angelophile | Nov. 6th, 2006

Nov. 6th, 2006

So, I shaved off my beard last night, since we're doing publicity shots for the play tomorrow. Just left the moustache and I gotta say, a moustache really doesn't suit me. I look like a member of the Village People meets a Greek border patrol guard. That said, it'll look good for the show, but I have to put up with a cold chin for three weeks.

I'll post some of the publicity shots when they're done.

Post deadline lull now. It'll give me a chance to catch my breath, work on my words for the play which is in three weeks now, visit family and generally get caught up with things around my place, which has been neglected since I got back from holiday.

Everyone seems to have been pretty quiet lately, although I've not been around much. What's up with everyone?

EDIT: Oh, yeah, I forgot, you're all writing your navels.

Current Mood: calm

"In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream.
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines.
Sprung from cages out on Highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line.
Baby, this town rips the bones from your back,
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap.
We gotta get out while we're young
`cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
Everybody's out on the run tonight, but theres no place left to hide.
Together, Wendy, we'll live with the sadness,
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.
Someday girl, I don't know when, we're gonna get to that place,
Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun.
But till then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run."

Okay, I've been threatening this for a while. I want to make an opening credits sequence for a fantasy Runaways TV show, with Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run as the soundtrack.

No idea if I'll be able to accomplish this - I've never done video editing before, but I'd love to give it a try. What I need is names of people to "cast" in the show and examples of TV shows they've been in, so I can download clips and use those as a basis for the trailer.

Help me out?

Current Mood: quixotic

WHY THE HELL NOT?

1. “MY ONLY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP IS THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS.”
Without a political party to appease or lobbyists to pay back, Kinky will answer only to the people of Texas.

2. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Although the Republican and Democrat candidates spent $100 million in the last governor’s race (for a job that pays $100,000 a year!), less than a third of eligible voters showed up at the polls. Texans didn’t die at the Alamo for that.

3. PUT TEACHERS IN CHARGE OF EDUCATION!
They do our most important job, yet teachers in Texas get paid over $6,000 a year less than the national average. Kinky will boot the career desk jockeys
out of the education system, put teachers in charge at every level, and end the practice of ‘teaching to a test’ – one that gets dumber every year!

4. KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE.
Texas prisons are filled with drug addicts who are sick, not criminals. Let’s get them into treatment and out of prison, making room to lock up murderers and sexual predators for the rest of their lives.

5. IF YOU’RE BORN POOR, DON’T GET SICK IN TEXAS.
Only one in five children has health insurance in Texas. If the best test of government and society is how it treats its poorest citizens, Texas is failing badly.

6. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION.
Political correctness has become stifling in Texas. Kinky wants to “de-wussify” Texas. People ought to be able to wish each other “Merry Christmas” if they want to. The Ten Commandments shouldn’t be reduced to “The Ten Suggestions.” And a man (or a woman) ought to be able to light a cigar once in awhile.

7. MAKE TEXAS AN INTERNATIONAL LEADER IN THE EMERGING RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY.
Renewable energy is becoming one of the world’s biggest growth industries, and only 0.7% of Texas’ energy comes from renewable energy. Using proven technologies like biodiesel, (fuel you can grow!) we can expand Texas’ economy, create jobs, and help get America off the “Saudi oil merry-go-round”.

8. THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS BROKEN.
The current governor isn’t getting it done. The Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature aren’t getting it done. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, Texas is plumb crazy.

9. THE BEST PEOPLE GET THE JOB.
With no political party demanding patronage jobs for party hacks, Kinky will hire the most qualified person for every job in his administration. Then he’ll get out of their way so they can do their jobs – and make state government really work for the people of Texas.

10. IT’S TIME FOR TEXAS TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM POLITICS-AS-USUAL.
Texans are the most independent-minded people in America. The last independent governor of Texas was Sam Houston. The time has arrived for the next independent governor of Texas—Kinky Friedman!

Help make history in Texas tomorrow. With record turnout, Kinky Friedman will be the next governor of Texas. But if the same 29% of voters turn out to vote, you'll be stuck with the same old politics as usual for four more years.