mobile-post">chatted with him afterwards and recommended some shows. he's going to<br />be here for a while, so i hope to hang with him more.</p><p class="mobile-post">went in to the press office and saw that khalil is getting a fringe<br />first. it's soooo funny. i got an email from him many months ago where<br />he aksed about coming here and i told him not to do it. he's been<br />getting 5 star reviews, doing sell-out shows and now he's gotten this<br />award. remember: do not ever listen to my advice. or just do the<br />opposite.</p><p class="mobile-post">pajama men also got a 5 star in the scotsman. </p><p class="mobile-post">the bitter, horrible actor part of me get so jealous of that stuff. i<br />hate that part of me. it just sucks. the part of me who lived with<br />eric and tony as their careers were taking off, on the other hand,<br />knows that it has nothing to do with me and my show. their reviews<br />aren't taking any stars or words of praise from mine.</p><p class="mobile-post">there's a part of me who is whispering in my ear "you suck, you and<br />your show is stupid fluff" and it's all i hear sometimes.</p><p class="mobile-post">blech.</p><p class="mobile-post">but... it's very awesome for them as they deserve it. they're truly<br />great shows. they should be noticed.</p><p class="mobile-post">there's room for everyone. </p><p class="mobile-post">only 9 more shows. then two days off. then home. </p><p class="mobile-post">then what?</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src=''/></div>mister snickersnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327146.post-1124484814543590402005-08-19T13:53:00.000-07:002005-08-19T13:53:34.593-07:009 more shoes - dean<p class="mobile-post">So close, yet so far...</p><p class="mobile-post">Man, it really seems like it will never end. My knees and back have<br />given out. I'm walking like an old man. Really painful. I have some<br />vicodin but I'm scared of shredding my liver and addiction. Ouch.</p><p class="mobile-post">Yesterday, I dragged my lazy ass out of bed to get to Steven Berkoff's<br />show "shakespeare's villains".</p><p class="mobile-post">As I expected, he is a big ham. Man, he sure does know "the text" as<br />we like to refer to it, but he acts it like no one would ever act it.<br />Howard Fine would stop him after sentence one. Indicating, showing<br />off, everything one does with shakespeare when you've been doing it<br />and you're doign a one person show about shakespeare's villains people<br />pay to see.</p><p class="mobile-post">But... I sure did enjoy his lecture stuff about it, though. I<br />loooooove hearing people who know what they're talkign about talk<br />about stuff. You know, he wrote an entire book about playing Hamlet<br />and, well, he's doing a show about Shakespeare's villains, so... yeah.<br />I'm glad I went, it's good to get away from all the<br />cuntcuntcuntcuntfuckfuckfuckbollocksbollocksfuckfuck of the festival<br />and see soemone ham through Iago.</p><p class="mobile-post">Also, and this is how one would begin the parody show, he came out<br />sorta yelling at the tech staff because some fans were on. "David,<br />would you PLEAAAAASEEEE turn the effing fans off!" Saying "effing" is<br />so funny.</p><p class="mobile-post">Irregardless, it was nice. Plus, the building was absolutely lovely.<br />It was at the Assembly venue up on the hill and as you walk up the<br />steps, it is built in a way that another building shoots up behind the<br />venue. Stunning. Plus the sky and sun... man, it's pretty over here.</p><p class="mobile-post">Grabbed some food and internet and went off to do our show. The venue<br />is soooo hot. Jesus. There is a kid's show before us, James Campbell's<br />Onomatopea Society and it's a big whomping hit, so there are 100<br />sweaty and excited kids in there heating the room up. We get in and<br />open the doors and try to air it out, but it is sweltering. Sometimes<br />I feel as if i'm going to pass out. Man.</p><p class="mobile-post">The show was another average one. I'm trying to change stuff that I do<br />to keep it fresh and maybe find some surprises. dunno. Sometimes I<br />feel like I'm done with it; that we should never do it again. Then,<br />after the show, i see how much people like it and i change my mind.<br />I'm insane.</p><p class="mobile-post">Hiked back over the hill to the Assembly Rooms to see Will Smith (no)<br />- Misplaced Childhood.</p><p class="mobile-post">He's created a character who grew up rich and was a huge, geeky,<br />marillion fan (there is no other kind of marillion fan). It's very<br />funny, the conceit being it's the 20th anniversary of the release of<br />Misplaced Childhood and he is revisiting the thing that marked his<br />childhood: his punishment for not bringing his outdoor p.e. clothes.</p><p class="mobile-post">There are filmed segments with him and Fish, the former lead singer,<br />and they're pretty great. Fish is really fucking good. He should act<br />more. Seriously, he could be a great bad guy or corporate leader.<br />Really subtle and funny and charming.</p><p class="mobile-post">Glad I saw it, and it was nice to see that there are other Marillion<br />fans lurking about.</p><p class="mobile-post">As i was hiking back over the hill, the sun was nearly setting. The<br />castle was absolutely mesmerizing. I went in to the park and watched<br />the orange of the sun change the view of the castle every 10 seconds.<br />Words fail. Watching it was sooo odd. Thinking of history. Of our<br />short times. Castles. Things built for royalty. This festival. People<br />trying to better their station. The struggle. The wars. The defeats.<br />Love. Death... all that stuff one thinks of when watching sunsets and<br />castles.</p><p class="mobile-post">Met up with Paul Byrne and Brendon Burns. Burnsy is doing two shows in<br />a larger venue and it's a sort of culmination of his shroom thing from<br />glastonbury and they're documenting it via video. I have a video<br />camera, albeit a crappy consumer camera, and have been enlisted to<br />ass-ist.</p><p class="mobile-post">Met Luke, his delighful son who he talks about in his shoe and I shot<br />them working on getting lighting cues, etc. just right. It's funny how<br />some people "act natural" when they're being filmed. Sweet.</p><p class="mobile-post">Was about to head home when I realized it was the night we buy drinks<br />for the fliering staff. I headed to the pleasance dome and chatted<br />with the fliering staff. What a tough gig. Better them than me.</p><p class="mobile-post">Then i walked georgia and becky in to spank! (you love it!). It was so<br />hot. This is how hot it was. Ready? When we got in the room, my<br />glasses fogged up. I mean not a little... but they fucking fogged all<br />the way up. It was horrific.</p><p class="mobile-post">Stewart Lee, one of the co-authors of jerry springer, the opera, was<br />doign a set. I must see him. He seems like an actual genius. When his<br />set was over, becky and georgia headed off and I found myself in the<br />library bar at the gilded balloon.</p><p class="mobile-post">I'm sitting with