Thursday, November 30, 2006

My friend, who I will call the Cliff, and I have a performance art piece we eventually want to do. The goal would be to find a bar in Manhattan with the following characteristics:

  1. A Goldilocks amount of afternoon mid-week regulars (not too many and not too few)
  2. A jukebox, the old kind that plays whatever songs are played and cannot be fast-forwarded
  3. Lighting enough for some filming

The Cliff and the Lake would walk in and enjoy a beer. We then would put a dollar in the jukebox and play some standard bar type of songs (I am thinking Solsbury Hill, Layla (the original version), Rio by Duran Duran and Tom Sawyer by Rush). Rio would be our cue to go to the jukebox again. We then would put a five dollar bill into the machine hopefully inducing 25 songs. We then would pick REM's Everybody Hurts 25 times in a row and walk out. We would then film the next 75 minutes. If we then did this 10-20 times I think we could edit it together into at least a 84 minute documentary for Sundance.

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