Loren,

Bro, I’m very flattered. Sounds like a blast.

By Vince Williams on Feb 15, 2007

I was thinking you could rise from the grave as a song-and-dance-zombie, but that might be too Thrilleresque. It would sure be fun, though.

By Vince Williams on Feb 15, 2007

The podtech player quality is really nice. You need to just embedded slightly larger. I hear what you said about breaking their balls, but did you know that in FF the comments get locked after you start and stop the video? I have to refresh the page everytime just to comment. Anyway.

The Broadway thing: Brilliant idea. Looking forward to see you pull that one off. I’m not sure what I could bring to the table, I have no theater experience, so maybe cigarettes and beers.

By Stephan Tual on Feb 15, 2007

Re: comment above… I should have used the spellchecker. Sorry

By Stephan Tual on Feb 15, 2007

Every drama needs conflict. What are your ideas?

I’m thinking of playing with space/time, and Ethan plays you as a boy, who
co-exists with your adult self.

All the characters are viewers of 1938media who enter a wormhole that transports them to ?

I think Vaspers’ sound might be appropriate for creating atmosphere, but not for the songs themselves.

I’ve been listening to his stuff on YouTube. It’s really out there.

His oeuvre is atmospheric, very Twilight Zone.

He doesn’t do songs, does he?

Who will write the melodies for the songs?

I assume that I’ll write the lyrics, or will that be a collaboration?

By Vince Williams on Feb 15, 2007

Have to go to a party. Will check in later.

By Vince Williams on Feb 15, 2007

I must have been living under a rock, I didn’t know Vasper the Grate. Thanks tons for the link to his site, that stuff kept me entertained the whole night. Which reminds me, I should get back to work.

By Stephan Tual on Feb 15, 2007

Interesting idea. Sounds like an awful lot of work though.

By jvon on Feb 15, 2007

Oh and this video played (hooray)

By jvon on Feb 15, 2007

It was meant to be.

A Lorentzian (I didn’t make this up) wormhole is created when a critical mass of viewers is reached during one of your shows.

You disappear from the screen.

Everyone online at this site (including Ethan) finds himself looking at a play being acted out on his monitor–a play in which he is an actor.

I am James Dean–which it turns out, is who I really am.

You are yourself, but you’re looking at the four-year old Loren.

Vaspers is the mystic Bongo Man.

I’ll have more tomorrow.

All I need is a bag of fresh roasted coffee beans and four or five spliffs.

By Vince Williams on Feb 15, 2007

I had to take two Benadryls to sleep last night.

How about this:

The little-kid Loren is sleeping, when suddenly the radio pops on and it’s the adult Loren singing a song called ‘Loren On the Half-Shell’. (It’s about transparency).

I see Jvon as a Mark Twain sort of figure who pops in periodically with a fat cigar to make his acerbic remarks.

Stephan is a regular at the Cosmic Pub who offers comic relief with his dry wit, always with pint in hand.

I picture a kaleidoscope-effect montage of player-created bits.

I need some guidance here. How do the prospective players vet my ideas for their parts? And how do I know who wants to join in?

Is Vaspers down with this project? I see him as the Guardian of the Cosmic Motherboard, but my instincts tell me we need a minimalist score, with bongos in it.

I’m not sure my vision will fit with his. I’m thinking beatnik-style, with the bongos providing emphasis, sort of an aural commentary.

There’s one other problem–I may be gay, but I hate show-tunes.

By Vince Williams on Feb 16, 2007

O.K. Then how about presenting 1938media as a ‘virtual pub’, where people come for a spirit-restoring ‘drink’ of humour and entertainment.

I think that would make a suitable ’stage’ for this online play, and would make it easy to introduce the different characters as they come in to see their friends.

And you suddenly bursting into song would seem perfectly natural in a setting like that.

Except then I don’t know how to work Ethan into it, unless this is his ‘dream’ of his future self.

Do you really want to die, or was that just a joke?

By Vince Williams on Feb 16, 2007

I’m liking this notion of creating a play online, in real time, so that everybody can see the process.

That’s what I would call real ‘transparency’.

Does that agree with you?

By Vince Williams on Feb 16, 2007

Now you guys know what working on opensource projects feels like. Too many cooks…
A good intermediary solution that has proven itself over the years is to have a core of people that are in charge and have 100% control over a project. They operate transparently, but outsiders can only comment. Works well.

By Stephan Tual on Feb 16, 2007

BTW Loren could die murdered by ‘rabid Scoble fans’. That’d be funny.

By Stephan Tual on Feb 16, 2007

I want to die by being massaged to death by a pack of handsome masseurs.

By Vince Williams on Feb 16, 2007

I want some of Loren and Vince’s stash.

By Brian Clark on Feb 16, 2007

Brian,

I looked at something online this morning and thought, “Who the hell wrote this?”

It was a few minutes before I realized I wrote it under a pseudonym.

I’m always willing to help, but the ganja locker is bare.

The muse has left me. I can’t go on this way.

By Vince Williams on Feb 16, 2007

I stopped doing drugs years ago, but when I die you can scrape the resin off the inside of my skull. That should take care of you for a few years.

By jvon on Feb 16, 2007

Jvon, that’s very kind of you, but I can’t wait that long, unless you’re really tired of living and would like to make a donation to ’science’. If so, I have some friends who can take care of things.

By Vince Williams on Feb 16, 2007