Well, dear readers, it’s always amusing to watch the passing parade. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it’s always interesting to watch the passing parade. People take me to lunch, pick my brain, call me when they need information, all the while trying to simply emulate what I’ve been doing since 1993, and I mean to the letter. The most recent example of this is my having worked extensively with a then twelve-year-old performer – the idea was to create an act for her and have her be the youngest person to ever do a cabaret act. In the midst of working on the act, she turned thirteen, but not before I’d put her in her first Kritzerland show – let’s face it, I don’t think kids have ever been part of the cabaret scene, at least not that young. She continued doing the Kritzerland shows and we debuted and recorded the act just a few months after her thirteenth birthday. Then, suddenly, another LA person who does cabaret is out of the blue teaching kids the world of cabaret and putting them in a show. How unique. Not. And then someone else on another coast did an evening of young kids doing a cabaret act, and now one of them is doing fundraising so she can make – her debut album – at eleven. How unique. Oh, well, I guess people have ideas and then other people borrow them – so it is written, so it shall be done. Over and over and over again.
In other news, I had a perfectly nice day yesterday. I was up by nine and jogging by ten. I then answered e-mails, did some work on the computer, and then went and had some bacon and eggs and tomatoes and toast. Then it was time to mosey on over to Mr. Grant Geissman’s house to enter the final corrections to the book design. As I thought, it was the quickest we’ve ever done – less than an hour. He’s really so great at this and the book looks fantastic. Then we were going to put the blurbs on the back of the jacket design and I’d also sent him the front and rear jacket flap copy, but I sent them as doc.x’s and he has old Word and couldn’t figure out how to open them. There has to be some way. So, I raced home and resent as standard Word docs, he finished the back cover design and sent to me, and now everything will be to the publisher this morning and the book will now go on the fast track (an extra service they give me for free). The hope is I’ll approve the galley, and the cover and back cover by end of next week. The other hope is to have books by the end of May.
After that, I listened to the final Hofstetter auditions and shall now ponder which way to go. No one person got everything the way I want it, but several got several things and I think I can probably direct whomever I choose to do the rest the way I’d like to hear it.
Then I picked up one measly little package, went to Gelson’s to get food for the evening and then came home. I made my evening snack – one low-cal cheeseburger, total calories 450. So, under 1200 for the day and I did a three-mile jog. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Accident, another film of Joseph Losey, this one starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, and Michael York. This was a critics’ darling back in the day. Even though I was a big Losey and Bogarde fan I missed it back then and have actually only seen parts of it in subsequent years. It’s a typically Pinteresque affair, with lots of pauses, a slow pace, and subtle goings on. I enjoyed it, but for me it’s nowhere near as good as The Servant. The acting is, of course, superb. And there’s an interesting score by Johnny Dankworth, too. The color transfer is very good, although I found the contrast just a little “milky” for the first two-thirds of the film, after which it improves a little. That’s nothing terrible and if you like the film and have a multi-region player, it’s definitely worth a purchase.
I spent the rest of the evening getting the singers and musical director their music and mp3s – everyone has everything now – all we’re missing are two pieces of sheet music that I’ll hopefully have tomorrow morning. And best of all, the carpenter has been chosen and we’ll know shortly when work will commence. Very exciting.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I really must get a good night’s beauty sleep.
Today, I shall do a jog, return tapes I should have returned five days ago, pay some Kritzerland bills, eat, and relax.
Tomorrow evening I’m seeing a high school production of West Side Story, Sunday I’m seeing Inside Out, Monday I’m seeing Dr. Chew for a teeth cleaning, and next week is very busy with any number of things to get done, most especially writing liner notes and more liner notes and hopefully having our next release’s packaging approved.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, return tapes, pay some bills, eat, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu-ray player? I’ll start – CD, too many to name. Blu and Ray, next up a French Blu and Ray of The Boston Strangler followed by a French Blu and Ray of Violent Saturday, both films of director Richard Fleischer. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I will continue to be amused by the passing parade.