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Berit and I are currently, happily, away and kind of "off-the-clock."

Well, "kind of," as it's always during this time away that we have the ideas/inspiration/research time to consider what we might do for upcoming original theatre work.

As we don't have TV at home, we watch a lot when away, to, as B says, "surf the zeitgeist" and see what is out there. Watching lots of commercials suddenly brings a lot of things into focus (the Watchmen-Ozymandias technique). Commercial-watching right now has become unbearably sad and depressing at times -- I'm reminded on Daniel McKleinfeld's comment about seeing the Carter-era commercials on a bootleg of the Star Wars Holiday Special and the litany of "Please please please buy our American products!" underlying the commercials making him understand why Reagan had to happen. There is palpable fear, despair, anger and entitlement going on in selling stuff right now. Somehow this will all wind up in Invisible Republic #3.

But that's for later -- here, in any case, is the Random Ten for this week . . .

1. "Don't Come Back" - Mary Weiss - TwilightZone! Jukebox vol. 10
2. "Stand! (mono single version)" - Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
3. "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away" - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1967: The Man Can't Bust Our Music
4. "I (Who Have Nothing)" - Ben E. King - Atlantic Rhythm & Blues vol 5 1961-1965
5. "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" - Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
6. "Tempted" - Squeeze - Singles 45's And Under
7. "Feeling Strange" - The Plimsouls - Kool Trash
8. "Mr. Freeze" - Jan & Dean - The Jan & Dean Batman Album
9. "I Tried" - The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - Doctor Dunbar's Prescription
10. "Surfin' Bird" - The Cramps - Gravest Hits