Re: And you can say you knew him back when.

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Woot! Woot!


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 6:48 PM
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Perhaps Airborne Toxic Event can be the house band.

Joe recently friended my band on myspace, with no knowledge of the unfogged connection. It was funny.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 6:52 PM
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Wow. Good for him. That's awesome. When do we get to crash the cast party?


Posted by: mike | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 6:54 PM
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What 1 said. That's excellent news.


Posted by: soup biscuit | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 6:56 PM
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Woot!


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 6:57 PM
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Coolio. Congratulations, Jo-Dry!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:07 PM
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Oh, that's so great. Congratulations! Huge smiles all around.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:08 PM
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Hooray!

I sat there for several slow moments thinking that the show was an adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. But it isn't. Hooray!


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:14 PM
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I'm happy and proud for Joe. Hurrah!


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:18 PM
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Go Joe!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:32 PM
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I've seen this show, or at least a previous incarnation of it. Who wants to bask in my reflected glory?

Way to go, Joe.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:32 PM
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Woo! Hook 'em, Joes!


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:39 PM
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Congratulations Joe!


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 7:57 PM
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But it isn't. Hooray!

Oh, if that's the case, then Hooray! from me, too.

I was not relishing the notion of a DeLillo musical.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 9:02 PM
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Dude, check out this poster for the new James Bond movie. I mean, WTF??? I can NOT believe they let them show that in a poster!


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 9:09 PM
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I was not relishing the notion of a DeLillo musical.

Never fear.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 9:36 PM
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Woo-hoo Joe!


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 10:13 PM
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Joo-hoo woe!


Posted by: peter | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 10:15 PM
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DOH! Apo beat me to the post!


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 10:37 PM
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(And congratulations to Joe, of course!)

I was going to link to this song from the musical, which I'm still waiting for Lou Dobbs or similar to hear and adopt earnestly, not realizing its source.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 10:41 PM
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19: No, no, we're collaborating. Like an old married couple.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 10:58 PM
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This is, indeed, excellent news. Felicitations!

If Jo-D needs some musician understudies, I should think that FL, ttaM, and I would be willing to step forward, though I doubt any of us holds a union card for the Local 802. Perhaps it's just the opportunity we've been waiting for to petition for membership.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 10:59 PM
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21 - Meaning you say something and then I but right in.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 11:00 PM
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butt


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 11:00 PM
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This is a swell tune.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 11:03 PM
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25 - Thanks for uploading it, Ben! Now we have a good mp3 version up -- EVEN BETTER FOR DOBBSING.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 11:05 PM
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5 to 24


Posted by: peter | Link to this comment | 08-11-08 11:17 PM
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The links in 15, 16, and 20 are all very good and important.


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:15 AM
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...and holy shit! The Gaede twins! How come no one ever told me about those little darlings?


Posted by: Wrongshore | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:20 AM
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Yes! Does it pay well? Will there be screaming fans?

The one time I did a theatre 'pit band' gig [for the Threepenny Opera] I made the mistake of doing it essentially for free.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:29 AM
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30: In my experience, pit-band gigs pay shit, but I live in union-hatin', right-to-work land. I've always presumed the NYC-Broadway scene pays decent coin, but you do have to join up, which I've never looked into.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:39 AM
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re: 31

This was a mostly student production [although in a big theatre and in front of a sell-out audience] so I don't think anyone except the full-time theatre staff got paid. I did it for the experience.

I wouldn't do it again. Turns out Weill's music is bloody hard to sight-read and a lot more practice/rehearsal was needed than I anticipated. It did sound great, though.

A couple of friends [here in the UK] have done semi-pro 'pit' gigs and I think it pays OK.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:51 AM
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Dudes. Thank you guys so much.

It's not exactly ideal; I have mixed feelings toward this one, and the current draft doesn't even contain a whole lot of my work. But, this producer is crazy interested in it, and I have no doubt he's going to try and get it up in some form. And, I'm pretty sure my songs are all in there. I'm not positive, though, since Ryan and I aren't really involved in this production (odd as that might seem, since we created the show).


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:59 AM
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Yay Jody!!! we're all so proud!


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 1:01 AM
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Excellent news! Wouldn't ttaM's energies be better spent putting a European company together to take it into the West End?


Posted by: OneFatEnglishman | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 2:04 AM
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Congratulations, hope it does work out.


Posted by: asilon | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 3:07 AM
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Blanche and Eva prove themselves to be masters of the most terrifying and unstoppable form of Fascism in today's culture: Top Forty pop.

Who could disagree?


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 4:56 AM
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Yay, Joe!


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 5:35 AM
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The Gaede twins! How come no one ever told me about those little darlings?

I tried, Wrongshore. But did you listen? No, you did not.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 6:14 AM
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39. wtf fuck with the comment thread on that, apo?


Posted by: OneFatEnglishman | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 6:18 AM
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Yay Jody!

So what do we do to introduce this song to Lou Dobbs? Where do we send the robots?


