First day of rehearsals for

March 20, 2002

First day of rehearsals for the Kids in the Hall tour. Great to see everyone again and get the ball rolling. So good for the human soul to be in such a creative environment with friends. I’m still such a fan and its always been such a treat to get to see any of this stuff come together. None of them snoop in on my journal so I can gush without shame. We had Kids in the Hall marathons on the Odds bus on long drives and one day it happened that they were fans of ours as well. Its like the lawyer's first speech in “the Man Who Wasn’t There”...what’s his name Riegenshneider (the new Koen Brothers movie)? He talks about a German philosopher who postulates that you change something when you look at it for awhile. The more you look the more it changes. The more I watched the Kids in the Hall the more I brought them closer. Telekinetic stalking? Since we met they’ve been very supportive and their listening to me has probably effected me too. Maybe when they listened it brought me closer to what they wanted to do with me? Factors are at work here that its best not to understand. I’m thrashed and am heading to bed but not before watching this BeeGees special on TV. Such an underated legacy...the BeeGees. Holy smokes they’ve written a lot of classic songs that everyone forgets they wrote. Why is that? Why could they never be cool? Right now Bill Wyman is asking the BeeGees why they chose to sing in falsetto and they are explaining that they loved R&B. Maybe they are cool. I guess the question is why they were never allowed to be cool. They wrote “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”. Al Green covered them..TWICE! Why were they still uncool? Was it the Sgt.Pepper movie, duets with Barbara Striesand and “Saturday Night Fever” that destroyed their hopes for a hip future? If my theories hold true I’ll be acting in a BeeGees video for their 50th anniversary if I keep watching too long.