Well, dear readers, we’ve gone and done it. We’ve gone and done one of those newfangled Kickstarter projects to help fun the Nudie Musical restoration and transfer to blu-ray. Because there is so much that needs to be done to make it spiffy and sparkling, including color correction, dirt removal, and a pretty major audio restoration, what was originally budgeted has doubled, so we’re just trying to have some fun and to raise the other half of the blossoming budget. We’ve created some fun “rewards” for anyone who donates anything – and one can donate one dollar to $1,000 or more. Our goal is five thousand dollars. The way Kickstarter works, in case you don’t know, is that unless you reach your goal no many exchanges hands and the project simply goes away. But I’m hopeful we have enough friends and fans of the film that we’ll get a couple of bigger donations and lots of small, affordable ones. The fact is, that in the first eight hours of going live we’ve had pledged almost eight hundred dollars, and we have another four weeks to reach our goal. So, if you want to have some fun, and to help preserve a motion picture for the future, simply go to the following link, read all about it, and, if you feel like it, pledge what’s comfortable.
Also, it really helps to spread the word, so if you have some time and you know anyone who’d get a kick out of this or who loves the movie, send the information their way. And tell them Bruce-O sent you. Kickstarter – that sounds like the next James Bond film, doesn’t it?
It took a bit of time to set the whole thing up – they don’t just let anyone do this – there are rules, they have to approve everything, and then you have to set the whole thing up with Amazon Payments, and the latter took quite a few hours, but we got it all done. Prior to all that, I’d arisen early, and then CDs and helper arrived and we got everything shipped out. I then did some errands and whatnot, picked up a couple of packages and no important envelope, then I went and had a turkey sandwich and no fries or onion rings. After that, I came home, spent time doing the Kickstarter thing, prepped our new release announcement, listened to the first half of our new master, which sounds amazing, chose what I will be reading at the book signing event, and then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on DVD entitled Return From The Ashes, a very strange film directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring my boyhood crush, Ingrid Thulin, along with Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, and Herbert Lom. I believe I have a long-ago memory of walking out on the film at a sneak preview. It’s a pretty wacky thriller, written by Julius Epstein, who’s had better days. The major problem is that both Schell and Eggar are horrible people in the film, and the fact that Thulin would spend one moment with either is the biggest fault of the movie. It plods along for 104 minutes and I’ve seen worse. It does have a good score by Johnny Dankworth. It’s one of those homegrown MGM movies on demand DVD-Rs and the transfer is competent.
After the movie, I caught up on some work and sort of sat at the computer with a glazed expression since I’m really overtired. I won’t be able to sleep in much as I’d like to, as she of the Evil Eye will be here at nine. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get some semblance of beauty sleep so I can be alive and alert for the book signing.
Today, I shall try to get the motor car washed (it needs to be), and I’ll pick up the cake from Gelson’s, do some other errands and whatnot, then come home, shave and shower, and then mosey on over to Mystery and Imagination Books for a book signing, reading, cake-eating, fun time. Hoping we have a decent turnout – as always, some people who were definitely coming are suddenly not coming. It always happens. I will, of course, have a full report. Afterwards, I may see if anyone wants to go next door to Don Cuco’s for a little snack.
Tomorrow is a rehearsal with the thirteen-year-old, some dinner, and then I’m hoping someone reminds me of what I’m supposed to be doing later that afternoon – I know it’s some sort of work session or meeting. Next week is very busy, announcing our new CD, hopefully printing out a LOT of orders, hopefully doing the rest of the Nudie color correction and transfer (prior to the dirt and scratch removal, which is a whole different session), meetings, meals, and rehearsals.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a motor car washed, pick up a yummilicious cake, do errands and whatnot, clean myself up, have a book signing, eat, and then, finally, come home. Today’s topic of discussion: What’s the best Mexican meal you’ve ever eaten? Where, when, and what? And what are your favorite Mexican dishes and where do you go for your Mexican food fix? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I shall kickstart some hopefully pleasant dreams.