Well, dear readers, what looked like a slow Indiegogo day really wasn’t – there was a LOT of action pretty consistently, but it was all for the low-priced CD perky perks. That said, we did go up to 123% and that does get us closer to 125%, which does get us closer to 130%, and that, of course, gets us closer to 150%? Well, we can dream can’t we, and we dreamers sometimes have dreams come true as regards dreamilicious dreams. We still have until Friday, I think, and I’ll perhaps put a few more perky perks up this morning. I’m still hopeful that some of the bigger ticket items go – that’s really the only way to have the percentages really climb, and there are still some majorly great perkilicious perks left. And don’t forget – if there’s something that’s winking at you, just PM me and let’s see if there can be a meeting of the minds or a mind-meld. Here, as always, is the handy-dandy linkilicious link to the goodies.
I did try to watch a motion picture – I think on Amazon Prime I must have scrolled through over 200 movies and the amazing thing is how they all sound exactly the same – same kind of art, same trailers, same plots, same characters. I finally settled on something called Defenseless, one of those late 80s/early 90s thrillers – this, in fact, from the writer of The Morning After, a movie, I must say and will say, I found completely ludicrous. Not quite as ludicrous as this movie but they both suffer from very bad and hugely illogical writing. This one’s directed by Martin Campbell – not such great direction, either – he got better a decade later. It’s not a bad cast – Barbara Hershey (she gets the worst of the writing), Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, and Sam Shepard. I think J.T. Walsh was in every single thriller made in the 1990s – he’s very good. I always enjoy Mary Beth Hurt, and I’ve never liked Sam Shepard, either as writer or actor – he’s a busy actor – always chewing gum or eating something – it’s just lazy. I still have about forty minutes to go. It does have a very nice score by Curt Sobel, whose score to Alien Nation we released.
Yesterday was certainly okay. I only got six hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, one of which informed me that I’d won a Scenie Award for directing LA Now and Then, and that our wonderful cast won for ensemble, and our choreographer and costume designer also won. That was very nice. I did a bit of cheerleading, had two tacos from La Fogata, which were fine, futzed and finessed episode two and sent it off and as with episode one the reaction was very nice. Then I had a very long Zoom with David Wechter, doing the final stuff to our script, which will now go off to some friends to see what they think. At around nine-thirty, I ordered a burger from Tommy’s along with some chili cheese fries. They arrived rather quickly and it was very tasty and good. I will not be able to go to bed until about three because the chili takes a long time to digest and I’ve been popping some Pepcids since eating it, mostly as a precautionary measure. I had two telephonic conversations and then I finally found a movie to watch. The rest you know.
Today, I’ll try to be up by eleven or thereabouts, I’ll put a few new perky perks up, I’ll cheerlead, I’ll eat something at some point, I’ll begin writing episode three (even though I’m numbering as I go, it doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily air them in that order. I’ll cheerlead some more, and then at some point I can watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week is cheerleading relentlessly as we countdown to the end of the campaign. We can DO this. When the campaign is over, I’m having a nice meal and then doing NOTHING other than getting music to singers for the Kritzerland show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, try to be up by eleven or thereabouts, put a few new perky perks up, cheerlead, eat, begin writing episode three, cheerlead, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Who were your favorite character actors from the Golden Age, the kind we no longer have? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have gone up to 123% and anxiously anxious to take this puppy home in high style and with a big, big, supersize finish.