MACBETH!

For the record, I do not subscribe to the much ballyhooed superstition/myth/notion that it is "bad luck" for an actor to mention Shakespeare's Macbeth, either onstage or off, in production or not. It is said bad things will happen to you, or a production if you do. However, case in point: During production of Beauty and the Beast, I was speaking with Cork Ramer (The Beast) about his previous work performing Shakespeare on the green in the summer. He mentioned "the Scottish play." I relented and said, "Oh, you mean MACBETH!" That very night, or perhaps my memory does not serve at all, one of the extras got his foot caught in the revolve and it busted, the bone piercing through his foot, and this was at the beginning of the scene! Oddly enough, the unfortunate man in question was Dr. David Rutz. He is mended now. But again, I DO NOT believe in this Macbeth hookey-ness. I say it proudly. MACBETH! MACBETH! MACBETH!

The Prints played last night at the culture center on the UNL Campus. It was a rollicking good show, and with two new numbers, paired with Robert's whinsom quips regarding a troubled sea voyage, the effect was magnifico! Despite some wacky tempos from time to time, the band played to great effect and was adored by the small congregation there gathered.

Sleep is a blissful time. I had a strange dream last night, but in my midnight wanderings, the details of this strange and troublesome nightmare have since been forgotten, laced and put away by the ribbons of the dawn.

I want to speak for a moment about my favorite tv show. A collective groan. Oh yes, my heart belongs to South Park, and the Sopranos, but every Friday night on the Travel Channel comes MOST HAUNTED, a British show where a gangly group of cavorting ghost hunters seek out the most haunted locales in all of the British Isles! Hosted by the spry Yvette and the ever-knowing spiritualist medium Derek (with his ghost friend Sam), some of the best episodes have been their visit to the stately manor Craig Y Nos, where ghostly laughs were heard coming from nowhere; the Old Ram Inn, where the ghost of a 12th century witch "attacks" crew member Stuart; Kinnity Castle, where a white apparition appears walking across the castle grounds, and a spirit makes contact with the crew by knocking on the cieling! It's fun to watch stuff happen, granted some episodes nothing happens. Still history abounds, and that's where the going gets wierd, and the wierd turn pro. Better than any two-bit ghost documentary on Discovery, and way better than the pathetic bumblings of the ultra-high tech Ghosthunters on Sci-Fi, coupled with my affinity for a good scare, and my affection for just about anything British, the best ghost show on tv in my opinion is Most Haunted. http://www.livingtv.co.uk/mosthaunted/

More later...MAHALO, bitch!