Well, dear readers, the final piece of the Follies puzzle fell into place yesterday when Capitol, at my behest, went back into the vaults searching for the eight-track session master of One More Kiss – and found it, mislabeled as a soundtrack. Unfortunately, it’s going to be several days before they can transfer it, despite my whining and pleading, but maybe if you all send excellent vibes and xylophones for a quick transfer it will get done sooner than later – they seem to be very booked up there in their transfer room and it’s possible they might not get to it until Monday. I truly hope it’s sooner than that and I believe I’ve pushed as hard as I can. Even if it’s Monday it won’t throw us behind because the rest of the CD is being mastered over the next couple of days. When we’ve done the new mix of One More Kiss, we’ll just upload it immediately, it can get mastered in five minutes, added to the CD program, and get overnighted to the pressing plant. Meanwhile, the packaging was approved yesterday, so we’re announcing this evening at midnight. We’ve upped the number of copies to 1500, because even our best show titles have stuck around for a least a month at 1000 units. I did find out something interesting – there were two CD releases for Follies. The first was on Capitol and did not include One More Kiss. Then when the Angel Broadway series started, it was reissued with a new cover and One More Kiss included. There are some who believe that it was remixed at that point, but I don’t believe it, or, if it was, they simply replicated the original mix every step of the way and why would they do that? But the fact is, all my comparisons have been to the second CD, not the first, and all I know is that the new mix we’ve done sounds, to my ears at least, like a very large improvement in just about every way. Plus, I’m hearing tape anomalies in that second CD release that would lead me to believe it came off the two-track album masters. It doesn’t really matter, though. I’m hoping that the majority of the folks who buy our new release will be as thrilled as I am with it. I’m equally sure that there will be folks who don’t think it was worth the upgrade or like the original better, for whatever obtuse reasons. None of that matters to me – I think we’ve really achieved something special and that’s what we set out to do.
For some reason, I didn’t fall asleep until four-thirty in the morning. I was too wired, I guess, and had too many things going on in Ye Olde Heade. I got up at nine-thirty after only five hours of sleep, but I think I fell back asleep and got an additional hour, but it sure didn’t feel like it. I did some work on the computer, then went and had my very first huevos rancheros ever. I have no idea if it was properly made or not (at The Studio Café) but it was very tasty. After that, I picked up a couple of packages, then came home
I began the new set of liner notes, listened to some tracks I had to listen to, got the singers their sheet music via e-mail, and then dealt with the One More Kiss thing for several hours. I know I did other stuff but I honestly can’t remember what. Too tired. Then I sat on my couch like so much Swedish fish.
Yes, yesterday I began a new Swedish crime show called Irene Huss, a female cop show. One thing I’ve noticed in every Swedish and Danish cop show is that every villain wears a black hoodie. So, if I were writing the show, I’d just have the cops arrest everyone in a black hoodie and there would be no more crime. That’s my idea for a new Swedish cop show, which I’m calling Krister Kritzer. In any case, I enjoyed Irene Huss – terrific actors in all roles. The husband is played by the guy who was the profiler in Maria Wern. The Danish cop is played by one of the leads from The Killing. I’ll look forward to the other two films in the series and if they’re as good, I’ll get the subsequent three. Like Maria Wern, I think these only went to six films.
After that, I went to Gelson’s and got a couple of baked chicken breasts and came home and ate them all up. I then prepped the Follies eBlast and announcement, and wrote the blurbs for our two Monday releases, so that’s all ready to go. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I am so bleary-eyed right now it’s not even funny and I need some beauty sleep.
Today, I shall be up early and the helper will arrive at ten. She’s been gone for eight days now and there is a ton of stuff she has to do, and we have to go to storage for some charts. After all that, I’ll eat something, hopefully pick up some packages, maybe do a jog if it’s not too hot, and then finish the current set of liner notes.
Tomorrow I have a lot of errands and whatnot to do, people to see, places to go, and then Friday it’s off to Costa Mesa for the Sondheim event. I’m really praying that Capitol has done the One More Kiss transfer by then – if they have, I’ll go to the engineer’s and we’ll mix it. It’s only a two-and-a-half minute song, so it should all go quickly.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, take care of stuff with the helper, go to storage for some charts, eat, hopefully pick up some packages, maybe jog, finish liner notes, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, as I hit the road to dreamland, thinking about my new Swedish crime novel, Krister Kritzer and the Killer in the Black Hoodie.