That wallpaper was a miracle in our Research and Development process! Could I really just get rid of it? I haven’t made any theatre (in person) in years. But I kept them because I hope they WOULD be called into service again.
And those six hula hoops probably aren’t entirely necessary to keep around. I kept the materials from our creative process on The Door Was Open in case we got the opportunity to explore further.
Memento mori lyrics portable#
I have those giant gold frames, the hat boxes and the portable racks for a show that we toured for a little while and hoped we’d tour again. I saved a lot of this stuff out of a sincere hope that I’d find a way to produce the shows again.
I hadn’t seen these things in a long while so when it began to emerge, I said, “Well, a lot of this is going in the garbage!”
Memento mori lyrics full#
That is, it was full of props, set pieces, costumes, puppets, mask molds, rehearsal materials, marketing stuff and lots of random creative remains. My storage unit was filled with show shit. Everyone be well, keep a cool head, take care of yourselves, and take care of EACH OTHER.Filed under: art, Creative Process, theatre, Visual Art | Tags: art, Artist, garbage, research and development, storage unit, theatre, trash We only get one shot, so don’t waste this day. So enjoy the song and video, and then remember to step away from the screens for a bit- real life is waiting for you. The release date for the tune was set a good while ago, but the timing seems eerily prescient to me now. Music has always been there for me, raising my spirits during hard times, and it is my hope that this song’s positive message will do the same for fans of our music right now and beyond. Richmond has a strong tradition of loud music and weird costumed monsters working hand in hand to make salient points (we are the birthplace of GWAR, after all), and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. The actual monsters we used in the video are Sinisteria, a local Richmond, Virginia haunted house/dark performance troupe I met on the street at our annual Krampus Nacht parade. I wrote the narrative music video treatment a few months ago to illustrate how warped and myopic our mental states can become when we fail to remain engaged with that reality- if all you pay attention to is catastrophe, then soon you will begin to see monsters everywhere you look. While these devices can be useful tools, and it is important to stay informed, it is equally important to remain engaged with the real, physical world we with live in, not just digitally filtered representations of reality. Months before the COVID-19 outbreak occurred, I wrote “Memento Mori” as a reminder to myself to not be consumed by the omnipresent electronic harbingers of doom that surround us- cellphones, computers, and television screens. It is indeed a scary time, but in this hyper-connected age with its 24/7 never-ending news cycle of atrocity, outrage and lurid click-bait headlines (not mention ill-informed lunatics running amok and spreading misinformation and panic on social media), it is all too easy to lose sight of the fact that life is still carrying on, and good things do in fact still happen. This is a very real concern, and proper precautions need to be taken by EVERYONE in order to protect those most at risk- the elderly, infirm, and immuno compromised. Currently, at the forefront of everyone’s mind is the global COVID-19 pandemic. There is a vast amount of indisputably real and depressingly negative occurrences happening across the globe.
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