Friday Stuff - And I See Pinheads With Cadillacs

[collisionwork]

Tomorrow we start work on the Gemini CollisionWorks shows for 2008. First reading of Ambersons. We will have 15 people out of the 18 people cast (and 21 people that we need) there. That's pretty good, considering how difficult it is to get everyone together with conflicts as they are (I'm going to have the Ambersons cast together in full a total of five times before we open).

Today I have to go get scripts copied and do some sound editing (since I'd like to play the Herrmann score under the reading, and some of the tracks run together in ways that won't work so well for that).

The scheduling seems to be working better than I'd anticipated. A couple of big problems have come up for a couple people, but mostly I'm getting responses back with either "Oh, here's a couple of conflicts that have come up since my last email" or "All looks good. Great!"

Of course, I've only got back 18 responses from the 43 actors cast in the four shows as yet, so I might be looking ahead to big problems, but for now I won't "borrow trouble," as Berit always reminds me.

Currently in the iPod, 25,512 songs. Here's what comes up this morning:

1. "Cha Cha Heels" - Eartha Kitt - downloaded from somewhere, god knows where, probably the WFMU website
2. "Ingen Visjoner" - Haerverk - Stengt pga av haerverk 7" EP
3. "Batucada Erotica" - Michel Colombier - Bananatico: European Airlines to Rio
4. "Sofa #2" - Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
5. "Repetition" - The Au Pairs - mix disk from Daniel McKleinfeld
6. "Burn Bridges Burn" - The Fugs - The Fugs Final CD (Part 1)
7. "Rene" - The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
8. "Stake Out" - The Negatives - Stake Out / Love Is Not Real 7"
9. "Picture of Dorian Gray" - The Futureheads - 1-2-3-Nul!
10. "Pick It Up (And Put It In Your Pocket)" - Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat

And this week's kitty photos -- here's Moni on the bed:

And with Hooker on Berit's suitcase:

And since I've still got a backlog of videos to share, behind the cut are three live performances from Mr. Iggy Pop. First, a 1977 rendition of "The Passenger" in Manchester, England (unfortunately it kinda peters out at the end as it cuts off with the transition to the next song). Then, a short and sweet performance of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" from a 1979 Old Grey Whistle Test.

And finally, Iggy & The Stooges from their performance at this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. Oh, no, they weren't inducted, yet again. However, that fine Detroit girl Madonna was, and she herself requested (apparently in protest at them being ignored again) that her hometown boys be the ones to perform her songs at the ceremony. So The Stooges performed "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light" for an obviously pleased Madonna and some confused-looking record company weasels (though there seems to be enough fans in the audience to give them a pretty good ovation at the end). The Stooges and Madonna. Below.

Enjoy.

Comments

[daveroguesf.livejournal.com]

Man, Iggy and the Stooges should just keep returning to the ceremony to play every year until they DO get inducted.

For what it's worth, if I lived in New York i would have auditioned for AMBERSONS long ago.

[silverplate88.livejournal.com]

Moni and Hooker play Berit's suitcase. Laurel and Hardy take still another curtain call! Precious, precious, Ian. However did you get Laurel to hold still long enough?

[collisionwork]

Berit took these shots, and she was lucky -- Hooker will hold good and still plenty, and we can get nice shots of him. Usually, whenever we try to get a nice shot of Moni, she decides to start moving.

Still, we can't seem to get a shot that really gets the amazing color qualities of her fur . . .