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Another week done gone by.

Work has slowed up a little bit on the August shows while I've been concerned with some other matters (and been a hair burned out from too much/too fast on those ones). I've been going over the script for the show I'm directing after the August ones, Trav S.D.'s Kitsch, Or: Two for the Price of One.

Trav has sent me a 109-page draft, but I have an older, 146-page version he gave me many years ago to look at (which he was surprised to discover I have, as he doesn't seem to have that version himself). So I'm going through both drafts and seeing if there's any little things in the long version I might want to reinstate, though Trav and I have agreed that shorter is better with this show (but we're going to put back in the songs, which were all cut from the short, and I've already caught one of my favorite jokes gone from the short version I'll ask Trav about putting back).

Trav and I visited the space at Theater for the New City where we'll be doing the show, and it was a revelation to me, as it was a huge space there that I didn't know even existed at TNC (I'd seen shows in another fairly large space at the rear that I had thought was "the big one," but nope). Probably the biggest room I've ever directed something in, which is good, as the script calls for (and should have) several two-level sets. Not sure if they have enough lights there, but we'll see. Now we have to set up a script reading just to hear the thing - probably not with the final cast, but we both need to hear this out loud ASAP.

More work on everything going on this weekend, including a work call at The Brick on Sunday morning to cover everything we can in the space for the insulation people who will be coming in to make our place more efficient all around this Sunday-Tuesday. A pain to deal with - especially right as a new show opens there this weekend - but it was the best time we had to take care of it, and it'll be done, and both the heat and cool will stay in better when we want them to from now on.

And I have to get back to finishing up the casting on George Bataille's Bathrobe and Blood on the Cat's Neck and writing more of Spacemen from Space.

Meanwhile, here's today's Random Ten, with associated links, from 25,806 in the iPod:

1. "Deixe em paz meu coração" - Brazilian Bitles - Antologia
2. "Widow's Walk" - Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
3. "Friends" - Robert Ashley - Dust
4. "See Emily Play" - Pink Floyd - The Pop Side of The Floyd 1967-1972
5. "Licking Stick-Licking Stick" - James Brown - Star Time
6. "Police Call - Stan Ridgway & Drywall - Work The Dumb Oracle
7. "Lordy Miss Lupe" - El Vez - How Great Thou Art
8. "The Giant Toad" - The Firesign Theatre - Dear Friends
9. "Lotta Boppin' (alternate version)" - The Rock-A-Teens - Woo-Hoo
10. "Something I've Got To Tell You" - Glenda Collins - It's Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek

As for the kitties, Hooker continues to enjoy lying on Berit and I while we're sleeping, as each of us discovers when we see the photos we alternatively take of this . . .

When we're awake, he likes to play-fight, which is more fun for him than for us, as he doesn't get bitten . . .

Last night the two of them curled up with me as I took a break from reading and movie-viewing . . .

And for most of today they've been curled up together on the couch, variously hugging, or napping, or cleaning each other, or a combo, like here . . .

Now back to cleaning out the iPod for a while . . .