Friday Actually Happening Random Ten

I actually thought I might miss the weekly ritual for once -- I've been working all day on a moving job with the minivan, and was supposed to go see Alyssa Simon in Lisa Ferber's An Evening with Molly Hadafew tonight, but the job (moving a friend to New Jersey) wound up putting me in several traffic jams on the way back, and not making it home in time to make it to the show.

So instead of seeing a wonderful show (I saw it in an earlier incarnation - if you see that it comes back, it's great, check it out), I'm sitting around home doing a Random 10 yet again.

Well, I've been trying to cut a lot out of the iPod, and was making headway, but then I wound up adding a whole load, so now the damn thing is as full as its ever been (only 591 MB left of 74 GB), so . . . more cutting is needed.

As for right now, here's what comes up randomly of 20,655 songs:


1. "Mister Ghost Goes to Town" - The John Buzon Trio - Inferno!
2. "Is It True?" - King Dapper Combo - Big Dumb Fun Party Music
3. "A New Career in a New Town" - David Bowie - Low
4. "The One in the Middle" - Manfred Mann - The Best of the EMI Years
5. "Ten O'Clock" - ? & The Mysterians - The Best Of ? & The Mysterians Cameo Parkway 1966-1967
6. "Crazy 'Bout You Baby" - Ike & Tina Turner - Bold Soul Sister
7. "Try a Little Harder" - The Fidels - Northern Soul: Keep the Faith - The Cream of Rare Soul
8. "Puzzlin' Evidence" - Talking Heads - True Stories
9. "A Gift" - Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
10. "Why" - Yoko Ono - Onobox 1: London Jam

A little . . . familiar, this one. Not enough odd things I don't know all that well to break things up. So it goes.

I Cn Haz Lame Meme?

I have been meme-tagged by Matt Freeman.

This meme demands that I . . .

List 5 things that certain people (who are not deserving of being your friend anyway) may consider to be "totally lame," but you are, despite the possible stigma, totally proud of. Own it. Tag 5 others.

What, only 5? No, actually, it was hard (due to the "totally proud of" part). So here's what I could think of:


1. I was in the 8th Street Playhouse floor show for The Rocky Horror Picture Show for several years (hard to tell when I ended, as it kinda tapered off - 1986 to . . . 1988 or 89), under the direction of the great Sal Piro. I mostly played Dr. Scott, sometimes Brad, and Eddie and Riff Raff once each. I had a great time with great people and regret nothing. Except having no pictures or video.

2. I own DVD copies of Glen or Glenda? and Road House, love them, watch them frequently, and actually believe that they are, honestly and truly, with no irony, great motion pictures. As is Tough Guys Don't Dance, but some other people will go along with me on that, so it's less "lame."

3. My favorite musical, and probably one of my favorite theatre texts of any kind, is 1776.

4. I love what my dear fiancee calls "discredited media." I have a trunk full of 300 Betamax tapes (and no player to play them on at this point) and still believe it was a better video format than VHS (and will argue the point). I also still own many laser disks, LPs, 45s, and 78s and will not get rid of them, though I also have no working turntable or laser player - though I have a self-contained 1960s console hi-fi stereo system that doesn't work. I own 15 Super-8 and Standard-8 movie projectors, most of which have blown bulbs (which are near-impossible to find) or motors. I still have my ColecoVision videogame system and many cartridges (as well as the adapter for Atari 2600 cartridges and many of those), but without the very specific and unfindable cable you need to connect it to a TV. I have a broken 1/4" reel-to-reel player and many tapes for it.

Berit swears that the day is coming when we'll wind up with piles of 8-track tapes and edison cylinders that we can't play. She may not be wrong . . .

5. I was a Cub Scout (made it to Webelos).

Okay, as for tagging someone else . . . I'm worried that I don't really know how many other bloggers really read this, at least ones who haven't already been tagged on this meme in the "theatrical blogosphere community." So, I'll hit a few of the LiveJournal mutual friends and pray they don't actually just skip my posts -- I tag justjohn, mcbrennan, queencallipygos, rezendi, and shaenon. Got it, folks?