Congratulations! You Passed the First Audition!
The Umpire at the mike.
Yesterday, Blurt and Mull met with Nate the Ump in a recording studio in the North Valley of Stiletto City, where once big boned nasty white people roared down Van Nuys Boulevard in huge pickup trucks with bumper stickers that said "America! Love it or Leave it!" Now, big boned nasty Korean, Persian, Mexican and Salvadorean people roar down Van Nuys Boulevard in huge pickup trucks with bumper stickers that either say "Radio 111.3! Mas Musica!" or maybe "America! Love it or Leave it!" because they bought the trucks from the nasty ass white people.
This is Blurt with the Ump. The Great Davey Blue comes up with many ideas, and often several at the same time.
This is Mull with the Ump. Mull's job is to sort through Blurt's ideas, like he's on the line at a fish packing house, trying to grab the biggest, juiciest eels when they swim by. They're there. You've just got to reel 'em in.
Twenty five years ago, the Ump had first sung the song he had to re-sing yesterday. He hadn't heard it in all that time, so he needed to be re-acquainted. Plotnik was about to sing the song for him as a reference, but first he said: "Nate! I just wanted to tell you you passed the first audition! Sorry it took us this long to get back to you! The good news is you are part of the longest callback in history."
"Also," Davey added, "you're the only cantor who is related to me."
The recording went beautifully, and so did the trip to Stiletto. It was short and sweet. Short is always sweet, and the reason is nobody can get mad at you because you're not there long enough. Cousin Seattle, if you really did go to that game Friday night, Plotnik needs to know if you were still there in the 13th?
posted by DAK @ 12:09 PM
4 Comments:
This is all very fascinating, but I can't quite keep up with you show biz types. What is it exactly that you're recording?
Oh yes... I was there the whole time. It was quite an exciting game! We were out in left field right next to the Dodger's bullpen. Have you seen that they put some faux-pine trees out there, as well as a fake deer and their good-luck gnome? Well, they have... I talked to Scott Proctor and Esteban Loaiza. They conferred for a while, but eventually decided that they wanted to name the deer Prancer. You've gotta have something interesting to talk to these guys about, because they sure as hell aren't going to respond to another, "Hey Loaiza, can I get a ball up here?"
They game was good because it gave me my fill of slug-fest innings, as well as great pitching innings. The most surprising part was that Chan Ho Park went three scoreless innings! He was fun to watch warm up... He'd been at it since about the third inning on and off.
All-in-all, it was a great game, but 12:20 is awfully late to be at a baseball game!
Too bad the T. Bird missed your Tiapos reports on this musical. Thanks for the photos of your guys.
Dodger stadium has fake pine trees and deer in the bullpen? This is so Hollywood (although I've got to take a quick think about what the Giants park might have that would be easy to point to as weird, and other than the Coke bottle, I think I'm good).
But congrats on getting a conversation going with the bullpeners and staying all the way through.
Oh, and Plot? Who the heck are all these people? Nate sounds familiar but Blurt and Mull? Maybe the wife's right and I don't actually hear anything.
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