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One-Man Star Wars Trilogy in Chicago
Apparently the One Man, Charles Ross, was a hit at the Vancouver and Toronto Fringe Festivals in 2002. Now he's in Chicago until January 3, 2004. I took my girlfriend for her birthday, a little nervous because she's a theatre snob and a huge Star Wars geek; luckily this production satisfied her on both counts. Coming onstage all in black, with elbow pads (he has many occasions to throw himself to the ground) he sings/hums the music, does all the special effects and sound effects, and acts all the parts. Skeptical? A reviewer who saw him in Toronto said "If George Lukas [sic] could see this, he'd rediscover the secret lost in the two most recent films: that it's imagination -- and not computer driven imagery -- which made the original Star Wars so great." I couldn't agree more: every scene he performed was brilliantly evocative of the original, and the audience -- on this second night of the run, a mix of hard-core fans and newspaper reviewers with press kits -- never ceased to be surprised at how spot-on he was, the whole way through. Other reviews raved about his "energy", which I feared would mean he was like my first roommate, a huge Star Wars fan but also way too energetic for me and didn't use deodorant. But his energy just kept the show moving along and by the end his sweat showed that the choreography of the visual effects was not easy.
Every article about the show says that Mr. Ross has seen the Trilogy "over 500 times", and his performance leaves little room for doubt on this point, but those who have also seen it as many times may find a few quibbles -- every now and then, reciting a memorable line, he changes it just a little, which would sometimes break my immersion in the world he created, but only for a moment. It did take a little time to get warmed up to him, but at 20 minutes per movie, he gets up to speed fast, so by the time he had Luke sullenly watching the double sunset on Tatooine, I -- and the rest of the audience -- was putty in his hands.
I highly recommend that anyone in the Midwest take a chance on this show. It's only an hour long, so if you're a total loser who hates it, you won't be stuck there for as long as you were stuck in The Phantom Menace. And, don't worry, the prequels never come up in the show: this is only the Real Star Wars."
whats going on in this sunday morning
neighborhood? no need to travel to chicago to sense which way the wwwinds of change are bullowing?
there'll also never be a better time to investigate the creators' newclear power, & planet/population rescue initiatives.
this stuff is unbreakable, wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions, & there's never a liesense feechurn/cover charge to restrict yOUR progress.
the daze of the greed/fear/ego based felonious payper liesense ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys stock markup fraud execrable, is WANing into coolapps/the abyss, at the (increasing) speed of right.
talk about pressure? those fauxking foulcurrs on wall street of deceit/capitollist hill, are having a whoreabull time attempting to hide the news (buy use of phonIE scriptdead ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys) of their felonious payper liesense billyonerrors' latest softwar gangster hostage taking attempts, &/or the adolescent dictator megalomania of the georgewellian fuddites/walking dead perpetraitors of the greed/fear/ego based life0cide against humankind.
there's a real risk of overheating (peacing off) the main processor. you don't want that?
for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the aforementioned walking dead will not be available to make reparations, when the big flash occurs.
the lights are coming up now. consultations are in order. you know where to look/who to trust? see you there? tell 'em robbIE? tell 'em how well the updated PostBlock(tm) devise is not working?
It's all about where you imagine you are really.
"Location" is just an imaginary affiliation.
I am in Australia, and yet somehow we are in the "north" (as opposed to the poor "south"), there is more to geography than gps co-ordinates. That's why "geopolitics" is a real word.
Science is a second order set of relations imposed upon our phenomenological field of perception. Our imaginations are much closer to this than our "rational" (if there is such a thing as reason) minds.
There are a whole set of philisophical questions about technology and science that are patently ignored on slashdot on a regular basis. To be a good citizen, a good member of the human race, one needs to be informed about such questions. To that end the study of philosophy is extremely valuable (not from philosophy departments mind you they don't question reason and are outdated relics, cultural studies and critical theory departments are where it is at).
It's a poison chalice though, philosophy, if you keep going it doesn't offer any more answers only more refined questions. Then you wake up in a cold sweat realising you haven't ACTED only considered action. But in the end, the actions you do take are carefully considered. For what it's worth, I think that is important.
Ppl will mod this down, but this is relevant to everything (tm) and such debates never make it onto slashdot because of the particular way in which the power structures of this site work. If there is no space for debates such as these in the footnotes of stories, where then are they to go? Has mass media and the way it is constructed sealed itself off from the debate in the sidelines ? If philosophy is always "offtopic" then when will it ever be discussed?
The greek polis allowed for free debate between peers, in person, mod this up to prove that such debate can actually occur in this medium too. Mod this up for democracy and the justice that can be found through discussion, mod me up because I am AC and all it ensures is that a little philosophy can perhaps reach people who might not have thought twice about their relationship to science, technology and space.
You're too kind, its more like:
8==================D (_(_) --- Taco's ASS
or the alternative:
8===================D (_(_) --- the American people
Dubya & Sharon ^^^