Hello, one and all. I’ll be doing my chart thing later, but for now, let me toss a comment cleaner out there, which is the extremely cool opening to the JCS Live show I talked about from last Sunday. This is the overture, and it’s fantastically exciting. Fun fact: the first person to play (and remember, this is a huge production) is fourteen years old!
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Highlight from Last Night
I hope some of you got to see the live NBC presentation of Jesus Christ Superstar last night. I had been looking forward to it for months. It was sensational – – Judas Iscariot (played by Brandon Victor Dixon) was especially good – but my main praise is for the SET DESIGN. Just ingenious. The real crowd pleaser was Alice Cooper, of all people, who played King Herod:
Girl U Want
Let’s celebrate the reversal! Time for some Devo, the coolest group of all time. This video is from decades ago (since the boys were pretty much the most innovative out there and led the way on music videos) but has probably my favorite moment of any music video, which is the fat guy trying to drink a milkshake while on an “exercise” machine. Also take note of the cameo appearance by Laraine Newman (spraying from the tree), who was Mark’s girlfriend at the time.
A Shepherd Resting With His Flock
I have written from time to time about the ill-fated musical Capeman (written by Paul Simon). Here is a rare live performance of one of my favorite songs from it:
Patterns by Devo
A favorite song from a favorite group about a favorite topic: Relax with some morning music.
