Kimmy’s Garden

I am preparing a male impersonation act, and what better subject to include than meat. I over heard a fellow rugby player talking, and he has inspired me to write a little something on Meat:

  I like my meat real thick:

you know,

like one-and-a-half or two inches thick. Mmm.

  And I like it pink:

you know, oh yeah,

seared goodness on the outside,

but rare, raw and tender on the inside,

there, you know, right in the middle.

  Oh, and I like it hot:

you know,

flaming hot, ooo,

with all those juices running down!

  And I like it really spicy:

fiery flavour, oh yeah,

tasty tasty tasty!

gimme some of that salt-and-pepper,

if you know what I mean.

  But, you know,

I especially like my meat jerked,

oh yeah,

and some of those other rubs are real nice too.

  I do love my meat. Mmm, mmm!

I am not sure if you have thought about this, but what about starting your own escort business on facebook (TM):

facehook - a Social Utility that connects you with the people around you, for cash. You could set up events, make a list of “friends”… I checked on the web and no-one has come up with it yet.

Sorry sorry, let’s forget the whole thing, forget I mentioned it; we’re all having a good time and of course someone had to wreck it. I think someone is putting thoughts into my head while I am sleeping… must check my wall-to-wall.

I think that it is actually a front for the FBI collecting all of our personal data and especially the tagging photos … what better way to get face shots of every one who knows so and so, they can now scan faces in surveillance capture film more thoroughly… And those applications! So fun, I am a big fan of the horoscopes app!

I am going to come up with an application that compares facial features of people on facebook to animals. People can tag their eyes, nose, mouth in different photos and run it (like CSI & fingerprints) through a db of tagged animal photos from National Geographic or something like that. There may be a problem of copy right, gotta re-think that. Ah! How cool would that be though? Now, if only I knew how to write the code …

NO stealing my ideas…

An afternoon class of writing poetry last week was quite an adventure. The instructor was Sheri-D Wilson, a fantastic Spoken-Word artist, one of the first & best as a matter of fact :-). If you do not know what Spoken-Word is, you simply must attend the Edmonton ROAR festival this September.

Anyway, I won’t ruin the magic by telling you in detail what we did all week in order to create, but it was a great week. Pick a theme, do some prompts, learn about others’ poetry, get inspired by each other, sharing our works of art, talk about what makes it soooo gooooood, and take it farther. The poem which I posted on June 8 is something I wrote from one of Sheri-D’s prompts using Anne Waldman’s “Fast Speaking Woman” poem. The next generation of poems you find posted here will be the product of the seeds of the vision that was planted in my brain (S&G) during this course led by Sheri-D through the Faculty of Extension.

Further to the poetry in Edmonton, I was always aware of the Stroll of Poet’s Society , the Stroll (October), and the 12 Days of Poetry (January). Then later I find out that I know Jocelyn Verret-Chiasson, the former President, who put on an enjoyably intimate suite of Monday night readings at the Upper Crust for $5 - and let me tell you, best entertainment a five spot can buy you. A great evening of poetry, socializing, and dessert with coffee!! I recommend this series of events to everyone.

This winter, again, I found out too late about the Raving Poet’s Society who were having readings as well on Wednesday nights at the Casbar (basement of Yianni’s on Whyte). Ah! Next season, I am there!

Some of my favorite guitar tabs that I had to make myself, with a little help from my friends:

Merle Haggard tab chords If anyone ought to know

Tonight I enjoyed the Scona High School’s presentation of the play Little Shop of Horrors. The greeting by the ushers was warm and inviting, and the seats were great. We sat in the middle, front, reserved area. Ha! Spoiled rotten. There were many seats in the first rows of the balconies called the “appartments” with laundry hanging to dry. Neat. First thing that I noticed after finding our seats was the fantastic set. The flooring, the decor of the flower shop, and especially the brick walls of the neighbourhood of Skid Row. The spray paint and graffiti-like notes, garbage, out-of-order parking meter and and old horror movie posters glue-painted to the walls were a great addition to give the atmosphere of, well, a scary skid row.

There were several dancer-singers, the Doo-Wops, that really looked the part of troubled teens with nothing better to do than hang-out and gossip. Hmmm. Looked frightningly believable!! LOL They sat and sang on the main set, and as well, up in the balconies and up in the up-right and up-left stage. There was song surrounding us. BTW, the music was awesome. Really sets the mood, the music that is. I think that moving the singers around, especially up in the balconies made the people upstairs feel included as well, instead of being a person just sitting there looking down on all of the action. The singers must have had to boogy to get around, and get changed. Great job.

As for the Doo-Wops, I thought that the three song-trio leaders, Courtney, Gianna, and especially Merran, were excellent leaders. It must have been a challenge not only for the Doo-Wops to get their troops organized physically and with the timing of the singing, but a special hats-off to the choreographers getting all those people on such a tiny stage to look well spaced-out and organized at the same time. Good use of space and timing. There was a feast for the eyes and ears!

Lead roles, Mr. Mushnik (Stefan), Audrey (Breanna), and Seymour (Matt D), were done very well. I especially liked the “will you be my son” part - the two young men really played well against each other. Could have had a bit more clear enunciation of the words while singing, but the whole scene seemed natural and believable - which is most important. Audrey was a fantastic singer, simply put.

OK, the puppet Audery II. How cool was that? I just wanted to run up and touch it, especially the baby one. Just wanted to cuddle it. And what was with the three flower-pot-girl-ballerinas. That was hilarious! They were so over the top, and worth every minute watching them. I liked the setting up of the “Someplace Green” song, with the indoor-outdoor carpet and chain link fence, and sombre lighting, while over to my right are three bizarre dancers who were super-happy prancing around. Interesting juxtaposition.

Great costumes. Great set, very well thought out. I hear that Eastglen gave the original set to Scona, and Scona spruced it up. So good to share and improve. Cool. I really liked how the one brick wall literally “turns” into the Dentist’s office. And the Dentist, I don’t even remember the Dentist’s name, but he did a good job of being baaaaaad. And somehow the crowd loves him best it seems. I find that fairly interesting as well. He is supposed to be a complete and inhumane bastard, yet everyone loves him. Cheers for him. Weird. So fun to get to play the bad guy.

The lighting was well done. Hardly anyone remembers the lighting crew. Lighting is so natural that we don’t usually notice how the colour and timing prepare the feeling for the scene. You know that its well done when you hardly notice the changes.

I loved every minute of it. Well done and thanks so much to Anne and Merran for having invited us. It was indeed and unforgetable evening of theatre. And I say to myself again: this was a High School play? My expectations blown out of the water…