…asks the spam. Such pretty signals in the noise occasionally.

My, my. It was a big weekend. On Friday I attended Sara’s show, Sara Schaefer Is Obsessed with You, which was great. Sara worked me into a bit where she slaps an audience member — she pulled the blow, sissy that she is. I was very impressed with how polished, warm, relaxed and funny the show was. Afterwards Georgia, Chris, Sara and I had a fine time at some nice Irish place called Slainte, I believe. The next night, I attended the premiere of Lou’s friend Guy’s art rock opera (mock-)porn film Nausea II at MOMA (info and trailer). I had a small part in it, too, as the weeping waiter. (Oh, to watch myself; my heart pounded like a drum. Lines (all) were cut but I got a couple laughs for my sniffles and grunts.) After the film the band played and ’twas kickass: Guy danced like the Thin White Duke and the drummer fucking rocked with a joyful grimace. I was assailed with lots of ideas during the show and kept scribbling in my Moleskine (see below).

As if that weren’t enough for one weekend, Georgia and I immediately skipped off to my place to put an mp3 on her iPod in preparation for The MP3 Experiment at midnight. That was a blast, too: balloons and bubbles and hugs and all too short. Much can be done with this type of gathering; this only scratches the surface.

Sunday, a low-key Share featuring a long conversation with Eric about personal direction, the MS program he’s considering, how to balance interests and pursuits, and the difference between top-down, intellectual choices and following your bliss. Earlier in the day I got some Xmas presents at a nifty store nearby — someone please buy me this book.

Idea Dump

That book I just linked to, it says give away your ideas — so here goes: * A masked improv show. Certainly not new, but definitely full of potential. Emphasis to be placed on re-sanctifying the stage and leaving the players’ identities at the door. Half and full masks. I might propose this to Gunshow.
* I want to find an application, for the web or OS X, that shuffles text. Graphical swirly shuffling is a plus but not required. I want to be able to put in, for example,

> Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

And get

>I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
>Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
>Only
>There is shadow under this red rock,
>Your shadow at morning striding behind you
>And I will show you something different from either
>(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
>I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Random shuffling by line, phrase or word to see what connections might be found. It should be fast, simple, readable, and cut ‘n’ paste-able as a whole. Help me, people! All I can find is this awkward, gimmicky Desktop Poet dreck. …(more searching and thinkin’)… Oh, and there are things like PIPA, which is silly and alphabetizes:

> a
And at at behind Come different dust,
(either evening fear from handful I I in in),
is meet morning of of Only Or red red
rising rock rock shadow shadow shadow shadow
show show something striding the There this this to;
under under will will you you you you your Your.

It seems there used to be a program called Geneverse that would what I’m describing but all the links go to domain squatters. I might just have to write some code.