Well, dear readers, I was out jogging last night, minding my own business, when I see a big man walking a big dog. Nicely, he moves the dog to his opposite side, as he should. I smile at the big man and he smiles back. The dog, unfortunately, doesn’t know what being on the opposite side means and he lunges for me. Let’s be perfectly clear here – this was a big dog. It was very sudden and shocking and he smashed into me. I have no idea if his teeth were bared and he was trying to bite because as soon as I saw what happened I armed the dog in the head, getting his mouth away from my arm. His master yanked the leash and got him down. My arm had a little pain, but I kept going. I then heard the master cursing at the dog and it sounded like he was giving the dog a good whafo and perhaps even smacking the holy crap out of it. I almost stopped and turned back, but I don’t like to stop when I’m jogging so I just moved along at a steady clip. I hope that the big man gets a better leash or a cone for the dog because the dog obviously has some emotional issues and doesn’t like middle-aged Jewish joggers. So, that was a bit of excitement I could have lived without. I do love doggies but not doggies that have emotional issues and want to kill you. Otherwise, it was a perfectly pleasant day in every way. I had an okay night’s sleep, got up, answered e-mails, printed a few orders, and did my early morning errand and whatnot. I then came back home, packaged up about five orders, and then did some writing, finishing the scene I was working on. Then I went to the mail place and picked up three count them three packages (or was it four), and then I came back home, where I finished the rest of the tuna pasta salad. After that, I spent several hours doing the editing road map of our next project. This project was very difficult but I think I finally came up with a sequence that works. It’s a very unusual score, in that it is basically one theme in many different guises – it’s beautiful and fun, but it’s hard to sequence something like that. The cue slates don’t correlate at all to the film, but luckily they had a music stem tape, which has all the music in film order – you can’t use it because the volume goes up and down as it does in the film, but as I listened to it I knew instantly that the music editor had just used the score the way he felt like – he cut cues apart, used the beginning of one with the end of another, repeated cues and left cues out – really irritating, actually. I recreated the first two cues exactly as the music editor used them in the film, but after that I use the cues as the composer wrote them. I’m also repeating two cues because that’s what happens in the film, and doing so really helps the sequence. I’ll know if I got it right when it’s all edited and I hear it, which should be in a day or two. After that, I was quite tired, but decided to do my early evening jog, which is when the incident of the lunging dog happened. The Incident of the Lunging Dog – that sounds like something by Erle Stanley Gardner, doesn’t it? When I returned from the jog, I immediately sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray from the UK entitled Nowhere Boy. I gather this film got a very small release in the UK, where it grossed next to nothing – it played in the US for what appears to be a week with so little box office it wasn’t even reported. All that said, I quite enjoyed the film. It’s about the teenage John Lennon and his family problems and his discovery of rock-and-roll and wanting to be a musician. The performances are all excellent and there are some wonderful scenes. Kristin Scott Thomas is her usual terrific self, but the best performance in the film is given by Anne-Marie Duff as John’s real mother. All in all, I enjoyed it very much. The transfer is excellent as is the sound.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst I begin reading The Incident of the Lunging Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Today, I have to write liner notes for the new release, I have to jog, I have a luncheon, and I must do a few errands and whatnot.
Tomorrow I have a dinner, Thursday I have a meeting, and on and on it goes – and that’s a good thing. Not sure what’s going on on the weekend – we shall see. The following week is really going to be busy.
I also have to finish casting our first Kritzerland at the Gardenia show, and then I have to get into storage and pull all the music and assign the songs. A couple of the people I wanted aren’t available, so I’m on the prowl.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, have a lunch, write, and do some errands and whatnot. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your all-time favorite Beatles songs? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all ponder The Incident of the Lunging Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner.