Frenzied Theatre – Page 113 – It seemed like a good idea at the time

News of the Weird

So Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new Governor of California. Hmmm. This has possibilities.

I’ve thought for a long time that there’s not nearly enough surreality in people’s lives anymore. In times past people didn’t know everything about the world around them. They might not have known what was over that mountain, or under those rocks.

Now, I’m not saying that the huge increases in the knowledge base of the human race is a bad thing, I’m just mourning the lack of a sense of wonder anymore. Nowadays, if you don’t know something, it takes hardly any effort at all to find it out. There is not much anymore that makes people go “huh?”

Thus, I think things like News of the Weird and Schwarzenegger being elected governor are good for the planet, in a spiritual sense. We need things to go off kilter. It helps keep us on our toes.

You know, looking over some of my latest posts, it almost sounds like I’m trying to codify this as some kind of philosophy. Weird, huh?

Current Mood: 😈devious
Current Music: (Cat Power) – Maybe Not

Bongo Drums

http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/

On one of the pages he even links to CPIP (Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol,
with the amazingly fast speed of 0.08 bps)

I think I like these kind of projects because they take the high-tech and
bring it back down in to the lower realms again. Of course, they are also
kind of bizarre.
Maybe not the lower realms, that’s probably not the best way to put it.
Back into the hands of ordinary men again. In theory, anybody could use
this idea and send info via a bongo drum. It’d kind of like the man who
turned his old satellite dish into a 10 mile line of sight transmitter for
his home wireless network with the aid of an old Pringles can.

Actually, I think it goes even simpler than that. It’s probably a
development of the common attitude in theatre that not only do we use
products in ways the manufacturer doesn’t recommend, we use stuff in ways
the manufacturer never even dreamed of before. We use simple household
products in ways that would make most lawyers yell “Class Action!” like
those excited screams you hear in porn films. MacGyver has nothing on any
half-decent theatre company.

Current Mood: 🙁exhausted

Protected: God damn it!

Protected: She climaxed twice!

No, there’s too much to explain, let me sum up.

1. Woke up
2. Went to work
3. Stopped for lunch
4. Went back to work
5. Went to CAD lab to work on Kathy’s project
6. Got so pissed off at Vectorworks I left the CAD lab swearing
7. Went to grocery store, bicycled back puring rain
8. Napped
9. Had dinner
10. Went back to CAD lab, wrestled with Vectorworks more, am almost done with plot.
11. Went to do a twenty minute lighitng call with Jen
12. Spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why there were two random lights on in the Festival
13. Bought ice cream

Current Mood: 🙁drained

This means War!!!!!

Current Mood: 😄energetic

Normally I’d try to be witty here, but I don’t have it in me right now

crossposted to my journal and to Coupling.

So I watched the American version of Coupling this evening, and my first impression was that it was much funnier than the preceeding episode of Will and Grace.
Yes, I knew most of the lines, and I was interested to find how some things had been changed, but the thing that really got to me, I think, was the pace.

It was just too damn fast.

And I think the problem there is that, despite the extra running time and the amount of material that had been removed, they still tried to fit in as much as possible from the British script, and it just couldn’t fit. I think (hope) that in later episodes they’ll be able to spread things out a bit better, either by complete removal of sub-sections, or by better integration of original and re-written scripts.

Other than that, there are a few things that struck me. I found Patrick’s “condom line” to be quite clever, actually. Jane was particularly funny, if a bit over-squealy. And truthfully, there had to have been a better analogy to “The Boyfriend Zone” than “In and Out” of the club.

I’m not ready to condemn it yet. I’ve told loads of people to watch Coupling, and hopefully they did. I want to hear some reactions from people who never saw the original.

Current Mood: 🤔contemplative
Current Music: Chumbawumba – Tubthumping

Protected:

Finally! At fucking last!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/thetripletsofbellville.html

http://www.sonyclassics.com/comingsoon.php?filmid=65&page=2

Finally. I’ve been waiting to see this movie for almost a year, ever since I first heard about it. It’s being released in November, right near Thanksgiving break. I can go see it with Gill, that would be awesome.

For anyone who follows these links, the American trailer up at the Apple site doesn’t hold a candle to the original French one, which is almost a mini-film in and of itself. If you ask nicely enough, I can burn a copy of that and send it along. I’ve heard wonderful things about this movie from so many different film festivals. I can hardly wait.

Current Mood: 🙂jubilant