Silent Film

Sun, Sand, Movies, and Manageable Nature

Musician, Travel

First of all — Curse you, Netflix and Amazon Prime for fixing it so your films cannot be played via a projector. Good. I got that out of my system.

I just had the best day yesterday. No pain all day, no issues other than fatigue.

I’m working hard on my silent film scores. I’ve finished the Chaplin two-reeler and started the Harold Lloyd short! Then … Nosferatu!

(Gratuitous dogs photo.)

O

We now know surgery will be early July and eight weeks recuperation after that. Then I want a vacation after recuperation. I have something specific in mind.

It’s funny how I arrived at this.

In the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, there was a short scene shot on a sandbar well out into the ocean somewhere, about ankle deep. I remember seeing the film at an invited premiere because Jonathan worked for Disney at the time. I saw that sandbar 15 years ago, and thought, “I want to go there.”

And I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

I found a specific bay on Bermuda that I really like. I’ll think about it.

Tobacco Bay, St. George’s Island, Bermuda

The Bouncer

Arts and Crafts, Health, Musical Instruments, Musician, Personal, Uncategorized, Webloggy

Hi, Friends!

I am good! A large part of that is because I came up with some projects (even video piano lessons!) that can be done from my sick-person bed in my sick-person room. (Also, I’ve been through this before and I know what to expect. That makes a big difference.)

I am indeed, right smack in the middle of radiation. The only side-effect I’m having is the extreme fatigue. But. Mixed with no-joke pain meds, my cantankerous gastrointestinal system, a bit of spectrum disorder, and a dash of neuropathy … by late afternoon I’m literally bouncing off things like a plodding pinball. (Nothing serious, only door frames.) But, I have lots of projects that don’t require standing up!

  • I’m scoring two silent films for theater organ, to be played live in the Fall.
  • I continue to hang stuff and fuss with things in my new safe-room. I mean bedroom.
  • I’m starting to draw diagrams for the little pipe organ I want to build. I finally found an octave-and-a-half set of the type of pipes I was looking for.

Hope you’re well too!

Bonus points if you can identify the woman on the bottom left in the silver picture frame. Any guesses? I’ll just tell you — it’s Linda Lee Porter, Cole Porter’s wife. That’s a prop that sat on the piano from a show I did. Thanks, Bonnie! =)

O

Working on my silent films! =)