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January 9, 2011:

EXHAUSTED AND EXHILARATED

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Well, dear readers, I am exhausted but exhilarated. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I am both exhausted and exhilarated – earlier I was both hausted and hilerated but now that it’s bedtime I am now exhausted and exhilarated. I have to tell you, Saturday was a day and a half. It was crazy and busy and also busy and crazy. I had a nine o’clock meeting with the helper’s boyfriend and the helper’s best friend and we went over a lot of details and everything should be fine until the hopeful return of the helper. Keep sending those excellent vibes and xylophones – they seem to be working, but we’re not going to have a real answer for another week or two. The meeting lasted about an hour and then I began writing and did about three or four pages. I then had to create an edit road map and that took quite a while and drove me a little crazy, which is not a long drive. That is very painstaking work, but it really paid off and it makes the mastering guy’s work so much easier and quicker. I then had some bacon, eggs, and home fries, after which I came home and wrote another two pages. Then I had to buckle down Winsocki and write liner notes, which I did. And I had to do the track titles, too. Then I sent all that stuff to the Kritzerland designer. I then wrote the announcement blurb. Once all that was done I was pretty all in, so I thought I deserved a treat and got a cinnamon roll and a buttermilk bar. I really wanted an apple fritter but they’d sold out. I then came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture I’d TIVOd entitled Report to the Commissioner. Somehow, I’d never seen this film – I’d read the book and really enjoyed it but the film had escaped me. Odd, because I love that sort of gritty police story. It’s never quite great, but it’s certainly competent and, in the acting, more than competent, with terrific performances by the likes of Michael Moriarity (one of the strangest actors ever, but his performances are unique), Yaphet Kotto, Tony King, Susan Blakely, Vic Tayback, Hector Elizondo, Dana Elcar and other wonderful character actors, and, in small roles, William Devane and Richard Gere (his first feature film). There are some wonderful sequences, and some absolutely eye-popping shots of Times Square circa 1975, when Times Square really was Time Square and not Tokyo or Disneyland. But the film just never gets beyond competent, a lot of which can be attributed to director Milton Katselas, who simply was not a very good visual director. He’s a fine actor’s director, but the storytelling gets a little convoluted and his pacing is never what it should be, despite Elmer Bernstein’s excellent funk score helping to move it along. Katselas is, in fact, firmly in Sidney Lumet territory and Lumet certainly would have given it better pacing and been a more dynamic storyteller. Still, it was fun to see and I enjoyed it.

Then I wrote about five more pages, for a total of eleven, which is more than the nine I was hoping for, so that felt really good. I’m sure I’ll be futzing with it and adjusting it, but I got it down and am moving on to the next chapter.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s almost time to post these here notes, give you dear readers a head’s up on our next release, and then get to the bedroom environment.

Today should be a ME day, save for one little trip to storage, which I’ll probably do early. I have to pull the charts for our next show – that shouldn’t take too long and then the rest of the day and evening are mine all mine and I shall endeavor to write at least eight pages, maybe more if I’m feeling it. Then I’ll probably watch a motion picture on Blu and Ray and I’ll probably post the notes early and get to bed early because I must be up at six to announce our new title.

Tomorrow, I’m up at six to announce our new title and then I hope to be printing out a LOT of orders, writing, and I think I may lunch with Mr. David Wechter. Tuesday, of course, we have a rehearsal in the late afternoon and then I have a pal coming in from New Jersey. I’ll probably join her for a meal. Wednesday is show time, and Thursday and Friday are both busy days. And I’ll be writing every single day.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, get some charts, write, eat something amusing, write, and then relax and watch something fun. 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 hit the road to dreamland, exhausted and exhilarated, not necessarily in that order.

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