Well, dear readers, I am mighty glad that Thursday is done and am looking forward to a non-frustrating Friday and weekend. But before I tell you about that, may I first shout hoo and ray because today is the first day of Filichia on Friday, Peter Filichia’s premiere column at Kritzerland. We’re thrilled to have him and everyone should go to the website and click on Filichia on Friday and read.
I really wanted nothing but a relaxing Thursday and it certainly began that way. I only got seven hours of sleep, so I still need to catch up and that was part of the problem as I get very ornery when I’m overtired. I did the four-mile jog, got a wonderful telephonic message from Mike Stoller about how he was “bowled over” by the Gardenia show and my material – really nice to hear that from one of the greatest pop songwriters in history. Then I spent an hour trying to find all the SAG paperwork from our shoot – it was on my dining room table but it obviously got moved somewhere – now there are only a finite number of places it could have moved to but I cannot find it anywhere, which is going to become a real problem in about a week – and I do NOT want to track everyone down again to have them redo everything. I’m beginning to think that maybe the helper grabbed it with a batch of invoices – she’s out of town but will hopefully see the e-mail query. And then the day began to devolve into one annoyance after another, peppered with a few interesting things here and there and also there and here. First, I went to the Aroma Café to have that yummilicious chicken wrap thing that I loved a week ago. I purposely went way after the lunch crowd – at three. It was still crowded, with all the good tables taken, a ten-minute wait in line, and another twenty minutes to actually get the food. There are just so many out of work actors, screenwriters, and directors, and this has become their home away from home. They get their little lattes and teas and then sit there for three and four hours. The wrap was great, though, so that was a plus. Then I went to the mail place. I’d purposely waited until four because I knew a Fed Ex ground package was coming and last time they didn’t deliver until three. Well, it wasn’t there, of course. I picked up one other small package and went home. As soon as I walked in the door, the phone rang and it was the mail place saying the other package had just arrived. Brilliant. So, I went back and picked it up. Then I kept getting e-mails about scheduling issues for the LACC show and I finally had Adryan Russ write a group e-mail explaining to everyone that this is not the Gardenia, but a fully staged production and that I cannot deal with this kind of stuff. That seemed to get through to everyone.
Then there’s the problem with Time Machine doing huge backups every twenty minutes or so. It’s supposed to do MINOR backups of just the new stuff one does every HOUR, not every twenty minutes – it’s ridiculous. I’ve called Apple about it before but they say as long as its doing the backups there’s no problem. It’s a problem for ME, though, because every time it’s doing one of these backups everything works very slowly. I tried to sit on my couch like so much fish and watch a motion picture, to no avail.
Then I listened to the finished master for Melodyland – that made me very happy and it sounded great. I then took the opportunity to write the liner notes and get all the packaging stuff to the designer. Then I checked out the new page for Peter Filichia’s column and was none too happy about it – it looked like someone stuck a white piece of typed paper onto a black background. The page header was fun, but there was just no there there for the column itself. I had quite a lot of trouble being clear about what I felt was wrong, but eventually the designer understood me and a couple of hours later I saw a new version that was much, much better and I approved that. Then I downloaded another master, but had no time to listen to it – that’s for what will be our next soundtrack release. By that point of the evening I was all in and I just stopped everything. Not for long, though, because it was time to write these here notes.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I am weary as can be and need some quality beauty sleep.
Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep. Then I have to go down to LACC to give the gals who are in our show CDs so they can get familiar with their songs. I don’t have the sheet music for them yet, but it doesn’t matter anyway, since none of them read music. I must do the four-mile jog. Then I do some errands and whatnot, hopefully pick up some packages and an important envelope, then I go to the editing room to pick up a DVD of the three episodes of the web series – I’ve seen two, but haven’t seen the third. After that, I have to watch two motion pictures so that I can write liner notes.
Tomorrow, she of the Evil Eye will be here, and I visit Dick Sherman, who’ll be signing the Chitty covers. Sunday, of course, we premiere Outside The Box. I’ll probably put the episode up at midnight on Saturday, for our late-night denizens. Monday we’ll announce two CDs and Monday night we begin rehearsals for the LACC show – it will be fun to see dear reader Jose and to work with him again.
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 drop off CDs at LACC, I must hopefully pick up packages and an important envelope, I must go to the editing room, and I must watch motion pictures. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, various and sundried Kritzerland projects. Blu and Ray, The Bad Seed. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland – don’t forget to check out Peter Filichia’s very first Kritzerland column.