Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on April 06, 2018, 12:04:46 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were good and ugly, and now it is time for you to post until the good and ugly cows come home.
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First post after BK!
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OPT-IN e-mail sent!
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Topic of the Day: in my CD player: to be determined...when I get to work. :)
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And now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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Around 9:30 I will head down to City Center with the last two numbers for Me & My Girl. My Miami U friend Roy is meeting me this afternoon. We'll visit and go to dinner. We may see a show. I have no idea what.
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Good morning, all.
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TOD:
DVD: I, Tonya and Three Billboards
CD: Ravel
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They did a production of THE GRASS HARP in the SFV back in, I believe, the late 1970s, with Susan Watson and Chris Costello.
Great show.
Still have the OBC CD.
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Good morning, all.
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Nothing in particular I must needs do today, but plenty of this and that TO do, so... who knows what I'll actually do?
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That was a wasted post. But hey, so is this one.
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Has GEE arrived for everyone in New York?
(If it's not here today, I'll ask if the package people here just forgot to leave a pick-up slip.)
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Nothing much in the CD player lately. Hmm...
UNDERWORLD, U.S.A. is in the Blu-ray player, and it's fantastic but I need to get through it in one sitting. I've now watched two-thirds of it in two sittings, and that's got to stop.
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I finally caved in and read the GEE spoiler stuff on Amazon. But I've been careful not to spill anything I saw there to Skip.
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Our first copy of GEE arrived yesterday, so I'll be hoping to find the other one in the mailbox today.
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One thing I've got to get back to is entering some more of my friend's show into Finale. That serves as my learning project and helps move things along for him, but it fell by the wayside when I started getting busy with shows again after the post-holiday lull. This means I'm going to have to re-learn some stuff and move on past whatever the last challenge was. Which, oy!, I just remembered what it is, and that I'd hit a wall with it. Voices and layers, the implementation and management of which was driving me nuts.
I also have to see what's new in the upgrade I finally (get it?) went for. Had to bite the bullet and get the current release because the version I'd been using just fine on Windows doesn't run well on the Sierra OS on the Mac, and they've made it abundantly clear that they aren't going to support that any more so you pretty much have to upgrade on the Mac and I wanted to be consistent on both platforms. Actually, that can be today's project -- bringing the MacBook up to the desk and installing that.
Now wasn't that fascinating??
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Controversy Warning, since I know my thoughts on any irony of Wahlberg (an unapologetic physically violent person into his early 20's) getting a million bucks to wipe out Spacey's performance from a film seems to have no agreement here:
I guess I should say I don't think it's an outrage of any kind about the Wahlberg - Spacey thing, just a real irony. I know Rapp (Spacey's target and victim) was only 14 when the Spacey thing happened to him, or really the moves were made and I guess the legal line not crossed), but I think with sadness of all the people over the years who would have been spared being Spacey's targets, and spared Spacey the total ruin that happened (the way Broadway's James Barbour did a little time and now gets big jobs again), had Rapp just said something when he was already really famous in New York at least in his 20's. Rapp seemed to have held the info in until the moment that would (and of course did) bring the maximum ruination to Spacey. (Rapp was already pretty well-known and prominent at least in New York, and people were really paying attention to what he said and did, by 1996 when RENT hit Broadway.)
:) Unless Bk says not to, I plan to keep tackling the issues here on HHW until this site gets the Pulitzer Prize consideration it deserves. :)
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Good morning.
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Rex doesn't feel well. I don't think this is going to be a good day.
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Controversy Warning, since I know my thoughts on any irony of Wahlberg (an unapologetic physically violent person into his early 20's) getting a million bucks to wipe out Spacey's performance from a film seems to have no agreement here:
I guess I should say I don't think it's an outrage of any kind about the Wahlberg - Spacey thing, just a real irony. I know Rapp (Spacey's target and victim) was only 14 when the Spacey thing happened to him, or really the moves were made and I guess the legal line not crossed), but I think with sadness of all the people over the years who would have been spared being Spacey's targets, and spared Spacey the total ruin that happened (the way Broadway's James Barbour did a little time and now gets big jobs again), had Rapp just said something when he was already really famous in New York at least in his 20's. Rapp seemed to have held the info in until the moment that would (and of course did) bring the maximum ruination to Spacey. (Rapp was already pretty well-known and prominent at least in New York, and people were really paying attention to what he said and did, by 1996 when RENT hit Broadway.)
:) Unless Bk says not to, I plan to keep tackling the issues here on HHW until this site gets the Pulitzer Prize consideration it deserves. :)
It is an interesting subject and I do see the irony.
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VIBES FOR REX!
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I just looked up, and... IT'S SNOWING.
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VIBES FOR REX!
DITTO!
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VIBES FOR REX!
DITTO!
Tritto!
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I guess my problem is I don’t care about Wahlberg enough.
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I have had a Jerry Herman earworm eating away at my brain since Wednesday. Here’s Ethel Merman, a diva I somehow failed to mention yesterday, singing World, Take Me Back, a song that says essentially the same thing as Before the Parade Passes By.
https://youtu.be/GLWaqV-QQFU
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I guess my problem is I don’t care about Wahlberg enough.
But good luck on that Pulitzer, Fred.
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Let’s move on.
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Two!
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I guess my problem is I don’t care about Wahlberg enough.
Neither do I but the story is interesting.
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I guess my problem is I don’t care about Wahlberg enough.
But good luck on that Pulitzer, Fred.
It would be for the HHW site, of course. (I mean, if HARVEY could get a Pulitzer, why not?)
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When we lived in Bloomfield, Michigan Tim Allen was arrested for drunk driving about the same time Craig was driving home on the same street as the arrest. While I held no grudges Allen had become a success after serving time in prison I was furious he was released on the DUI without consequences.
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Good morning, and almost afternoon.
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I think I got about four hours of sleep.
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I just couldn't seem to drift off.
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I just looked up, and... IT'S SNOWING.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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All over! Fairly large area of snow, but it was mostly to the north of us and it didn't stick on anything that mattered! :)
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I have been receiving a lot of calls on my cell phone from local, Ashland included, businesses soliciting. Today I asked the local caller how he got my cell number. He said it is public information now and I am not on the "do not call" list.
I looked it up and as far as I can tell cell phone numbers are still private.
I also ranted to the guy how rude cell phone calls are because they ring in public places.
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I am thinking of putting my number on the no call list even if it isn't necessary. I just have this little worry that then it would make my cell number public.
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I'm up, I'm up - a little over eight hours of sleep.
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Where is the Pulitzer already?
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There really aren't that many spoilers on Amazon.
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Thyroid. Same thing as Joshie. I hope we have a better outcome this time.
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There really aren't that many spoilers on Amazon.
There were enough.
Skip actually was asking where the hell the damn book was already; Ok, he really just asked when I thought we were getting it, i added the other stuff. I hope it's today or tomorrow, because I don't want him to start a new book ahead of it. (He was eyeing War and Peace, and I didn't want GEE toi be pushed behind that. :) )
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I'm home from City Center and waiting to hear from my friend Roy.
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Where is the Pulitzer already?
They're not announced until next week, I think (or the week after.) Maybe Larry can nominate the site; it worked for Lapine and Sondheim.
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Or maybe it was the Worcestershire Prize that they were talking about for HHW.
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BK - could you check - I think I ordered GEE via email and paypal. is it possible it didn't go out with the other orders?
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Now I get worried every time I see an email with someone's name and accomplishments starting the email that it's going to be an obituary.
I got an email that started something like "[so and so], acclaimed award-winning star of the Metropolitan Oper" and the subject was cut off, and I was saying "Oh no, she's so young" - but I clicked and it was just an ad for an appearance somewhere that I'm on the mailing list. Whew!
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FJL, all books were shipped at the same exact time, and yes yours was there because I signed it.
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I just looked up, and... IT'S SNOWING.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
H-E-Double Hockey Sticks No!
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There really aren't that many spoilers on Amazon.
There were enough.
Skip actually was asking where the hell the damn book was already; Ok, he really just asked when I thought we were getting it, i added the other stuff. I hope it's today or tomorrow, because I don't want him to start a new book ahead of it. (He was eyeing War and Peace, and I didn't want GEE toi be pushed behind that. :) )
War and Peace only took me a week to read. Of course, I was younger then and living in Middletown, where there was nothing better to do.
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I'm looking at an old email. So a collaborator had disappeared (really, no responses to emails or calls for IIRC three weeks) and we were concerned. She finally wrote that her aunt was sick in Connecticut, the aunt was like a second mother to her, and she's so sorry to have been out of communication despite getting all our emails.
We asked if she needed anything, any help at task in NY while she was in Connecticut. I think I said I hope she'll just drop us a quick one line email just to let us know she's gone on a family matter. (Indeed, since she had a whole history of getting upset and not communicating for a while before, we never knew if she was gone on a trip without telling us, was upset about something and stayed quiet for a while, stuck in a project for work, so we didn't know if she was even still on the project not hearing any answers for about 3 weeks.) She didn't understand why I thought a quick one-line email could be necessary. A few months later, when she got upset about something else, an email ending with:
"By the way, my dead aunt thanks you for your generosity of allowing me to spend time at her death bed earlier this year."
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The things we forget when we think the project we're working on is turning out well enough artistically.
Moral: Emails never go away once they're sent.
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Hmm, "My Dead Aunt Thanks You" - the title of my new "passive-digressive" musical comedy
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
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Topic of the Day: in my CD player: to be determined...when I get to work. :)
It has been determined: the original London recording to Calendar Girls (http://castalbums.org/recordings/Calendar-Girls-2017-Original-London-Cast/38289). I've listened to the first disc and have just started the second disc. So far, I really like it!
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Has GEE arrived for everyone in New York?
(If it's not here today, I'll ask if the package people here just forgot to leave a pick-up slip.)
I don't know about New York, but GEE (http://www.kritzerland.com/gee.htm) has arrived in Tumwater! The bonus item is pretty darned cool! The section that I received is very different than the finished section. :D
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PAGE THREE CALENDAR GIRLS DANCE!!
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oCUpvCiHL.jpg)
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Good day.
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Fred, have you figured out if you are coming out here in June?
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Fred, have you figured out if you are coming out here in June?
I'm going to have to see how finances are after April 15. It's not the kind of situation where we're involved in rehearsals, but since they're going to use the Battle scene we workshopped at the Village rather than what's in the CD, I'd like to make the trip.
or maybe they could video the Battle scene (maybe even the big numbers in general). It would be great to have a video of the numbers at least if that's allowed under the non-union rules at that theater for the actors.
That was never possible for the two NYC productions; those two were both Equity, and there were real costs and Equity rules, of course.
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Fred, have you figured out if you are coming out here in June?
I'm going to have to see how finances are after April 15. It's not the kind of situation where we're involved in rehearsals, but since they're going to use the Battle scene we workshopped at the Village rather than what's in the CD, I'd like to make the trip.
or maybe they could video the Battle scene (maybe even the big numbers in general). It would be great to have a video of the numbers at least if that's allowed under the rules that cover the actors. That was never possible for the NYC Equity productions.
Do you know if this is an Equity production, or would they just operate under Equity rules because they can?
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VIBES FOR REX!
DITTO!
Tritto!
~~~An Additional Ditto!!~~~
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I have had a Jerry Herman earworm eating away at my brain since Wednesday. Here’s Ethel Merman, a diva I somehow failed to mention yesterday, singing World, Take Me Back, a song that says essentially the same thing as Before the Parade Passes By.
https://youtu.be/GLWaqV-QQFU
I love this song. ;D
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I have been receiving a lot of calls on my cell phone from local, Ashland included, businesses soliciting. Today I asked the local caller how he got my cell number. He said it is public information now and I am not on the "do not call" list.
