So, this is pretty much what goes down at a PDL band practice... Hashing out the moves. Here it's Jonathan, Nancy and Josh choreographing for the breakdown in Snap Goes the Gator Jaw.
Practice, practice, practice! Hash, hash, hash! If we ever practice the music, it's on the way to the show in the car.
(P.S. Why does the YouTube compressor darken the shiznit off uploaded videos?)
Friday, October 5, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Dear Everyone,
I was typing out a list of everything I'd be doing in the next week, but suffice it to say, I'm going to a wedding in N.J. this weekend, and this is one of those weeks where like literally every spare moment of every day is being scheduled to within an inch of its life. Tonight I got future america rehearsal, tomorrow improv class, next day I have to buy pants after work AND somehow find time to move a flat file from storage into my new studio. Thursday I'm taking a red-eye to NJ and I won't be back 'til Monday of the week after, and I have to spend all this time in N.J., so Chrsitina and I will only get to see New York for like 24 hours, if that. Craziness. Maybe during work I can bust some blogging. I'd love to. Something about Afro-American zionist cults or something? I left my work-laptop at home today so things have been weird.
Last week was fucking crazy and this week might be more of the same, in that it's been one of those times at work where you really actually spend the entirety of every day trying to solve work problems and actually working. then you spend all night trying to calm down (or learning improv. or learning future america songs).
Which is all to say this: Don't think I haven't thought the ponce projects into the ground already. I've thought about what I want these things to b e a lot. The videotaping of the musical as a musical was an art idea, not a commercial advancement idea, and maybe it has to do with my own eccentric aesthetics or something, but it was never an idea I expected to be particularly popular, nor did I think it would ever win any "new" audience over really (well, maybe a little). Just something I wanted to do. Doesn't matter, because there's not enough time to do that stuff in our life. If I can make any one of the 4 or 5 "good" ideas happen I'll be super happy. I'm already simply amazed that I finished the fucker (*the "fucker" is The Island of Florida: A Foundation Myth, the Ponce De Leon musical) for the first round. I'm honestly very busy at work right now and that probably won't change until late October. 30 minutes of music is fine. You throw some intro and outro dialogue in there, or write one more song "inspired by" the show and you got a 45 minute album, which fits on one side of a 90 minute tape, which means it's good enough for my 15 year old self, which is all I've ever demanded from music.
-John
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