Well, dear readers, yesterday was a doozy, but it was a good doozy as doozies go. I got up early and managed to do the long jog, which was a doozy (yzood, spelled backwards). I then went to some place called Altadena, which I always thought was a dairy. This some place called Altadena is near Pasadena and if you pass a Dena you’ll find Alt a Dena. That is where the audio engineer who’s been slaving over the Kevin and Sean Show DVD lives and works. After enduring the hideous audio that went directly to the cameras and which is what we’ve been listening to during editing (with Kevin’s mic almost inaudible, and Sean’s TOO audible, and the band non-existent), I sat down with high hopes and low expectations. I’m happy to say the high hopes won out. We watched the show from top to bottom and I’d forgotten how well it had edited and how funny our opening title is and how well paced the whole show is. And having great sound obviously makes all the difference in the world. You can hear the band, the boys’ mics are now equal and sound great, and you can hear the audience reaction. As we went through, I nitpicked this and that and also that and this, gave sweetening notes, and now he’ll go in and do those, then we’ll have a session at the post house next week and lay back the mixed audio to the locked video, and voila, we’ll have a finished product. After that, it’s up to the boys whether we issue it on DVD with Kritzerland, but I’m suspecting we will.
After that, I stopped at a place called The Hat, which is known for its pastrami dip sandwiches. I used to pass a The Hat every day on my way to The Brain rehearsals in Anaheim last year, and I always wanted to try it, because it gets raves from everyone. I’m sorry to report that it was average at best. The pastrami dip sandwich is really no different or better than the pastrami sandwich at Togo’s – I like it, but don’t love it, and it’s the same here. It’s just a heap o’ pastrami on a soggy bun with some mustard and pickles – where the “dip” is is anyone’s guess. I had some onion rings and they too were merely average. I’m glad I finally got to try it, but I don’t see a need to ever return there. I then picked up a few packages, and then came home, where the helper affixed postage to a whole mess o’ packages. About three, the Two For The Seesaw CDs arrived, and I began packaging them up. I actually got everything packaged save for the dealer orders and did so by four-fifteen. I then drove them over to the postal office and dropped them in the back, so I’m hoping they begin arriving really soon. I then came home and managed to get all the dealer orders packed up, and I took the ones being shipped by UPS over to The UPS Store and those all got shipped out. I put the others in the car, intending to go back to the post office after my evening travels.
I then went to Mr. Donald Feltham’s home environment to tape this Sunday’s radio show. We had a really good time, stories were told, and I revealed the next Kritzerland limited edition release, so be sure to listen to the show come Sunday. After that, I went to Jerry’s Deli and had one potato pancake and shared some red velvet cake, my treat for such a hard and endless day’s work. Then I came home and sat at my computer like so much fish and had no time to watch a motion picture on DVD. However, I had watched a motion picture on DVD over the last few nights whilst laying in bed in the bedroom environment, and that motion picture was entitled The Defector, a 1960s spy movie that barely got released and whose only real claim to fame is being the last film of Montgomery Clift. He’s fine in it, although he looks really strange most of the time. Hardy Kruger also stars. It’s not a very good film, but it’s not the complete incompetent disaster I’ve read it was and that I was expecting. The transfer looked quite good, but I was viewing it on the small LCD bedroom TV so who knows how it would look on the big screen TV. It’s a Warners Archive DVD-R, and I was happy to finally see the film.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because frankly or even georgely, I hear the next section is going to be a doozy.
Today, I have a work session with the composer and lyricist of the long musical. After that, I have to print out the script of the long musical and read the rewrite based on our work sessions of six weeks ago. Other than that, the day is mine all mine. I do have to ship out the packages I tried to ship last night at the post office – for whatever reason, sometimes the drop shoot for packages to go in after closing is sometimes locked. It makes no sense – they have two and both were locked. I used them three times this week after hours and they were open. Go know. So, now I have to drive there, endure the traffic, and drop these in the drop box I should have dropped them in last night. Damn them, damn them all to hell.
After that, I am treating myself to a fine meal somewhere fine. And then I shall choose a motion picture on DVD and I shall watch it all the way through whilst sitting on my couch like so much fish. And then, perhaps, I’ll read the story of The Randy Vicar and the Deviled Egg. And perhaps I’ll boil some eggs and paint them so that I can hide gaily-colored Easter eggs come Easter Sunday which, by the way (BTW, in Internet lingo), is this Sunday.
And in tomorrow’s notes I’ll have more Tales From BK’s World. I know I have more tales to tell – I just have to think of what they are.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog (time permitting), have a work session, ship last night’s packages today, eat a fine meal in a fine restaurant, and then watch a motion picture on DVD whilst playing with the Flip HD camera I have, which is smaller than my iPhone and which is way too much fun and which has amazing quality. I’ve already done a test and uploaded a video onto my computer – the camera comes with its own built-in software that makes everything a breeze. Absolutely fantastic. It shoots sixty minutes of HD video. So, look for some visual additions to the notes in the coming week. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player, and your DVD/video player? I’ll start: CD, Two For The Seesaw, Michel Legrand’s Wuthering Heights, and the new Dr. Kildare set. DVD, more Warners Archive titles, perhaps Sweet November first. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and do make them doozies.