collisionwork | Sep. 4th, 2009

Why THANK you, Mary Worth's Tobey, for the kind words!

Yesterday we loaded the last of all of our stuff from this year's shows out of The Brick, and the August 2009 shows are now a memory.

And, as always, when we close a show (or 4, as now) I immediately come down with something, so I've been sniffing and coughing for much of today -- it's like my immune system holds out until I get a day to relax, and then the whole furshlugginer thing collapses.

Anyway, we have a couple of days before going off to Robert Honeywell & Moira Stone's wedding upstate, so we can rest and I can get well, somewhat.

And then onward to directing Trav S.D.'s show in November and planning next year's shows, including our Wedding-Show in June (we seem to have gotten the reception restaurant taken care of now, so that's a big part out of the way) and Spacemen from Space and . . . one other show in August -- I'm researching the rights situation on the show I WANT to do currently -- it looks to be a mess, as it's a British play from 1960 that has been out of print in the States for years, with no immediate indication of who actually controls the US rights. We'll see. (Oh, whoops, just checked the Samuel French site and THEY have it - $75 a performance; about standard)

I'm also currently obsessed with the films of Powell & Pressburger, Jean-Luc Godard, and Universal Pictures' monster series from 1931-1946 in ways that suggest there's something I need to be doing with/about them on stage (not together, I would think, but you never know), but it hasn't come clear yet. More watching is needed . . .

And here's today's Random Ten out of 25,537 in the iPod, with associated links, where I could find them (not all of them this week - some pretty obscure songs this week):

1. "I Was Wrong" - Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Legacy Of Gene "Bowlegs" Miller
2. "Just" - Radiohead - The Bends
3. "Hey, Sweet Baby" - The Loose Ends - Sixties Rebellion Vol 3-The Auditorium
4. "Egg or the Hen" - Koko Taylor - What It Takes (The Chess Years)
5. "I Have Been to Heaven and Back" - The Mekons - The Mekons Rock'N'Roll
6. "I Was Born A Brownskin And You Can't Make Me Blue" - Priscilla Stewart - Complete Recorded Works
7. "Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On" - Ringo Starr - I Wanna Be Santa Claus
8. "Holiday On Ice" - The Nits - New Flat
9. "Hummingbirds (demo version)" - Love - Forever Changes
10. "Father and Son" - Johnny Cash with Fiona Apple - Unearthed

No new cat photos today, but I've been trying to decide on a picture of me and one or both of the little monsters to send to the Men and Cats site, and narrowed it down to 5, all but one consisting of Hooker enjoying his habit of standing or lying on me whenever he can (the other a nice naptime shot that also contains Moni)

These cover, chronologically, the last 4 years, starting with Hooker interrupting my reading of the newspaper in 2005 (back when I still read hard copy papers):

And the following year, he thinks he deserves more attention than my book:

And a few days later, as I have a nice nap with the boy, the jealous girl climbs on my back:

In 2007, another nap has someone joining in:

And last year, Hooker decides that I'm of more use as a standing place than writing the script I'm trying to get through:

And, as I was trying to write this post, he just jumped on me and demanded attention, and I was able to get a shot of us with the computer's camera, so I now have a 2009 shot . . .