the Now Today Ensemble
A lovely dinnerparty, managed by Persephone Haverhast, complete with coffee ground forecasting.
We finally got to see Now Today Week, a film by Vlindinhauer Haverhast. Now Today Week is not only immensely enjoyable, it is also a true representation of what it was like to be there at the time. Experientially, isomorphically exact.
I premiered three pieces of music I finished over Memorial Day weekend.
We had the first runthrough of side one of Pink Floyd's The final cut as a septet.
Vlindinhauer Haverhast ~ bass and voice
Persephone Haverhast ~ handclaps
Mr why ~ atmospherist
Sabitathica ~ hello
L ~ sound synthesis modules no. 1 - 6
Tech Support ~ a contractual obligation to facilitate compliance with the Now Today Society Event Rider (Standard)'s Technology Quota Clause. Also, voice.
MPM ~ heroic historian
The ensemble watched a strange new film by Tech Support, who I should mention is the vocalist and front man for my new project The Darkness of Stars. He's in one of his dangerous creative phases (or he'd better be) so check him out at Eyedrum on August 6. But don't take my word for it:
Atherton Flux: "Seeing Tech Support onstage is like watching a wild animal wither and despair and ultimately fall under the weight of age and responsibility, but over and over again really fast, and the background music is the most beautiful soundtrack to self-destruction you've ever heard."
Vlindinhauer and I had a stand by the ocean, with the dark tide lapping our bare feet. The women looked on adoringly from a distance.
Persephone produced sparklers. We lit them all, and it was the happiest any of us had ever been in our lives.
A patrol car showed up and slowed down and communicated to us with his reverse lights his stance on victimless crime. But he must have decided the paperwork wasn't worth it.
The Hotel Suburban had no heat. After a phonecall we learned the hotel can supply either air conditioning or heat to its rooms. It can't do both and it can't treat any room individually. And so not for the first time and not for the last, Elizabeth and I were cold. A no-heat pattern is presenting.3 am to sleep, early to rise, Bob's muffin shop to eat. Rendezvoused with family for a fieldtrip to Fenway.