I looked it up and as far as I can tell cell phone numbers are still private.
I also ranted to the guy how rude cell phone calls are because they ring in public places.
I am thinking of putting my number on the no call list even if it isn't necessary. I just have this little worry that then it would make my cell number public.
I went ahead put my cell phone number on the Do Not Call list anyway because I would (fortunately rarely) get automatically dialed calls that didn't check the list. :P
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Thyroid. Same thing as Joshie. I hope we have a better outcome this time.
That's what happened with my cat, Ebonie. :(
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
RIP to Skip's aunt amp.
:))
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Fred, have you figured out if you are coming out here in June?
I'm going to have to see how finances are after April 15. It's not the kind of situation where we're involved in rehearsals, but since they're going to use the Battle scene we workshopped at the Village rather than what's in the CD, I'd like to make the trip.
or maybe they could video the Battle scene (maybe even the big numbers in general). It would be great to have a video of the numbers at least if that's allowed under the rules that cover the actors. That was never possible for the NYC Equity productions.
Do you know if this is an Equity production, or would they just operate under Equity rules because they can?
Second Story isn't normally an Equity house. I doubt they are for STARFIGHTER.
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BK: First book arrived in yesterday's mail (the one signed to me), but nothing more in today's mail, in case you want to check tracking.
Edit: I just checked the house on another street where our mail has gotten crisscrossed a couple of times, and it doesn't look like it went there.
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I keep getting emails with Stormy Daniels' name in the subject line. This is really hurting my carefully cultivated reputation!
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Good grief! The Dow Jones dropped over 700 points today.
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Whew - no internet or cable all day! Finally it came back. When I called a robot told me it was being worked on and would be up at 2:24 p.m. - they almost made it.
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New CD ordered.
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Tomorrow is Open the Barn Day and the first session of ANNIE auditions....oh my.....with a board meeting in between.
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Tomorrow is Open the Barn Day and the first session of ANNIE auditions....oh my.....with a board meeting in between.
An evil little voice in my brain wishes a fly on the wall would "tape" a cherce handful of those auditions for our viewing pleasure. Someone make it stop!!!
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Hello, everyone.
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I went to acupuncture today, then to the optician, picked up some lunch, and went to Trader Joe's. Such is my life.
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I have no news.
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Vibes to all.
TTFN.
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Fred, have you figured out if you are coming out here in June?
I'm going to have to see how finances are after April 15. It's not the kind of situation where we're involved in rehearsals, but since they're going to use the Battle scene we workshopped at the Village rather than what's in the CD, I'd like to make the trip.
or maybe they could video the Battle scene (maybe even the big numbers in general). It would be great to have a video of the numbers at least if that's allowed under the rules that cover the actors. That was never possible for the NYC Equity productions.
Do you know if this is an Equity production, or would they just operate under Equity rules because they can?
Sorry if my first post was confusing. I'll go back and word it better just in case.
Both of the NYC productions (in the Storm Theatre's 2004-5 season, and then at NYMF in the same year as BK and Brain...) were Equity. Definitely couldn't film them without paying a lot, (or maybe otherwise everyone saying yes, I guess?)
Second Story will definitely be non-union. I think this link for the auditions last month is still live and generally reachable.
http://tpsonline.org/auditions/auddb.php?Aud_ID=26585
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I was wondering if you might know if its being non-union means they can video the songs as long as everyone in the cast agrees.
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
RIP to Skip's aunt amp.
:))
Thanks for the reaction, George!
I'm here all week. (Luckily, of course, the week is over tomorrow.)
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I went back and re-worded my post about which productions I meant to say were Equity.
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Thyroid. Same thing as Joshie. I hope we have a better outcome this time.
Hypo, hyper? Good vibes for a better outcome this time.
