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September 8, 2009:

THE TUESDAY THAT FELT LIKE A MONDAY

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Well, dear readers, I have big news for you – the long weekend is over. I ask you, where else on all the Internet can you get such up to date information? Nowhere, that’s where. I must say that even though I did end up doing a little work, it was a most pleasurable weekend and I’m now ready for the busy week ahead. I only slept till nine yesterday because the oafs were working on a holiday Monday. I shall reiterate once again, that when these “people” move in, they are going to get a whole boatload of ME, in every way that I can think of. I will say that if they were to come over and, say, apologize, then I might just unload an earful on them and be done with it – but I think we all know it would never occur to the entitled to apologize for making their neighbors’ lives miserable for four or five months. In any case, I got up and did a two-mile jog, and then had to hurry and meet our very own Miss Alet Taylor for breakfast at Jerry’s Deli. We had a nice meeting and chat and have now mapped out a timeline for finishing her act. After that, I came right home and sat on my couch like so much fish. I watched a little of the third film in the Nikkatsu noir set, but I kept dozing off, so I shut it off and then listened to various and sundried CDs, about six in all. I then got ready for the Labor Day partay, and at six I took a nice walk to neighbor Tony Slide and Bob Gitt’s home environment.

It was the usual fun partay. I hadn’t intended to stay long, but the people are always so interesting and Tony and Bob are wonderful hosts, and the food is excellent, so I was there for a little over two hours. In attendance were the likes of Norman Lloyd, Marsha Hunt, Kevin Thomas, cousins Dee Dee and Alan, Ian Whitcomb, and other fun folks. I brought Tony and Bob a copy of the new novel, which I’m hoping they get a kick out of – one of the characters, like Bob, is a film restoration expert. Bob has recently finished an over two-year restoration of The Red Shoes – it was shown and is supposed to be, by all accounts, spectacular. I don’t think I knew about the screening or I would have gone. I mentioned my upcoming book signing to a few people and I’m hoping some of them will show up. The food was terrific – I had some sort of Eyetalian antipasto salad, a little Caesar salad, one little sausage, and a cold string bean and onions thing that I really liked. I wasn’t going to do desserts but they looked so yummilicious that I ended up sampling three of them – a tiny piece of blueberry pie, a tiny piece of yellow cake with chocolate frosting, and a not that tiny piece of cheesecake, which was made by one of the guests. All in all, a lovely time.

I then came home and finished the Nikkatsu noir film – the weirdly titled Take Aim At The Police Van. I quite enjoyed it – its director, Seijun Suzuki, is an excellent and stylish director, in addition to being completely wacky. The compositions are great, in black-and-white scope, and the cast is really good, too. I may now go back and try to finish Rusty Knife.

I then listened to more music, including my homegrown CD of Johnny Mandel’s breathtakingly, heart-achingly beautiful score to Agatha.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get right to bed and get a good night’s sleep.

Today, I must get to work on the liner notes for the next Kritzerland release. I’ll try to get the first draft done, and then I actually have to begin the notes for the release that will either come out concurrently, or follow one or two weeks later (one is a soundtrack, one a cast album). Other than that, I’ve kept the day open and I’ll just be getting myself in the right frame of mind for the rest of the week.

And the rest of the week will be spent in the recording studio with Mr. Brent Barrett doing a Christmas album. It’s my first studio album since the last Guy Haines album and I’m quite looking forward to it. Brent’s very easy to work with and I’m sure we’ll have fun. Those will be somewhat long days, especially day one, but I’m thinking of bringing my laptop with me, so I may be able to post on our occasional breaks. And I’ll be shooting some video with the Flip camera, and taking some photographs, as well.

I think I may have to have one dinner meeting this week, too, but I’m not sure what night it will be. We should wrap the session on Friday, although we could end up doing a couple of hours on Saturday. Of course, I’m a little discombobulated or, at the very least, a little discomgeorgelulated, because today seems like Monday not Tuesday and yet it is Tuesday not Monday, which is what happens after one of these here long holiday weekends.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, write liner notes, eat something amusing, and prepare for a three or four day recording session. Today’s topic of discussion: If you could be a fly on the wall at any recording session in history, what would it be and why do you choose that particular session? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we try to remember that it is Tuesday and not Monday even though it feels like Monday despite its being Tuesday.

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