Friday Random Ten, with links. And other stuff.

Work progresses on the four shows for August. About half of the cast of A Little Piece of the Sun is set. I'm also finishing up the script for George Bataille's Bathrobe (that is, I have Foreman's dialogue in a file and I'm going through and creating the characters, setting, scenes, and stage directions as they come to me, bit by bit), typing in the script for Fassbinder's Blood on the Cat's Neck and giggling way too much about my idea for the design for the card/poster for that show (based on the original picture of Fassbinder holding a bloodied photo cut-out of a cat for the original production), and watching old serials and Universal monster movies as research for Spacemen from Space (done with the Universal pictures, actually, and I'm currently enjoying a palate-cleanser of movie watching with my favorite Hitchcock and Bergman films).

I also have a couple of grant proposals to get done in the next two weeks that are mostly there. Big thing now for each is to put together a DVD (different for each proposal) of excerpts from my recent work. Not so easy to choose.

We'll be going up to Maine for a little bit soon to relax and write the actual script, or what we can right now, of Spacemen from Space. First, I have to design and act in the next Penny Dreadful episode, and act in a couple of other readings/events I've agreed to.

Nothing else really, so here's today's Random Ten . . .

1. "Pictures of Lily" - David Bowie - Toying
2. "The Big Big Whoredom" - They Might Be Giants - Then: The Earlier Years
3. "Waltzin' With Sin" - Bob Dylan & The Band - A Tree With Roots
4. "Hey There Jim" - Jimmy "Bo" Horne - The First Days of Funk - volume 1
5. "Lagerfeuer (Oswalt Kolle: Dein Kind, Das Unbekannte Wesen)" - Peter Schirmann - Birds Do It
6. "'The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly" ad" - radio spot - Psychedelic Promos & Radio Spots, vol. 8
7. "Just Passing" - Small Faces - Immediate Singles
8. "Gloomy" - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Susie Q
9. "The Trap" - The Music Machine - The Bonniwell Music Machine
10. "I Need It Just As Bad As You" - Laura Lee - Soul Diva Sessions

And for special added value today, some recent favorite videos.

David Letterman reviews George W. Bush's career:

A commercial - YES, IT'S REAL - that made Berit and I giggle like 5 year olds:

And when all else fails, animals doing things they normally don't = amusingosity:

Haven't been to The Brick in weeks! Time to go over and check in tonight on the show that's going to open there next week . . .