Well, dear readers, I got hung up naming photos and sending them to Doug Haverty – for the new book. Trying to make his job easier. We’ll have sixteen pages of photographs. So, that’s in his court now. In my court is writing, liner notes, and various and sundried other things. We’re finally getting Follies back in stock tomorrow, so that’s a good thing. It’s only taken a year and a half. Here are the highlights and lowlights of yesterday, Valentine’s Day. I had no Valentine wishes except for the Darling Daughter. I got seven hours of sleep with some fairly weird dreams. I wish I had the kinds of dreams I used to have – nice ones, calm ones, magical ones. Those seem to have gone the way of the dodo bird. The helper came by at eleven and picked up two books to ship. Then I got the news about Follies. I had a tostada salad with chicken from the nearby Mexican jernt I like and that was very good. After that, it was back to reading/proofing and that took the rest of the day with a couple of breaks to rest my rather sore butt cheeks. I finished this go-through of proofing and sent it to the two proofers to do the same. Should they find anything else, I’ll enter those and then it’s off to the designer company. I thought the book read well. I try not to have it ever sound ego maniacal but I think sometimes it just comes off that way if you’re proud of the work. It’s never meant that way. I had some nitwit on Facebook come after me tonight because I said I didn’t like the movie musical Doctor Dolittle. He said he and many others are tired of my “shtick”. I don’t really know what shtick he’s referencing. He thinks I’m a know-it-all. People hate when people know things, that’s what I’ve found. What does he expect – I should act stupid just so he doesn’t think I’m a know-it-all? He said he couldn’t get through my book. I presume since he’s posting in one of the cast album groups that he’s talking about Album Produced by. I don’t care if he got through it or not. He ended with “If ever an ego needed deflating.” I will never understand that crap. I find people who resort to that idiocy are either jealous or mad at the world. He lives in LA – I suggested we meet up, that he bring the book, and that I’d reimburse him for whatever he paid. I’d like to see him talk to me like that face to face, I really would. Why did he feel the need to even respond is the bigger question. I was sparring with a guy who happens to love every flop musical movie and he always gets mad if I post I didn’t care for it. Only to ME. Many others in the thread said they didn’t care for it. But only I get the response. I haven’t blocked this other guy yet – I’m waiting to see if he actually has the guts to meet me in person. I would relish the opportunity, oh, yes, I would relish the opportunity.
I did watch two videos last night – my show Together Again, the LACC production, and Prime Suspect, the movie I took over when the director was fired. I wanted to make sure I was accurate in my descriptions, and I pretty much was. As bad as Prime Suspect is, there are a few good sequences where I thought I did a good job directing for the camera. Because it’s a thriller, I got to move the camera much more than I would in a comedy, and I got to be visual in the storytelling. But there’s still fifteen horrible minutes of the original director’s footage in the movie and even though I revised a few scenes, there wasn’t any way to really fix the horrible plotting and script. Anyway, that’s all in the new book but it was fun to see it after all these years. As to Together Again, there are some really funny things in it and the songs are nice, but boy does some of the dialogue just lay there and not land. And boy, is my character obnoxious at times – that all got fixed for the second production, but if I were remounting this today, I would really rewrite quite a bit of the show. What really works is the form of the show and the pacing. And there is one sequence that’s me doing what I do best, and it’s so much fun to hear the audience laughing like crazy during it. This was 1982 and somehow between filming The Creature Wasn’t Nice and this show, I was getting a nice bald spot at the back of my head. Yikes.
That was pretty much it except for the slice of chocolate cream pie – a bit TOO sweet for my taste, but good.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do linter notes, I’ll write, I’ll check with the mail place and see what’s what and if there’s anything interesting there, I’ll go pick it up, I’ll eat (probably will cook something here), and then at some point I can watch, listen, and relax. There’s still one video I’d like to find, just to make sure I’m accurate about that one.
The next few days is more of the same.
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 liner notes, write, check with the mail place, eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite pies and have you made them or eaten them from restaurants or bakeries? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have finished the naming of the photos.