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February 17, 2012:

CLIFFS NOTES

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Well, dear readers, it is very late because I got waylaid by a very long telephonic call, so now I must write these here notes in a hurry before I fall asleep at the keyboard. What if I just ended the notes right now? Wouldn’t that be a fine kettle of what is it, fish? Wouldn’t that be unseemly? But I shan’t because then these here notes would be little more than footnotes or Cliffs Notes. Were Cliffs Notes actually started by someone named Cliff? Is there a person named Cliff Notes? Well, I can now answer this question – yes, there was a Cliff of Cliffs Notes, Cliff Hillegass to be exact. He began doing them in 1958 when he was offered the American rights to a Canadian series called Coles Notes. And somehow we’ve devolved ever since then and ended up with BK’s Notes. Well, today’s notes will be the Cliffs Notes version of BK’s Notes with a side of Coles Notes. Enough about Cliff and Cole, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty and also the gritty-nitty.

First of all, whilst I was taking a hot shower last night I remembered another album I produced – I always forget about it, so thank goodness it came back to me – Jeepers Creepers: Great Songs from Horror Films. I’ve now added it to the discography, but I don’t really think I’ll add it anywhere in the book, even thought I do pretty much at least mention every album. But because of when it was recorded, there’s really no room to insert something about it, because that part of the book is paced just the way I want it, and it took a long time to get the feel of it right. So, to take a one or two-line detour just to mention another album, well, I don’t think so. I hope I’m not forgetting anything else.

I had a perfectly okay day yesterday. I got up. That was perfectly okay. Then I did some work on the computer, then went and had some lunch. Just as I sat down, Tammy Minoff and her mother were leaving. I haven’t seen Tammy in maybe six years, or her mother for that matter. We had a nice little chat and I told her she’s mentioned several times in the new book. After lunch, I went to the mail place and picked up no packages. Then I came home.

I wrote one set of liner notes (two to go), then made CDRs for the singers. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish and finished the Maigret movie I’d begun the day before. It was a very early episode, from 1994. I find the best of these were made between 1997 and 2003. But this one was pretty good and the locations, in Helsinki, were fun. Then I watched another Maigret, this one from 2001, and it was a superb episode.

After that, I did some more work on the computer, then got involved in the long telephonic conversation, and then it was really late and time for me to write these here Coles Notes of Cliffs Notes of BK’s Notes. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s almost two in the morning and I really need my beauty sleep.

Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s sleep. I have to be home most of the day, because singers will be coming by and also a termite inspection person will be coming by. I’ll definitely go have a quick lunch, and hopefully pick up some packages and an important envelope.

Tomorrow, I do hope to get some relaxation in, and then I may be supping out. Don’t know what’s happening on Sunday. Next week will be very busy with casting, meetings, errands and whatnot, and hopefully working with Grant on my book (that could happen on Sunday).

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, give singers their CDRs and music, I must eat, I must hopefully pick up packages and an important envelope, I must let the termite inspector inspect, and I must relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, two new upcoming Kritzerland releases, both wonderful. Blu and Ray, next up is Rebecca and more Maigret films. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I shall dream of Coles Notes, Cliffs Notes, and BK’s Notes. You’ll notice that my notes are the only one with a fancy-shmancy apostrophe.

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