Well, dear readers, say what? It’s the end of July? How can that be when it was just the beginning of July? Say what? What say? These months are flying by, like a gazelle reciting the tale of The Randy Vicar and the Ding Dong. So much is happening so fast, and it’s quite exhilarating. Now wait just a darned minute. Why is it exhilarating? Is that like someone who was a hilerating and now they’re an exhilarating? Just asking. In any case it is almost the end of July and not only that, the weekend is upon us. Yesterday was quite a bit of fun. I got up. That was quite a bit of fun. I answered e-mails, I puttered around the home environment, and then I did a two-mile jog. When I got back, I showered and did my morning ablutions. Then I did a ten-minute radio interview with a woman named Gerri Garner. She loved the book, so her questions were very detailed and fun and I had a really good time. Apparently that interview is syndicated all over the country. I then found out that my KGIL interview with Joe Sutton will be on tomorrow morning at 11:00. For those who wish to hear it and who aren’t in LA, it is available online at www.retro1260.com. Then a nice fellow came over to pick up the materials for an upcoming Kritzerland release. It’s a somewhat complicated project and must be done exactly by the book, and he’s done a few of these and knows the drill, so he’s putting this one together, figuring out all the cues and their names and then I’ll hear it and approve it and it can go to the studio for approval. Meanwhile, I have to do the same thing for another upcoming project, but it’s a lot easier and doesn’t require any of those hoops. Both projects are pretty major. After that, I went and picked up Mr. Billy Barnes at his lovely home in the hills and we went to the Daily Grill where I grilled him about various and sundried things (I may as well say, we’re doing a Billy project). He was, as always, impish and delightful. I had a grilled artichoke (yummilicious) and a small chopped lettuce wedge, which was also very good. I then returned him to his lovely home in the hills, and went and picked up mail at the mail place – shockingly, there was still no envelope that is now so errant and truant it isn’t even funny. If it’s not here tomorrow, then their going to have to stop payment on the check within and overnight me a new one. I don’t know where the fault lies – surely the postal office cannot be this inept – it’s an envelope that comes once a week, is always typed neatly and always addressed the same. The paranoid part of me wonders if the mail place didn’t accidentally put it in someone else’s box, which I’ll be asking should it not be there tomorrow. These delays wreak havoc with my Kritzerland bill paying. I mean, I’m due last week’s check AND this week’s, neither of which are here. Well, we’ll hope for the best. I then got word that Mr. David Engel booked a show and therefore cannot do the Kritzerland at the Gardenia evening, so I’m scurrying to find a replacement for him, and to still find our third male cast member. I don’t know why it’s so hard, although wanting people who are somewhat known is always going to be a problem. We’ll see what happens. I think once word gets out about these shows, then we won’t have any problems whatsoever. After that, I came home, did some work on the computer, and then did another jog, this time a mile and a half. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I finished watching a motion picture on DVD entitled Dark City, the first film of Charlton Heston. I really did not care for it, although the final ten minutes were better than the eighty-eight minutes that preceded it. The pace of this supposed film noir was so leaden, and Lizabeth Scott had, I don’t know, six songs (she’s dubbed), all the same style. The actors are all fine, but the whole thing just doesn’t hang together. The transfer was merely okay. I then watched another supposed film noir entitled Appointment With Danger, a standard-issue crime meller starring Mr. Alan Ladd. It’s much better than Dark City, and moves right along and has no songs. Ladd is always fun to watch, and the supporting performances, especially Paul Stanley, are excellent. Interestingly, two of the bad guys in each of these films are played by Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, who would, of course, go on to do Dragnet in the 1960s. The transfer was okay.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s almost the end of July and all I have to say about that is – say what?
Today, CDs and helper should be arriving at nine and it should be a fairly simple task to get everything, including the large orders, shipped out pretty quickly. Then we’re both going to attach lots o’ labels to lots o’ boxes and we may start addressing them. I’ll suggest that she take half of what needs to get done home to do at her leisure – that will really be helpful. We also have some other packages to ship, and we’re going to start to figure out how we’re going to migrate everything to the computer – which is much more difficult than it sounds. After she leaves, I’m hoping Mr. Grant Geissman will stop by to do some stuff we’ve been trying to do.
Tomorrow my radio interview airs, and then I’m having a work session with Alet Taylor, after which we’re supping. Sunday I’ll be going to some sort of housewarming, although it’s quite far away (about forty minutes) and we’ll see how I’m feeling. Next week is incredibly busy, with shipping, meetings, addressing, work sessions, and planning this Kritzerland at the Gardenia show and getting all the sheet music out of storage.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, ship packages, put labels on packages, address packages, hopefully pick up the errant and truant envelope that will hopefully finally arrive, maybe see Grant Geissman, and then eat something amusing and light, not necessarily in that order. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – DVD, Hannie Caulder, starring Miss Raquel Welch. CD, many soundtracks. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we marvel that we’re in the last two days of July. Say what?