Well, dear readers, am I to believe that it is just about the end of October? And then there will be only two more months left in the little year I like to call 2011? How did this happen? This month has flown by, like a gazelle opting out of receiving Kritzerland e-mail blasts. I just can’t believe it but believe it I must because it is true and for one not to believe what is true is a lesson in not believing what is true. What the HELL am I talking about?
I had a very busy little day yesterday. I had a good night’s sleep, did the four-mile jog and then had to hie myself to my engineer’s home environment. Once there, I recorded the intro to Melody’s CD (the person who announced at the club was on a mic we weren’t recording), and then I recorded off-camera dialogue for the three episodes of Outside The Box we recently filmed. That all went quickly and well and also well and quickly, and then I headed back to the San Fernando Valley. I went to North Hollywood and picked up the Chitty booklets that Richard Sherman will be signing. Speaking of Richard Sherman, he and his lovely wife Elizabeth will be attending the Gardenia show next Wednesday – very excited to have him there. After getting the booklets, I drove over to the Coral Coffee Shop and had a chicken salad sandwich and a small slice of absolutely yummilicious sweet potato pie. After that, I came back home, where I answered e-mails, had a visit from Mr. Jason Graae, did a little writing, and then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture I’d TIVOd entitled True Romance, directed by Tony Scott, written by Quentin Tarantino, and starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, James Gandolfini, Bronson Pinchot, Saul Rubinek, Brad Pitt, Chris Penn, and many others. It’s a fairly typical Tarantino smart-ass winky film, filled with his usual riffs on other movies, but it moves along at a steady clip, and there are some amusing scenes, and several of the performances are really fun. Walken, Kilmer, and Oldman all have one scene each – Walken especially is, as always, weird and wonderful. Oldman is, I’m convinced, as nuts as the characters he plays. Hopper is excellent, and Slater and Arquette have good chemistry, although Slater is very hard to understand. Gandolfini has the best scene in the film and he’s just terrific – and thin. There is, as you might surmise, a lot of bloodshed, a lot of cocaine, and a lot of movie references. The geography of the film is beyond inept and borders on hilarious. The first part of the film takes place in Detroit. And yet, the movie theater that Slater and Arquette go to is the Vista located on Hollywood Boulevard. They then go to Rae’s Coffee Shop, which is located not too far from Detroit in West Los Angeles on Pico Boulevard. Once they’re in LA, they drive down Sunset, then turn left into a motel, the Safari Inn – a hell of a turn as the Safari Inn is located in Burbank. The score by Hans Zimmer is quirky (and two other composers also receive credit at the end), and happily this film was made prior to Mr. Scott’s hyper style of filmmaking. Not great, but somewhat enjoyable.
After that, I got a response to a post I’d made on a You Tube discussion board. I couldn’t understand why Outside The Box was not showing up in the You Tube search engine no matter what you typed in (I did a lot of tags in my bulletin I put up). I got a really helpful response from a guy who knows the drill – he basically said I’d done everything wrong that I could do and he told me how to fix it. The teaser trailer was called teaser trailer (that’s the file name for that clip) and there was no information about it. Add to that that I hadn’t given the channel an actual name (other than outsidetheboxseries, which no one would ever search that way), so I changed the name of the trailer to Outside The Box trailer, I added a ton of information and all new tags where they belonged, and named the channel Outside The Box. I reposted to Facebook and Twitter and it’s already showing up in the search engine. So, a big thanks to the guy who helped. He also suggested we spiff up the channel page by using a color – what do you all think? Right now it’s just sort of gray and non-descript. I tried blue and that looks quite nice. So, voice your opinions. I approved the art for the LACC show, which is now called Lost and Unsung. It looks very nice, courtesy of the Kritzerland designer.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I need another good night’s beauty sleep before another long and busy day.
Today, I shall do the four-mile jog then go directly to the editing room to see rough cuts of two episodes – very excited to see how they look. After that, I’ll have some lunch, hopefully pick up some packages and an important envelope, and then we have rehearsal starting at four and going till about seven or seven-thirty. After that, I’m sure I’ll watch a motion picture of some sort.
Tomorrow, I hope to sleep in, then do errands and whatnot, and then attend the opening night of Hairspray, featuring our very own Mr. Barry Pearl, with whom I’ll be supping prior to the show. Not sure what’s happening Sunday, although I’m sure it will involve resting and working on the LACC show – I have to now figure out who’s singing what and that’s going to take some time.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the four-mile jog, I must visit the editing room, I must eat, I must hopefully pick up packages and an important envelope, I must rehearse, and I must rest. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player, and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, Volume Two of Bernard Herrmann scores for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and film music of Christopher Gunning. Blu and Ray, a Brit film called Campbell’s Kingdom and then who knows what? Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I’m quite certain I shall believe what’s true.