Well, dear readers, April is flying by, like a gazelle wearing hip-huggers in Dakota. Does anyone still wear hip-huggers in Dakota or, for that matter, anywhere? Well, the Fools day is over and yet I still see a lot of evidence of fools everywhere I look. That is par for the course in this wacky world we live in and in which we live for those who don’t like anything dangling. I suppose I had a pleasant enough first day of April. I announced our new title right after the notes went up so I wouldn’t have to get up at six in the morning. So, naturally I woke up at six-thirty in morning and couldn’t fall back asleep for an hour. The good news was the builders weren’t there yesterday and so I managed to sleep until ten-thirty or so and think I got just about eight hours of sleep. In fact, I’m writing these here notes early because I’ll schedule them to post automatically so I can get to bed earlier than usual since she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon. I’m trying my hardest not to be sick or hoarse so do send those excellent vibes and xylophones for me to stay well and be in good voice for our stumble-through, sound check, and show.
Yesterday, once up I answered e-mails and did some work on the computer, then I went and had a cup of soup and a sandwich and picked up no mail – that’s because they have a new mail driver and he’s been coming outrageously late. They’ve complained loudly about it but it was even worse yesterday. There was nothing there at one, and when I called back at three he still hadn’t been there. I gotta tell you. Then I came home, heard a new Lanny orchestration (excellent, as always), and I just did a bit more work on the computer, then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on the Flix of Net that I’d never even heard of, called 16 Blocks, starring Bruce Willis and Mos Def. It’s a pretty standard cop trying to deliver a witness to court despite a bunch of bad cops trying to stop him, as the witness is going to testify against them. Willis is quite good in it, and so was, surprisingly, Mos Def. It all moves along, and the director is Richard Donner, so it’s competently done. Nothing earth shattering but an okay time-passer for those looking for okay time-passers.
After that, I did some more work on the computer and was in the endless clearing my throat phase, which I hate, but it always feels like I need to do it – it’s really irritating and I need to learn to just stop that nonsense.
Today I shall be up early, then I’ll go have a small breakfast, hopefully pick up the mail I should have picked up yesterday, do some banking, and then come back home. I may try to do a jog. At three we have our stumble-through and hopefully I’ll have enough voice to do the bit of singing I must do. After that, some of us may grab a bite, but other than that I’ll just relax.
Tomorrow I’ll hopefully arise after a really good night’s beauty sleep, I’ll probably jog, then we have our sound check and then we do our show. I will, of course, have a full report for you. Next week I’ll cast and choose songs for the May Kritzerland show (thankfully John Boswell is available), I’ll get everything prepared for the start of rehearsals for the LA show the week after, I’ll hopefully take delivery of properly printed books, and hopefully Eubie will be on its way at long last. On Saturday I do the book signing at Mystery and Imagination Books.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, breakfast, pick up mail, bank, jog, do a stumble-through, grab a bite, and then relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite Bruce Willis movies? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, not surprised that there the fools of April are still with us.