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I'm looking at an old email. So a collaborator had disappeared (really, no responses to emails or calls for IIRC three weeks) and we were concerned. She finally wrote that her aunt was sick in Connecticut, the aunt was like a second mother to her, and she's so sorry to have been out of communication despite getting all our emails.
We asked if she needed anything, any help at task in NY while she was in Connecticut. I think I said I hope she'll just drop us a quick one line email just to let us know she's gone on a family matter. (Indeed, since she had a whole history of getting upset and not communicating for a while before, we never knew if she was gone on a trip without telling us, was upset about something and stayed quiet for a while, stuck in a project for work, so we didn't know if she was even still on the project not hearing any answers for about 3 weeks.) She didn't understand why I thought a quick one-line email could be necessary. A few months later, when she got upset about something else, an email ending with:
"By the way, my dead aunt thanks you for your generosity of allowing me to spend time at her death bed earlier this year."
Oh my, this is not a stable person.
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Hmm, "My Dead Aunt Thanks You" - the title of my new "passive-digressive" musical comedy
;D
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
Fortunately for the friend you got that straitened out. Since my hearing issues I hear strange things like that all the time.
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FJL, all books were shipped at the same exact time, and yes yours was there because I signed it.
Great, thanks for checking!
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Fred, have you figured out if you are coming out here in June?
I hope it will be the days that I am here. This time period has become very complicated for me.
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I have been receiving a lot of calls on my cell phone from local, Ashland included, businesses soliciting. Today I asked the local caller how he got my cell number. He said it is public information now and I am not on the "do not call" list.
I looked it up and as far as I can tell cell phone numbers are still private.
I also ranted to the guy how rude cell phone calls are because they ring in public places.
I am thinking of putting my number on the no call list even if it isn't necessary. I just have this little worry that then it would make my cell number public.
I went ahead put my cell phone number on the Do Not Call list anyway because I would (fortunately rarely) get automatically dialed calls that didn't check the list. :P
Thanks. I will probably do it.
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Thyroid. Same thing as Joshie. I hope we have a better outcome this time.
That's what happened with my cat, Ebonie. :(
Years ago with my cat My Sin. We had a dog go on thyroid medication and was fine.
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
RIP to Skip's aunt amp.
:))
;D
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
Fortunately for the friend you got that straitened out. Since my hearing issues I hear strange things like that all the time.
I recall at BMI workshop someone sang a song called "I Never Knew What Hit Me" and one of the people thought they kept hearing the title as "I never knew a hippie."
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I'm looking at an old email. So a collaborator had disappeared (really, no responses to emails or calls for IIRC three weeks) and we were concerned. She finally wrote that her aunt was sick in Connecticut, the aunt was like a second mother to her, and she's so sorry to have been out of communication despite getting all our emails.
We asked if she needed anything, any help at task in NY while she was in Connecticut. I think I said I hope she'll just drop us a quick one line email just to let us know she's gone on a family matter. (Indeed, since she had a whole history of getting upset and not communicating for a while before, we never knew if she was gone on a trip without telling us, was upset about something and stayed quiet for a while, stuck in a project for work, so we didn't know if she was even still on the project not hearing any answers for about 3 weeks.) She didn't understand why I thought a quick one-line email could be necessary. A few months later, when she got upset about something else, an email ending with:
"By the way, my dead aunt thanks you for your generosity of allowing me to spend time at her death bed earlier this year."
Oh my, this is not a stable person.
I don't think unstable, but manipulative. She wanted to disappear for a while for as long as she wanted, whenever she felt like it. The other 3 in the group treated it as a serious business collaboration, and it was frustrating when a question would be asked that should take 5 minutes to answer, but somehow the answer took six days. It's so interesting looking at old emails, how much can happen and you often "forget it" a week later if you feel the piece you're working on is a worthy goal, assuming the person's talent is worth the trouble.
