Oh, the things we do for love...

The wife is directing "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" at my favorite theatre. Only two rehersals are underway, and already it's shaping up to be a blast, even the rehersal process. Her show starts it's run two weekends after mine stops. Well, one of her main character's dropped out. I say dropped out, but we really don't know what happened to him. He was supposed to help backstage on my show and play the Nusphed the Camel in Aladdin. But, he didn't show up for our performance last Saturday, and he wasn't there for the second rehersal. In all fairness, his phone is disconnected and he doesn't have a ride to the theatre, but still, courtesy calls for calling both directors to explain his absence, even from the neighbor's or a pay phone. Unfortuneately, no one has heard anything from him in the past week. Most people are calling for his head and that's understandable, but I don't think anyone should "convict" him until we hear his side of things. Alas, that apparently isn't going to happen...

Back to the point... The things we do for love. In this case, there's a new camel in town and his name is ML. You really have no idea how much of a sacrifice this is going to be for me to make. I mean, I will in all likelyhood have to shave my moustache, at the very least, in order to make me look more camel-like. That's going to be 6 to 7 weeks of little to no facial hair, not including the month it takes to grow back. Oh, bother. Oh, the sacrifices we make for our love and our art.

Please, no comments about my toes...

Peeee Esssss: Da Guestbook is all wonely.

One of my favorite band's, and indeed an influence, are the Canadian's known as Barenaked Ladies. It's especially pleasing to my ego to have sucessfully passed their music onto the kid. He especially enjoys watching the DVD of all their music videos. But, I don't know exactly how to react when he says in public, "When we get home, can we watch Barenaked Ladies?"

Sorry... no wit or wisdom today. My mind is pretty full of mush right now. We were installing new bigger drives to the edit system at work. Everything seemed to work just fine, all the video and audio files were safe and accessable, until I made that call. The call that goes, "yes honey, I'm leaving in just 5 minutes to come home." Never should have made that call. Long story short, something got fucked up and in the end had to re-format the drives in order to map them to the network. Meaning we lost about 1 hour of video and lots more audio for all of the projects at work. That's about 15 projects... The silver lining is a lot of crap that didn't need to be on the drives got wiped out, so all of that junk is gone. Is the pizza here yet?

If you watched last night's Surreal Life, then you already know why we'll be seeing more of Vince Neil on the WB. If you didn't watch, you really didn't miss Corey Feldman's singing (Fox is touting "Who is America's worst singer?" in promos for the next American Idol episode, but WBers already know it's Corey Feldman). But since Vince won the Talent Show, he not only won a one night stay in the house's master bedroom, he also won a guest role on another WB show. Which one? We don't know yet, but let's examine the possiblities... Vince Neil on the Dubba-U B...

Smallville: A stranger (Vince Neil) arrives in town claiming Lana Lang is his long lost love child from the days when her mother was a drugged-up groupie. Meanwhile, Clark must choose between Lana and Chloe, while Lex broods about Clark's mysterious secrets.

Dawson's Creek: Dawson tells Joey how he really feels about her and a mysterious man (Vince Neil) shows up to beat him to a bloody pulp. Pacey ends up getting drunk and Vince Neil shows up to beat him to a bloody pulp, too. Then, he bangs Jen and rides of town with her on his Harley.

Jamie Kennedy Experiment (a.k.a. JKX): Jamie Kennedy X's Vince Neil and gets beat to a bloody pulp.

Birds of Prey: um... sorry not even Vince Neil could have saved this show...

Gilmore Girls: Lorelai dates the new guy (Vince Neil) in Stars Hollow and the townspeople talk about her behind her back. Rory tells her mother that she doesn't like her new boyfriend and they yell snarky comments and insults at each other. Realizing they hurt each other's feeling, mother and daughter kiss and make-up, which turns Vince on. So they have a freaky threesome and Vince leaves Stars Hollow on his Harley. The question is which Gilmore Girl is pregnent?

Let's not forget the possibilites on 7th Heaven -- he could be the new preacher in town, or a guy that picks up Mary, or get arrested by Lucy's boyfriend, or beats Barry Watson's character to a bloody pulp...

Maybe there could be a clash of Rock and Country when Vince appears on Reba...

Maybe one of Sabrina's spells goes awry and she turns her cat into Vince Neil...

Maybe Corey Feldman can guest star too and Vince can just beat him to a bloody pulp, unless that happens later on the Surreal Life...

Holy Croly! How in the *heck* did I design this place to have nearly the same color scheme as Guster's website??? That was purely unintentional and surely subliminal. Musically, they are an influence. I guess I just didn't realize exactly how much...