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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were humungous, and now it is time for you to post until the humungous cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: FATIDIC!

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all! The neighbor above me considerately had sex between 11:15 and 11:45 last night, noisy as it was with a very vocal finish, so I slept solidly until 4:48 this morning when I woke and could not get back to sleep. I know that one of the reasons is tonight's concert at the Library of Congress and, outside of a few friends involved whom I wish well, I hope it's a disaster for a few of my associates on the project now in charge. It's hard to let go of something wrapped around five years of your life. Another is my own situation caught up in conflicting workloads involving a public domain theatrical title and a third is scheduling recording sessions in the fall and dealing with disorganized people who prefer to do things ass backwards rather than wait until everything is in order.  Who's got time for a personal life when your entire working life is a mess?

So, I'm up. And my advice: never trust a drunk, especially those with late night phone calls stroking your ego.

[Ben]

Morning all. I'm back at work.

That is all.

[Jrand74]

Vibes for DR ELMORE.

Is this the project that DR JOSE is traveling to D.C. for today?

[Jrand74]

Steady rain today........

[Jrand74]

TOD:

Some restaurant in Baltimore where I ordered Seafood Picasso - it was the biggest platter of seafood in all kinds of colors that I have ever seen.

I don't think I finished everything, but I tried.

[Kerry]

Morning has broken.

[Jrand74]

Off to do some Monday things.

[JoseSPiano]

Good Morning!

I'm up, I'm up... And I'm already in DC.

[JoseSPiano]

Btw, Symphony Space is rebroadcasting their "Wall to Wall Sondheim" event today starting at 11:00am EDT. symphonyspace.org

[Dan (the Man)]

DR JRand, let me add my condolences to you and your family about Aunt Betty's passing. 

[Dan (the Man)]

Ah, yes...

! ! ! ! !  Happy Birthday to Stephen Sondheim  ! ! ! ! !

[Dan (the Man)]

Is anyone listening to anything Sondheimian today?  I'll be starting off with my favorite (and first) cast recording of his--the original cast of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

[elmore3003]

Vibes for DR ELMORE.

Is this the project that DR JOSE is traveling to D.C. for today?

Bingo!

[bk]

I'm up, have announced the CD, have to put it on Facebook and Twitter and am then going back to bed.

[Ben]

BBC 3 is spending the week on Sondheim

Part 1 is available on the BBC iPlayer

Sondheim Part 1

[JoseSPiano]

DR Elmore - As for your upstairs neighbor, just go up there next time - or preferably before "next time" - and talk to him in person. He's a neighbor, not a stranger.

As for the Library of Congress "mess", just let it go. If it's meant to fail, it will fail - with or without your mis-imtentions. All you're doing to yourself right now is stressing yourself out over something you have no control over, and something that you are no longer a part of. All that ill will you're sending out there right now is gonna end up nowhere except looping right back to you. -Karma and all that.

You should still be proud of the work and effort you put into "Life Begins at 8:40". The 22 other musicians (alas, no longer "23 other musicians") sharing the stage with me in Coolidge Auditorium truly appreciate your past devotion and dedication to this project, and we are doing are doing our darnedest to do well by you. Thank You.

[JoseSPiano]

Oh! I guess I do have phone/Internet access in the DC Metro. More or less.

[bk]

Cuba has been announced.  The score, that is.

[elmore3003]

As to the neighbor, DR Jose, believe me, we've talked. We've emailed. Nada. Nada. Nada. I believe he heard "earplugs" as an excuse to do nothing but be noisier.

Any other advice this morning?

[ArnoldMBrockman]

And the word of the day is: FATIDIC!

And The Song Of The Day Is: SOMETHING'S COMING

Happy 80th to Stephen Sondheim

[bk]

And here is the last of the blurbs - I am interested in hearing opinions:

I love Jimmy Kimmel’s book.  Wait, what? This isn’t Jimmy’s? Oh. Oh, BRUCE Kimmel.  How can I not love a book by someone who has lived as long as I have and made peace with being called Bruce?  Thank kimmel it’s also a sweet, funny, honest, real book about a real person’s trek through the unreal world of Hollywood.  I’m almost glad he didn’t make it as an actor – someone has to produce the original cast album of my new show, OOM PAH PAH BOOM, THE HINDENURG MUSICAL!

Bruce Vilanch

[Dan (the Man)]

As to the neighbor, DR Jose, believe me, we've talked. We've emailed. Nada. Nada. Nada. I believe he heard "earplugs" as an excuse to do nothing but be noisier.

Any other advice this morning?

Don't smoke in bed!

[Ben]

And here is the last of the blurbs - I am interested in hearing opinions:

I love Jimmy Kimmel’s book.  Wait, what? This isn’t Jimmy’s? Oh. Oh, BRUCE Kimmel.  How can I not love a book by someone who has lived as long as I have and made peace with being called Bruce?  Thank kimmel it’s also a sweet, funny, honest, real book about a real person’s trek through the unreal world of Hollywood.  I’m almost glad he didn’t make it as an actor – someone has to produce the original cast album of my new show, OOM PAH PAH BOOM, THE HINDENURG MUSICAL!

Bruce Vilanch

I like the blurb, it's fun. Is the misspelling of Hindenurg for Hindenburg intentional?

[Charles Pogue]

RE:  Vilanch's blurb.  Well, it's amusing; funnier if you happen to know who Bruce Vilanch is.  But I think it depends on understanding Vilanch's humour and it also takes for granted that you know something about Bruce Kimmel's career before you've read the book...that he was an actor and is now a record producer.  I don't like the phrase "he didn't make it as an actor", because, frankly, you did.  You could have continue it in that profession.

TOD:  There used to be a place in Dallas (on Lover's Lane) called the Rib, which was an all-you-can eat B-B-Q place.  Maybe the best que I ever ate.  Larry Drake and I used to go every six months or so.  When we started going it was probably $11-!2 ; I think it escalated to $15 (this was back in the mid-seventies).  It was all served to you by red-liveried waiters, starting with hot links and moving on up to ribs, chicken, brisket.  Larry and I would eat to the point of discomfort, waddle out to the car, pop the top button our pants and then flip a coin to see who would be driving us back home.

[Matt H.]

Good morning!

A bit overcast, but I guess the clouds rained themselves out last night because we had no rain this morning even though it was in the forecast. Thus, I was able to have a very nice morning walk.

[Matt H.]

Bruce V. can always make me laugh.

[Dan (the Man)]

And here is the last of the blurbs - I am interested in hearing opinions:

I love Jimmy Kimmel’s book.  Wait, what? This isn’t Jimmy’s? Oh. Oh, BRUCE Kimmel.  How can I not love a book by someone who has lived as long as I have and made peace with being called Bruce?  Thank kimmel it’s also a sweet, funny, honest, real book about a real person’s trek through the unreal world of Hollywood.  I’m almost glad he didn’t make it as an actor – someone has to produce the original cast album of my new show, OOM PAH PAH BOOM, THE HINDENURG MUSICAL!

Bruce Vilanch

Spelling aside, it's a funny and sincerely supportive blurb.

[Matt H.]

So, I'm playing the waiting game now in terms of work projects. There's nothing here, and until something arrives, I'll have the day off. I do expect THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX tomorrow. The UPS truck just drove by my office window and didn't stop.