The Block And The Wire

[matthewmt]

CHRIS TOWNSEND SAID:
I'd like to reflect on memories past. Remember when i sat for a whole day making snow?

SIMON SAID:
HAHAHA yes.
For those who don't know, Chris's job was to sit with a bucket and a hole punch and a pad of paper and make "snow". In terms of mindless monotony I'm not sure what wins... the 500 Origami swans, whittling dragon teath, or the hole punch snow. Anyone else remember something intensely dull we made them do ?

KIT SAID:
*Coughs* ahem. I believe Chris had some help with that snow....

JON SAID:
I believe that during "Here be monsters" when the stage was covered in bark chipping mulch and mucho bug size wildlife i had to comb over the set and remove many arachnids this took a while and i was under the impression that i was doing this because i could not fire proof it until they were gone as Simon was a Buddist and could not allow me to kill any living creature ( The Bas#ard) 3 hours later he swatted a fly and i knew i had been well and truly had. This was made worse by the fact i am a huge arachnaphobic

KAYLEE SAID:
Kit's right, Chris only started up a couple of hours after we'd started on it. Plus we did it on and off for the next couple of days or something...the reason we didn't spend all of our time doing it, was because we were running around doing other stuff too. Also I'd like to point out that I'm still out for Simon Underhill's blood. ...Much as it wasn't his fault that I was standing directly under the 'snow' and looked like a ruddy snowman every single night, nor that I had to sing with a mouth full of the stuff and get papercuts on my tongue...he's just a very convenient target.

MARLOWE SAID:
I've spoken to Chris about this already, and I'm not suggesting anything, but out of curiosity: Equilibrium-is it just a strange coincidence?

SIMON SAID:
This is the curse of Ludamus.
Its a MASSIVE coincidence and it happens every fucking year.

We started writing block and and the wire almost 6 months before anyone had even heard of equilibrium, Monk was in place, the dystopian society where art banned was in place, everything, then along comes a movie where theres an art policedept with a bloody cleric called priest.

I spat nails.

We'd decided to do pirates during Block, In fact at the cast party some of you may have been in the discussion where we started talking about this obsessed captain who will only go forwards.

Obsessed Captain, scene where someone gets shot by mistake while they're shooting ata gull...

Suddenly Masterand Commander comes out at the cinema, we go to see it and not only is the Captain our captain but theres a scene where someone gets shot by mistake shooting ata gull.

This year, Zombies.

We've been talking about this for overa year. Know why we can't call it "night of the singing dead" ? we'd been calling it thatsince the end of pirates, Then, in November, Empire magazine announces george romero is working on a musical... about zombies... its called "night of the singing dead"

The curse goes back further than that.

We werehalf way through a production of the Orestia, Its a well known play but no one had done a serious production of it for years, a week before we go up the RSC announces its touring production of... the Orestia.

Caroline starts a drama about the childrens Crusade LATER THAT WEEK Neil Gaiman reveals his latest graphic novel... the childrens crusade.

Its all a massive coincidence. Weird.

Oh as an addendum. The character of Monk, I had talked to Caroline about this big guy with a stick, who was like a hench man, and he had notches on his stick for everyone he had killed.

Go watch gangs of new York. I think Scorsese has our house wired.

CHRIS TOWNSEND SAID:
remember karl and angharads hare and tortoise race, in the blazin heat. Im totally doin that race this year.

KIT SAID:
Wasn't that the first time in history that the hare actually won? Or am I remembering it wrong?

SIMON SAID:
"Alice" - Hare beat Charles Dodgeson. Frivolous as it may all seem there is actually a strong metaphoric message beneath all the games we play

ANGHARAD SAID:
i was involved & i've no idea...i think it might have been as Karl leapfrogged me or something. i was still pissed from the night before. cast party, nuff said.

NAT SAID:
Karl won he cartwheeled over the finishing line hehehe! I have it on video...hehehe! i think...yeah i do! hehe! *watches it*

[northern Jon]

The main memory of Block for me will always be spending the week on stilts bolting the set together and ensuring people it wont go higher, then adding another couple of foot. I also remember jason getting slightly annoyed when i kept putting roofs on things and causing shadows everywhere