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May 30, 2009:

A FRUITFUL DAY SANS FRUIT

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Well, dear readers, what a long and fruitful day was yesterday. And yet, as fruitful as it was, I did not actually have any fruit. Isn’t that odd? How can you have a fruitful day sans fruit, that’s what I want to know. It was also a very long day, fruit or no fruit. First of all, I was awakened by machinery at seven o’clock. By eight, the machinery was quiet and all was peaceful. Which begs the question, why couldn’t they just start at eight and be quiet at nine? At ten-thirty, just as I was in the midst of working with the composer and lyricist of the long musical, the machinery started up again and continued until we finished our work session, at which time the noise stopped. Which begs the question, ARE THEY DOING THIS DELIBERATELY? But I didn’t care, because I didn’t return home until almost eight. I drove to the wilds of the Monica of Santa and worked with the Nudie Musical copyist for almost five hours correcting all the charts. They’ve all been sent to our musical director and me and that’s a big load off my mind. It was very detailed and methodical work doing the corrections, but I wanted to make sure we got everything, although I’m sure we’ll find more stuff over the next few days. Since there was no way I was getting on the freeway on Friday at prime rush hour (I heard on the radio about several accidents and horrible jam-ups), I went to a couple of stores I hadn’t been to in quite a while. I even purchased a couple of really cheap Blu-Ray discs at a used store. Finally at about six I decided I’d had enough and thought I might brave Beverly Glen to come over the hill. Beverly Glen at rush hour is usually terrible but not as terrible as the freeway. So, imagine my surprise that there was basically not much traffic and no slow-downs at all – I was in the Valley in twenty short minutes and headed directly to Jerry’s Deli, as I hadn’t eaten a thing all day. Unfortunately, while my sandwich and fries was fine, there was a table of thirty fourteen-year-old girls who were screaming at the top of their lungs the entire time I was there. I don’t mean talking loudly, I mean screaming. And no one said boo to them, nor did they give a flying Wallenda that there were other people in the restaurant trying to eat and converse. Add to that the yahoos at the bar cheering on the basketball game and it was none too pleasant. When the waitress brought the check she asked if she could get me anything else. I told her yes – an aspirin. I then came home to about sixty e-mails, which I read and responded to, and then I sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu-Ray entitled The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, starring Mr. Sean Connery and a no-star supporting cast. I’d heard that it wasn’t a great film, but nothing could have prepared me for the complete ineptitude on view. I was fine for the first two minutes, and then it was just one awful scene after another. I found the whole idea behind the film (based on a graphic novel) stupid beyond repair and add to that some of the most amateurish direction ever, terrible and endless CGI, and most of all, the complete lack of logic – these idiot screenwriters just don’t get it – even a comic book has logic if it’s a good comic book. You can set up any kind of world, any kind of plot, any kind of anything if you create an internal logic for it and obey the rules of the universe you create. That never occurred to these oafish screenwriters, who, I’m sure, made a tidy sum for turning out this drivel which, from what I understand, lost the studio a pile of money. Sean Connery looks bored throughout and the supporting cast is blah. The Blu-Ray looks very good, but, you know, who cares?

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it is late and I need my beauty sleep.

Today, I shall do the long jog (definitely), I shall do some work on the computer, and then Mr. Wiring Man is coming to check on the connection between the Blu-Ray player, the receiver, and the TV – something is causing the player to spaz out every now and then and I want to make sure it’s not the connection, although I don’t think it is because it only happens when the disc is loading and through the menus – once you finally get to the movie it’s always been fine. I also thought about swapping out the HDMI cords for a little higher end cord – we’ll see. I’ll then be attending a get-together – I’ll be there only briefly, and then I’ll come home and putter around the home environment, and then I’ll sup and see a play in Hollywood.

Tomorrow, I’ll probably be seeing Cason Murphy to hammer out our rehearsal schedule for Nudie Musical. I’m getting really excited about working on it – we have such a good cast, I’m sure it will be a ton of fun, albeit a lot of work in a short period of time.

This coming week is going to be really busy – I’ve got two music rehearsals for Nudie (just the MD and I), I’ve got several meetings, we’re starting to test the new Kritzerland site, and I have to finish prepping the second of our two new releases, whilst moving directly on the one that follows those. Plus, I’ll be doing a radio show with Donald on one of the evenings.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, do work, attend a get-together, sup, and see a play. Today’s topic of discussion: What is your favorite book with a wholly created fictional world – one where you understand the world and believe everything that happens within it? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and let’s all have a fruitful day and perhaps even have some fruit whilst having it.

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