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 6:19 AM
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I've always presumed the NYC-Broadway scene pays decent coin,

I just heard some interviews on NPR with musicians from the B'way Phantom of the Opera orchestra. I think they said they make about $1200 a week when they play all the shows, and are only required to play half. So the theatre work subsidizes more adventurous music for a lot of them. How long has that show been running? Some of them had been there from the start. They study languages or do Sudoku until it's their turn to play.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 6:49 AM
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I think they said they make about $1200 a week when they play all the shows, and are only required to play half.

I once did some work for a major concert venue. One of the big problems they had was deliberate absenteeism. The scam went like this: if a musician was sick, the venue had to hire someone for the substitute's list for about 2X the normal performance fee, in addition to paying sick pay to the regular musician. The musician who called in sick would often "helpfully" suggest a substitute of his/her own acquaintance. In reality, the substitute had a regular position in another orchestra 50 miles away, and was sicking out from his/her own performance on the same night. So the two musicians would effectively switch places, and each would earn 3X the normal wage.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 6:54 AM
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43: I wish that worked for graphic design.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 6:56 AM
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Congratulations, Joe!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 7:30 AM
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BTW, check out the comment thread on the youtube link in 20.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 7:39 AM
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I wonder if the actresses who played the little Nazi girls will spend the rest of their lives fighting off Nazi admirers, being confronted by angry liberals, and being asked what went through their minds during the events in the musical, and so on.

I mean, this is America, where reality is #2.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 7:51 AM
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Blanche and Eva prove themselves to be masters of the most terrifying and unstoppable form of Fascism in today's culture: Top Forty pop.

It's like fascism made of ... candy! Mm. Sweet, sweet, fascism.

(OT: Is Bush getting hammered at the Olympics or is he just being his usual idiotic self?)

Congrats, Joe!


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 7:51 AM
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Judging from the YouTube comments, lots of people aren't getting it.

Congrats, Joe!


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 8:00 AM
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The guy really, really looks plowed to me. There were 8 or 10 pictures of him being goofy, plus two of him falling down.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Alcoholism is the very least of Bush's problems.

In at least one picture, daughter Not-Jenna looks disgusted and embarassed. Nothing fazes Pickles, though. Her Joker smile never leaves her face.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 8:03 AM
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APA encouraged to finally come out against professional involvement in torture.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 8:05 AM
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Free idea for a futuristic short story: a historian in 2708, whose specialty is the burgeoning field of pre-apocalyptic history, is studying the little-known period of the early 21st century. Because so few records from the period survive, the field is riven by historiographical controversies about the events leading up to the cataclismic near-extinction of humankind. The protagonist of the story serindipitously discovers the archive of his dreams: a perfectly preserved digital storage medium (most were erased during the Great Electromagnetic Firestorm) containing the entire contents of youtube, including millions of text entries associated with the videos. The story ends with the protagonist humiliating his professional rival by discrediting his rival's (to us plausible sounding) theory on the basis of wildly misinterpreted evidence from the youtube comments section.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 8:09 AM
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Why hasn't the only blog that matters updated the Yglesias link?


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 10:03 AM
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Because nobody clicks the links here?

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Wobegonian bathing beauties of 90 years ago.

All locals, of whom I have met one, but at that time Wobegon was a destination resort for Minneapolis high society. The 90-year-old daughter of one of these women approved of the picture.
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Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 10:40 AM
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score by Joe Drymala with additional songs by Ben Cohn and Sean McDaniel, Rick Crom, Glen Kelly, Laurence O'Keefe, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and Eric Svejcar.

That's a whole lot of additional songs.


Posted by: Fatman | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 10:46 AM
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Way to go Joe!!

Years ago I offered to get one of his shows produced locally and he was holding out for Broadway. I am so tickled pink that he has made it!! He has helped me behind the scenes with some theatre stuff and he deserves every success! Now I'm wishing I got him to sign my script along with Jeff McCarthy of Urinetown fame. Maybe there is still time.


Posted by: Tripp | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 10:54 AM
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Threadjack:

I'll put up a post when I get home, or if someone else beats me to it that's good too. Chopper's going to be in NY Tuesday evening, and suggests a meetup. Because I am nothing if not in a rut, I think Fresh Salt would be a good place, but anyone else who's going to show up who has a better idea should pipe up.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:02 AM
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"I am in nothing if not a rut" would be more felicitous.


Posted by: peter | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:04 AM
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I am nothing if not in a rut

That's a curious choice of timing to meet up with your imaginary friends from the Internets.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:12 AM
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Tueday evening meaning tonight?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:12 AM
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Further to 59: especially when you're married to a guy named "Buck".


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:12 AM
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Jackmormon!

Hey, JMo, how does one reach you by e-mail?


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:14 AM
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No, no, Tuesday a week from today.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:24 AM
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Congratulations Joe!

I will always cherish the memory of you calling me a little bitch.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 11:36 AM
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57: I'll go ahead and main-page it, LB.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:06 PM
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Is there any chance Joe can stop by here so we can gush or give him grief or whatever?

I'm a good gusher and grief giver.


Posted by: Tripp | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 12:37 PM
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66: See 33.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 2:00 PM
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Hey, JMo, how does one reach you by e-mail?

Why, one simply puts my real first name and real last name in front of "gmail.com." Alternatively, you could give me your email address, and I'll contact you.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 08-12-08 4:24 PM
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I'm a good gusher

They have medications for that.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-13-08 7:22 AM
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