Saturday, 24 January 2009

All we like sheep

Saturday, 24 January 2009 03:18 pm
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The first five six people to respond to this post (by comment, email, fbook) will get something made by me.

My choice.
For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

* I make no guarantees that you will like what I make.
* What I create will be just for you.
* It'll be done this calendar year.
* I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
* You have no clue what it's going to be.

The catch: You have to put this in your journal (or facebook-book-book-bagOOk) as well.
da: A smiling human with short hair, head tilted a bit to the right. It's black and white with a neutral background. You can't tell if the white in the hair is due to lighting, or maybe it's white hair! (Default)
Fun time in Toronto last night. And home by pumpkin hour, but just barely.

I think the reason Jerry Springer: The Opera ultimately fails is that the second half (in Hell) isn't so relevant to the world today. He really should have died and discovered nobody can see him except Baby Jane, and he needs to- I dunno, resolve the mess he left behind with the Ku Klux Klan, maybe?

Yeah.

The show was still a lot of fun, with [livejournal.com profile] melted_snowball and [livejournal.com profile] amarylliss, and the fact that we were in the very front row (1) and we know the show had a gunshot (2) was only slightly worrying. We were an arms-length from the "Jerry Audience," which was thankfully non-participatory.

(1) the tickets said row B. They used row A as a buffer-zone (and for floor-mics).

(2) dan's and my very first dinner-and-a-show together was at the tiny Kitchen Theatre. The show was called Hot and Throbbing and it was fairly dreadful. Mostly I remember two actors wrestling over a gun, which they fired, directly at the both of us, from about two paces. Glad we survived that one!...
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Slumdog Millionaire came highly recommended from all over, and I will echo that back.

I could swear that I read exactly this story in a William Gibson short story, though; we got your mashup Bollywood/ska/rap soundtrack, characters starting from the very bottom, hyper-on-on-on pop culture, computer-networks and cellphones playing a central role, cities growing up out of the slums, violence, the odd implausible coincidence, and heavy reliance on inter-connected flashbacks. Did I miss anything critical?

I did like it; I was merely puzzling over whose style it reminded me of. Gibson's it.

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