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Doing it for JOHNNY



That's awesome! :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: ending ambient pieces when playing LIVE shows


> Gotta watch THAT approach.  It didn't do well for poor Dick Shawn,
comedian
> and actor (who had superb roles in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" as
> Sylvester - crazed beatnik beach bum, and in "The Producers" as the
> hippie-type actor playing Hitler), that his stand-up routine ended with a
> faked apoplexy or heart attack, and his lying on the floor motionless.  
>It
> was apparently hilarious from the two reports I've had.  Dick actually 
>had
a
> massive heart attack one night and the audience laughed for some time
before
> slowly realizing that he wasn't going to get up again.  Ever.
>
> Another line to finish on "Rosebud"-style would come from the ever-lovely
> Julie Brown (not downtown), in "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" (a
> prophetic bit of Demento stuff):
>
> "I did it for... JOHNNY..."
>
>
> | Of course.  But then I need to get a gun license, and that's such a 
>drag
> | nowadays.  I could just hit myself with a cut-out decimal .45, fall
over,
> | writhe a little, shake a leg and say something like, "Tell Mother I
didn't
> | mean to burn the soup!" and lie there for five minutes.
> |
> | But then what?
> |
> |
> | ----- Original Message ----- 
> | From: "Jesse Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>
> | To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> | Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:30 PM
> | Subject: Re: ending ambient pieces when playing LIVE shows
> |
> |
> | > Put on a sign that says "I love Brian Eno," pull the plug on your
rack,
> | > and take your .45 and shoot yourself in the head.
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> | > That will make an impression.
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> | > -J
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> | > P.S.  It so spoils the humor of such posts to have to disclaim about
> | > them, but tone is slippery.
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