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Unbelievably, I saw in looking stuff up about this other person years agoi that BK and I then had an email exchange that looks like it was happening both during a tax season and also right in the middle of a testy exchange with this person. And I guess the testiness to the other person was affecting the thought I was giving to what i was writing to BK, as I think Bk was surprised by my tone. Context is everything. (I hope I called BK after that to apologize, since i didn't see an apology from me to him in an email. Or maybe I did so on here. if not, BK, sorry for something you don't remember. :) )
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Manipulative, rude, and probably a few other things. It is a shame when people are like this.
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Back from picking up a package, buying paper for the printer, lunch meeting, and then printing out quite a nice number of orders. Let that continue over the next week and we may actually sell out of this one.
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Unbelievably, I saw in looking stuff up about this other person years agoi that BK and I then had an email exchange that looks like it was happening both during a tax season and also right in the middle of a testy exchange with this person. And I guess the testiness to the other person was affecting the thought I was giving to what i was writing to BK, as I think Bk was surprised by my tone. Context is everything. (I hope I called BK after that to apologize, since i didn't see an apology from me to him in an email. Or maybe I did so on here. if not, BK, sorry for something you don't remember. :) )
But Fred, BK remembers EVERYTHING!!
;)
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Question, do you use one space after a period or two? Reading the posts it looks like most everyone uses two.
If your answer is 2 spaces, do you use only one when writing professionally.
I am asking because I was surprised our condo manager mentioned he has been taken to task for doing two spaces ;D
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Unbelievably, I saw in looking stuff up about this other person years agoi that BK and I then had an email exchange that looks like it was happening both during a tax season and also right in the middle of a testy exchange with this person. And I guess the testiness to the other person was affecting the thought I was giving to what i was writing to BK, as I think Bk was surprised by my tone. Context is everything. (I hope I called BK after that to apologize, since i didn't see an apology from me to him in an email. Or maybe I did so on here. if not, BK, sorry for something you don't remember. :) )
But Fred, BK remembers EVERYTHING!!
;)
I was tempted but didn't say it :D
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Question, do you use one space after a period or two? Reading the posts it looks like most everyone uses two.
If your answer is 2 spaces, do you use only one when writing professionally.
I am asking because I was surprised our condo manager mentioned he has been taken to task for doing two spaces ;D
I learned to type in high school (graduated in 1984) and I learned two spaces after a period. I don't have to change that style for my work, so I won't. I know our communications department has specific formatting rules, but that's for them, and not for the regular employees.
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I had thought either is correct, however, it seems officially it is one space. I am glad you don't have to change for work. I personally think it is easier to read two spaces vs one.
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I use two spaces in any writing I do. But Grant changes them all to one for the actual book.
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My dead aunt wants to know if anyone can identify the brand of this camera set up we had during my senior year in high school.....1968.
I am NOT in the photo.
(https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17796241_10211547290333257_7433207013133797537_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=27bff4329bd0bb7b6dd082e072469c24&oe=5B71650A)
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All of the SONY machines that I can find on the inner web had the SONY name on the front and were vertical....so I don't think it's a SONY.
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Page four? Really?
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Guess I'll get ready shortly and then mosey on over to the Group Rep Theatre for an opening night.
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FJL, your package was delivered YESTERDAY. There is something seriously wrong with whoever runs your mail room in your building.
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FJL, your package was delivered YESTERDAY. There is something seriously wrong with whoever runs your mail room in your building.
BK - To clarify, when I said Skip asked, I meant Skip has been asking me about the book; he didn't know to ask the folks in the package place. Thanks for the delivery info.
The US post office employees around here really don't care. (I'm told it's a very different work ethic even in NJ somehow.) FedEx and UPS are normally very diligent, and USPS is not, so USPS loses business to FedEx and UPS because of bad USPS service, where no one can lose their job except for really bad behavior. And now D.C. blames Amazon for USPS troubles.
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I shall now be on my way to an opening night.
