lumenagerie

I had just about too much fun last night. A group of people called The Purple Experience performed Purple Rain much in the vein of a Rocky Horror show in a rather nice venue out in the middle of nowhere last night. I never use the word "awesome" but TOTALLY FUCKING AWESOME applies here. I can watch Purple Rain now and see that it really is a lousy movie, but when I saw it in the theatre for the first time back in 1984 when I was 18, it was magical. Seeing it performed live with a bunch of drunk people brings back the magic. The actors playing Prince, Apollonia and Morris were outstanding and then the people that played bit parts like Billy and Big Chick were born to play those parts. Big Chick walks out with his Santa beard on and drunk girl to the left of us yells out "I want a pony".
On the way home we listened to the Waylon Jennings version of MacArthur Park. Never bothered to pay attention to the lyrics of that one but again had too much fun in ripping the song apart.
We DO NOT let aunt Elsie near the alchohol at family reunions and we DO NOT give Waylon the recipe to the cake, the fucker is only going to lose it.