Toil Is Stupid

Wow, it got late today, and no post here . . . I've had this up in the background for hours (the Random Ten was done around 5.30 pm), but I had to work on more important things, namely, emailing friends who mightn't have been aware of The Brick's Shantytown Ball - a benefit for the theatre home I love and work at - going on tomorrow night.

So I had to send more than a few personal emails to friends, colleagues, and acquaintances asking them to come, then one big BCC email to all the rest of the names on the Gemini CollisionWorks email list (which I'll also post here next for those who'd like the info).

Long slow grey rainy day.

Now what was it I do here on Fridays anyway . . ? Oh, right . . .

A different kind of Random Ten today . . . I get a lot of music in digital form, and then it just goes into the iTunes (and maybe iPod) and I never really LISTEN to it unless it comes up on random. So recently I've been putting recent acquisitions into a special playlist and listening to THAT on random until I know I've heard everything that's come in. So right now, I'm currently enjoying a random mix of 246 songs in my iTunes that I've acquired in the past few days, only six artists and 18 albums, filling in some holes in my collection in the discographies of both some favorites and some not-so-much-favorites that just belong there . . .

1. "Last of the Mohicans" - David Thomas - Ghost Line Diary
2. "Voodoo Cadillac" - Southern Culture on the Skids - Too Much Pork for Just One Fork
3. "Sweet Young Thing" - The Monkees - Music Box
4. "The Long Goodbye" - Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
5. "Zor and Zam" - The Monkees - Music Box
6. "Bobby Jean" - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
7. "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight" - Bob Dylan - Infidels
8. "The Promised Land" - Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
9. "What Good Am I?" - Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
10. "Let's Dance On" - The Monkees - Music Box

No cat photos today, so instead, one more album cover courtesy of LP Cover Lover -- another one that (like another favorite) makes it seem that some Christian music groups get a little confused by numbers . . .

The Brick's Shantytown Ball

A message sent from Berit and I to the Gemini CollisionWorks email list, crossposted here for those few who might be reading here who didn't hear about this some other way . . .

HEY FOLKS!

Ian W. Hill and Berit Johnson are not only the respective Arts and Crafts of Gemini CollisionWorks, we are also the co-Technical Directors of The Brick, the best, scrappiest, most wonderful little Off-Off-Broadway theatre in NYC (can you tell we love our theatrical home?).

Every year, we get the month of August at The Brick to put up whatever we want. And, believe me, you'll be getting more emails soon regarding our four shows coming up this year, all designed and directed by Ian W, Hill -- A Little Piece of the Sun by Daniel McKleinfeld, George Bataille's Bathrobe by Richard Foreman, Blood on the Cat's Neck by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and an original stage/video art work by IWH and David Finkelstein of Lake Ivan Performance Group. So, we'll be asking for your attention for (and tax-deductible contributions towards) those shows in the near future.

But first, we're asking for some support for the theatre that is our home and which we love . . .

Tomorrow night, May 2nd, The Brick is holding a benefit ball at Galapagos in DUMBO. In keeping with the theme of our upcoming Summer Festival -- The Antidepressant Festival -- which combines both ideas of being anti- personal depression as well as anti- Economic Depression -- we are creating . . .

THE BRICK'S SHANTYTOWN BALL

Come as a flapper! Come as a hobo! Come as whatever you want, but please, if you can, come! The more people, the more fun (as well as the more benefit for The Brick). 8 pm to 3 am!

Free beer and 2-for-1 drinks from 8 to 10 pm! Raffle tickets and great prizes! Games! Live music!

Too much to go into here -- read more about it at the above link, or at the Facebook page we've created for it.

Only $20 if you buy your tickets in advance HERE and use the code EARLYBIRD when buying! (and advance buying helps us a LOT in being sure we have the supplies we need, so if you can . . .)

We hope to see you there, and at the Festival, AND, of course, at at least one of our four August shows!

best

Ian W. Hill, Arts
Berit A. Johnson, Crafts
Gemini CollisionWorks
co-Technical Directors, The Brick