Farewell to Pastor Bob
This morning our church bade a fond farewell to our Pastor, Bob Moulding. He is off to start a new Nazarene church in the not yet thriving community of South Lyon, MI, and for the time being we are getting a "sub" Pastor from another church. Pastor Bob sure has helped my family in the past when we needed him, but now he needs us and our prayers. They don't have a building yet, so for the first year or so of his ministry Bob is going to be holding his services in somebody's house.
Speaking of prayers answered, my brother Chris, who is my publishing guru, read the Friday blog and agreed to intercede on my behalf with mp3.com. So that's seen to, at least for now.
Please Excuse Us - Temporarily, We Are an Idiot
Sorry I haven't been producing all kinds of brilliant verse, forays into the works of unknown composers and reviews of films no one has seen in 70 years. This is a time of transition. My time of my radio show has been changed to Tuesday 8-9pm. The object was to make the time of my show easier on my wife, who hated my early morning comings and goings. The fact of the matter is that she doesn't like the new time much better than she did the old. This has made for much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the old homestead this week.
Since the length of the show has gone from 3 hours to one this is leaving more time for me to work on something I've been neglecting - my own output. Since my birthday I have tranferred to digital from cassette three rehearsals of the first edition of 11,000 Switches, one fragmentary live show by Qi-ZZ and a studio session by EYR (my pre-The Master of Horror moniker as a solo artiste), all recordings dating from no later than January 1981. And since relatively few of you understand what I mean by these groups/recordings, hopefully that will leave the others slack-jawed and jumping for joy. At least I hope so.
I did catch a bit of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1963), Roger Corman's prime Edgar Allan Poe adaptation (written by Charles Beaumont, by the way) with Vincent Price. I understand that Corman later re-made it in 1989. He should've used that same money just to replace the music track on the original. Everything about the '63 MASQUE is great except for the music, which sucks.
Uncle Dave Lewis