Well, dear readers, it was a Wacky Wednesday and I don’t know if we ever achieved Wonderful – not bad, but just crazy and wacky. The first Wacky Wednesday thing was that I could not fall asleep and did not do so, in fact, until four in the morning. I then slept till eleven, so at least I got seven hours, but I’m trying to get back on my waking up by nine routine. I then got up, and answered e-mails. Then the musical director for the next Gardenia show came by and got his CDR and sheet music. I’m still missing a few pieces but it was mostly everything. In fact, if I don’t get the three that are left by the time I get up this morning, I may ask you dear readers for help. Why it’s taking the sheet music person this long I have no idea and despite several e-mails today I never even got a response. After that, I had a small crisis with the helper, which, thankfully, got worked out to everyone’s satisfaction. I also got the news that the old helper is not coming out of her current situation until August of 2013. Make of that what you will.
Then I began trying to sort out the arrangements to have all of the Nudie Musical elements and prints picked up in Arizona and driven to me here in LA. I really should have thought about it more and seen if dear reader Laura wanted to make a few bucks and drive it here – that would have ended up being a lot easier and if things don’t go smoothly I may have to end up asking her anyway. I spent four hours going back and forth between the fellow who has the stuff and the trucking company who’s picking it up. The problem is that the fellow who has it lives on his own peculiar timetable and it’s not an easy one to deal with. And since I’m now getting this stuff for free, I have to make sure it all happens the way he wants. First we were trying for Monday, but he would only meet them at six in the morning. Unfortunately, the trucking company only picks up between noon and five. He’d asked if we could do it today but I didn’t think they could move that fast, but they actually could and that’s what we set up. The guy wanted to meet them at four at his storage place. The trucking company would only do a “window” of noon to five, but the guy setting it up wrote very strong notes on the invoice and the truckers will call the guy one hour before arrival. That’s fine as long as it’s not before two, because my guy doesn’t arise before then. I’m just hoping it all works out smoothly – if it doesn’t, I’ll probably be out that money and still having to make other arrangements. If it does happen the way we hope it will, then I’ll have the stuff by Tuesday or Wednesday I should think. So, please send most excellent vibes and xylophones for a successful pick-up and delivery of Nudie items. Then they needed to send me some paperwork to e-mail the guy so he could give it to the truckers. That wouldn’t work because the guy doesn’t HAVE e-mail or a fax. In the end, the trucking company faxed it to him at his local Fed Ex Office and hopefully he got over there and got it (only a block from his house).
That just tuckered me out, I must say, and I hadn’t eaten a damn thing, so I moseyed on over to Zach’s Eyetalian Café and had my chopped turkey salad and five garlic cheese roles, a little overkill in the roll department, but I simply could not stop. Then I picked up no packages and no mail, after which I came back home. The rest of the singers got their music and I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Pale Flower, a Japanese motion picture from Japan. It seemed vaguely familiar to me as I watched, so I may have seen it a long time ago. In any case, it’s quite a good mood piece, a weird Yakuza gangster film, but focusing on gambling, an out for thrills gal, and a recently released from prison killer. I enjoyed it very much – the pace is slow but the black and white scope photography is fantastic, as is the very avant-garde score by Toru Takemitsu – even today the score would be very avant-garde. The transfer is really excellent and I just really like these Japanese films from the 60s, especially the black and white scope ones.
After that, I had to listen to and approve our new master, which I did. We had to make one teeny-tiny two-second fix that was very easy to do. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I really must try to get to bed at a reasonable hour so that I can get a good beauty sleep.
Today, I’ll get up by nine and then must go directly to my engineer’s house to work on the Jason Graae album. It’s actually mixed already, and I’ve heard it, but I wasn’t happy with the overall sound of it, so that’s what we’ll be doing for about ninety minutes in the morning. Once that’s done, then both Jason and I will get copies and we’ll make notes about what patter we might want to edit and/or tighten, and then we’ll go back in and do those little things – plus I always do pull-ups in the applause and stuff to keep the flow really smooth. After that, I have a lunch meeting, after which I’ll come back to the San Fernando Valley, hopefully pick up a package or three, and then I have to write the blurb and prepare everything for our release – I actually haven’t decided whether to announce Monday or just wait a week or even a couple of days, thanks to the really obnoxious surprise Varese Sarabande 4 title release on Sunday at midnight. REALLY obnoxious.
Tomorrow, I have lots o’ stuff, and then am seeing the opening of Doug Haverty and Adryan Russ’ musical, iGhost, which I’m attending with The Singer and Juliana Hansen. We shall dine before the show. Saturday I have a work session with the thirteen-year-old, and don’t know what’s going on on Sunday yet.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, work on the sound of the Jason Graae album, have a lunch meeting, pick up packages, prep a release, maybe do a jog, and whatever else needs doing. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s recipe day – I’m looking for really great dessert recipes, so let’s see ’em. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, thinking of what will hopefully be a Thrilling Thursday.