Well, dear readers, I must write these here notes in a hurry because she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon and I do need some semblance of beauty sleep. I’m feeling quite chipper because I had my beloved chocolate donut with peanut butter innards from Stan’s Donuts and that just makes me indescribably happy. Wouldn’t THIS make you indescribably happy?
That, for any doubting Thomases or doubting Wilburs is the actual Stan’s Donut of which I speak. I purposely ate a very low-calorie lunch consisting of salmon and some corn succotash – the whole deal not much more than four hundred calories. Add to that the donut and you’re still only at a thousand calories and add to that the jog and you’re down to seven hundred calories. Add to that some low-cal Wheat Thins and low-cal cheese wedges and you’re back up to eleven hundred for the day – and so it was.
I felt that yesterday was quite a lovely day. I managed to sleep until 9:45, then had a nice telephonic conversation with Sandy Bainum, after which I had to hurry to the West of Wood for my lunch meeting with an actor. We went to CPK. He was quite a nice actor and, as it turns out, I’d seen him long ago in a workshop of a musical version of Camille, in which Kevin Spirtas and Linda Purl appeared, so he was happy to know I’d directed both their one-person shows back then. We talked of many things, of cabbages and kings, and now he must let all that information simmer for a day or two at which point he’ll decide what he wants to do in terms of the project I may be doing.
After that, I bought my donut, then came home but resisted the temptation to just shove it down my gaping, hungry maw. Instead, I had work to do on the computer, and telephonic conversations to have and somehow the next thing I knew it was time for the second Kritzerland rehearsal. We really do have a great cast for this show and I just love sitting here listening to them do their thing. Only a couple of people were truly secure with their lyrics, but everyone knows they have to have it down pat for the stumble-through on Sunday. And then we had our guest star, the life force known as Terri White and she did Starting Here, Starting Now, kind of a very driving version and it’s great. Also, Heather Lee, who graciously stepped in for Sally Mayes, just couldn’t learn a third song, so I gave our wonderful musical director a solo – the Maltby/Shire title song to the film Only When I Laugh. He’s so charming and it’s great. I also got a very sweet e-mail from David Shire, who wrote a long note to the cast – funny and charming, as David is wont to be.
As soon as everyone left, I immediately did a three-mile jog, planked and did forty sit-ups. Then I had to download some tracks for what will be a rather spectacular upcoming Kritzerland release. But I wasn’t ready to listen to them and instead I sat on my couch like so much fish, where I finally at my beloved chocolate donut with peanut butter innards.
Last night, I had no time to watch a motion picture so instead watched the little puff-piece featurette that’s on the House of Wax Blu and Ray. While it was nice to see neighbor Tony Slide and friend David Del Valle, along with Vincent Price’s daughter and some nice archival interview footage, I’m afraid it’s the usual sort of thing – the entire forty-five minute featurette has wall-to-wall music, all of it completely inappropriate, and all of it distracting from the point, which is people talking. Why these people feel the need to do this is anyone’s guess, and how they kind of have the chutzpah to take writing and directing credits for pieces where they just put a camera on people, I just don’t get, really. Yes, take a producer credit, but if you’re going to take a writer and director credit, then write and direct. Seems pretty simple to me. I also nodded off for almost forty minutes.
Then I spent over an hour listening to the tracks I’d downloaded, making notes about editing and what tracks could go away in total and which to put in a bonus section. I was warned that the sources had been slightly problematic, but you wouldn’t know it from the result, which is spectacular.
Today, I shall do an early jog, then go eat something, then hopefully pick up some packages (from yesterday and today), I’ll pay some Kritzerland bills (blechhh), and then relax.
Tomorrow is our stumble-through – I really don’t care for doing the shows on Monday night. It’s okay, but I just like our usual Sundays, and if some doofus hadn’t had to selfishly schedule an event right across the street knowing and taking some delight in the fact he was in direct competition with us, then we wouldn’t obviously be doing a Monday night. But since it’s a tribute to someone I knew and liked (who would have HATED the doofus for scheduling against us), out or respect to the deceased and so people didn’t have to make a choice which thing to attend, we moved. Monday is sound check and then the show, and I’m sure some of us will go out afterwards. The rest of next week has the potential to be hugely busy – we just don’t know how busy yet, but I will hopefully know that by Monday.
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 some packages, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Knowing the recordings I’ve done, or coming up with something I haven’t done, what would your choices be for interesting new Kritzerland shows for 2014? We’ve done a lot of the albums in our three years, but we have lots left, too. One thing I was thinking about was maybe doing an entire show devoted to Drat! The Cat’s score. Just trying to thing of some fun stuff, and am always willing to look at things I might have recorded but didn’t. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, with tummy happy thanks to the beloved chocolate donut with peanut butter innards.