Checking Off Days

Well, we're about midway through the ClownFest at The Brick, and Berit and I are marking time until it ends so we can go away on our little retreat and figure out our next theatrical moves.

I don't want to get too specific even in my own mind about what they are as yet, as I want to start creating them beginning at the start of next year, with, in most cases, the casts as close collaborators. Getting them too firm in my head will spoil some of the possibilities there.

That said, I'm looking to work on four or five shows over the course of next year. Which ones will happen and when should stay up in the air. I just want to start work in January with several different casts and build gradually and hopefully have some or all ready for the August season.

I'm looking at making a new NECROPOLIS show, probably #4, Green River (a road-picture long-form-music-video for the stage), which has been bubbling around in my head for 7 or 8 years now. A new Invisible Republic piece -- more dance-theatre about 20th-Century stuff. Previously I've done "propaganda" and "advertising" in this series; Berit has suggested marketing/branding for this one, and I'm going with it (this seems close to advertising, but some study shows it isn't, it's its own whole scary discipline). I'd like to finish my long in-process post-civilization play Antrobus and do it, and maybe one more play like Spell, written around the cast and what they suggest to me. And then maybe Fat Guy Fall Down for the FightFest. Maybe.

But ALL of this is still a big optional question mark in my head and the air. Just places to start. Don't know if I'll act in ANY of the shows this year. Maybe just voiceovers. I'd like to stay out of these. Just write/direct/design. That's enough.

And back in the iPod, a Random Ten from the as-yet-unplayed tracks in there as of today:

1. "Cheaters Don't Win" - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Last Train To Hicksville
2. "Contort Yourself" - James Chance & The Contortions - Buy
3. "Just Let Go" - The Seeds - A Web Of Sound
4. "Bad" - Cozy Cole - Las Vegas Grind! - Volume 3
5. "Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zeppelin - Remasters
6. "My Old Kentucky Home" - Randy Newman - Lonely At The Top: The Best Of Randy Newman
7. "Money Won't Change You" - Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
8. "When The Whip Comes Down" - The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
9. "Swing The Big Eyed Rabbit" - The Cramps - Flamejob
10. "Are You Ready?" - Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music

And here's the full video playlist . . .

Not many new cat photos recently, but here's one of Moni. She's in one of her "forts" - this one is the box our printer came in, which I though I had stowed out of reach of cats prior to throwing it away. Moni was able to climb up, and finds the styrofoam a comfy bed, so now I'd feel guilty about removing the thing. It is, however, precariously held in place, so it may eventually fall down anyway (hopefully, not with her in it) and be no longer a safe retreat for the kitty:

Today has mostly been a day off -- a brief trip into the city to pick up some things and back -- and a much appreciated one. Back to all that rest now . . .