lighting for the show generated some interesting light effects with my phone. i took a stack of pictures, but Bunny Boy (in the bunny suit) moved around. a lot. very kinetic, so with him bouncing around and the lighting made it hard to take any really good pictures. most are a blur of some kind.
the show itself was excellent. it will take a little time to digest what i saw tonight, but it was excellent.
WE'RE SEEING THE RESIDENTS!
WE'RE SEEING THE RESIDENTS!
WE'RE SEEING THE RESIDENTS!
we boughts our tickets!
we boughts our tickets!
(we'll see how long this bog entry stays posted but.....)
New Residents Album Coming
Jun/03/08 03:06 PM
Yes, that album titled (all together now) THE BUNNY BOY has been officially outed by Cryptic. Not a lot of info as of yet, but I know you cling to each morsel so here is one for you. It will not be in the storytelling era section. It is in fact, 19 individual songs. Yes songs. And yes it is also a full blown show that will tour into 2009.
I asked if the show inspired the album or if the album inspire the show. The answer I got was that I have not asked the right question and therefore do not deserve an answer.
You can trust the Cryptics to be cryptic.
favorite phrase: FULL BLOWN SHOW THAT WILL TOUR INTO 2009
saw this while heading to the other office to look at the server room i get to tear down in less than a month. i saw it and can't seem to put my finger on why it caught my eye. of course when i wanted to be stopped at the traffic light on the way back here, i couldn't catch the red light to contemplate why it was ringing a bell.
on my ride home tonight i saw something interesting. road rage at its best. fortunately, no one was hurt, but it provided some entertaining moments (for me at least).
at one point in my ride, a car was behind me and flashed their highbeams at me. i didn't think much of it as i had cars to my left, right and in front of me so there wasn't anywhere i could go, so i just ignored it. that is until i was in the left center lane, there is a car in the left lane, and he gets highbeamed by the same car. rather than ignore it, he slammed on his brakes. which got the highbeam guy to back off.
for a moment. he sped back up and so did highbeam which again flashed his highbeams and again, the guy slams on his brakes and slows the entire lane down to much less than it was. i had to laugh, but i was glad no one got into an accident.
then when i was at the supermarket, one of the kids who packs the bags correctly identified the eyeball on my shirt as The Residents. he thought they were pretty cool, but had never heard anything by them.
at least there is some recognition, even if people have no idea what it is they have an idea of.
TK told me this a while back so i was excited then, but seeing this has me excited now.
i figured out the other day that when it comes to music, the music that i like is generally linked to one song. that one song opens my eyes to them and from that point on, i'm a fan. (and as i'm sure M would attest, it's all downhill from there.) but for me, what blew my mind for The Residents, was High Horses. 20 minutes of carousel music that when listened to thru headphones is just mindblowing (for me at least). only it isn't always the cheerful happy music, only twisted as only the mighty eyeballed ones can. fucking beautiful.
so, some insight to my musical tastes and why.
i hate when i want to look something up and i promptly forget what it was. at least i remembered that i wanted to try and find Flight of the Bumblebee. it's actually harder than i thought. i can find some mp3s, but not all of them are loud enuff, or simple enuff (looking for a good piano version if possible). i've figured out how to put ringtones on my phone, and after several years of not having it, i want Flight of the Bumblebee on my phone. right now, i'd be willing to guess that not that many people have the opening bars of Kashmir on their phones, let alone a live version of Kashmir. or something by The Residents. heh. what else can i put on it...
but before i sat down just now, i wanted to look something up, and now i can't remember what it was. must not have been that important. but of course now it's going to bug me. need to do my dishes, took out the trash, will do some cleaning, those i remember. but this i forget. whatever this is.
damn.
today was a long frakking day. shortly after the phone circuit issue was resolved, the movers managed to set off the fire alarm which required us to vacate the building. and when that happened, le grande fromage showed up to see how things were going. fortunately, he didn't stay long. i was able to get most of the phones working, but there are some issues that have to be dealt with on monday, but at least they can wait for the moment.
had dinner with DB, PA and LG which was nice. the politics here are different than they are in my office, which tends to be more entertaining.
the highlight of my day was a little kid from the neighboring daycare saying "look, he's got an eyeball on his shirt!"
me thinks it's bedtime.
i'll see if i can't find a shot of the ad, but i was just watching House, and Dockers has a commercial that ends with a shot of a road, and a pier extending out onto (what should presumably be) San Francisco Bay, with a nice shot of the Golden Gate bridge.
the only problem with the shot is this:
i walked that stretch of road when M&i were in San Francisco. i recognize the palm trees, and that stretch of road with the trolley car (not one that goes up and down the hills). it's actually along the piers between Pier 39 (w/all the famous seals) and the Embarcadero. (~1/3 of the way up from Embarcadero. actually, thinking about it, i may have actually stepped on some of those stone blocks...)
and to make things worse, when you are looking out that way, you don't see the Golden Gate bridge. you see the Bay Bridge going towards Oakland.
plus, there isn't a pier that juts out into San Francisco Bay like the one in the ad. at least not from the shot that they are using.
i thought commercials were supposed to be truthful. how disappointing.
all hail the home of the mighty eyeballed ones
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