Well, dear readers, this week is flying by, like a gazelle in a muu-muu. Not only that, but has anyone noticed that it’s the end of AUGUST? Can you believe it? I, for one, say holy moley on rye, where has the month gone. As you can probably tell, I am not as tired as I was last night. Yesterday’s notes were a little incoherent because I was zombiefied. I was in bed by ten, and asleep by ten-thirty and I slept until the helper and the CD deliveryman arrived at nine. I must have looked a sight as I opened the door looking like a forlorn bed sheet. A Forlorn Bed Sheet – that’s the title of my next novel, a story of passion and bedding with the smart set. It was so good to get ten solid hours of sleep – it did me a world of good and I was feeling my oats all day. In fact, several people stopped me and asking why I was feeling oats whilst I went hither and thither and yon. They thought it was a little fetishistic, this continual caressing and feeling of the oats. Different strokes, baby – ask the oats. What the HELL am I talking about? In any case, we got the CDs packaged up and we took them to the postal office and took one big dealer box to the UPS Store. Then we paid a visit to Costco, where I bought water and Diet Coke, some pork baos (very tasty and not too caloric, I must say), and a few other little things, including flowers for various and sundried rooms in the home environment. Then the helper left and I spent time on the computer doing a live chat with a Mobile Me person, trying to fix odd things that are going on with my iPhone. He didn’t really know what he was doing and I had to stop because I was late to meet our very own Mr. David Wechter for lunch at Paty’s in the Bank of Bur. We had a splendidly splendid time – I had a BLTA and he had a turkey sandwich. We discussed our script, and also something that we’re hopefully doing for Kritzerland – can’t say more about the latter, but I’m hoping it all works out. It was quite a long lunch, and then I headed back to the home environment, where I had a lot of e-mails to answer. I then did a mile and a half jog at seven – I’ve been jogging in the early evening when the over 100-degree temperatures have been cooling down to eighty. Not last night, baby – 100 degrees at seven. I could barely do the mile and a half because it was too darn hot. I then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Machine Gun McCain, a spaghetti gangster/caper film made by Eyetalians but starring some American actors. I’ve always wanted to see it, and who knew it would come out on Blu and Ray? It’s not a great film, but it’s quite entertaining, and the actors are great – John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Gabriel Ferzetti, Britt Ekland, and Gena Rowlands – and lots of Eyetalian actors dubbed by very bad American voice actors. A big plus is the score by Ennio Morricone, and the bigger plus is the terrific scope transfer, which looks splendidly splendid on Blu-Ray. There is a twenty-minute interview with the film’s Eyetalian director, and he’s really charming and fun. All in all, not a bad time-passer.
After that, I had two pork baos (only three hundred calories for the two – 150 each) and two white peaches, all excellent. I then did some work on the computer, and then the next thing I knew it was midnight at the oasis and that the notes were definitely going up late. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get another good night’s sleep so that I do not look like a forlorn bed sheet and so that I am feeling my oats.
Today, I’ll be working on liner notes, I’ll be doing errands and whatnot, and I’ll be relaxing and such, and I’m meeting David Wechter again to view something. Nothing terribly exciting but I’m hoping for a very nice day.
Tomorrow, I’ll be going to my engineer’s home environment to do some work on our remix of another show album. We’re giving this the Promise treatment, even though we don’t really have any pitch problems – but the original mix is so odd sometimes and so swimming in heavy reverb, with the vocals occasionally getting beat up by the band so bad that you lose lyrics, I thought we’d make the original and the remix available as we did with Promises. And all I can tell you is what I’ve heard so far of the rough new mixes, it sounds amazing. I have to finesse a few things, but I think it’s going to be a really fun package when we’re done. Then I’m having dinner with a friend I haven’t seen since we did the launch party for the Stages/Together Again CD – Debbie Tilton. She’s mentioned a lot in the book and I’m giving her a copy.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, work on liner notes, view something with David Wechter, and eat. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I continue to fondly fondle and feel my oats.