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Unbelievably, I saw in looking stuff up about this other person years agoi that BK and I then had an email exchange that looks like it was happening both during a tax season and also right in the middle of a testy exchange with this person. And I guess the testiness to the other person was affecting the thought I was giving to what i was writing to BK, as I think Bk was surprised by my tone. Context is everything. (I hope I called BK after that to apologize, since i didn't see an apology from me to him in an email. Or maybe I did so on here. if not, BK, sorry for something you don't remember. :) )
But Fred, BK remembers EVERYTHING!!
;)
I was tempted but didn't say it :D
OK! But BK remembers the good things and the bad things!
(I know some Lady Macbeths, I mean brother's wives, I mean people, who remember all the bad to the nth detail and take the good for granted.)
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I use two spaces in any writing I do. But Grant changes them all to one for the actual book.
Funny :)
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So Bk or anyone who knows this stuff - I've searched and searched, and it's looking like "Naughty Rob" who keeps getting grief on that theater chat board is Rob Shuter, the husband of Bruce Sussman (Barry Manilow's forever writing partner). Could that be right?
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
Fortunately for the friend you got that straitened out. Since my hearing issues I hear strange things like that all the time.
I recall at BMI workshop someone sang a song called "I Never Knew What Hit Me" and one of the people thought they kept hearing the title as "I never knew a hippie."
Was it a musical version of Flat Broke with Two Goats? I've only just started the book and already I'm tired of the spousal abuse. With all of the garbage at work (which seems to get worse daily), I just need to be around nicer people at the moment.
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So, in keeping with that, I decided against finishing I, Tonya or starting Three Billboards. Instead, I'm watching King Lear.
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Wait! These could be the worst people of all. Ha!
Oh, well, the cast is wonderful: James Earl Jones as Lear, Rene Auberjonois as Edgar, Raul Julia as the bastard Edmund, Tom Aldredge as the Fool, Rosalind Cash as Goneril, Paul Sorvino, Douglass Watson and more.
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Let's head off this page.
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Five!
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I use two spaces in any writing I do. But Grant changes them all to one for the actual book.
Funny :)
And good for Grant. Two spaces drives me crazy, and it drives anybody who sets type crazy, too, because it throws everything off, especially at the end of lines.
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I need a day off.
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There's a new King Lear coming up that sounds wonderful with Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Emily Watson and Jim Broadbent.
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Well, I've been here at work for far too long today, so I'm finally heading out.
Until later!
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How can it be Friday when it has seemed like Saturday all day long?
At least it will be Saturday in less than one hour. There is THAT.
I was delighted to awaken to see the announcement of "The Grass Harp". Love me some "Grass Harp", I do.
Ah, well. The Friday-that-seemed-like-Saturday is nearly done. I am ready for bed.
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TOD: Bruce Smeaton's "Iceman". Simply gorgeous score.
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It was a Monday all day for me, for no good reason. Maybe because of how I was out most of the last two days, but....
I know why! Because it snowed! :)
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I recall once we had company and we all were talking making demos at home, and Skip said "My amp died yesterday" and a friend said "I'm so sorry, Skip, you could have cancelled on us tonight." We all looked at the friend strangely. Turned out the friend thought Skip had said "My aunt died."
Fortunately for the friend you got that straitened out. Since my hearing issues I hear strange things like that all the time.
I recall at BMI workshop someone sang a song called "I Never Knew What Hit Me" and one of the people thought they kept hearing the title as "I never knew a hippie."
Was it a musical version of Flat Broke with Two Goats? I've only just started the book and already I'm tired of the spousal abuse. With all of the garbage at work (which seems to get worse daily), I just need to be around nicer people at the moment.
I suspected I did not want to read this.
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I am home from Hello Dolly! It was one of the few good revivals I've seen in the past 40 years. And to bed.
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I am home from Hello Dolly! It was one of the few good revivals I've seen in the past 40 years. And to bed.
Wow. And you haven't cared for Bernadette in recent years. How was she?
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Three hours with Lear is moving faster than the lightning in that hellish storm.
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I use two spaces in any writing I do. But Grant changes them all to one for the actual book.
