Fragments of the ideas of

March 17, 2002

Fragments of the ideas of things I haven't done to prepare for this trip. My brain is alternately paralyzed and jumping around like a springbok on speed. It used to be that 3 hours of sleep a night made me tired. Now it has no effect. Colin Nairne (engineer, producer, tech whiz) built my pedal board and crazy computer effects rack for the Kids in the Hall tour. I told him what I was going to need to get the job done and he fashioned it McGiver style out of a paper clip, an elastic band and Hyundai car parts. It arrived yesterday and its beautiful. It looks exactly like Michelangelo's David with a Thrush muffler coming out of its ass ... and a perfect ten for the use of the elastic band! He's brilliant.
I'm still scoring some sketches. This show is really really serious. The Kids have decided not to be funny on this tour. I hope you all appreciate the artistic leap they're making. I don't want to hear any laughing in the audience or I will be quite upset. These are huge issues they are tackling in this tour de force and I expect everyone to be on their best behaviour.