Well, dear readers, it is late and since I only got about three hours of sleep I suppose I’ll try to write these here notes in a hurry and have a semblance of coherence. A Semblance of Coherence – that’s the title of my next novel. Did you know, for example, that novel spelled backwards is levon? Just asking. My fingernails look really good right now. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, my fingernails look really good right now. I just happened to glance at them and I thought to myself, “Myself, those fingernails look damn good to these weary eyeballs.” I do my fingernails myself, you know – I don’t go in for those fancy-shmancy manicures, you know. Would you like to know why and when I learned to be the keeper of my really good-looking fingernails? Well, I’ll tell you: I was doing a candy commercial – can’t remember which product, maybe Hershey’s. And there was a shot where I had to hold the candy bar in a close-up and they told me I would have to have mighty fine looking fingernails. So, my then-wife and I went to work and under her supervising eyeballs I clipped the nails perfectly, used one of those emery board things and voila, my nails were camera ready. The director remarked how good they looked. And so, ever since then I have been the keeper of my very own fingernails. What the HELL am I talking about? A whole paragraph about my fingernails? Well, they do happen to look really good right now.
As mentioned, yesterday I only got three hours of sleep. I hate when that happens, but there’s nothing really to be done about it, because the more irritated you get the less likely you are to fall asleep. I finally got out of bed around eight, I think. I answered e-mails, did some work on the computer, and then had a long telephonic conversation. After that, I went back into bed for a half-hour, then got up and did my morning ablutions. By that time, it was no longer morning, so I moseyed on over to Jerry’s Deli and had a cup of chili and a small ham and Swiss on rye. Then I came directly home.
I had a few more telephonic conversations, then wrote a little bit more of the commentary. Then I watched a couple of the extras in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre set, one of which was one of the most amateurishly done featurettes I’ve ever seen – a brand new low. The I began having second thoughts about which way to go with one certain thing in the October show. I was either going to have our three youngsters do a trio, or two of them would get an additional solo. I keep waffling back and forth, so I did a new order, this time with the solos in place. I’ll leave it that way until I hear the material at Monday’s rehearsal. Once I had the new order, I buckled down, Winsocki and wrote more than two-thirds of the commentary – only three songs left to do, which I can do today. I also spent several hours assembling all of the liner notes, credits, thank yous and all that stuff for Sandy’s album, plus I made a VERY tentative first stab at an album order. It’s definitely not right yet – some of it will probably stay, but while the first third seems quite nice, it’s not sustaining through to the end, so I have to mix it up in the middle – and I’m just not sure if I want the album to end big or small – that’s a key decision that I have to make, but all that will be easier when I have the finished mixes in iTunes and can move stuff around easily. At some point, I went to Gelson’s and got some shrimp cocktail shrimp and a tiny thing of mac-and-cheese for my evening repast.
Today, I have a work session at noon that will probably last around ninety minutes, then Lanny Meyers is coming for a visit, then I’ll finish the commentary, and then I’ll mosey on over to Westlake Audio to finesse mixes and, equally importantly, eat Astroburger.
Tomorrow, Lanny joins us and we finesse whatever he needs and then the mixes are done. Friday night I do the Ray Courts show from five to nine. Saturday I’m there all day, from ten to five and then I’m seeing a play that night. Sunday I’m really hoping for a day of rest. Then we have our crazy Kritzerland rehearsal week.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a work session, have a visit, hopefully pick up some packages, finish the commentary and finesse our mixes. 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 admire my fingernails, which are looking really good right about now.