Well, dear readers, all I have to say is hot diggity dog ziggity boom what you do to me. I don’t know WHY that is all I have to say, but it just came into my head where it lodged itself like an unwanted tube steak. Now I want to go listen to all my Perry Como records, especially hot diggity dog ziggity boom what you do to me. Now, I have always thought that there were two diggitys, i.e. hot diggity dog diggity boom what you do to me, but, in checking, I find out it’s ziggity not diggity when all this time I thought it was diggity not ziggity. What exactly is ziggity anyway? Then again, what exactly is diggity anyway? Now I can’t get the fershluganah song out of my head. Is “boom” somebody’s name? Boom what you do to me. How many here no that boom is moob, spelled backwards? How many here can sing the melody of Hot Diggity? How many here have at least one Perry Como CD? How many here know what the HELL I’m talking about? Certainly I don’t. So, yesterday was quite a nice day. I got up early. That was nice. I went to an early breakfast meeting, at which I ate no breakfast. Many things were discussed and it may result in a little Kritzerland project. After that, I shipped a bunch of packages, came home, answered e-mails, then went to the Dale of Glen and picked up the tapes for an upcoming project, one I’m really happy to be doing. Then it was time for a lunch meeting with the former lyricist of the long musical, and our mutual pal and Kritzerland designer. That was scads of amusing fun and I succumbed to a bacon cheeseburger, which was really yummilicious. I haven’t had a burger in about two-and-a-half months, maybe more. After lunch, I went to the mail place and picked up one envelope (a nice one) and no packages. I then came home to more orders, which I filled – addressing, stamping, and packaging up the CDs (and a book). I then heard that my little interview about Promises, Promises will, most likely, be in today’s Variety. I also got the news that our very own Mr. Jason Graae will, at this point, and schedule permitting, be joining us for our first Kritzerland at the Gardenia show, which I’m thrilled about. I then made another trip to the postal office and shipped the rest of the packages. By the time I got back home I had seven more orders. We most definitely will be sold out by the end of the holiday weekend. After all that, I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled The Bed Sitting Room, a film of Richard Lester, from a play by Spike Milligan (of Goon Show fame) and John Antrobus. This film is classic Lester – some like classic Lester, some don’t, but this is classic Lester. It’s a post-apocalyptic, surreal comedy, with many moments that are really amusing, some that are just plain out there and weird, and with absolutely first-rate performances by a star-studded cast that includes Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, Michael Hordern, Mona Washbourne, Rita Tushingham, Lester regular Roy Kinnear, Arthur Lowe, Spike Milligan and fellow Goon, Harry Secombe, and others. Some of the verbal humor is very much in the Goon mode. It’s truly an outré film, and I enjoyed it very much (it was the first time seeing it). The photography is by the great David Watkin and is gorgeous, and the score by Ken Thorne is fantastic. The transfer is fine, but it’s not completely stellar, but visually this is a very difficult film with heave color filters at times.
After the film, I listened to our new master, which sounds excellent – based on what I heard (this upcoming release is two scores on one CD by one composer), I rearranged the track order on the second film, and there’s still one track to come, the end titles of the first film, which we had to take from the DVD, since it wasn’t on our source tape.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I think I have a rather wacky day ahead of me, and I do believe I’ll be singing Hot Diggity whilst having said wacky day.
Today, I believe will be a wacky day. A couple of nights ago a friend put an ad on Craig’s List to find me a helper who is professional and dependable. We got a humungous number of applicants, many being way overqualified. So, today I’ll be at the Studio Café starting at 10:45 and I’ll be meeting eight candidates between then and 3:30. Should be interesting and I’m sure I’ll find someone who’ll be able to do the job and stick around for a while. Other than that, I begin my long holiday weekend.
Tomorrow, the sister of she of the Evil Eye will be cleaning the home environment. So, I’ll have to be out for a while and I have a couple of business things to attend to, after which I’ll probably have an early supper and then zone out on my couch like so much hog diggity fish.
Sunday I have my July 4th partay to attend, and then I’ll watch fireworks from in front of my house. Other than the partay, I’m stayin’ home and doin’ nothin’. Well, I have to finalize everything for our announcement on Monday morning, but that be it.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a wacky day, I must interview helper candidates, I must hire one of the eight candidates, I must hopefully pick up a package or three and I must eat something amusing at some point. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday (the real Friday, not the faux Friday) – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – no, I already said. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all begin our wonderfully wonderful long 4th of July weekend, a weekend that will include hot diggity dog ziggity barbecues and fireworks and Speedos and merriment and mirth and laughter and legs.