The Daily News
1 Garbage Day. My favorite day of the week.
2 Every week we wallow in garbage.
3 A truer word was never said.
4 Something like that.
5 Goodness.
6 "Every week we wallow in garbage." <British accent a la Kenneth Branagh in Much Ado> There's a double meaning in that...
8 Sorry. I'm talking British these days. Comes from hanging out at a party that had Abbey Road experts surrounding me from all angles.
9 Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine...
10 "Cheeky" was a line from A Hard Day's Night. I'm sure it was a blink-and-it's gone line.
11 Changing Directions Fast, Dept: I stumbled upon a link to great lines from A Hard Day's Night, a GREAT film if you haven't seen it, and worth a second, third, or millionth look if you have. Here's a link to some of the lines. Click the link, not the pic:
12 I adopt British accents every now and again, okay?
13 It's fun.
14 You can throw it out there anywhere, and if you're good, and I'm pretty sure I am darned good, you could get an entire room talking British.
15 Years ago I played Lionel in See How They Run, a comic farce I consider to be one of the most underrated.
16 I gush about its playwright Philip King, at least for his ability to spoof intelligently. He spoofed murder mysteries, which I love, but which also must be spoofed.
17 I'll go off the rails if I tell you that I played a Russian spy when my high school, my growing-up high school, staged that show. Life altering.
18 My friend Charlie landed the lead part of Lionel when I was in high school. Charlie is a grand actor. Still is, I guarantee. As a high school dummy, I wanted the part of Lionel, but Charlie rocked it.
19 It was then that I realized that being a lead is more stressful than being a villain, which is much more fun.
20 All this is if memory serves, which my own memory fails each day.
21 And so what of it?
22 Garbage Day. We derail, we human beings.
23 Let us pause and raise a toast to Garbage Day.
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25 Isn't that guy swell?
25 Well, I think so.
26 Cute cheeks.
27 I'm pretty sure this fellow had work done.
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30 Has anybody besides me not had work done?
31 Omigosh.
32 That's Old Skool Comix for, "Oh my gosh!!!!!!!"
33 Sorta crowdin' that "gosh!!!!!!!," slantin' it and all.
34 Yes, you counted right. Seven exclamations.
35 One for each day of the week. Or one for each of my teeth.
36 Moving On, Part One: I am glad the Riff Crowd hasn't run me outta town with a cattle prod yet.
37 It amazes me how ungodly talented those guys are. I try to listen to each riff, but it's not always easy. These guys are wizards. I'm loving it.
38 Last night I had Maren duty. It's pretty hard to work on music when you've a sweet little baby using you for a chair.
39 She crawled up and conked out. Then she took her tiny hand and wrapped it around my pinkie.
40 The babies made noise last night, but each time we would sing, they would go back into their golden slumbers.
41 Heh. Cheeky.
42 Because of the writing, the music, and the babies, I need to cut this short today. I was learning an Otis tune last night and put this aside. It sounded SO nice last night. I lit the room down, put this night light that changes colors in the kitchen area and played some Otis Redding.
43 I woke up this morning and tried it again. Raspy and nasty. I'm doing too much. But I'm loving all of it anyway.
44 AnywayZ...
45 Okay kids. Once more. It's "anyway." No "s" and REALLY no "z."
46 That's been the trouble with me lately. No z's. I wake up every single night. Ah, insomnia. Always has been a nuisance.
47 I gottago.
48 Duty calls.
49 Have a GREAT day.
50 See you again.
51 Peace.
~H~
fin.
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