9th & 10th October, 2004
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Rod 4/16/04 Photo by Billy Iz
A Thought for Today
Belief usually brings relief.
TWO NEW APPEARANCES
Saturday October 30th
TEXAS 2004 BOOK FESTIVAL
Reading and Book Signings
Reading 12:45 PM
The State Capitol Auditorium,
Congress & 11th St. Austin, Texas
Book Signings
1:45 PM. & 4:15 PM
Barnes & Noble Book Signing Tent.
State Capitol Grounds
For more info:
www.texasbookfestival.org
Saturday November 6th
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
The Music of Cy Coleman
With an all star cast including
DEBBIE ALLEN*,
CHRISTINE ANDREAS, LUCIE ARNAZ,
LIZ CALLAWAY, KEITH
CARRADINE*, JOY CLAUSSEN,
CAROLE COOK, TYNE
DALY, NANCY DUSSAULT ,
ILENE GRAFF*, KEN
HOWARD*, BILL HUTTON,
JANE A. JOHNSTON,
PAULA KELLY, JANE LANIER,
MICHELE LEE*, MARIN
MAZZIE, ROD MCKUEN,
BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL,
JACK NOSEWORTHY,
VALARIE PETTIFORD, CHARLOTTE RAE,
ALICE RIPLEY, CHITA
RIVERA, JOHN SCHNEIDER,
CHRISTOPHER SHOWERMAN,
MARK SMITH, SALLY
STRUTHERS, LILLIAS WHITE*,
PATRICK WILSON, JO
ANNE WORLEY...
* Re-creating an original Broadway performance.
Directed by
David Galligan
Musical Director:
Ben Lanzarone
Lighting Design:
Michael Zinman
Executive Producer:
David Michaels
Saturday, November 6, 2004, 8pm
Luckman Fine Arts Complex,
5151 State University Drive
Campus of Cal State University Los Angeles
Tickets: $60, $30, $60, $100, $150, $200
(323) 656-9069 • S.T.A.G.E. Website
www.stagela.com
FROM the¨BOOKS
Three Entries from Coming Close to the Earth
A Statement
You fill me with anxiety and that is better than not being filled at
all. You open up your life to me - could I ask more. I have no quarrel
with the men who love or have loved you, only appreciation for their
taste.
I believe that every time we love or try to love, unconsciously we seek
out duplicates, probably with help from someone else because the cloning
is not always obvious. Then again there are those rare times when
opposites like magnets pull us forward. Maybe this was such a time.
Changing Course
A compass is a small thing, trapped amid the panel’s instruments or
resting in the hand. I am not sure any compass knows the truth - any
more than all or any of us knows what’s real or facsimile. The needle
hasn’t quivered, but I think the vessel’s changing course. Where it’s
bound for I’m not sure, but it will go on pounding through the seas till
every sea’s been sailed.
Call me or send a message in a bottle. I’ll be within the next port
waiting. Always in the harbor.
Times
To write about you is not easy. Compare it to a blind that its spring
flaps up to smash the window casing. To praise or talk about you would
do more injury than compliment.
Within my own heart’s head, I remember sun in California, mid-Manhattan
corridors and hotel beds, a Sunday walk within Miami’s mall. Island
nights of fireflies and lightning.
Some pages in my diary are blotted or unused. Those must have been the
happiest of times, for who can jot down happiness when it is happening?
Bad times? Sure.
Still in this year together I have never once considered life or
lifetime to be anything but synonymous with you.
-from “Coming Close To The Earth,” 1977, 1978
IN
CONCLUSION
Hope I’ll be seeing some of you at the end of the month in Texas or
California. In “The Best is Yet to Come” I’m singing two songs; one a
major hit for Tony Bennett the other made into a standard by Frank
Sinatra.
Sleep warm and please continue to urge all of your friends to file
absentee ballots (they leave a paper trail.) I’m off to watch the second
presidential debate and then later surf channels so the pundits can tell
me who won. Tomorrow I hope to get some mail answered for Ask Rod.
RM 10/8/2004 5:45PM PST
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