After my lovely and talented sister read this blog, it occurred to me that there might be a few people with office jobs who may actually read this. Not only that, some students and/or folks with trust funds and even one or two who might get paid to read this. That amounts to maybe a dozen, maybe two dozen people WORLD-WIDE who might actually be tuning into the cipherings of the brain-bank brain. This realization, coming to me as crisply as a 70 degree day in November, has encouraged me to continue adding nauseam to the ad nauseam ab absudo ad infinitum. For all of you, from what’s left of me I leave this for posterior.

It’s exciting times in the theater. Boredom has reached an all time high and the glorious spirit of social progress burns in every grant application. The theater has reached a kind of satori in which a Richard Foreman loop rings in our ears forever. It is in the context of this fervor of creation that I bring you the TO DO LIST.

• Boat tracks: design, spec and build
• Bubble lights: design, spec and build
• Hump seat: design, spec and build looks like this won’t happen
• View Hole: design frame – get mirror from MC, projector from KC and find an RP screen
• Scott monitor swing arm - design, spec and build
• Video distro – what? How? Who? The famous video design team of Schumann and Schliemann have signed on to design video
• Audio design – get basic system in place
• Get follow-spot
• Merry-go-round – Scott
• Clear curtain in the front? see McMaster-Carr
• Clear curtain down the side? Again, see McMaster-Carr
• Mount for record player in Erin’s boat
• In boat lighting
• LED eye lights
• Put up front lights (after m.go-round)
• Other lighting???
• Test moon off DSL mast
• Swing curtains (Erin’s on it) still on it
• mid-stage curtain??? – if so, design, spec and build
• round séance table for hump
• send out letter to presenters how interesting is this?
• arrange intern interviews welcome Kat & Merideth
• fix heating – take roof off BR (YAY, it seems to have fixed itself!)
• review, rewrite intro.
• work on chp. 119
• record fair – look for te cara on 78rpm
• Eric costume: point shoe for Ahab go for fitting on Monday
• Eric costume: hair hat?
Added 7/706
• make new hanging brackets for JF-60s
• hang JF-60s
• plan audio-layout with Maggie well, more or less
• listen to chap. 36 bible ears with Maggie
• get things off this list
• show Maggie McMaster-Carr curtain that wasn’t too hard, was it?
• figure out video system with Maggie – who can help? Help! Schumann & Schliemann, kill Tim
and with that we add:
• Continually clean the studio
• make a mount for the Funk Soul Brother (remember him)
• pick-up sub-woofer/coffee table
• figure our where the overhead-projector Electric cool-aid acid test goes and remember to include the things I have forgotten on this list.
As you can see, very little leaves the TO DO LIST. The Road to Utopia goes through Purgatory. Atu bambaba hum diddy wah. For those of you who don’t know, this whole thing has something to do with Moby Dick. The process is not unlike the journey of the Pequod – glorious but rather long and boring (except for the rats).

I haven’t actually mentioned rehearsals, you may think those of us out here on the arctic praire at the end of theater don’t rehearse. Oh, but we do. Our ankles becomes sore, the muscles of the eyes and face grow in strenght, we utter the mantra “sit-n-spin” and our voices rise to the g(l)ory of Black Flag and we defer, defer, defer. In that spirit, I will leave things here at this rest stop on the Road to Utopia.