Well, dear readers, I have more breaking news that will amaze and astound you, not necessarily in that order. And what IS that breaking news. Well, I’ll tell you what that breaking news is – it is June. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it is June, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that June will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. This year is flying by, like a gazelle eating a Mexican pizza from Taco Bell whilst riding a unicycle (no mean feat). And I? I, too, have eaten a Mexican pizza from Taco Bell although I didn’t eat it whilst riding a unicycle, I ate it whilst sitting at the computer like so much fish, much as I am doing now. And as I’m doing that now, Miss Renee Fleming is singing various and sundried arias from various and sundried operas by American composers such as Bernard Herrmann, George Gershwin, Douglas Moore, Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Carlyle Floyd, Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, and Andre Previn. It’s a wonderful compendium, beautifully sung and played by a fine orchestra in fine sound. Prior to that, I watched a motion picture on the Flix of Net entitled Disappearance at Clifton Hill, a film about a disappearance at Clifton Hill. It’s a strange motion picture – kind of hypnotic in its hypnotic way. It features an excellent performance from its leading lady, Tuppence Middleton, an English actress playing an American. I guess I’d seen her in The Imitation Game and she’s in both Downton Abbey films. The rest of the cast is fine, including a surprising performance by director David Cronenberg. It’s about a young girl who witnesses the kidnapping of a young boy. Grown up now, her mother has died and she and her sister are there to decide what to do with her mother’s motel. Being in the area again brings back memories of what she saw as a child. But she apparently is also troubled, who goes through “cycles” and so no one really believes her. It’s worth a look-see if you have Netflix. It’s well-directed and thankfully not in a “now” way. It’s not great, but it held my interest.
Yesterday was fine, I suppose. I got seven hours of sleep, arising at noon o’clock. Once up, I answered lots of e-mails, then decided on Taco Bell for food. I drove over there, got a Mexican pizza, a chalupa, and a crunchy taco, came home, and ate it all up. The Mexican pizza was okay – not something I need to have again. Interestingly, they were out of mild sauce, but thankfully, I have about fifty packets here in the home environment. After eating, I dozed off for about thirty minutes, then got ready for our second rehearsal.
It went very well. One of our performers was feeling tired and wanted to stay home and rest, so it was only four of us. After that, I watched the movie, had a toasted bagel with cream cheese for my snack, and that was pretty much it for the day and evening.
Today, I’ll be up by eleven or so, I’ll go right to the mail place and hopefully pick up two important envelopes, after which I’ll go do my banking. After I cash the check, if my bank is too crowded, I’ll probably wait until tomorrow to deposit the cash. We shall see. Then I can relax, eat, rest my voice, do whatever needs doing, and then at some point I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I’ll relax and then we do our stumble-through. Friday, I’ll relax until it’s time to mosey on over to Vitello’s for sound check and then we do our show. Happily, we have the sound guy I like, and I’m sure after the show, some of us will go downstairs and have a proper meal. Then the weekend is for relaxing. Then next week, I have to cast a staged two-night reading – the play I did a quick staging of a few months ago. This time, we’ll have a little over a week to rehearse, which will be nice.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven or so, hopefully pick up two important envelopes, bank, eat, rest my voice, do whatever needs doing, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, as we welcome in June – and it is my fervent hope and prayer that June will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.