Well, dear readers, our two getting over being sick singers couldn’t be here yesterday, so now we’re looking at Tuesday for a make-up session. Of course, I would have slept in had I known that before I got up, but alas, I was up at ten after only six hours of sleep. I did go back to bed and slept from noon to one, so that’s seven hours, I guess. Once up for good, I answered a plethora of e-mails, then at three we did a quick Zoom with Marshall Harvey and our digital compositor, Karl Sonnenberg, the fellow who did all those amazing green screen backgrounds for Kerry O’Malley’s videos in the online Kritzerland shows. He’s also her hubby. He’ll get the two easy sequences on Tuesday, probably. Wait, wait, I’m getting ahead of myself so let me back up and get behind myself (no mean feat). At this very moment, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to the Jerry Goldsmith I love – the 1960s Jerry – The Blue Max, the very good re-recording done a few years ago. After it’s done, I’ll listen to the soundtrack, which has a different feel to it, thanks to the Fox orchestra and recording stage. Funnily, the soundtrack has many less players than the re-recording. That said, the re-recording is very well done and I’m glad to have it and to have it I’m glad, not necessarily in that order. And we’re winding down to the end of November – this month flew by, like a gazelle doing donuts in a street takeover. I did watch a motion picture entitled Murder by Numbers, a 2002 film starring Sandra Bullock, a young Ryan Gosling, and others. Murder by Numbers is an apt title, as the screenplay is pretty by the numbers, too. It’s not exactly a new plot – two young men devise a murder, what they think is a perfect murder, just because they’re smart and clever boys who are also sociopaths. You know, like Leopold and Loeb, the characters that form the basis for the movie Compulsion, and also for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. It’s directed by Barbet Schroeder – I enjoyed his film of Single White Female. It didn’t fare that well critically but watching it twenty years later, I found it enjoyable. The script isn’t great, but the actors do well, and it moves right along. It would actually seem even better were it not for a perfectly dreadful score by Clint Mansell. I “saved” a few other things to watch this week.
Yesterday was pretty much just a ME day – I did want to adjust the commentary, but I didn’t – I will, tonight. It’s just a couple of things and won’t take more than fifteen minutes. Isn’t it funny that you can have a really incredible score like The Blue Max to a not-so-hot film? Oops, I diverged from where I was in the narrative, didn’t I? I hate when that happens. Back to the narrative, which, by the way, I’m narrating because one simply must narrate the narrative. I had a good chicken Caesar salad from Stanley’s for food. Later, I had some potato chips and some Gushers – not at the same time, though. I watched the movie, and then listened and relaxed.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, I’ll do a Gelson’s run for a couple of items, then we have our second Kritzerland rehearsal at two-thirty and we should be done by five. Then I’ll probably make something here for food, and then I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, we potentially will have a make-up rehearsal in the late afternoon. Prior to that, I may get to check out the first cut of episode two. Very excited to see it. Wednesday is our stumble-through at four, then Thursday we have sound check and then we do our final show at Vitello’s. At the end of it, I’ll announce where we’ll be for next year’s shows and how all that is going to work. I’m sure some of us will grab a bite to eat after the show and I will, of course, have a full report for you. And our show just happens to take place on the first day of the final month of 2022.
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, hopefully pick up packages, do a quick Gelson’s run, have a rehearsal, eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite films starring Miss Sandra Bullock? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have gotten both ahead of and behind myself (no mean feat).