Well, dear readers, whilst sitting here like so much fish listening to the final movement of the Bruckner eighth, which has gotten very bombastic again, I’ve been trying to figure out his shorts thing on the Tube of You. This shorts thing is, I’m quite certain, designed to drive people insane. It’s almost impossible to do on the desktop big boy computer, so I downloaded the YouTube app and from there you hit the remix button and select the clip from one of your videos. Got that part. Then you click next, and I gather it’s supposed to upload the clip. First, I got a could not export video thing. I went to Google and someone said you just keep trying. I did and this time it looks like it’s trying to upload it but it’s been five minutes already and that’s not right. Another video said even though the video is not stored on the iPhone, you have to have enough memory to DO the upload, which seems rather silly. I do know at some point my entire Music library was put on my iPhone and that may be the problem, so the suggestion is to remove stuff. But I have 256 gigs on my iPhone of which I’m using only 40, so it can’t be lack of space. It’s maddening and frustrating. I think I need some kid to come here and show me how it works so I can upload some sixty-second clips from Outside the Box, Sami, and Tonight’s the Night, plus some Kritzerland cabaret stuff. It’s still making with the little circle thing, which means, I think, it’s uploading but it should not take more than a minute, I should thing. I can’t even quit out of it, which is also infuriating. Earlier this evening I did watch a motion picture entitled Dead of Winter. I keep giving it a try because it has a good cast and it’s directed by Arthur Penn and we issued the score on Kritzerland. I keep thinking that maybe at some point the years will have been kind to it, but it’s so awful and hopeless and it’s shocking that all those talented people could make such an utter mess. The first ten or fifteen minutes is actually okay, but then the story is just so stupid it’s beyond belief that anyone would have greenlit the movie from having read that awful script. It gets more and more ludicrous as it goes and it’s final twenty minutes is hilariously bad and I do mean bad. The interesting thing is that many reviewers cut it slack because of Mr. Penn. But in reading up on the film, he was not the original director. The writer was, he was let go, the producer then directed some of it, before Penn came in to save the day and get it finished. That would explain many things.
Hold your hats and hallelujah, I got a Short uploaded from episode one of Outside the Box. From here, I don’t know how people see it – I did a few hash tags but probably should have done more. It will be interesting to see if it gets viewed and shared. I’ll do one for Taxi Driver and The Exorcist and The Shining and see how those go. Then I’ll figure out something fun to excerpt from Tonight’s the Night. Don’t think I can do anything from Sami but we’ll see. The episodes are actually all uploaded to YouTube but they’re set to Private. I’ll keep playing. Speaking of playing, Bruckner’s mighty ninth symphony is now playing. It’s loud and bombastic, too, so far.
Yesterday was odd. I only got four hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, finished the futzing and finessing and wrote some new stuff. I ate tuna pasta salad throughout the day, about half of what I made. It was and is an excellent batch. I got back into bed and slept for an hour. Then I had a long telephonic conversation with Muse Margaret about what I’ve been writing, and she thought it was a great idea and so I sent her the first thirty-three pages and she called back two hours later and told me she loved them, so I guess I’ll just mush on and see where this all goes. My original intention for this thing was a novella, but we’ll have to see how long it will end up. I think I can go up to about 150 pages as a novella. I’ll probably know the lay of the land more when I get to page 75 or so. Anyway, I was happy to get her very positive reaction to it. Then I did more stuff on the computer, then watched the movie. I dozed off for an hour about ten minutes before it ended, but then I watched the ten minutes and wished I hadn’t. I had another long telephonic conversation with Doug Haverty, who has returned from Florida. And then I began trying to figure out the damn Shorts thing. I think they also show up on the Facebook, as well, although who knows how these damn things work.
Today, I’ll be up no later than eleven, I’ll do whatever needs doing, and then I’ll probably write at least ten pages, as I know exactly what this next section is, and it should be fairly easy. I’ll check in with the mail place to see what’s what and if there’s anything there worth getting, I’ll drive over. I’ll pray for a modern major miracle, I’ll eat the rest of the tuna pasta salad, and then at some point I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week is more of that, plus a meeting and a meal, I think. I’ll be writing, I’ll be thinking about this musical I’ll be directing – I already have some fun ideas about it – and then whatever needs doing shall be done.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up no later than eleven, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll write, I’ll check in with the mail place, I’ll pray for a modern major miracle, I’ll eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What movies were you most excited to see and which turned out to be either terrible or a huge disappointment? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, having succeeded in uploading at least one of my Shorts.