Hurm.
Haven’t posted in a hot minute because of things related to me getting various projects done, which prevents me from working on other projects. Such as updating this blog. But here’s my status report from this post:
- Secret project that I came up with a couple of weeks back and don’t want to talk about is actually going extremely swimmingly. It involves me writing a lot, which is fantastic, and we’ll hopefully be going into the editing phase within the next week or so, and then I’ll get to implement it. As soon as that’s going, I’ll start talking more about the nature of the project, its origins, and then, shortly thereafter, I’ll share it with you all. Until it starts getting implemented, though, I don’t want to jinx it. I’m superstitious like that.
- Book Club is not as up and running as I’d really like it to be, as in not, but I plan on getting that all started extremely soon. But that’s not so tough because I’ve got people counting on me.
- I figure the mix is done, as it is in the ‘tester’ phase. I’m not going to try to clean up the “Bump” to “Fancy Claps” transition because I…can’t. It’s not going easily, and I just don’t think it’s a good use of my time. I’ll upload it without the “tester” modifier, and make it a permanent fixture of the Music section.
I guess the #2 use of my time has been the secret project, but the not-so-secret project that is the Omega Wolf show that goes up this weekend has been #1 of late. I’ve been promoting like hell, though not on here, sadly. I don’t know why I said “sadly”, as my readership consists partly of people who are probably (hopefully) already going, and partly of people who don’t live here. However, since my promotion machine is in full effect, I feel obligated to say the following:
Omega Wolf Productions presents:
The Office Window
a Tragical Romp Through History
or
a Historical Romp Through Tragedy
(a sketch comedy show)
Saturday, September 1 and Thursday, September 6 at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm)
The Bryant-Lake Bowl
810 W. Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Tickets available at the door, $8-12 (pay what you want)/$6 with a student ID.
Check us out on MySpace.
In short, it’s a sketch comedy show, with the theme of tragedies throughout history as seen from an office window (our title was almost “Tragedies Throughout History As Seen From an Office Window”, but it was deemed too long. It was also almost “Death of a Salesman and Many Others”, which I hated for a variety of reasons, but others thought was brilliant). I wrote two sketches. I’m not in it for a variety of reasons that I’d rather not get into (although I’ll say it had everything to do with me, and not that I’m on the outs with the troupe in any respect, so don’t go thinking that).
I’ve been promoting it like hell. If you’ve seen me of late, chances are I’ve given you a handbill. If you’ve been in Uptown lately you’ve seen posters that I hung up (you’d better have fucking seen them) (sidenote: while out putting up posters this past weekend, I saw a poster that I hung up for our last show, Murder at Death Cabin, at Lake and Aldrich. That was six months ago.).
I’ve also been doing some sound designing, by which I mean I’ve been downloading sound clips and putting them together using garageband to make them more dynamic. It’s ridiculously fun. I got to create two battle background tracks (as heard from the Office Window): one for a 20th Century battle, one for a 19th Century battle. I got one clip by recording something from YouTube through my computer’s microphone. The first clip I created was for one of my sketches, and it involved layering seven different versions of a sound (that I downloaded from one of the absurdly many royalty-free sound effect websites), tracking down the right nature sound (the problem with people who put up royalty-free sound effects is that they like realistic sounds. And that’s good, I suppose. But I really prefer more sensationalized sounds. Like, real-life sounds are actually kind of ambiguous without the proper visual sometimes, but when you go to a show, when you hear something that I picked out, I want you to go “Oh, that’s definitely a pebble bouncing across the water” in stead of “what is that? Is that a bubble popping?” Like, most guns sound depressingly like popcorn.), and throwing on a Sisters of Mercy (the band, not the nuns) song sample. If I continue making sound effects (and I’d like to, which means I probably will. That’s how Omega Wolf works.), I doubt any will be as fulfilling as that one.
(Sorry if the overuse of parenthetical statements was distracting in that last paragraph. While writing it, I lost track of where the original sentences were going several times.)
But I’m really pumped for the show, and I hope as many people can go see it as possible. I know I love it.
I start working tomorrow (after a five fucking month respite). Wish me luck.
