Well, dear readers, I made some important decisions regarding travel plans and I will, in fact, be traveling. It’s been a good long while since I last traveled and frankly I need a little respite – the first respite being a little three-day jaunt to Indiana to see The Brain From Planet X and the visiting with the Pogues. I’ve been planning to visit them for what – three years now? So, even though it’s a brief trip I’m very much looking forward to seeing a production of The Brain that I didn’t direct and to spending time with two favorite people, in addition to finally meeting our very own Jrand and a couple of his friends. I got a really good deal on a flight (a little convoluted – no direct flights to Indianapolis) and an even better deal on the hotel (I’ll be staying with the Pogues, too). I was worried this was coming up too fast, but it was the only weekend that worked as they only run through the 25th of April, and that weekend I have a LACCTAA event to do with our very own Mr. Jason Graae. I’ll have to figure out all the particulars like getting to the airport and stuff.
Yesterday, I slept so soundly that I didn’t awaken until the very moment that she of the Evil Eye rang the doorbell, and my grogginess remained for about thirty minutes. I went and had some bacon and eggs, did some errands and whatnot, and then toddled over to the Bur of Bank to attend Monsterpalooza. Doors were supposed to open at eleven-thirty, so I arrived at noon, thinking I’d avoid the lines. Well, they didn’t open the doors till noon as far as I could tell, and therefore there was a line about two blocks long. It took me an hour and fifteen minutes to actually get inside – ridiculous, and certainly the most poorly organized event of this type that I’ve ever been to. Once inside, there were just way too many people, and everything was very confusing. But, I managed to find the person I went to see – Mr. BIG himself, Bert I. Gordon. We had a lovelier than lovely chat, and I gave him copies of the Empire Of The Ants CD and he nicely gave me a copy of his new autobiography. His beautiful daughter Christina was there and we had a nice chat, too. I then took a tour of the jernt and saw several dealers I know, looked at some nice horror masks and weird art, but got bored very quickly. Before I left, the family Gordon and I decided we’d sup this very evening at our favorite jernt, Genghis Cohen. And so we will.
After that, I came home and did a few things around the home environment. I watched about a third of a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Who Dares Wins (aka The Final Option, the soundtrack of which was issued by Kritzerland). It’s an odd movie, but I’m sort of enjoying it. Then I paid a quick visit to muse Margaret and her ever-lovin’ Richard and was fed some gloriously glorious strawberry cream pie. I swear, if I lived in that house I would weigh 450 pounds. Funnily, both Margaret and Richard are very trim. Go know. I then came home, booked my flight and hotel, which took some doing, and I watched a little more of Who Dares Wins (aka The Final Option, the soundtrack of which was issued by Kritzerland).
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it is time to post these here notes and yet here I am still writing these here notes.
Today, at some point I will really try to do a two or three-mile jog. Prior to that, however, I must address packages and put postage on them. That will probably take a couple of hours, but I must be prepared so that when the CDs arrive on Wednesday I can get all of them shipped out prior to me leaving for Indiana on Thursday morning (early flight, as always). And then I’ll be meeting the family Gordon at Genghis Cohen, probably around seven-ish.
Tomorrow I’m having an early lunch with Eddie Korbich, after which I’ll do some organizing that needs doing – other than that, I’m taking it easy. I don’t think I have much of anything on Tuesday, and Wednesday there’s lots of shipping.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, address packages, and sup at Genghis Cohen. 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, whilst I begin to get excited for my travel plans.