Well, dear readers, I don’t know what to tell you, but it’s Friday. Well, I guess I do know what to tell you, since I told you it’s Friday. This week flew by like a gazelle eating Red Hots. And what a week this was. In fact, this was the week that was. The week is already lost in a Charlotte Haze (oh, a Lolita reference) of jogging, eating, doing, going, going, doing, telephonic conversations, and a plethora of other things. It finally hit me last night. Now wait just a darned minute – why did it finally hit me last night? What did I do to “it” that it should do violence to my person? Where was I? Oh, yes, it finally hit me last night – I was completely all in and wandered the house like a gazelle with bunions. Yesterday, my friend Miss Jessica Kiernan (who I know through Mr. Mark Bakalor, and who helped out on a few of my New York albums) came over and helped me all the livelong day. And boy did I need help. First, she helped me do a couple of errands. Then we packaged up all the Deceit DVDs – about ninety packages. Then we had a wonderful lunch at Casa Vega, as I didn’t want to get to the post office before three. Then we went to the post office where, happily, there was no line. It took our postal person a little over an hour to stamp and scan the ninety packages, but we had witty banter going the entire time, so it was fun. We then came back to the home environment, and there Jessica set up my Constant Contact e-blast account, because trying to do e-blasts via AOL is trying, frankly, or even stevely. That took about three hours, what with importing the e-mail addresses from all three AOL accounts, and then doing the e-blast itself. But, now that it’s done, I can do Kritzerland e-blasts to Kritzerland customers, and general e-blasts to friends and loved ones and strangers who are in my address book for reasons I no longer remember. It’s a terrific program – it tells you which addresses are no longer valid so you can delete them, it tells you how many people have opened the e-blast, and lots of other interesting things. It took a while to get with it, in terms of the forms and stuff, but once we got used to it, we moved right along. I think even I could do it now. I took Jessica home at about seven-fifteen, and then I returned and sat on my couch like so much fish, all in and feeling like a gazelle with a hickey.
Last night I watched a documentary on DVD entitled Twist. I had never even heard of this film made in 1992. Well, what an unexpected delight it was – a wonderful film about various dance crazes of the 50s and 60s, filled with great archival footage, interviews with dancers who danced on American Bandstand, as well as singers who had the hits like The Twist and Peppermint Twist and Let’s Twist Again and The Mashed Potato and The Locomotion, and on and on. I found the entire thing a delight from start to finish and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The DVD is from Home Vision, and the film is presented letterboxed but not enhanced (most annoying). The quality, however, is excellent, and the archival footage really looks good. Whilst watching, I actually got off my couch like so much fish and actually twisted. Yes, Virginia, I, BK, did the Twist whilst watching Twist. I did it with much verve and élan and I’m sure I was a sight to behold, just as this here site is a site to behold. Let’s Twist again, like we did last summer…
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst we all twist again like we did last summer.
I do hope all you who ordered the Deceit DVD will let us know when copies begin arriving. Now, the Kevin Spirtas DVD is on the extreme fast track and we hope to have it available for preorder by the end of the weekend if not sooner. You dear readers, of course, will be the first to know. Once again, the first 100 people who order will get signed copies of the DVD. We hope it will appeal to even more people, given that it’s a concert, and we hope that all the Days Of Our Lives fans will preorder just as they did for Deceit.
Today will, I hope, not be quite as nutty as yesterday. I do have to meet with the DVD authoring guy to hand off the digi-beta master so he can get to work. I’ll be waiting for a call from TPunk and Rodzinski to see if we can connect again just before they drive back to San Jose (I asked them if they knew the way to San Jose and they confirmed that they did). We’d either have breakfast or lunch depending on when they’d arrive. And I already have to ship out a few more packages, including several errant and truant amazon.com orders. I think my evening is blissfully free, although I’m not sure. Saturday is pretty free, I think, but Sunday I attend the opening performances of I Do! I Do! and The Last Five Years at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, jog, do all of the above, have some telephonic conversations and then relax and perhaps even twist again like we did last summer. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player, and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, the finally released Hercules and Hercules Unchained soundtracks, which are a great deal of fun. Also, my new Japanese mini LP import of On The Flip Side. I, of course, have had the original Japanese CD import for ages, but I love the mini LP versions so I’m glad to have that, too. DVD, something called Dangerous Games, some foreign thriller about a chess tournament in the Cold War, made in 1985 – it looked interesting so I took a chance. Next time, I may take a Community Chest. After that, it’s Anthony Mann’s noir, Strange Impersonation, which I’ve owned for years but have never watched. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all get off our respective butt cheeks and twist again like we did last summer.