Friday Late or Early Random Ten and Cat Blogging

Sensory overload here.

On one computer (our ancient PC) I'm transcribing Richard Foreman's Harry in Love: A Manic Vaudeville from the xerox of the 1966 original kindly sent to me by Richard and Shannon at the Ontological (thanks, Shannon!) as I couldn't find my old copy, and need to have an electronic copy to work with and cut anyway, and also watching for any emails that come in.

On another (the lovely supercharged iMac), I'm typing this and listening to a Random Ten (softly) so I can get it done, as I won't have another chance the rest of this Friday.

On the TV, a tape of SCTV Network 90 is playing, to help lull Berit, the insomniac, to sleep (currently up, John Candy as "Harry Filth"), mixing with the music in my headphones.

Stimulus is good.

Later, after sleep, a busy day - dropping off an apparently broken scroller unit from The Brick at Big Apple Lights and seeing if I can get a loaner, plugging up a leak at The Brick itself, having the first rehearsal for Merry Mount in the afternoon and a board meeting for Untitled Theater Co. #61 in the evening.

And I want to get another scene from Harry in the computer if I can tomorrow - the play is in three acts, five scenes, each scene around 30 pages long or so, so I'm trying to get one scene in the computer per day, finishing Monday (while also getting as much of the Ambersons script as I can in at the same time).

So, with three screens pointed at me, and the Ian Thomas Band playing on SCTV now, here's what's in the headphones from the iPod:

1. "Humans from Earth" - T-Bone Burnett - Until the End of the World
2. "Two Little Hitlers" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Armed Forces
3. "Feel a Groove" - Gear One - So Cold!!! Unearthed 60s Sacramento Garage
4. "War" - Edwin Starr - Hitsville U.S.A., The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971
5. "Catman (The Rosies Are Coming)" - Yoko Ono - Onobox 2: New York Rock
6. "Hey Señorita" - The Penguins - The Doo Wop Box II vol 1: 1951-1955
7. "To Be Sho' (Hey Logan)" - Annabelle Abraham - Field Recordings Volume 8: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi (1934-1947)
8. "Rose and the Thorn" - The 13th Floor Elevators - Bull of the Woods
9. "Gone Is the Sad Man" - Timebox - Psychedalia: Rare Blooms from the English Summer of Love
10. "Miserlou" - The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA

And B & I have been going a bit nuts with our new Xmas camera on the kitty photos. Here are my favorite recent ones, all featuring Berit as well - first with Moni . . .

. . . now with Hooker . . .

. . . and then with the two of them . . .

Back to work - six more pages of Harry to type in, and I wanted to do a printout and preliminary look at what to cut before bed - last time we did the show it ran at about 2 hours, 50 minutes plus 2 intermissions. I'm trying to get it to 2:15 plus one intermission this time. That's about 35 pages of cuts to the 159-page script, which isn't made up of a lot of plot, but plenty of texture, rhythm, and humor. Some of it will be easy, some will be painful and hard.

Whee.