Re: ending ambient pieces when playing LIVE shows

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

Gotta watch THAT approach.  It didn't do well for poor Dick Shawn, comedian
and actor (who had superb roles in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" as
Sylvester - crazed beatnik beach bum, and in "The Producers" as the
hippie-type actor playing Hitler), that his stand-up routine ended with a
faked apoplexy or heart attack, and his lying on the floor motionless.  It
was apparently hilarious from the two reports I've had.  Dick actually had 
a
massive heart attack one night and the audience laughed for some time 
before
slowly realizing that he wasn't going to get up again.  Ever.

Another line to finish on "Rosebud"-style would come from the ever-lovely
Julie Brown (not downtown), in "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" (a
prophetic bit of Demento stuff):

"I did it for... JOHNNY..."


| Of course.  But then I need to get a gun license, and that's such a drag
| nowadays.  I could just hit myself with a cut-out decimal .45, fall over,
| writhe a little, shake a leg and say something like, "Tell Mother I 
|didn't
| mean to burn the soup!" and lie there for five minutes.
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| But then what?
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| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: "Jesse Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>
| To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
| Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:30 PM
| Subject: Re: ending ambient pieces when playing LIVE shows
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| > Put on a sign that says "I love Brian Eno," pull the plug on your rack,
| > and take your .45 and shoot yourself in the head.
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| > That will make an impression.
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| > -J
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| > P.S.  It so spoils the humor of such posts to have to disclaim about
| > them, but tone is slippery.
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