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Friday, December 12, 2008

[ILoveIshtar] Once again, somebody raises the idea of "Isthar: The Musical" like it would be a bad thing....

This blog entry (found at http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/12/1/37801.aspx) was inspired by a YouTube spoof, "Waterworld: The Musical" (see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRW4sJgtTj0).

Now I thought the vid is quite funny and clever, but I've gone on record as saying I don't understand the widespread derision of Waterworld. I haven't seen it all the way through, but I saw part of it on TV, and while it's no Ishtar, it didn't knock me to the floor clutching my head the way that, say, "National Treasure" did.  Well, I do understand... the difference is, of course, that Waterworld was just too weird for a mass audience, and didn't make any money, and National Treasure was successful enough to spawn a sequel. I found it tired, formulaic, lazy, by-the-numbers, cliched, and deeply deeply cynical... but none of that matters. If something loses money it's bad. If it makes money, it's good.

Here's the blog entry:

"Is it that odd to imagine a Waterworld musical on Broadway? After all, Xanadu made it to the big stage, so anything is possible for infamous turkeys like this one. Sure, it looks rather silly in the video below, the way Patrick Warburton and company have made it, but with the right creative team Waterworld could really work as a kitchy cult attraction. Maybe team up two randoms, the way Marvel has with the upcoming Spider-Man show directed by Julie Taymor and featuring music by Bono. Honestly, there seems to be nothing that Broadway producers could announce that's any more ridiculous than what's already been done there.

So, terrible movie-turned-musical ideas may continue to be easy gags, and they're possibly even going to make me laugh, but ultimately I would like to go see Con Air: The Musical (from 30 Rock) and Planet of the Apes: The Musical (from The Simpsons) and musicals made out of Waterworld, The Postman, Battlefield Earth and especially Ishtar. Who would love you, Mariner? I would."

I had to google the Spider-man show to make sure the author hadn't fallen for another spoof... but apparently it's true. Without knowing anything more about it than the information here, it's hard to imagine anything more awful (though as an Ishtar fan, I have to keep an open mind, otherwise I'm the same kind of prejudiced hypocrite as Isthar-haters who've never seen it).  It's pretty much a sure thing that whether it's really good or not, if it makes money, people will hail it as good, and if flops, they'll laugh at it and say it was horrible.

It might make an amusing parlor game to take the name of an unlikely movie (examples from real life - "The Eyes of Laura Mars" and "Carrie") and match it with unlikely creatives to come up with bizarre Broadway Musicals.  But Ishtar is already almost a musical - they wouldn't need to do much more than unearth the complete songs (by Paul Williams and others). 

Who would direct it?  Well, I hear that the "ask a ninja" guys from YouTube are remaking "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" - I'd like to see a production of "Ishtar The Musical" directed by Kevin Nalty aka Nalts (http://www.youtube.com/user/nalts).

And as the lovely Shirra Assel, the lovely Venetian Princess (http://www.youtube.com/user/VenetianPrincess)

OK, I'll stop now.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Come join me at Saturday In the Park, I Don't Think It's The 4th of July on StrangeWorld

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: [iChat] Pimp my bookcart!

this kind of shit is all these peckerheads care about. They all deserve to be unemployed in a dying profession. but as always, the thoughtful end up in the same boat as the morons

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Monday, November 24, 2008

[ILoveIshtar] Fwd: eBay Saved Search: Ishtar Soundtrack

Here's your chance to get the Little Darlin / Portable Picnic 45 for your very own!  Don't start a bidding war amongst yourselves, now!

My copy is one of my prize possessions...

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: Take a look

Dear John

I was going to write "Dear Mr. Podesta" but since you seem to think we are on a first name basis, I'll respond in kind.  No need to be excessively formal here.

I really feel sorry for young people (and frankly not-so-young people, it's been a very long slog) who were thrilled with Obama because during their whole lives as voting citizens, they've had nothing but Bush - Clinton - Bush administrations.

