Real Life

I'm not complaining -- please don't think that I am. I am blessed with so much every day, it's amazing. But I do want to paint a picture of just one day's concerns as I fire up the old computer and set off on the day:

My big band chart is only half-written. The session is tomorrow. I have no band. Yet.

The other tune, the TV gameshow tune, is going to be a transcription of the theme to the Hollywood Squares TV show. But I haven't started it at all. And it's due Friday. So I guess I need to schedule musicians for tomorrow as well...

I'm recording Pat Morita today at 2 PM -- remote from Las Vegas. I have no hookup numbers, and Pat hasn't returned his w-9 form to the signatory (the folks who pay union talent for us). The signatory also called today to tell me that it appears that Richard Simmons' agent (I'm recording Richard on Friday) is trying to pull a fast one on us, so some discussion must take place sometime today...

Several people have emailed me, desperate for Chaos Theory scores and parts. I've got to write them back to tell them that as much as I'd like to help out, they've just gotta wait.

I'm recording Gus Savalas -- the brother of the late (and much more famous) Telly Savalas, later this afternoon. I haven't heard Telly Savalas' voice since I was 4 years old and my Dad was watching "Kojak", so I'm not gonna know if Gus sounds like Telly until someone ELSE hears it and says, "Who the Hell is that supposed to be?!?"

I still haven't printed out Courage & Compassion scores for Midwest. I have no finished TranZendental Danse of Joi score. And Hal Leonard is out of Chaos Theory and Reflections, so I need to do another run of those. SOON.

Other things? Yes, but there's no way I'm going to get to them today. Better dash -- I've got many the fish to fry.