Well, dear readers, how can it be Wednesday already? These holiday weeks always get me discombobulated or, at the very least, discomnormanulated. And how can it be almost the end of May already? That gets me discomgeorgeulated. In any case, for whatever it’s worth, it’s Wednesday even though it doesn’t seem like a Wednesday.
Yesterday was a day in which things happened. For example, I got up at eight. That happened. I was awakened by the arrival of the workers. They began a long day’s work, and I got an early call from Hewlett-Packard and over the course of the next hour got everything taken care of and now the printer and scanner is working exactly as it should. And I even have this new-fangled thing called ePrint, which means I can send things to the printer via any mobile device, which is pretty keen (neek, spelled backwards) if you ask me. I then did a three-mile jog, after which we had the rehearsal for the two cast members who couldn’t be with us the night before. First up was lovely Jane Noseworthy, or She of the Worthy Nose as I call her. She sang her two solos – the beautiful Mad About the Boy, and then her epic seven-minute piece, The Coconut Girl, from The Girl Who Came to Supper. What a good egg she is to learn such a long, complicated piece, but she will absolutely stop the show with it. Then Lisa Livesay arrived and she and Jane ran their duet. I thought it would be ever so much fun to have two gals do Has Anybody Seen Our Ship, and they do it brilliantly, I must say. It’s really fun. Then Lisa did her two solos, both from High Spirits, which is cheating a little since Coward didn’t actually write the score for that show. But we felt justified as it’s based on his play, Blithe Spirit, he directed it, and he also recorded four of its songs, which are absolutely in the Coward style and I wouldn’t be surprised if Coward didn’t have input. First Lisa sang the wonderful You’d Better Love Me (with just a little bit of Forever and a Day first), and then she did what will be closing our evening, Home, Sweet Heaven, which she will kill with. Lloyd Cooper accompanied and was his usual great self. Nothing more fun than that kind of rehearsal.
Then I went and had some chicken tenders for my meal o’ the day, after which I picked up some packages. Then I came home and checked out the progress of the workers. They’d finished putting in the new gate and I have to say it looks splendidly splendid. They also finished the front window, the one that was completely and hideously rotted, and now that looks lovely – he put primer paint on it and it’s going to look wonderfully new when it’s all done. So, things are progressing.
Things also progressed on the new site – although not as much as I wanted. They did figure out how to get an audio clip on the site, so that’s good, but they didn’t get the radio show set up. We did figure out how to post any video to the notes (not only You Tube) and also any photo. Still no interview archives. I’m going to push hard to get all that done today. And I keep asking when we can speak to go through the few discussion board outstanding items. Really, the only thing left for them to do, since I did the bulk of that heavy lifting, is figure out the calendar thing and maybe how we can link from the board back to the main site. Don’t know if that’s possible or not. Other than that, they still have to prune the board and create about twelve more archived sections. I emptied the photo cache so images can once again be posted. I think I set it to automatically delete any images over 100 days old. So, we’re definitely in the home stretch for everything. I really don’t think it will happen at the end of this week, as I wanted it to, but it will definitely happen next week. Then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a documentary on DVD entitled A Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis. This was made for Encore Channel. I don’t know if it’s the best documentary I’ve ever seen, I’m not even sure it’s the best of THIS kind of documentary I’ve seen or even in the top twenty, but it’s very entertaining thanks to Jerry himself, and has a lot of interesting stuff and the usual talking heads telling how much Jerry meant to them. Most of those are fine, if not the usual types: Carol Burnett, Billy Crystal (who now looks like he’s made out of wax), Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry’s children, Dean Martin’s children, Eddie Murphy and a couple of other comics. There were two talking heads that I could have really lived without – one was Chevy Chase, the other was the horrid Quentin Tarantino. Having the latter in this kind of thing just cheapens it and is obviously there for the supposed “hip” factor. He’s just awful. It runs almost two hours, and Jerry has some truly amusing moments.
I then watched the first hour of the new Blu and Ray of The Star Chamber. I’ve only actually seen it once before and I really didn’t like it, but I must say I’m enjoying it so far. That said, my memory is it all gets very silly in the last third – we shall see if it’s aged well. Then I did some work on the computer while I listened to another new Kritzerland project.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because once again I must be up at eight and must get as much beauty sleep as possible.
Today, I shall try to have a relaxing day. I’m pretty much caught up with everything. I’ll go through my commentary one last time to see if I want to fix anything, I’ll maybe write some liner notes, I’ll do a jog, I’ll eat, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, and that will be that.
Tomorrow will be our second Kritzerland rehearsal, which actually starts in the morning. Friday I have a meeting and a meal, Saturday is our stumble-through, and Sunday is sound check and show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, eat, hopefully pick up packages and relax – I haven’t had a day off in some weeks so I’m trying to make today almost a day off. 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, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I shall hopefully be less discombobulated.