I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

The Wedding is full speed ahead. Just about everything is arranged. The play is written and sent to the cast (with some additions/rewrites to come). The space is set. The reception restaurant is set. The photographer is set. I'm having a meeting about the cake today. The guests have mostly responded. My costume has mostly arrived, and the rest should come today by UPS. The additional chair rental for the theatre has been arranged.

A few things need to be finalized, mostly with the performance itself. It's proving pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to get the cast together for rehearsals and costume fittings. Argh. It's a wedding-play, and simpler than a usual play on the cast, but there's still work and staging that has to happen. Don't know when right now, but somehow we'll work this out.

Nice little promo stuff for The Too Soon Festival that includes bits about the Wedding at nytheatre.com and PAPERMAG.com. More to come, I'm sure.

I've had a good four days of mostly having my own time to get my own work done this week, but suddenly I'm back to engagements keeping me from the work for the next three or so days -- starting tonight with seeing Dénouement at The Brick tonight, working with David Finkelstein then at The Brick tomorrow, then seeing family on Sunday, then seeing the entire Cremaster Cycle at IFC Center on Monday (not the greatest timing, but it's there and I'd like to see it while I can, so . . .). Then I can get back to working on the shows and cleaning up the apartment (another immense job that must get done shortly).

In the midst of this, I'm getting back to planning out the August shows -- finishing the writing of Spacemen from Space and the cutting of Devils. And, hopefully, many of the cast members I'd like to do the shows will be on board. if not, I can look forward to a frenzied audition period coming up. {sigh}

And here's this week's Random Ten out of 3,108 songs in the "A Brandnew Bag" playlist in my iPod (of songs that have been sitting there for years without getting played). Another 10 down, maybe including ones I can drop to make room for the Janelle Monae EP and CD that just showed up in the mail (hooray!). Ten songs, with associated videos, for yer dining and dancing pleasure:

1. "Old Man" - Neil Young - Greatest Hits
2. "Merry-Go-Round" - Wild Man Fischer - An Evening with Wild Man Fischer
3. "I Must Go" - Squeeze - Cool For Cats
4. "A Big Hunk Of Love" - Elvis Presley - A Big Hunk Of Love
5. "Billy's Birthday" - Romeo Void - Instincts
6. "Bring Back Reality" - Snakefinger - Manual Of Errors
7. "Elizabeth Dreams" - Status Quo - Messages from the Status Quo
8. "Rebel Never Gets Old (single edit)" - David Bowie (remixed by Go Home Productions) - GHP Complete - CD12 Official Remixes Vol. 1
9. "Hang Fire" - The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
10. "Wasteland" - Pere Ubu - Wayne Kramer Presents Beyond Cyberpunk

And here's the video playlist for most of the above -- it looks like I'll NEVER be able to find a full Random Ten list of mine on YouTube, but there are some good substitutions in there (and a bonus track) . . .

And kitty photos from this week -- Hooker enjoying the breeze coming through the window in our hot apartment:

Moni curled up into a ball on undifferentiated fur on the couch:

And Moni leaning in to clean Hooker's head:

Time to go -- I have to see a woman about a cake . . .