Well, dear readers, I had fun doing the interview yesterday with Richard Skipper. He asked good questions and I hope I gave reasonable answers. Getting on in time was daunting, all my fault, I’m afraid. I was doing some tests in Photo Booth on the computer, because I just hate the computer camera – different ways of lighting and stuff, all of which looked horrible. I couldn’t figure out a way to get Chrome on the iPhone, so that wasn’t a solution, but I finally Googled to see if there was a way to use the iPhone camera on the big boy computer and indeed there was, with some download thing called Camo, which is free. So, I did that, set up the camera, and it looked great, a world of difference. I thought I was all set, but when I logged into Streamyard, which was the platform being used, it defaulted to my computer camera, and I could not figure out how to fix it. I tried going into settings to turn off the computer camera, which it did, but then it wasn’t using the iPhone camera, so I had to quickly get the computer camera back on and just in the nick of time. So, it was that lousy camera for the interview. After it was over, I e-mailed the Camo people to see how to do it and I may try some tests on Zoom to see if I can get it to work there. I’m sure it’s something simple but I’m not that savvy. Once I’m told what it is, then that will be what I do from here on in and that will be lovely. Anyway, I had fun doing it and just wish the other camera would have worked. I just did a test with Zoom and that’s easy as it now shows the Camo camera, and you just select that and you’re set. I’m pretty sure Streamyard must have that same switching option, just have to figure out where it is, although that was the first time, I’ve ever used Streamyard. So much technology, so little brain space. Otherwise, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to Munch munch on La Mer (The Mer) by Claude Debussy, a wonderful tone poem of rare beauty. And prior to that I’d watched a motion picture on the Firestick thing via the Amazon Prime thing, said motion picture being entitled F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy. I saw it when it came out, and it got very good reviews, which surprised me as I found it fairly tepid throughout. The photography is very good, as is the Bill Conti score, but many of the actors are subpar, especially the two female leads. The writing is horrible, and the director should thank his lucky stars he had the cameraman he did – Miroslav Ondricek, who did many 1980s films. It moves right along, but boy is it silly. Jerry Orbach has a small role, so that’s fun.
Yesterday was an okay day. I got a little under nine hours of sleep, shaved and showered and got prettified, which didn’t count for much for what people call the potato camera on the computer. Then I did that whole Camo/iPhone thing to no avail, then the interview. After that was over, I moseyed on over to the mail place to pick up the package that I should have been handed the day before, got that, then stopped at Hugo’s for food. It was, save for me and one other couple, completely empty. I had a little Caesar and pasta papa, both excellent, and I did a little proofing whilst there.
Then I came home and proofed a bit more, but I am going much too slowly and will therefore proof at least seventy pages today.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, but other than food I’ll be proofing the entire day and evening. I’m sure I’ll see if there’s mail at the mail place and I’m sure I’ll take some breaks and maybe even watch, listen, and relax, but proofing is the order of the day.
Tomorrow will be more of the same and then I’m attending an opening night of a play. I’ll be supping beforehand with the Pearls. Saturday, I’ll be out of here early for she of the Evil Eye, and if I’m not through proofing I will be that day. Sunday, we’re having auditions for L.A. Now and Then. Next week, I hope to have the other proofers do their thing, so I can get all the corrections in and then I can get the book to Grant Geissman for his artistic book design.
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, I’ll proof, I’ll hopefully pick up packages, I’ll eat, I’ll proof more, and then at some point I may watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite films featuring Brian Dennehy? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping I never have to use the potato camera again.