Austin Improv

i am in.

my theme is anatomy and physiology.

I'm in. I may rehash some of my radio experiments.

Which would you guys rather have:

1) a CD of monkey-related songs
2) a CD of covers/parodies of the Devil Went Down to Georgia

?

This is so hard! There's so much good stuff to choose from.
I'm doing a compliation of snappy pop songs that just plain make me happy. No rhyme or reason.

I will be devising an arcane system of anagrammatic rules to place songs into the mix that reflect the names of people in the group. No attention will be paid to coherence or quality.

Shannon wrote:Bob still owes me a dvd of that Garth Whatchamawhosits show

It's still here at the house -- sorry! I did make it when I made all the others and kept it in my bag, but then we didn't cross paths for awhile. It's sitting at home in the "Not Mine/To Go" pile (along with your Slapp Happy cd and a logic book of Wes's).

Roy wrote:Which would you guys rather have:

1) a CD of monkey-related songs
2) a CD of covers/parodies of the Devil Went Down to Georgia

#1 please.

Wes wrote:The Fat Boys/Dolly Parton Love Songs collection

This would be the shit!!

Val wrote:And BMcKnee, I think you should go ahead and say yes.

You are right. "Yes."
As a gemini, I think I will have to make something representing two sides. Sunny/Happiness and Rainy/Melancholia.

mcnichol wrote:

Shannon wrote:Bob still owes me a dvd of that Garth Whatchamawhosits show

It's still here at the house -- sorry! I did make it when I made all the others and kept it in my bag, but then we didn't cross paths for awhile. It's sitting at home in the "Not Mine/To Go" pile (along with your Slapp Happy cd and a logic book of Wes's).


Glad to see you are a pile maker as well. I think all of my piles viz the AIC are clear now that Arthur finally has back his Del Close comic books. Brenner, that's another story.

You have Leviathan as well, yes?

shando wrote:

acrouch wrote:

nadine wrote:so we have to make like 18 cds per person?...

Just one per person. CDs are pretty durable.

I think Nadine meant one participant makes 1 cd each for all the other participants. Right, Nadine? So if there are 19 peeps, Nadine would copy her mix 18 times, one each for all the rest of the group.

Damn. I was looking forward to receiving 324 CDs. : )

acrouch wrote:

shando wrote:

acrouch wrote: Just one per person. CDs are pretty durable.

I think Nadine meant one participant makes 1 cd each for all the other participants. Right, Nadine? So if there are 19 peeps, Nadine would copy her mix 18 times, one each for all the rest of the group.

Damn. I was looking forward to receiving 324 CDs. : )

Be careful what you wish for, Crouch.

Bump! remember to work on those mix CDs over the holidays.

valetoile wrote:Bump! remember to work on those mix CDs over the holidays.

Can we have a final, definitive list of who's in? My system demands it.

Shannon

I think I finally decided on my theme: Afro-pop. I'm wildly unqualified to compile it, but this is what I'm doing anyway.

My inspiration is this: this past year during SXSW I went to see a Scion concert that was technically not a part of the festival but which was taking place at Stubbs during the same weekend and it was free. The concert was by Femi Kuti, son of the father of afrobeat and political activist, Fela Kuti. Femi is quite the musician in his own right and this man sells out soccer stadiums in his native Nigeria and across Africa. The crowd he had this cold drizzly day in the 'live music capitol of the world' was fewer in number than his twelve piece band and three back up singers/dancers on stage. It did not matter.

The previous night I was in a show, and I don't remember the details of it now except for the fact that I was endowed as a character I really didn't want to play and I gave it half-assed response. I failed to commit to it.

Flash forward a day and there's about 10 africans and one white boy huddled next to the cover of the stage. Femi didn't look dissapointed, didn't comment on it, and somehow didn't ignore it either. He and his orchestra gave an incredible, and I do mean incredible performance. It was three hours long where he switched between five instruments and singing and dancing but never took a pause long enough to even have a glass of water. It was remarkable - he committed to it like no other even if the circumstances weren't the best.

The happy ending to this story is that the weather cleared up somewhat and the rockin' music lured people into the venue such that the stubbs field was completely packed by the time he did his encore. While completely shamed by my performance the night before, I also learned that committment is not just about responsibility or a length of time - but about being there in the time that you're there, about taking what you have and being of the moment. It's still a challenge to do this on stage and it'll always be one in life - but it was inspiring. Inspiring enough for me to dedicate my mix to the music experience that has had the most influence on my improv.

(p.s. - it's also some pretty awesome music - I can't wait to share)

that may have been the best post i've ever read on this forum.

Yes, a final list is necessary as I will be selecting a song for each person, and we also need to know how many copies to make.

I saw a pretty awesome documentary on Fela in chicago. It was like he was so full of music that he just had to leak it out slowly through these marathon concerts or he would explode and the volume of the shockwave would destroy the world.