THE FUCK
If it wasn’t for that tattoo that Bai Ling gave him in Thailand, I wouldn’t have recognized him at all.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/first-look-gritty-tyler-perry-and-ripped-matthew-fox-in-alex-cross/
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The Actor Unprepared: Dinner Theatre: a Visual Horror -
I was just recounting this story to my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago. We were passing by the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn and I had a flashback. I can’t believe McCafferty did this, and I can’t believe we all followed him down the rabbit hole.
One time, Mike came up with an ingenious scheme to get us and a couple of our close friends an “all-expenses” paid trip to Las Vegas. He noticed that one of the innumerable, specialty conferences taking place at one of the hotels in Vegas was for an organization called the “Elevator-Escalator Safety Foundation”. He told them that he was from the “Chutes and Ladders Theatre Company” and that we specialized in transportational theatre. We could model a performance around their mascot, a bizarre cat dressed as a maintenance man named “Safe-T-Rider”.
Someday they will regret their foolishness. We would have re-invented escalator saftey.
Oh boy…more photos of shame…
So back in the mid aughts I thought I would do a little dinner theatre out here. Back in Michigan I ran a large dinner theatre company that did about 300 shows a year…150 of them during the holidays. It seemed like I could turn some of that knowledge into some cold…
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I hate ukeleles sooo much. Don’t people who play them know about an instrument called the ELECTRIC GUITAR that sounds a hundred billion times better? Hey want to make sure your lame zany novelty music REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks? Why don’t you strum a tiny guitar with plastic strings! Uh oh, is this person singing a cutesy song on a ukelele talking about DIRTY SEX?!?! AHH THE JUXTAPOSITION IS GIVING ME A MIND FREAK!!!
This is the typical ukelele song:
Sucks pretty hard, right?
Now look at the typical electric guitar song:
Typical Awesome Electric Guitar Music
Don’t ever make me hear a ukelele again!!!!
Sorry, not only will you hear ukelele again, but you’ll have to argue with Paul McCartney and the fucking ghost of George Harrison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKTXyF_6B8
Okay, okay maybe Clapton comes in and plays some sweet electric guitar to save the whole thing, but as McCartney said “…the ukeleles would come out…”
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Extremely excited and very nervous about this. I’ll be playing keyboards in the band. Come for the magic, stay for the chaos. Either one will be pretty spectacular.
A few months ago my friend David Lyons was visiting my friend Tony Zaret in New York. After a trip to a Turkish spa they unwound and half-watched The Who’s Tommy (1975).
So now a bunch of us are performing a stage version of Tommy. (Tommy is the one with “Pinball Wizard” and a blank-faced Roger Daltry bumping into stuff.)
It’s on Saturday at The Blue Star, a way-cool bar in way-downtown LA. It’ll be a buttload of fun! AND IT’S FREE.
THE CAST:
Whitney Avalon, Mark Teich, Dave Seger, Dan Riesser, Tim Marklevitz, Erni Walker, JD Ryznar, David Lyons, with Dan Harmon as “The Doctor.”THE BAND:
Dave Geis on bass, Tony Zaret (flying in from NYC) on lead guitar, Jason Makiaris on the keys and vocal arrangements, Cam Taylor (flying in from Portland) on the drums, and myself on rhythm guitar. I’ll also be narrating.Saturday. FREE. The Blue Star, downtown. Doors at 9. The Rumble (playing British Invasion hits) goes on at 10. Tommy follows.
Beer and wine at the bar. Donation grill in the back. Party everywhere. Dress warmly.
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