Updational Mode

Writing on Spell for a good deal yesterday - not as much of a good deal as I'd like, as I stopped to handle some publicity matters for the shows - sending out press releases for Spell and some additional ones for Harry in Love that I'd missed in the first go-round the day before - and that took up several hours, actually. Well, now at least most media outlets in the tri-state area have been informed about these shows. Have to finish them now and make them something worth watching.

I did get four scenes pretty much done and bits of another in there. Spell is made up of 32 scenes and 10 of them still have to be written pretty much in full and another 4 are fragmentary right now. I should be able to get 7-9 scenes done today. I hope. I think I have all the material for those sitting ready in my head now.

And I also have many many pages of research - primarily on Palestine, Cuba, and the Peoples' Republic of China, but also on the history and variants of the Pandora's Box myth and the history of Witches and Witchcraft. I spent a LONG time last night - a couple hours - reformatting a complete copy of Mao's Little Red Book from where I got it online into a usable work copy in Word, as I had to find the quotes I could use, and note where they fell in the book so I could find the original language versions in another online database and copy those (as images) to put in the script so Jeanie Tse can speak them in the show. And still hope that I've correctly picked out the Chinese for the quote I want . . .

Whew.

Well, at least I realized and accepted the extent to which I can actually go into all of these issues in the show, which has helped reduce 100 dense pages of single-spaced research material to 10 spaced-out pages of Material That Is Useful To Make Art Out Of. This has helped speed things up.

And I have to get back to Everything Must Go, but I have more Spell rehearsals before EMG and more time to write for EMG before I see that cast again.

And as I write this, off in the iPod, from out of 26,131 tracks:

1. "Yes, The River Knows" - The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
2. "Go Away" - The Underworld - Nightmares From the Underworld vol. 1
3. "Monkey See, Monkey Do" - Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs - Pharaohization!
4. "Velvet Goldmine" - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars
5. "Sometime In The Morning" - The Monkees - Anthology
6. "Portland Town" - The Belfast Gypsies - Moxie Presents The Garage Zone volume 1
7. "I See The Light" - The Five Americans - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era, Vol. 2
8. "Let's Dance" - The Invaders - Garagepunk: Flip, Flops & Fly By Nighters
9. "Have I The Right" - The Honeycombs - It's Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek
10. "Lines In The Sand" - Randy Newman - Guilty: 30 Years Of Randy Newman: Odds & Ends

(huh - the iPod decided it was going to have a Fun With Farfisas Day, for the most part . . .)

And I do have some new kitty photos from this week, though before Hooker's little problem of the last few days.

It appears he's scratched his cornea - we're not sure, but we think we can see it, and he DEFINITELY has an irritated eye. The inner eyelid is swollen and the eye waters quite a lot. I had a scratched cornea once (from, of course, a cat running across my face with her claws out) about 15 years ago, and as I recall, there isn't much that is done - I had an eyepatch for a couple of weeks and had to put fake tears in it from time to time until it just healed on its own. Hooker's eye looked bad two days ago, then started looking to be quickly healing, and looked perfectly normal for most of yesterday, then suddenly was back to looking crappy last night - maybe he did something to irritate it again or something.

In any case, once it's time, I'll call the vet and see if I can take him in today - another distraction from writing! - and find out what can be done. Berit had to laugh, looking at our little boy last night, with his cauliflower ear and deflicted eye (as Unca Frankie would put it), saying that for a pampered apartment cat he sure can look like a street tom who's been in a few scrapes.

Well, here he is, a few days ago, looking like he just wants to be left alone . . .

And here with Moni, happy . . .

Okay, time to check in on the online bag, call the vet, and get back to work . . .

NECROPOLIS 2: Worth Gun Willed - August, 2007

On a break right now from writing more depressing things for Spell.

I finally got around to fixing up the last of the photos from last August's shows in Photoshop and posting them up at my Flickr page. Recently I posted the better shots from NECROPOLIS 0&3: Kiss Me, Succubus/At the Mountains of Slumberland, and I posted the shots from the first part of NECROPOLIS 1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed all the way back HERE in September of last year, before I figured out the best way to organize and fix up the shots and it took me much much longer.

So all that remained were the shots from Part Two - got to them today, and here's the best of them behind the cut . . .

( Killing you is like killing myself, but you know, I'm pretty tired of both of us )