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If you missed Dreadnought’s “Improv With Elvis” show at Daioh Sushi last night, this two-minute clip will give you a pretty good idea of how it went down.

(this post was reblogged from benjaminapple)

Nov 18

Daioh Sushi Improv Show

iamachilles:

Dreadnought is performing an improv show tonight. Not at Under St. Marks, not at The Creek, or Gotham City Improv, but at Daioh Sushi, a Japanese restaurant across the street from Dallas BBQ on W 23rd St. It sounds ridiculous and awesome.

From Don Fanelli:

Of course there is a back story here. But more importantly, a kind gentleman that owns a sushi restaurant and sometimes gives motivational speeches, is expecting a quality show from an improv group that fully discloses that each show “might be a failure of art.” We will be “performing” in the front window to “entice” people off the street to come in and eat sushi. We already are set up for failure.

I also want to add that when I heard about this show, my immediate thought was: “Shit. I am probably going to be naked at some point and my teammates are going to be eating sushi off my body.” If that was my first thought, I am not sure where this show is going to go.

So if you have never seen Dreadnought perform, this might be a good show to get a feel of what we are about. The organic creation of something magical or the inherent destruction of something beautiful.

I predict this will be a new low in our young improv careers. And we will go down in a blaze of glory.

Go to the IRC thread for more information. Also definitely visit the owner’s website to find out how crazy this might get.

We are all winners here.

This poor man doesn’t know what’s in store for him.

(this post was reblogged from iamachilles)

Nov 17

UCB Theatre - New York - Classes - Diversity Program

vaov:

DIVERSITY PROGRAM

Hey! I think this is a prett awesome iniciative the UCB Theatre is having. Below there’s information about the Diversity scholarships (text taken from the website)

Scholarships

One element of the program involves a limited number of scholarships for prospective students who hadn’t previously been involved with the UCB Training Center and also current students. Applications are available below.

If you would like to recommend somebody who does not currently study at the Training Center, download the Referral form. (DOC) (PDF)

If you are not a current student, but would like to apply, fill out the Self Application form. (DOC) (PDF)

If you are currently a student at the UCB Training Center, you must contact one of your teachers to recommend you; they will have access to the necessary paperwork.

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Nov 16

the website of the self-proclaimed futurust who owns the sushi restaurant where dreadnought will be performing this wednesday at 930

Nov 11

Finally been listening to the Dirty Projectors

benjaminapple:

And they sound like what the reviews say they’re supposed to sound like, but I can’t tell whether I’m going to like them as much as the reviews say I’m supposed to like them. Currently I feel so-so. If you thought I was cool enough to love this album, you might turn out wrong, my friend!

yeah im mostly meh on this album too. couple good tracks but nothing id bump on the subway you know?

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Nov 10

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benjaminapple:

Mr. Jeff Walker,
The Lado Company,
4000 Warner Boulevard,
Burbank,
Calif. 91522.

Dear Jeff:
I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray For
Hollywood" tonight with the segment on BLADE RUNNER. (Well, to
be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that
BLADE RUNNER was going to be a part of the show, and to be sure
to watch.) Jeff, after looking --and especially after listening
to Harrison Ford discuss the film-- I came to the conclusion that
this indeed is not science fiction; it is not fantasy; it is
exactly what Harrison said: futurism. The impact of BLADE
RUNNER is simply going to be overwhelming, both on the public
and on creative people -- and, I believe, on science fiction
as a field. Since I have been writing and selling science fiction
works for thirty years, this is a matter of some importance to me.
In all candor I must say that our field has gradually and steadily
been deteriorating for the last few years. Nothing that we have
done, individually or collectively, matches BLADE RUNNER. This
is not escapism; it is super realism, so gritty and detailed and
authentic and goddam convincing that, well, after the segment I
found my normal present-day "reality" pallid by comparison. What
I am saying is that all of you collectively may have created a
unique new form of graphic, artistic expression, never before
seen. And, I think, BLADE RUNNER is going to revolutionize our
conceptions of what science fiction is and, more, can be.

Let me sum it up this way. Science fiction has slowly
and ineluctably sttled into a monotonous death: it has become
inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in,
some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we
have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the BLADE
RUNNER project, I can only say that I did not know that a work
of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such
stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified
and completed by BLADE RUNNER. Thank you...and it is going to
be one hell of a commercial success. It will prove invincible.

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick