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January 7, 2012:

FEELING TYPSO

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Well, dear readers, this first week of January 2012 has flown by, like a gazelle in a pink taffeta sample, size ten. I can barely focus my eyes and therefore there will baobyla be typso galore. Why look, we just had two right there, although, that said, I kind of like the new word typso, don’t you. I’m feeling a little typso right now having written twenty count them twenty pages of the new book. When I’m feeling typso I like to sing calypso. What the HELL am I talking about?

Yesterday was a bit of a day. I got up at eight-thirty and listened to the East Coast singer do her presentation. Unfortunately, her phone did not transmit the sound very well so it was really hard to tell what was going on. I wrote notes and gave them afterward, most of them having to do with feel and interpretation. I then spoke to Lanny Meyers, her MD, and I gave his some fixes for a couple of things. I’d finessed her patter, but it was really hard to tell what was what, so she was going to call me last night and read it and we were going to finesse it further and cut some of it. But, I never heard from her so maybe they’re just doing it on their own, which is fine by me. I’m sure she’ll do fine – she’s a beautiful woman, and has a very good voice and personality.

After that, I finessed the twenty pages I’d written the day before and then wrote about five new pages. After that, I went and had a sandwich and no fries or onion rings, then picked up a couple of packages and no important envelope, then came back home. I wrote more pages and did a few other things on the computer. After I’d written about sixteen pages I took a break and sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray, a real horror film entitled Contagion. I didn’t know much about it other than it posited a killer virus run amok and what would happen if such a thing were to occur. This is hardly the first film to address that subject, but, for me, it’s the best of them. It’s well directed and written, with excellent performances from what is basically an ensemble cast. Everything that happens in this movie could really happen – it’s amazing it hasn’t, actually. And that includes the rank stupidity of the human race and how they’d react to such an outbreak. The only real nitpick I had with the film was its musical score, but I’m just no fan of the way films are scored these days. The transfer and sound are excellent.

After the film, I wrote another four or five pages. I’m spending a lot of time, but I hope not TOO much time on the first year of my record producing life – that’s where I learned mostly everything about everything and so it’s fun to talk about all that stuff. Hopefully muse Margaret will find it interesting and not repetitious or boring. I’d forgotten how I really brought vast changes to Varese and the way they did things. I’m sure everyone who’s left there probably thinks it was all them, but in remembering all of it, it most certainly wasn’t. I remember arriving at their disgusting office in North Hollywood and going into the boss’s room and saying “We’ll be out of here very soon – we need proper offices – you’ve been here since 1978.” He laughed and so did the others who worked there, saying it would never happen. But we moved into new offices seven months after I arrived because I would not shut up about it. Anyway, I’m having fun revisiting certain things and remembering how I met so many singers who would become part of our little rep company. I just wrote about the recording of She Loves Me – its producer will probably not be thrilled about it, and I’m sure he’d write his version very differently, as we all remember things the way we remember things.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because frankly I’m feeling a little typso right now so I’m going to get some beauty sleep whilst singing some calypso.

Today, I shall get up at nine, finesse yesterday’s pages, write a few new ones, then do some sort of jog (I may try to do the four-mile jog – I feel like I’ve put some weight back on and I want it gone pronto), then hopefully pick up some packages and an important envelope, then write, then have our stumble-through, then have dinner, most likely at Casa Vega, then write, then I’m seeing the American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, after which I’ll probably do some more writing.

Tomorrow, I shall, of course, write, but then we have our sound check and our first Kritzerland at Sterling’s show, but our 17th Kritzerland show, Toonful. I will, of course, have a full report. Next week will be daily writing plus some meetings and all sorts of errands and whatnot.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, finesse, jog, write, hopefully pick up packages and an important envelope, write, have a stumble-through, have a meal, write, and see a movie. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite doomsday scenario movies? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, singing Feeling Typso, my new song.

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