"No, really, it has Keith Moon on a Calliope."

[fancycwabs]

At Sunday's Sweeney Todd rehearsal, I was told that I'd be making an entrance playing the harmonium while riding on the rotating set piece, which reminded me of another famous musical number:

Sadly, only one other person in the room got it. I felt really, really old, in spite of the fact that it was more obscurity than age that probably generated the quizzical looks.

I recall playing the board game "Taboo" in college (early 1993), and having to get my teammates to say the word "Parliament" without using words like "British" or "Congress" or "Legislature," and so I said "Funkadelic" and "George Clinton." Everyone in the room looked at me funny, as if I'd suddenly begun reciting the pledge of allegiance in Japanese. Later, they chastised me: "What the hell does Psychadelic have to do with Parliament? Bill Clinton? You idiot! I'm never playing with you again!"

Later in the rehearsal, someone had a question about who wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, which led to a brief but amusing discussion of Sacks-Minnelli Disease. I think they thought I was Making Shit Up, when in reality I was just repeating other people's Made Up Shit.

After rehearsal, I had auditions for History Boys, which went okay--considering that the director didn't have me read for the one part I'd listed as an interest and had me read instead for a part I'm about twelve years too old to play. We'll see what happens (the younger part is, incidentally, a better part, but it's still meant for a 25-year-old).

Then, beer and hot wing rolls at the Blue Monkey, for Tugbucket's birthday.

Comments

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I love Taboo, but only if the annoying buzzer doodad is left in the box.

[mybadhairlife.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you will understand, then, just how depressed I was when I discovered that our two articling students had never even heard of Blazing Saddles.

*sigh*

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

When I was growing up, they'd show a censored version of Blazing Saddles on CBS that cut every possible sexual or scatological reference, but left every instance of the N-word intact.

I suppose with changing times that version doesn't get shown anymore, but as much as that saddens me, sadder still is the fact that there are two generations of folks who have no concept of Strange Brew, and therefore do not believe that "hork" is an actual word.

[mybadhairlife.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. In Canada, we use it all the time.

Examples:

"You totally horked on my shoe, dude!"

"Don't hork on the sidewalk - it's gross, eh?"

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

That's like the third dictionary definition of hork--the preferred usage is like so:

If only she'd let me her love I would hork,
Oh Björk, oh Björk, oh Björk!

[spatch]

Next thing you'll be telling us Mrs. Lovett gets in a giant tub of baked beans for "By The Sea".