Well, dear readers, I, for one, am glad it’s Friday. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I, for one, am glad it’s Friday. I, for one, will be using this very day as a day of rest, or at least as much as possible. This week, which was supposed to have been fairly light, was anything but. And yesterday took the cake. Yesterday is always taking the cake and it really vexes me, oh, yes, it really vexes me, but I, for one, think it’s fine this time because I, for one, am on a diet. I wonder if I will ever say I, for two, or I, for eight, just for the sheer perversity of it. The Sheer Perversity Of It – that’s the title of my next novel. Where was I? Oh, yes, I, for one, am glad it’s Friday.
Yesterday, as mentioned, took the cake. I got up at exactly the same time I’d gotten up the day before – and I mean the exact same time. I guess that means I got a little over eight hours of blessed sleep. I answered e-mails, then went to the lab and picked up the DVD of Nudie Musical that they forgot to give back to me. Then I came home and did the four-mile jog. Then I went back to work trying to figure out the music for our next release. It was really time-consuming and difficult – the first problem is that the music is mixed really low in the film. The second problem is that sometimes cues as used in the film didn’t begin at the beginning so sometimes it’s really hard to figure out those cues. Each ten minutes of film took me about an hour and while I was doing it I was figuring out track titles and how to edit cues together. By the time rehearsal began, I still had twenty minutes of film to go.
Rehearsal began with some food. The thirteen-year-old came directly from a cooking class she’s taking, so we partook of some Chinese appetizers she’d made – we each had a small egg roll, a bite of pineapple rice, a piece of Thai toast, and a small piece of skewered chicken. It was all tasty, as appetizers go. It was the first food I’d had all day. I’d decided not to do a run-through today. Instead, we did all the staged numbers, and then we worked on one ballad. Since we were all still hungry, we went over to Jerry’s Deli, where I ate a small turkey sandwich and no fries or onion rings. I ran into my pal, director Gordon Hunt, and also sitting at a nearby table was Ricky Jay and Jeff Altman. Melody had matzo ball soup, her mother had the hummus appetizer and her dad went right to the dessert place and had apple pie with ice cream.
After that, I came home and finished all but six minutes of the movie. Then I moseyed on over to the Gardenia to see singer Craig Pomeranz. I’d never seen him before. He had a small but very appreciative audience, which included the timelessly beautiful Miss Constance Towers. I knew a few others, too. This was one of those “themed” shows – Love And The Weather, which sounds like an episode of Love, American Style. “Themed” shows aren’t really my thing, but it was well done and Craig has a very nice voice and way with a song. There was one really pretty Noel Coward song I didn’t know at all – I think it was called The Wild, Wild Weather. It all breezed by quickly, with no stormy sections – the club was cool, despite the heat of the day. Wow, look at all those weather allusions.
I came back home and finished the last six minutes of the movie. That left me with three leftover cues, that matched up with the three cues I couldn’t find when I went through the first time – I located all three, put them in their proper place, and then sent off the edit road map to the mastering guy. He’s got some difficult work to do on this one – it’s a very early score and the only source to go from were a set of acetates that someone got me a high quality tape of directly from the composer somewhere around 1978 or 1979. For acetates, it’s pretty good sound, but a few cues have bumps and scratches, but our mastering guy is the best at cleaning that stuff up, and it’s certainly no worse than some of the handful of CDs we’ve done from sources like that. The score itself is really fun and quite long at sixty minutes.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I, for one, must get my beauty sleep and brother do I need it.
Today, I hope to have a nice, relaxing day. I do have to write liner notes, and I may begin writing the contextual commentary for the next Gardenia show, and I have a one-hour work session with John Boswell for the Gardenia show, as well. Otherwise, I’ll do the four-mile jog, I’ll hopefully pick up a package or three and an important envelope, and I’ll eat something light but amusing. I’ve been having a craving for barbecue so I may go over to the Kansas City Barbecue Company and have a brisket sandwich or a half-rack of baby back ribs. I did the calorie search and the calorie range is anywhere from 800-1200 calories, which is fine. The sandwich, of course, would be less.
Tomorrow, I have to pay some bills, and we have a two o’clock rehearsal, then I’m not sure what’s going on. Something is happening on Sunday but I don’t remember what, so it may not be important. Next week is VERY busy.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the four-mile jog, write liner notes, start the contextual commentary, work with John Boswell, hopefully pick up packages and an important envelope, and then eat something light but amusing. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, a ton of soundtracks I’m trying to catch up on. Blu and Ray, I may watch Superman, The Movie or Twelve O’Clock High. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I, for one, hit the road to dreamland.