Well, dear readers, I am quite. I don’t quite know the word that should follow quite and therefore I’m simply quite. This is because I woke up after ninety minutes of sleep with a bad allergy attack and despite taking a Claritin-D, I didn’t get more than four or five hours before having to have the Zoom thing, which only took about thirty seconds. Then I went back to bed and I did sleep another three hours but it sure didn’t feel like it when I finally got up. So, I was quite lethargic, quite somnambulistic, quite groggy. Let’s face it, I was and am quite. Otherwise, I’m sitting here like so much fish listening to Ormandy do the Bartok Piano Concerto, an interesting work. Turns out as sometimes happens in iTunes, when I imported this particular CD from the giant Ormandy Box it didn’t put it with everything else. I found it in the Cs rather than the Es where Eugene Ormandy is listed. Weird. When that happens, I have to go into the “sorting” tab and retype in the artist’s name and then it moves it where it should be. So, I’d never heard this one. And prior to that I had to listen to my Nothing in Common demos so I could remember exactly what I was doing on a couple of songs. I also watched a motion picture entitled The Outlaw Josey Wales, starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, and a host of terrific character actors, including my former LACC classmate Tom Roy Lowe, whose dream was to be a cowboy actor. He plays a bounty hunter – he only has one line but a lot of screen time. In my musical Stages, I based the character of Lorne Roy Wayne on Tommy – he sings the song Cowboy Buckaroo. I thought The Outlaw Josey Wales was one of Clint’s best films when I saw it in the summer of 1976, and I still think it’s one of his best films. It’s well directed, well-acted, and it’s a terrific story. Philip Kaufman was originally the director, but Clint fired him a week in due to differences. The film also has a terrific score by Jerry Fielding, one of his best. The transfer is pretty terrific. It’s a shame they didn’t do some new extras for it. For me, it’s certainly the best western of both the 70s and 80s. Once you start listening to these mono Ormandy recordings it’s difficult to stop, that’s how great they are. What a conductor he was. That’s all there is to it.
Yesterday was a day that was quite, just like me. I already wrote about allergies and lack of sleep and the thirty-second Zoom meeting, so I shan’t recap that since it was just one paragraph ago. Once I was up, I had to have two telephonic conversations, I ordered food from the California Chicken Café – two breasts, two wings – and it arrived about thirty-five minutes later and I ate it all up. The breasts were a bit smaller than usual, which was fine. After that, I listened to the Nothing in Common demos, then played through the nine things I’ve managed to record tracks for, singing along with them and they all seem to work fine. After that, I played the piano for a while, trying to get all this damn music back in my damn fingers. Then I watched the movie and the ancient extras from the old DVD, which are horribly done.
After that, I did a quick Gelson’s run and got a small chicken Caesar for the evening repast. I came home and ate it all up and it was very good. Then I had a back and forth with the author of the playlet – he agreed to 90% of the little adjustments we’d done at the first rehearsal. Actually, there was only one thing that didn’t sit well with him, and it was something I hadn’t had any issue with, but one of our actors did. So, I’m fine leaving that one thing as is because we got just about everything else and it’s all really helpful. And then I continued feeling quite, listening to music and writing these here notes, which I also feel are quite.
I’ll tell you what I’m quite about – I’m quite over Word underlining things and making unhelpful suggestions about how to improve my damn sentences. Let me tell you, Word, when I need your damn help I’ll damn well ask for it. Damn them, damn them all to hell.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll finish casting both Kritzerland and the Nothing in Common private reading, I’ll make more tracks, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, I’ll eat, I’ll hopefully get more orders (yesterday was a slow order day – we need another strong order day and all will be well for at least a week and I’ll take a good few days wherever and whenever I can get them), and then at some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week is mostly rehearsals and we’ve got to be completely ready by Friday. They’re two-hour rehearsals and we should be able to run the play at least four times within that and still have time to work through specifics. So, a busy little week, for sure, and for sure, a busy little week.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, finish casting Kritzerland and Nothing in Common, make more piano tracks, hopefully pick up packages, eat, hopefully have a strong order day, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Best vacation ever? Where? Why. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping that I’ll have a nice word to add to quite today so I’m not merely feeling quite.