Funny :)
And good for Grant. Two spaces drives me crazy, and it drives anybody who sets type crazy, too, because it throws everything off, especially at the end of lines.
Wow, does it bother you every time you read a post with two spaces?
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I use two spaces in any writing I do. But Grant changes them all to one for the actual book.
Funny :)
And good for Grant. Two spaces drives me crazy, and it drives anybody who sets type crazy, too, because it throws everything off, especially at the end of lines.
Wow, does it bother you every time you read a post with two spaces?
Not a post. Not texts, emails, letters, anything like that. But people do it at work and removing them is extra work on top of everything else. And they're not consistent in their use. So, it's often a guessing game. But it does mess things up if the extra space is not removed.
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Work related is very exciting understandable. Not so much is why anyone would be bothered by the manager of our complex double spacing ;D
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I'm exhausted. And I just watched an 8-minute video of a toilet. Why?
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It was titled Metastasis and it's part of a series of experimental films from a Japanese director called Toshio Matsumoto.
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I think I've had enough for one night.
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Good night, all.
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I'm exhausted. And I just watched an 8-minute video of a toilet. Why?
:D
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I use two spaces in any writing I do. But Grant changes them all to one for the actual book.
Funny :)
And good for Grant. Two spaces drives me crazy, and it drives anybody who sets type crazy, too, because it throws everything off, especially at the end of lines.
Wow, does it bother you every time you read a post with two spaces?
Not a post. Not texts, emails, letters, anything like that. But people do it at work and removing them is extra work on top of everything else. And they're not consistent in their use. So, it's often a guessing game. But it does mess things up if the extra space is not removed.
I have a co-worker that for just about EVERY e-book that she buys, she (when she's able) strips the DRM from the e-book (both epub and Kindle) so that she can reformat them the way that SHE wants them. Evidently, Kindle e-books can have either too much or too little space in between paragraphs, or some are formatted where she can't make changes through her device, things like that. I know she reads a lot of e-books, but to automatically do that for practically every one is (to me) kind of ridiculous. Just read the darned book, is what I say...but not to her, of course. ;)
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Hate Naughty Rob.
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Perhaps vixmom is finishing a book.
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Back from a rather horrid production of Deathtrap - won't say much in the notes, but you know what you're in for when the big scenes are scored with music by Bernard Herrmann (as is the between scene music) - when you have to resort to that you are not trusting the play or your direction and the fact is it's so off-putting and distracting it has the opposite effect from what is desired.
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Back from a rather horrid production of Deathtrap - won't say much in the notes, but you know what you're in for when the big scenes are scored with music by Bernard Herrmann (as is the between scene music) - when you have to resort to that you are not trusting the play or your direction and the fact is it's so off-putting and distracting it has the opposite effect from what is desired.
Darn. That's too bad.
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Let's...
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...try...
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...to...
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...get...
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...to...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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...for no other reason than "because."
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:)
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I have been to a great many plays lately, where the director has scored almost the entire play.
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It is often very distracting. You find yourself listening to the music, and trying to figure out where the music is from.
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I was able to sign up for a free month of CBS All Access so that I can watch Star Trek Discovery for free. I know I won't continue and pay for it when the free month is up.
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It is often very distracting. You find yourself listening to the music, and trying to figure out where the music is from.
I know. It shouldn't be distracting.
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Use the music between the scenes and acts, and let the actors handle the emotions during the play.
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Use the music between the scenes and acts, and let the actors handle the emotions during the play.
Exactly.
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Hi, Tom. :)
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When I did INHERIT THE WIND, the director used music from JFK, but he used it sparingly, and it was very effective.
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Hi, George.
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Good night, George.
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Good night, Tom.
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Well, I need to go to bed. Tomorrow will be a day. I have my family's weekly family dinner, but I'll have to leave by 5:15 or so because I'm ushering for a free military band concert downtown. I think it's usually very well attended, so it should be good.
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Good night, and have a good day (tomorrow), all!