a darned minute. Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the fox trot because today is the actual birthday of the actual designer of this here site, Mr. Mark Bakalor. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to Mr. Mark Bakalor, shall we? On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO MR. MARK BAKALOR, SHALL WE!!!

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, jog, do some shipping, begin preparing the envelopes for shipping the Deceit DVD (and there are a lot to prepare – I may have to hire someone to help), and I must do a plethora of other things. We’re hoping to ship the Deceit DVDs on the 6th of July. 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 and loads of lovely postings, shall we? And no more wire freakouts EVER.

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