Well, dear readers, my pal Marshall Harvey has edited a really fun book trailer for Patrick Bronstein Presents. And you dear readers will be the first to see it and without further ado, here it is.
Wasn’t that fun? And scarrrry. Marshall did a great job finding fun old clips, and the narrator is one of the busiest of the trailer narrators working today. It’s really the first time I’ve done a book trailer – Author House made me the guinea pig when they first decided to do them, and they made one for Benjamin Kritzer that’s everything a book trailer shouldn’t be. This one at least gives the flavor of the book.
Yesterday was a perfectly okay day. I don’t really remember much of it. I think I got close to eight hours of sleep, then got up, answered e-mails, and listened to the master for the next Kritzerland release, which is a cast album that’s never been on CD before. It sounded great and I approved it. Then I went and had a turkey sandwich, picked up six days of mail at the mail place, did some banking, and then came home. One of the little packages were my three-pack of Beer Nuts, Beer Cashews and Beer Almonds, so that was the only other thing I ate – about three ounces of a combo platter of all three nutmeats. I do love my Beer Nuts and haven’t had them in years. Then I buckled down, Winsocki and wrote liner notes for the next release and got that and everything else needed for the packaging to Doug Haverty.
That took up quite a bit of time. Then I made a show order for the March Kritzerland show, so I can start writing that commentary over the weekend. Then I got an idea for another song for the LA show and I actually figured out the music right away and wrote the first verse and chorus – it’s something I feel is very important to the show. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched the first three episodes of the HBO documentary series, The Jinx. It’s pretty terrific, although I could live without the actor recreations (no one talks, but for me when they do that kind of thing the documentary stops feeling like a documentary). It’s compelling and the interviews with accused murderer Robert Durst, are really good. The director of this also made the fictionalized film about this guy, which I wrote about last week – All Good Things. Looking forward to the final three episodes.
After that, I just relaxed, and was happy to see that we’d gone from 52% funded to 57% funded for our LA Indiegogo campaign. We have just under three weeks to get all the way, and I’m hoping we do. We only have one Richard Sherman signed musical quote left, in case anyone is thinking about that perk. I also did some research about eBooks and found a little company that does the correct conversion for the latest way Kindle likes this stuff. It’s only sixty bucks so I’m doing it, and that way those who like their eBooks can read it.
Today, I shall be up by nine, the helper will come by, and then I’ll grab something light to eat for lunch, hopefully pick up packages, and then at about two-thirty I’ll mosey on over to LACC to meet with my set designer, and then we have a three to four-hour casting session for the LA show.
The weekend is pretty light, but I’ll of course write the entire commentary for the Kritzerland show. I’m hoping we can announce our new CD title on Monday or Tuesday. Sunday night is the rescheduled belated birthday dinner for Sami at Genghis Cohen.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, eat, meet, have a casting session, and then relax. 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, our new title. Blu and Ray, The Jinx, then I Confess. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy we now have a book trailer for Patrick Bronstein Presents.