Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to Stan Getz weave his magic sax around some great tunes on various and sundried CDs – this album called Didn’t We, which is what’s currently playing – Stan and orchestra. Gorgeous. Once again, I did not watch a motion picture due to falling asleep several times, so instead I watched some best of Graham Norton’s TV show. I must say, no one doing talk shows today comes anywhere near him in terms of fun and the way in which he handles his guests. If you’ve never seen any of his shows, YouTube is your friend. Other than that, I’m not sure much of anything happened. Oh, I got up – that happened. Had a very rough night and was up until four, finally fell asleep, and got up at ten. I answered quite a few e-mails, then I went and some ATM business and stopped at Gelson’s. I ordered my pasta with pink sauce and a meatball from Maria’s and that arrived twenty minutes later. It wasn’t as good as usual, but I still enjoyed it for what it was – pasta with pink sauce and a meatball. Then I did a bit of work on the computer, sat on my couch like so much fish and dozed off repeatedly, then at around seven I got some chicken soup and a tiny side of mac-and-cheese from Mel’s Diner. Soup was great and the mac=and-cheese was actually amazing – I’ll be having that again very soon. Stan is now playing Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most by Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman. I cannot tell you how obsessed with this song I was when I was fifteen. It was one of the first songs I had my piano teacher teach me how to play and let me tell you that harmonically it is all over the place. And then, many years on in 1978, I was doing the last of the Donny and Marie Show I did, and they had a new musical director – Tommy Wolf. I couldn’t believe it. On a break, I told him how obsessed I was with Spring and he was so taken aback – he said that nobody remembered his songs and he was even more delighted when I told him how much I loved The Nervous Set, his one and only Broadway musical. He was a very sweet man and a terrific composer. Then I tried with a movie, failed, and then watched the Graham Norton clips and laughed frequently. I had a crème Brule I’d gotten at Gelson’s and that was very good. And here we are, and now playing Stan and the Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler conducting, another favorite album from my teen years.
Today, I’ll be up by eleven at the latest, I’ll shave and shower, then I’ll mosey on over to a theater in the Bank of Bur and see a play, but really to see the set of the play, as we may try to hire its designer. Hard to believe we start casting in a month. Yikes. After the play, I think I’ll go have a patty melt and fries or maybe coleslaw instead of the fries. Then I’ll come home, maybe write a few paragraphs, and then I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow and this week is figuring out the show order for the holiday concert, writing the commentary, having some meetings and meals, and doing whatever needs doing.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven at the latest, shave and shower, see a matinee, eat, maybe write a bit, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topic and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that it was a not much of anything happened day.