Well, dear readers, I must write these here notes in a hurry, for she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon and I need as much sleep as I can get. So, let’s just go chronologically, shall we, rather than skipping around like a jack rabbit doing the Wah Watusi. I got ten hours of excellent sleep, arising around 12:30 or thereabouts. Once up, I answered e-mails and then just relaxed and rested my voice, which had a lot of guck in it. I shaved and showered and that got a lot of the guck out, thankfully. I did finesse the commentary before going to bed and thank goodness I did, as it certainly needed finessing. Then at four-thirty, we had us a stumble-through for Wednesdays Kritzerland anniversary show, and it was so much fun. Lots o’ laughs, the ballads all work, and superb performances straight down the line. Pace and structure were excellent, too. We had the usual fumfers – not a lot and funnily mostly at the top of the show. Several numbers brought down the house, even with our small group. The new What If got huge laughs and the old What If did, too. So, now we all have a day to rest and run stuff in our collective heads. After we finished, I had a few notes, both performance and accompaniment, and I gave those and we were all done by 5:45. I hadn’t eaten all day, so I had a bacon cheeseburger and a chili dog from Tom’s in NoHo. They got here pretty quickly. The burger there hasn’t been great the last few times, but yesterday’s burger was excellent and back to normal. The hot dog was small and good. I had no fries or onion rings. Then I had to rest my voice, so I watched some irritating YouTube videos, I also watched about thirty minutes of the original 1962 Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. It’s a very good film and the only odd thing about it is why I didn’t see it when it came out – I didn’t see it until the home video era. Weird, as it would have been right up my proverbial alley. Mitchum sure could be a vile villain – in the remake, De Niro is so over the top, as is the entire film, but Mitchum is MUCH more menacing because he’s subtle about it, which, for me, is much scarier than an overt psychopath. The score by Bernard Herrmann is very helpful and the supporting cast is excellent, as is the black-and-white Sam Leavitt photography. That was about it – doing the dishes right now and then the plan is to post at midnight and get right to bed.
Today, I’ll be up at eight and out the door by eight-forty. I’ll go have a breakfast somewhere, then do some errands and whatnot, check with the mail place to see if anything’s there, then come home. Once home, I’m doing nothing except for printing out the commentary and getting everything ready to take to the show. I’m sure I’ll watch, listen, and relax, but mostly it’s about resting my voice.
Tomorrow, I just rest my voice and relax until I shave and shower, then be on my way to sound check and show. I’m sure some of us will go out afterwards, and I will, of course, have a full report for you with photographs. The rest of the weekend will be getting back to work on various and sundried projects and hopefully getting a modern major miracle or two.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up at eight and out the door by eight-forty, have a light breakfast, do errands and whatnot, check the mail place, come home, get everything ready for the show, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite films of Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had such an entertaining stumble-through.