Well, dear readers, March is already flying by, like a gazelle in a purple dickie. How can it already be the second of March – it feels like only yesterday it was the first of March. And on top of that, it’s Friday. Why is and on top of that? Perhaps, just once, that would like to be on top – did that ever occur to and? Nooooo. I will say that if anyone has a clew as to what the HELL I’m talking about, they should keep it to themselves. It seems to me that the notes of the past few weeks have been very long, so today I think I shall keep them short and sweet, not necessarily in that order. I think today’s notes will be the Reader’s Digest version of the notes. Speaking of the Reader’s Digest, yesterday was a very long day in which I did many things. For example, one of the many things I did was to get up in the morning. I packaged up some orders, then had to have a breakfast meeting with Miss Merissa Haddad, at Hugo’s. Also breakfasting were ASCAP’s Michael Kerker, and Stephen Schwartz, albeit with different people. After the meeting, I came back to the home environment, where I wrote a few pages, right up to the end of a chapter, which is where I’ll pick up today. I’m hoping by Sunday I’ll have the next forty pages to give to my muse Margaret – and I’ll be to page eighty in the book, roughly a third of the way through in this manuscript version. I also picked up a lovely package from edisaurus, which contained the redo of Act One, and the first cut of Act Two of The Brain From Planet X. I spent the afternoon watching the recut (not by much, as the first cut was mostly fine) and it was really good – most of my little fixes were fixed and I’m very happy with it. After watching that, I headed off to a dinner meeting, which was very nice. It was at Don Cuco, which is just down the street from Bookfellows in the Dale of Glen, the store where I do my book signings. After the meal and meeting, I finally came home, where I sat on my couch like so much fish.
Aren’t these here notes just moving right along? That is because we’re using the Reader’s Digest technique of leaving out the boring filler.
Last night, I watched the first cut of the second act of The Brain From Planet X. I really liked most of it, and I really only have a few notes – one sequence definitely had an audio problem – in fact, it had no audio at all for about a minute, then the audio came back, then went away again – so I’m sure that was just a glitch of some sort. I think the little fixes won’t take more than an hour or so. Then we’ll lock it, and then I have to address the sound and the sweetening – hearing just one camera’s sound was much better, so it’s better than I thought it was – but, I still have to smooth out the balances between voices and band, and then we have to sweeten the audience stuff – they weren’t miked – you can barely hear them most of the time, even though if you really listen they’re having quite a good time. So, we’ll just take what’s there and make it so you can hear it. That will smooth out some rough spots. After that, I began a Claude Lelouch film entitled Robert et Robert (Robert and Robert) – I’ll have a full report on it when I finish.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because, after all, this is the Reader’s Digest of Ye Olde Notes.
Today will be quite a day. First thing in the morning, I have to package up one more overseas order, then go to the post office to ship. After that, I have a couple of important errands to do, then I’ll do my writing for the day, then I have to go to Mr. David Wechter’s to work on an idea we have, then we’re both going to play poker somewhere.
If you didn’t see our lovely rave review for the CD of The Brain From Planet X (on the talkinbroadway site), check the posts of yesterday – I printed it in its entirety. And if you haven’t ordered your copy of it or the David Shire album, what on earth are you waiting for?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, ship, write, work with David Wechter and play poker. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, Laurence Rosenthal’s score for a TV miniseries entitled Mussolini. I’d rather have the score to Musso and Frank, but that’s another story. DVD, Robert et Robert, to be followed by William Castle’s Homicidal, at long last in its proper ratio of 1:85. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I conclude the Reader’s Digest version of these here notes.