Yes, Star Wars fans, once again it's that most magical time of the year: Time for the Disney's Hollywood Studios Star Wars Weekend Hyperspace Hoopla!

As we rocket toward 'NOLA Time Fest' at the end of June, I'm taking a brief detour to the Steamier side of things, where we'll be debuting a new lineup of the 'Confabulation of Gentry' (the 1912 version of COG.) Among the changes are our new tuba player Artimus and our new trumpet playing sensation Stanley.

We're also trying a new approach by utilizing various circus and vaudeville style acts in between musical numbers, rather than a standard opening act. If you live in the New Orleans area, you should come see this antiquarian spectacle!

This is going to be presented at one of New Orleans newest music venues, 'Gasa Gasa', a coffee shop/art gallery on Freret St. that just got a major renovation, with all sorts of interesting video sculpture and light art dyamically decorating the walls, and a state of the art sound system for the stage.  If there's one thing I love, it's new ideas, and the people in charge of this venue seem to be brimming with them!

Here's tonight's playlist!

Marc Gunn - Monahan's Mudders's Milk
Monty Python - How to Tell a Witch
Schoolhouse Rock - My Hero, Zero
Steve Goodie - 12 Signs of Swine Flu
Rob Balder - A stable Connection
Information Society - Burning Bridges
The Gothsicles - Eff the Sun
TMBG - Working Undercover for the Man
Tom Smith - Cheap-Ass Cyborg
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Dr. Steel - Build the Robots
TV's Kyle - Electric Shock
Baldbox - This Could Be The Day
Twin Sister and PB & J - Jawa
Arrogant Worms - Idiot Road
Caravan Palace - Panic
Ookla the Mok - Mr. W
Tom Smith - Badger Pajamas
Luke Ski - I Want to Be Steve Buscemi
Paul and Storm - Opening Band
Robert Lund - Bangin' Paris Hilton
HGTTG - Vote Beeblebrox
Tom Smith - On the PC
TV's Kyle - Break My Face
Whatfor - When Speaking is Hard
Mikey Mason - Beer Powered Tim Machine
Seamonkey - Onry Handjob
Raymond and Scum - Amy
Smile.dk - Someday
Positude - Neighborhood of Make Believe
Weird Al - I Think I'm a Clone Now
Voltaire - Cannibal Buffet

First off, I wish that people on the ao3 would stop tagging their Marvel comicsverse stories with Avengers (2012), Iron Man - Movies, or Marvel Cinematic Universe. Because I do not want to ( spoilers for Extremis storyline in comicsCollapse ) I would much rather read about ( spoilers for Extremis storyline in Iron Man 3Collapse )

More Pepper feels later. But after hunting down Pepper fics set post Iron Man 3, I'm cranky about fandom. (I know, this is a shock.)

Thanks to any author out there who writes Pepper and Natasha friendship (or shipping, yes please), though.

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I'm back, and I have updates, but everything will wait for now. What I want to do - indeed, what I must do - is share a few thoughts from my first viewing of Star Trek into Darkness. (These are my first, preliminary impressions; I'll see it again tomorrow, and my thoughts no doubt will develop further.)

General and Relatively Spoiler-Free Notes

* This film is an extended and deeply heartfelt love letter not only to the original Star Trek, but specifically to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. STII is by far the best Star Trek film to date, and one of the best science fiction films of all time, and so I find this to be completely right and proper. I was deeply moved by the generous (and - dare I say it? - beautiful) nods to the previous film. I suspect some of the deeper resonances will be lost on viewers who aren't familiar with Star Trek II, but, let's be honest: I couldn't care less. [See Footnote 1. Yes, this post has footnotes.]

* What absolutely makes this film, immediately, right out of the gate, and then throughout, is the remarkable and textured chemistry between Bruce Greenwood as Christopher Pike and Chris Pine as James T. Kirk. Greenwood steals every scene in which he appears, but he also draws a terrific performance from Pine, one that sells the very heart and premise of the rest of the film.

* Benedict Cumberbatch is, unsurprisingly, brilliant. His performance is exceptionally physical, from the details of each action sequence to the very manner in which he enunciates his words; in this sense, it reminds me most of his performance as the Creature in Frankenstein.

* Simon Pegg, bless you.

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We have released the first part of Singles and Fiddly Bits and so far virtually no downloads. 4 as of last night and it's been out a week. So please help spread the signal. We intend to do 3 more of these before Susan moves away.

We want this music to get heard. It's pay what you want, so DL it for free. Just DL it and tell others about it.

Out Of The Light - Trio version. The CD version was a full band, so it was missing Susan's marvelous gamba part. This is how we do it live.

A Song About Fog - Maybe Lizzie's loveliest melody. Susan's viola playing is gorgeous (if I do say so myself, and I do say so myself).

Coming up in the weeks ahead ...

Haunted - two versions - Kind of like Daughter Of The Red, the serious, lovely version and the brain melter version.

Catnyp / Narrow Way - A brand new song, only played out a few times so far. And a song for Adam Selzer's sadly unfinished Prospero and The Tempest Tossed project which turned out to be too eerie to leave to that project.

Village By The Sea / Witch In Your Story - Two Susan songs, these versions are fueled by Scotty Moore and Richard Thompson (on the first) and Slade (on the 2nd). I think maybe to her slight dismay.

We need your help to get the music out there. Take a listen, tell your friends.

This was originally posted on Dreamwidth, after which it wandered out to various other sites. Feel free to reply where ever you want. I should still see it.

HOORAY. Finally, a game that will allow me to bring food and won't get me absolutely while hordes of hungry gamers descend upon it and ravage everything like a plague of locusts.

(If you doubt this analogy, you've never seen hungry gamers descend upon free game food.)

I'm making shortbread for sure, a couple different types. Maybe some kind of vegetarian dish so that we have solid food. And I have a hummus-based chocolate dip that might be tasty, so here's to hoping that works out.

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