Well, dear readers, I’m not quite sure how it can be Friday when it was just Monday. How can we already be in the second week of May? How can we already be in the fifth month of the year? I do have some shocking news to report, though, on this Friday – we had us a monumental rain here in the City of Studio – I believe it lasted fifteen seconds and resulted in moist streets and twelve droplets on my windshield. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and it will really help alleviate the drought were having.
Yesterday, I think I got eight hours of sleep, although, true to form, I did wake up exactly one hour after falling asleep. Once up, I had to get myself duded up and ready for my lunch meeting. I met Rei, our set designer, at The Federal. I was looking forward to their pasta dish, but alas, they don’t serve it for lunch anymore. So, I just had a little artichoke. Rei and I discussed Welcome to My World and I’m just going to let his imagination run free and see what he comes up with. He knows my needs in terms of what I want for the staging and he agrees with me that I don’t want a literal set (my original thought for this was to set it in the character’s actual bedroom, but that just stopped being interesting to me at some point).
After that, I went and had an actual lunch – a cup of soup and a Cobb salad with oil and vinegar. Then I picked up no packages and came home. I did various and sundried things around the house, did some work on the computer and then watched a documentary – on the computer (it’s on You Tube).
The documentary, entitled Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films. It’s really entertaining, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and ultimately even a little touching. Lots of interviews and clips, all done very well, and even though it’s an hour and forty-six minutes it really does fly by. I don’t think Cannon could happen today – but they really were wild and wooly, those crazy boys Golan and Globus. And in true Golan and Globus fashion, they refused to be interviewed for this documentary because – wait for it – they decided to do their own – and beat out this one by three months. From what I understand, theirs is not so good. Anyway, I highly recommend this and it’s on DVD through Amazon or find it on You Tube.
After that, I watched the first twenty minutes of a motion picture on the Flix of Net entitled Yves Saint Laurent. I had no idea what it was about, but right away I figure out it was about Yves Saint Laurent. So far I would call its pace glacial, but I’ll finish it.
Today, I have two more rehearsal spaces to look at, but I’m also waiting to hear if we can do it at The Grove, where we did Inside Out. If we can, I may go that route. I’ll also eat, hopefully pick up packages, and then I’ll hopefully finish casting our Kritzerland show – this one’s proving difficult because it has very specific needs.
Tomorrow I’ll mosey on over to Mystery and Imagination and drop off the books for the following week’s signing. Then I’m seeing 13 in the evening. Sunday, we have a work session with Sami and the musical director, and then I think something else may be going on, but not sure what it is. Next week is filled with meetings and meals and such things.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, look at more spaces, eat, hopefully pick up packages and then make a decision on which space to use. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray player? I’ll start – CD, who knows? Blu-ray, The Story of Adele H. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy we had our fifteen seconds of rain.