Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish with a raging headache because frankly yesterday was just one of THOSE days. I do not like THOSE days. Oh, there were some perfectly fine parts of the day, but there were a like number of irritating parts of the day, too (oot, spelled backwards). I almost got eight hours of sleep, but not quite because of the incessant ringing of the telephonic device. I’m actually ready to throw the phone in the damn trash because I get about twenty scam calls a day. They’re very easy to spot and 99% of the time I don’t bother picking up – but they’re relentless and annoying and I wish there were some way to make these people PAY for annoying people so much. One number called eleven times yesterday and I’d already looked them up on 800 Notes and knew it was a scam where someone tells you your Windows on your computer has a virus and they will happily help you clear the virus if you go to your computer and do as they tell you. Well, on the eleventh call I picked up – I could not help it, dear readers, I simply had to do it. And here is what ensued: The man with the accent managed to get about two words out when I interrupted him and said, “Oh no, there’s a virus with my Windows on my computer? I’m so glad you called and so grateful you can help me get rid of it. Can I give you my passwords and my credit card and my bank account now or do we have to do something on the computer first? Do you need me to go to my PC?” He said, “Yes, I can help you with all that.” I said, “I’m so happy you can help me with it – oh, wait, I don’t HAVE Windows and I have a MAC – oops” and then I’m sorry to say I used a rather naughty word beginning with the letter “F” followed by an even naughtier word beginning with the letter “C,” after which I hung up. I rather enjoyed it.
After doing morning stuff, including forwarding Amazon orders to the helper, I went and had a chopped Eyetalian salad with a bit of ham and avocado and a bagel. After that, I ascertained there were no packages to pick up. I came home, and added a few more perks to the new Indiegogo campaign, added our campaign video, which I think came out very well, and then the helper called with what was the most irritating business of the day. Her AOL account, where I’d been forwarding all those Amazon orders, was hacked the other day and somehow everything I’d forwarded was lost and AOL could not get them back. So, I had to sit here and go into my sent file and re-forward every single order – it was incredibly annoying, but I did it – it took almost an hour. But I was worried that things may have gotten lost so I told the helper she had to come here after printing out labels, and that we’d have to go through every order on Amazon to make sure they’d all been forwarded. So, she arrived around eight-twenty and we spent thirty minutes doing that – and thankfully they’d all come through. Better safe than sorry. By that time I already had this splitting headache and it was too damn late to jog, too damn late to watch anything, so I just listened to music.
As I mentioned the other day, I got this new recording of the original Godzilla score, which I enjoyed and was listening to again. I remembered that once upon a time at Varese I’d produced a best of Godzilla CD – I never ever think about the big three orchestral albums I did there – Titanic (my most successful album EVER), Superman, and Godzilla, so I pulled out the Godzilla album (I have one of the very rare copies that actually has the Godzilla title – we had to change it to Monster Mania before releasing it because everyone at Varese decided to let themselves be bullied by Sony – they hadn’t a leg to stand on – we didn’t copy art or any logo, but they changed it, and effectively killed the album because no one knew what it was. Anyway, I listened to it and I have to say it’s really great – Randy Miller did a terrific job conducting and Donald Johnston did great orchestrations all based on the originals. Much of the early music was recorded in mono, and this was the first stereo recording for a lot of this stuff, plus we had a much larger orchestra than the original films had. Anyway, I was kind of delighted by it. I’ll have to pull out Titanic and Superman next and see if I enjoy those as much.
Oh yes, more videos. Well, here’s Ilene Graff recreating the number she introduced on Broadway in I Love My Wife.
And here she is doing Whoever You Are, I Love You, which she also did on Broadway.
Here’s Marc Ginsburg doing a socko job with Gonna Build a Mountain and Nothing Can Stop Me Now.
And here’s Jenna Lea Rosen doing the opening number of the show.
Today, I don’t know WHAT the HELL is happening, other than I have to cast the Kritzerland show, finish choosing the songs, and get that thing on the road, I will hopefully pick up some packages, and then I have an early dinner with a nice fellow who wrote some book about Disney stuff. I’m looking forward to that.
Tomorrow is more of the same and then I’m hoping for a calm weekend. I need a little respite from the irritants. Seriously. In fact, I need total respite from the irritants. Let’s send lots of most excellent vibes and xylophones for the respite. Seriously.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, cast, choose songs, hopefully pick up packages, jog, and have a dinner. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite Japanese monster films? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have revisited my one and only Godzilla album.