You Haven't Seen My Love

And the script writing/editing has been supplanted this week (and next) by becoming a lighting designer again.

I had to go in and relight Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, as the first two performances are running in rep with the current mainstage hit show, the Debate Society's You're Welcome, and the lights have been changed from the house plot for their show. So I went in, did some fixes, and it looks okay. Probably better than okay, but I was very happy with my original work on the show, and I'm not sure it's as good now. Actually, I think a few things are improved here and there (and some lights/gobos brought in by Debate Society I've been allowed to use have balanced out no longer having any changeable colored backlight). I just miss some of the subtlety I was able to get from the regular plot. I was going to go in for opening night tonight, but Snowpocalypse 2: Electric Boogaloo (along with a slight illness that's been hovering on me for a couple of days) makes this a poor idea for tonight. Tomorrow, probably, then.

I'm also now lighting Untitled Theatre Co. #61's production of Rudolf II, which will be fun -- it's a great space, and I have the assistance, assistants, and equipment to make it all fine and good (though I may not quite have the time I would like) -- but somewhat of an unexpected gig, and I tend to get oddly thrown, personally, by sudden, unexpected things popping up anywhere outside of my work (and I don't like them there either). Saw a runthrough of the show the other day, and it's simple and something I can do well, but, yeah, I am worrying about the time to do it as good as I know I can. We'll see. Basically, I'm lighting the whole thing on Monday and making fixes over the couple of days after.

Otherwise, I'm writing as I can, going over the Devils script in prep for a reading late in March, planning the wedding, helping Berit with her own work on Rudolf II, and having my weekly improvisation sessions with David Finkelstein (that I still need to write about). And listening to even more music than usual.

Speaking of which -- from among the 25,446 tracks on the iPod, here's a Random Ten (with associated links) for this week . . .

1. "One Of Those Things" - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down - The Director's Cut
2. "I'd Rather Be Burned As a Witch" - Eartha Kitt- This October: A BenT Howl-O-Ween Mix
3. "You Bowed Down" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - All This Useless Beauty
4. "Hawaii Five-O Theme" - The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O
5. "Ain't Going Home" - Telli Mills - Sin Alley, Vol. 2: Red Hot Rockabilly 1955 - 1962
6. "Here Come The Lies" - Sham 69 - Hollywood Hero
7. "Behind Closed Doors" - Charlie Rich - Love Songs
8. "Your Honor" - Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
9. "Quicksand" - David Bowie - Hunky Dory
10. "Hey Joe" - Roy Buchanan - That's What I Am Here For

And I got some kitty pictures for this week. Here's Hooker being playful on B's lap as she computes . . .

And him being happy and stretchy-adorable by her foot on the couch . . .

So, yes, today was the surprise snow day that looks worse than the big anticipated one earlier this month. And it was a day Berit and I were going to drive around and get stuff for Rudolf II. I didn't think it was a good idea, but I agreed to drive to Staples -- by half a block from home, Berit saw why I didn't think it was a good idea (though this below is Avenue P, which was actually plowed, unlike Avenue S).

On the other hand, I was probably lucky to do this, as when we got to Staples, I discovered I had a flat tire, and probably had since I left home, and before -- and the Staples is only a half-block from the tire-repair joint where I get my alignments done. So the flat fix wound up being quick.

I wasn't going to drive out further after that today, so we went home and B went off on errands by train. You can see how happy she is about it . . .

And I took pictures from the subway stair landing . . .

And under it . . .

Before an odd brief break in the snow gave us blue skies and sun for a bit . . .

And I came home to write this slowly and listen over and over to a favorite "new" song that I found among the thousands I have in the iTunes that I haven't listened to as yet -- I download tons of comps and can't get through them all, so I get surprised by discoveries all the time.

Here's a YouTube video featuring this song, "You Haven't Seen My Love" by Danny Hernandez & The Odds, from Michigan, 1967 (invisible on Facebook, but I posted it separately there). I'm as obsessed with this song as I was with Sagittarius' "Gladys" last year, but I have no show this year to get it into, unfortunately. I'll have the perfect scene for it someday . . .

Back to trying not to be ill and thinking about the work . . .