Well, dear readers, how does an entire evening go by where I don’t leave the computer? That is the question that is roaming around the windmills of my mind. I literally sat at the computer for the entirety of the evening hours writing the commentary for the upcoming Kritzerland show. The joke is, it’s shorter than many of the commentaries but on the other hand I had to really dig to come up for fun information on some of the songs. I ended up using actual Noel Coward quotes a couple of times – I haven’t done that before, so I think that will be fun, plus he’s just so witty. One fun thing is that I do the male lyric that was never performed back in the early 1930s to Mad About the Boy. Anyway, I think I found enough interesting bits of tid that hopefully the commentary will be entertaining. I’m sure I’ll be finessing it over the next two weeks. Also, I felt the show was one song short, which is what happens when you have a duet with two regular cast members. Normally each would have a third song, but when they duet, then one song goes missing. So, I asked young Sami Staitman to do a cute little Coward ditty – not really that appropriate for her but I’m all about that – it’s a song called Any Little Fish, and you know I’m all about fish songs, too.
Prior to my evening of endless writing, I got up early, did a three-mile jog, then went and had some bacon, eggs, and toast for my main meal o’ the day. After that, I went to a little theater in North Hollywood to bring Barry Pearl two CDs of music he’s interested in for a play he’s co-directing. I got there at noon and watched an hour of two actors rehearsing and with Barry and his co-director, who’s also the author of the play, direct the actors. The play is a black comedy called Night Hawks. Then they took a lunch break and Barry, Bob, his co-director, and I went to a little Chinese jernt – they ate lunch and I just sat there like so much fish, and we gabbed and had a lot of fun. Bob O’Neill is eighty-one or two, very on the ball, and has directed a couple of fun low-budget films back in the day, such as Angel and its sequel Avenging Angel – Barry was in that one.
After that, I went to the mail place where I picked up a couple of packages, then I came home. I then downloaded a bunch of tracks for an upcoming project and then listened to them, about an hour’s worth of great music. So, that will be a fun one. I then had some telephonic conversations, and am trying to not be bothered by an irritant that will not right itself until next Saturday – so it could be a frustrating week, but I will try not to let it be. Then I began writing and it was my intention to just do half of the commentary and then watch a motion picture, but once I started I just couldn’t stop – I really wanted to get it done and off my plate so that my mind would be completely free to do the two sets of liner notes that should have been done weeks ago.
Then I saw Vixmom’s lovely review of the new book, which was much appreciated. Looking forward to hearing more comments as people read it. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get a good night’s beauty sleep.
Today, I shall jog, and then I shall buckle down, Winsocki and write these damn liner notes – if that takes all day and all night, so be it and be it so. I’ll eat at some point, and when I’m finished writing IF it’s still early enough, I’ll try and watch a motion picture or maybe I’ll just watch the new episode of Mad Men.
This week is filled with meetings and meals and getting three CD releases prepped, ready, and to the printers and pressing plants, because the mastering guy is shortly going out of town for two weeks. I have to see a couple of things and I will hopefully not allow myself to let the irritant really irritate because that would be an irritating irritant irritation.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, write, write, and write, then maybe relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had a productive endless evening of writing.