This time around, I am totally in charge ; I have produced a few shows before, mostly literary readings and a tv show. I like the control of being director, producer, actor, writer. I do have a couple people who I asked to come in on the deal and give me some work. My buddy Bob, who has some of hte most interesting things to say about politics, and is even further left that I am. He is kind of my ideological bud. Of course, he is also wickedly funny when he wants to be and very pissed off at the world. The other is a freelance writer from la, who is right bow finishing up the writing of a documentary, Seal Island, which you can find on face book. A movie with a purpose... He is also very, very funny. I will tape them both, and have them live when they can fit it into their schedule. talk blog radiopays on the basis of listeners, and I should have a nice group of folk who miss Peace and Pipedreams. I will never forget running into two wasted guys from detroit, at the beach, around 6 am. They were swimming, had been out all night. I knew Detroit was very into the show, so I asked them if they had heard of it... they loved the show, and it took me playing out the voice of Moon Bong Haze to convince them that I was actually on the show. They really missed the show. No one is going as farinto stoner humor as we are, with t exception of the masters, Cheechs and Ching, who got together to do their stoner humor, after a twenty year break, affter listening to our show. YEAH TOMMY CHONG... when I heard he was listening, My heart fucking started pounding. They made me laugh so fucking hard when I was a kid. I have not heard that stuff in twenty five years, and I still remember a few of their skits. Me and my brothers used to do them. So... I will finally be getting paid for my art, again.
The set up is cool. I will have the ability to have up to five people logged in as DJ's. All it takes is a computer and a microphone. They can be anywhere. No more fucking trips to the studio for me. I do this show from the comfort of my own little castle.
I am going to be using the blog for character development. Which translates into grotesque stales, like that of Chester Ballsonu, who seeps puss from his dozens, if not hundreds, of venereal diseases.
I have to develop a few stoner friends for MOON BONG, since I will not have the other two people from the show to play the brother and mother. . They have both moved on, one had two kids in the last couple years and the other is working on a radio show in la, from her home here, as well as doing her stand up.
One is a nark. We had one on the show... bad things will always happen to him. I will also be doing the show in a way that characters will get killed in certain situations, then they will be resurrected by Christ, who of course is going to be a huge character on the show. I have christ, johnny pain, chester, scott ridgway, Mohammed Al Bidi (he is a muslim who hates american ways, and talks about he supports terrorism; I am going to give the radical muslim attitude. Another is X. He is african american, and very radical and pissed off. \
Violence will also be a trade mark to the comedy. Since the shows will be put on line afterwards to be downloaded, I can do story plots that extend from show to show... One is going to be a war of the worlds type play, where Johnny Pain, with the aide of Jesus, rather accidentley take over the world.
Another thing not done before...The last third of the show will be radically different. I am going to actually read my novel one war. I am also going to use a lot of the revolutionary poetry. Having them all recorded for posterity is worth me doing the show for awhile. I have a buddy who plays guitar, and has some great recording equipment, who is going to help me make the poetry cool. I did some wild readings for peace and pipedreams, and will do the same here.
Another main point of the show is going to be politics. Like one segment, WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?? Where I will explain the meaning of various philosophies that I have studied. Just a few paragraphs that give a taste of what is really a banquet, but if I get some people interested in figuring out Wittgenstein or Nietzsche, I will have done my duty. The coup de gra' (or however that is spelled) is going to be a segment where I tell people where all the protests will be in Chicago. There really is nowhere in Chicago to figure this out. So, I will bring them all in here. I will draw the line at abortion clinic protests, but most others... This is not going to be easy, but once I have all the contacts tracked down, I should be able to gather the info.... This could be a great resource for the artistic community in Chicago, as well as an inspiration to people in other countries and states.
This is probably boring as hell to anyone foolish enough to read this.... I guess I am throwing this out hoping without much hope that perhaps someone out there has a good suggestion.
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Still trying to absorb it all...
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