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January 15, 2009:

TWISTS

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Well, dear readers, I am listening to moody suspense music, therefore today’s notes shall be moody and suspenseful, not necessarily in that order. The notes shall be filled with twists galore, starting with a licorice twist, followed by Chubby Checker’s The Twist. You see what happens when you listen to moody suspense music? If I was listening to romantic music then we’d have romantic notes. If I was listening to the Village People, we’d have gay and carefree notes. This music just makes me want to creep up on someone and scare the daylights or, at the very least, the nightlights out of them. What the HELL am I talking about? Don’t I have notes to write? Frankly, these notes are killing me with suspense. Like, will I ever actually finish writing them? Well, I’ll just slog on, beating whatever dead horse comes up. Speaking of beating a dead horse, yesterday was a nice little day. I got up early, but not quite early enough to do the long jog prior to my breakfast meeting. So, I answered some e-mails, and did a tiny bit of rewriting of a few things from the day before. I then toddled off to West Hollywood, Hugo’s to be specific, where I had a very nice breakfast meeting. I had Papa’s Eggs and a side Caesar salad, both of which were yummilicious. After the meeting I came home and did the long jog. I then buckled down Winsocki and wrote six pages. I then did some errands and picked up several nice packages. I came back home, had a couple of telephonic calls and wrote two more pages for a total of eight. I then went to Gelson’s and got three chicken tenders and a cherry loaf, which I’d seen the other day and for which I had an unnatural craving. I came home and had the chicken tenders and a piece of the cherry loaf, and then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on DVD entitled Om Shanti Om, starring a bunch of people with names. This was, of course, a Bollywood film, last year’s biggest Bollywood hit. A film about films, it’s quite entertaining but like most Bollywood films, a good twenty to thirty minutes too long. Half the film takes place in the 1970s and the other half now. I gather there are quite a few fun cameos and in jokes, but I don’t know Bollywood enough to know what they were, only that they were fun to watch. The production values are top notch, and the direction and choreography were both excellent, with no quick cutting in the musical numbers. The songs were a lot of fun, and the musical score was very good, especially when it interpolated one of John Williams’ Star Wars themes. The leading man is very personable and funny, too. The leading lady was spectacularly pretty, reminiscent of a young Claudia Cardinale. I never think these Bollywood films’ leading ladies are attractive, but this gal was the berries and the cherry loaf put together. Transfer was very nice.

These notes are very suspenseful. I can’t wait to find out what happens next. The twists are mind bending. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m sure there will be more suspense and many more twists in the next section.

Today I shall do the long jog and I shall try to write between five and eight pages. Happily, I have the current chapter mapped out, so I should be able to get through it handily. And then this evening we’re having a little informal read-through of the musical I’ll be directing in a staged reading. What I thought was going to just us reading everything and the composer/lyricist singing the songs, has turned into something more – I gather we’ll have about eight actors there reading roles. I guess that’s fine. I’m told there will be some nosh type foodstuffs, which I probably won’t eat, and since I’m sure the reading will take three hours, I think I’ll try to have a nice lunch.

Tomorrow is, amazingly, Friday. How did that happen? Wasn’t it just Monday? In any case, tomorrow I have an afternoon meeting, but other than that I think I’m pretty much free, save for writing a few pages. The weekend was almost all free until I booked a noon meeting on Saturday with my friend, composer John Scott. But Sunday is mine all mine and I shall savor it like fine Diet Coke.

Next week will be fairly busy, and also the DGA will be screening the DGA-nominated films, so I’ll see the ones I haven’t seen.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, write, eat a nice lunch, and then attend an informal reading. Today’s topic of discussion: What book has touched you more than any other? What film has touched you more than any other? And what play and musical has touched you more than any other? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and make sure there are lots of twists.

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