Well, dear readers, it is high time I wrote these here notes, which is, of course, better than trying to write these here notes at low time. In fact, I have banished low time from my universe and shall now only have high time and by high time I certainly don’t mean with the use of the marijuana cigarettes. No, high time is my time and my time is high time and I have to tell you that I’m playing Miklos Rozsa music and it is messing with my mind – one minute it’s biblical-sounding music and I’m thinking of loaves and fishes, and the next it’s pounding and pulsing film noir music and I feel like getting out my rod or my gat and plugging someone who deserves it, and frankly I can think of a few who do. Now it’s a swirling romantic waltz and I want to be gay and carefree in tails drinking a Manhattan. However, it is high time I wrote these notes and without the use of the marijuana cigarettes. Yesterday, I could barely keep up with what I was trying to accomplish. I got up around nine-thirty after a good night’s sleep, answered e-mails, and then proofed the new Kritzerland release packaging. I marked the changes and that was that. I then smoothed out what I’d written yesterday, which required some adjusting and some deletions and additions, and then I wrote exactly one page before I had to leave to do some errands and whatnot. Once back, I had a long telephonic conversation because a film producer needed to pick my brain about producing a new musical in a waiver theater. Then I read the rewrites for the long musical, and making notes on those took a really long time because I felt a lot of it was just talking – getting the plot points out but losing the flavor of the characters, just a ton of exposition and not much color. I think it will require another major pass on these scenes – they don’t feel organic to the good rewrites that have come up to this point, and it suddenly doesn’t feel like a musical and it must. I have a lot of suggestions and will be giving them at some point today or tomorrow. After that, I finally wrote a few more pages, and it was a section I enjoyed talking about – watching myself on TV for the first time and how I felt about it, almost getting my musical of To Kill A Mockingbird produced in a major theater, and reading for what would be the first of several The Partridge Family episodes. The detail that comes back as I write scares me – I’ve been remembering other actors who were reading for the same role I was, what I was wearing, even conversations.
I then went to a home-cooked meal someone prepared for me. It was a single lamb chop, mashed potatoes with garlic and hazelnuts (I hate the things but it was actually pretty tasty), string beans, and a little salad with pears and almonds. The company was fun (there were three of us) and I left about eight o’clock. When I got back home, I had more e-mails to answer, and then I wrote more pages, finished the chapter I was on, and wrote a paragraph of the new chapter – eleven pages in all. I tried to watch a little of a motion picture on the DVR but couldn’t get with it. Monday I should have the Blu and Ray of Fellini’s 8 ½ and that I’ll definitely watch right away.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s high time we got to the next section, and without the use of the marijuana cigarettes.
Today, I shall jog, write, give notes, write, relax, and listen to lots of CDs – I received the huge 15 CD Rozsa box, which should keep me listening for many days. I’ve only heard one CD’s worth so far – The VIPs, and then an album of Rozsa themes. Tonight I’ll be attending a dinner partay at cousin Dee Dee and Alan’s home environment. I’m sure it will be very tasty as Dee Dee is an excellent cook.
Tomorrow will be more writing, jogging, and I have a lunch meeting at noon. I’ll be up at six in the morning to announce our new release, too, and hopefully there’ll be lots of orders to print out.
The rest of the week will be quite busy and I hope to keep up my writing pace, although I’ve done over half of what I would have normally done up to this point, so if I only do five or six pages a day that will be more than fine.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do some sort of jog, write, and attend a dinner partay. 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, for it is high time we do so, and without the aid of the marijuana cigarettes.