Well, dear readers, sometimes you get a day of rest and sometimes you don’t. Yesterday was a sometimes you don’t sort of day, although it was quite pleasantly pleasant and I did get to relax a little bit. I was hoping to sleep till nine, but since the oafs were out in force using heavy machinery and gabbing at seven-thirty in the morning, that didn’t happen. Well, the open house is today and I’m hoping that means I never have to look at the oafs again. Knowing them, however, I’m sure they’ll be back bright and early tomorrow morning to make some more useless noise. I got up, did some things on the computer, and then did the long jog. I then shipped an overseas package at the postal office, then came home and re-proofed the booklet and inlay card of our new release, which I then sent for approval. I wasn’t going to do any work, but I happened to search on YouTube for the movie we’re doing my Holy Grail score from and wouldn’t you know, the entire film was there in eleven parts. So, I loaded the tracks into iTunes and began watching the movie – as each cue came up, I located it, gave the cue a title and wrote down the corresponding track number – in certain cases I created an editing road map. This wasn’t as hard as others because a lot of the cues were in the correct order already. There were a couple of cues that didn’t make the film, but I figured out where they would have gone and placed them in the order and titled them. I’m still deciding about the two source music cues (both coming out of a radio) – one of them I’ll probably use for sure, but I’m not certain about the other one, because I don’t want to interrupt the flow of the album or its mood. Then again, a nice uptempo piece never hurt anyone. But right now if I place it where it occurs in the film it’s the second track, and that’s just too soon for a source music cue, so I may arbitrarily place it in position four. We shall see. Then again, in second place it does provide an energy boost. We shall see. Decisions, decisions, always decisions. And dignity. Always dignity. What am I, Don Lockwood all of a sudden? Of course, that took all afternoon. I did go sit on my couch like so much fish and I started to watch a motion picture I DVRd entitled Navajo Joe – I got about three minutes in and fell asleep for twenty minutes. Then I got ready and toddled off to sup with our very own Miss Karen and her ever-lovin’ sonny boy, Mr. Cason Murphy. Of course we went to Genghis Cohen, where we proceeded to have a wonderfully wonderful time and ate ourselves silly. The conversation was sparklingly sparkling, and I’m sure a few ears must have been burning, for good and not so good. We really did have a LOT of food, all of it extremely yummilicious – steamed sole, my beloved orange chicken (extra crispy), green beans, crackerjack shrimp, and some new chicken dish, plus lettuce wraps and pickles and slaw. I could barely get up afterwards, but it was just what the doctor ordered, and frankly I’m getting tired of the damn doctor copying everything we order.
I then came home, got in my comfy clothes and finished doing the final couple of cues for the film. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish and watched the first hour of a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Braveheart. I’d avoided it like the plague when it came out, but I’ve read such raves about the Blu-Ray and the film that I thought it was time to see it. So far I’m sort of enjoying it, despite some gruesome violence. The photography is nice and the disc looks quite sharp and colorful. I’ll have a full report once I’m finished (it’s three hours).
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because you know what I always say – dignity, always dignity.
Today, I will be doing nothing. Oh, I’ll get up, I’ll do a jog of some sort, and I am meeting dear reader Jeanne at a restaurant to be chosen for a meal and chat, but then I’m coming home and that will be that. No other things planned, save for finishing Braveheart and then watching the new episode of Mad Men.
Tomorrow, I have to be at a motion picture studio at eleven to look through materials on the films in our upcoming Holy Grail two-fer. After that, I have several errands and whatnot to do, and then Mr. Cason Murphy is coming over to address a whole slew of Cry For Us All packages, to which we will then attach postage. We can’t actually address all the packages because I didn’t think to look out in the garage on Friday and we only have about 250 boxes left – I ordered more yesterday and usually if I order them on Saturday they do arrive on Monday, but for some reason that’s not happening this time, so they’ll arrive on Tuesday and I’ll have to finish addressing and stamping however many are left. Then the discs should arrive Wednesday morning and I’ll get them all shipped out.
Tomorrow, I may or may not give you dear readers the head’s up on our new release, officially being announced later in the week. It will depend wholly on what my mastering engineer has to say.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, relax, have a late lunch with dear reader Jeanne, and then watch a motion picture and Mad Men. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, and do remember – dignity, always dignity.