CollisionWorks

The Fight Fest at The Brick has opened, and we're off to a mostly good start thus far. Excellent, speedy preview cabaret on Tuesday night that seemed to get everyone up and ready for the Fest, and a terrific first performance of The Buccaneer last night -- the show is funny as hell.

The Ninja Cherry Orchard, which I'm lighting (and running board on), was also supposed to open last night, but has been delayed as it's a huge damned show that hasn't had the chance to work things enough that need to be worked, so it's opening a week late. We ran it (mostly) last night and got some good things accomplished (and I was able to refine my lights a bit more here and there and get to know the show better, which was a good thing), and we'll do the same thing tonight. I guess they'll work it a bit more in other spaces in the next week, but I won't be needed, or available, for that as I'll be off on other things, including lighting another Fest show, Piper McKenzie's Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, my duties for which include being at The Brick tomorrow morning at 9.00 am, after being there late on Ninja Cherry Orchard. Argh.

Still, despite the hours I'm currently keeping on the Fest (which will ease up shortly), I'm pretty damned happy with it -- everything I've seen from all the shows as yet looks entertaining and exciting, at the very least. Hope to see some of you around The Brick this month (of course, as most of the friends who read this are probably IN Ninja Cherry Orchard or Craven Monkey or Deck the Hallmans, if not more than one of them, that's a pretty good bet).

And here's a Random Ten from the 25,239 tracks in the iPod (with links to the songs or something close):

1. "The Woo Woo Train" - The Valentines - The Doo Wop Box II vol 2: 1955-1957
2. "Weak Become Heroes" - The Streets - Original Pirate Material
3. "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing In The Shadow)" - Lord Sitar - Mindexpanders 1 - In Search Of The Orgastic Flashtastic Psychspastic Groove
4. "One More Time" - Billy Stewart - One More Time
5. "Rooster Blues" - Lightnin' Slim - Excello Story, Volume 3: 1957 - 1961
6. "Fountains" - The Nils - Sell Out Young EP
7. "Rockin' Lafayette" - Dave Alvin Featuring Red Devils - L. A. Rockabilly
8. "Go On, It's OK" - Lonnie Barron - Boppin' Hillbilly 19
9. "Madrigal" - Paul & Barry Ryan - Fading Yellow volume 1
10. "No Easy Way Down" - Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis

Oh, and I'm also appearing on stage tonight, in a way -- on video in Tom X. Chao's Callous Cad which is opening at Dixon Place.

Once again, as I have been before . . .

I am a giant, imposing video face out to torment someone on the stage below . . .

Okay, enough procrastinating . . . off now to deal with unpleasant and vaguely threatening authority figures . . .