Two Openings & A Random Ten Makeup

Last night was opening night of NECROPOLIS 1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed and The Hobo Got Too High.

It was preceded by my staying up for 44 straight hours finishing some of the important tech elements for the show, and then dealing with some huge problems that cropped up with them. Fun. That's the longest I've ever stayed awake by far. I've got 6 hours sleep since, so I'm better now.

Yesterday was a day of much stress and tension that wound up okay. It was a huge question all day as to whether both or either show would actually be able to open. As it was, we were able to get WGW/WGW going, albeit with reduced tech, and as only three people showed up for Hobo, we begged off doing the show to them (and they were cool about it) and did a runthru for ourselves to get it down better before next time.

So we did good, and it will be more beautiful next time.


Next . . . Kiss Me, Succubus and At the Mountains of Slumberland.


And in the iPod this morning, 21,054 songs, 73.33 GBs, and I get this fine fine superfine Sunday morning mix:


1. "Meet James Ensor" - They Might Be Giants - John Henry
2. "Triumphal Theme" - Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt
3. "Funny Little Frog" - Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
4. "Soon There'll Be Thunder" - The Common People - Of the People, By the People, For the People
5. "Die in Terror" - The Residents - The Commercial Album
6. "If There Is Something" - Roxy Music - Roxy Music
7. "Hostess: Twinkies" - Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc.
8. "Just in Case You Wonder" - The Ugly Ducklings - Too Much Too Soon
9. "How Many More Years?" - Howlin' Wolf - Best Of Sun Records Volume One
10. "How Soon Is Now?" - Love Spit Love - The Craft soundtrack


More soon . . .

Time Piece by Jim Henson

AH! Finally! Someone has and has posted Jim Henson's 1965 short film Time Piece, which I've been wanting to see again for a while, and which I mentioned back a few months ago when I posted some of Henson's other non-muppet-related film/video work.


I first saw this back in 1983 in a class at Northfield Mount Hermon (where we were all surprised to see who had made it in the end credits, though in retrospect, looking at it, we shouldn't have been). I have a copy somewhere . . . on a Betamax tape (some day I'll get a player again for that trunk of 300 Beta tapes I have, many of which are rare things I haven't found anywhere else). Enjoy it.