20 years is a long time for two political dynasties to control the fate of the entire nation. So why do I feel sorry for them?  Because they are going to be so disappointed when they figure out that Obama is just another name for Clinton II.

What do all these Clinton retreads have to do with "Change"?  Oh, I know the slogans are just window dressings, just as Obama claims he wants to hear what we have to say, so we dump our sincerest wishes into an electronic sinkhole.  It would be nice if a real person would get back to us instead of an autoresponse, but we know that isn't going to happen, because how would Obama explain how the guy who is going to use diplomacy is taking foreign policy advice from that ghoul Madeline "500,000 dead Iraqi children is worth the cost" Albright?  That's just for starts of course, but I won't go on, as you know far more than I do about what Obama has planned in the deception and hypocrisy department.

And I certainly doubt this message is going to get to you with a return address of "autoresponse@esmtp.change.gov"

But you know, John, that's YOUR loss, because I'm going to make sure EVERYBODY ELSE sees my message to you.  Maybe some diehard Dem (I hear tell there are still some of them left, but there's less of them everyday, thanks to Obama's bungling the massive amount of good will he had - similar to how Bush threw away the good will the world had towards the US after 911) will be kind enough to find some back channel to get this to you.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:34 PM, John Podesta, Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team <autoresponse@esmtp.change.gov> wrote:
Obama-Biden Transition Team
 

Dear Matt,

62 days. That's how much time we have left to prepare for the Obama-Biden Administration that will bring the change Americans demanded so strongly in this past election.

President-elect Obama has set a high bar for the Transition team: to execute the most efficient, organized, and transparent transfer of power in American history. As a co-Chair for the Transition, I want to tell you about a few steps we've already taken to achieve this goal.

First, we adopted the strictest ethics guidelines ever applied to any transition team. President-elect Obama pledged to change the way Washington works, and that begins with shifting influence away from special interests and restoring it to the everyday Americans who are passionate about fixing the problems facing our country.

Opening up the Transition means listening to your ideas and stories and providing a window into how the process works.

To give you a look at how we're approaching some of the nation's most pressing issues, we filmed this meeting of our Energy and Environment Policy Transition Team and interviewed team member Heather Zichal.

Watch the video and submit your ideas on energy and the environment:

Watch the video

President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden have set an ambitious agenda, and we are going to make Change.gov a source of information, as well as a place to participate in the decisions being made about your government.

Since the decisions we're making affect all Americans, we're counting on citizens from every walk of life to get involved. You can help us right now by making sure your friends and neighbors know about Change.gov and give their input, too.

We're continuing to develop new ways to open up the process, and we'll keep you posted along the way.

Thanks,

John

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Six Words to Inspire a Nation

I got an e-mail from the Publishers of the Six-Word Memoir anthology Not Quite What I Was Planning. I'm proud to say my submission made it into the anthology. 

In the email they wrote:
"Try out a new challenge with Six Words to Inspire a Nation, a collaboration between SMITH and The National Constitution Center. Play speechwriter and provide President-Elect Obama with the six words you'd most like to hear him say."

I hope you like what I submitted:


 http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords_for_america/shared.php?did=39291

and I hope others will submit something, too!

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Friday, November 14, 2008

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Share your story with President-Elect Obama

Here is my 2nd pass at advising President-elect Obama, who says he wants my opinion. This time I wrote:

I envision a country where the president:

Establishes an independent, nonpartisan commission with subpoena powers to investigate the treatment of U.S. detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy base in Cuba.

Dismantles the Department of Homeland Security

Repeals the Patriot Act

Ends spying on American citizens.

Declassifies and discloses any and all records that reflect the activities of executive branch agencies during the Bush Administration years.

Is unafraid to post what the American people want of him on his website, so we can measure his progress against their hopes and expectations.

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You may or may not find that this is time well wasted. As always, I'm interested in what you write, if you do.  The address is:

http://www.change.gov/yourvision

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