good day to be alive sir...
back at South Park.... all hands were on deck at comedy central studios -- it was production time....... Michelangelo had decided to branch off and do his own thing on some of the advanced computer equipment there using an advanced animation program with advanced rendering functions........ Michelangelo was buried in concentration --- his world seemed to involve one main frame of a woman photographed at close up - mid calf on up in the process of clearing a hurdle in an Olympic dash...... clearly Michelangelo was trying to do something with this main image as he had a number of other related images, some of them moving, featuring a loop of the hurdler clearing the same hurdle again and again.... the main photo Michelangelo worked on showed a powerful bust relief: abdomens, thighs, knees and sinews, arms and a neck.........
Leonardo too busied himself with a simple concept, a close up image to be painted on a canvas the old-fashioned way --- Leonardo had already greased up his canvas with a spread consisting of olive oil and egg-yolk giving his canvas enduring strength --- although he didn't know the singer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers from a bar of soap, he had come across his photograph and decided he wanted to use the man's image as the basis of his potrait of a Saint..... Leonardo was impressed during his stay in California by the amount of illegal Mexicans named Jesus that he wanted to subtitle his painting: Jesus: every day one crosses into California illegally .......... the folks at South Park's production company had kindly accomodated to both Michelangelo and Leonardo and surprisingly were even able to arrange for the actual singer of Red Hot Chilli Peppers to sit before Leonardo like some Mona Lisa, wearing a ring of flowers on his head -- his hair combed out straight and hanging straight down, a flower in his hand held close to his nose.
"We'll take his photo like this Mr. Da Vinci and then he'll be free to rest his hand and arm," said Karen and Martha from the South Park production company.
"Eh?? Frappucino??" Mouthed Da Vinci with a slightly delighted curiosity as he surveyed (one of) the cup(s) labelled 'Frappucino' left by him (and Kiedis). The two women smiled at his new discovery.
The South Park creators including Parker and Stone were busy in a planning room discussing legal issues for their next show: they wanted to lambast Oprah and have Oprah telling audience members to shit on each other's chests -- making the point that too many people out there are willing to do whatever Oprah tells them to do -- with the paedophile priests plotline, Stone explained to artists that he wanted one shot to show a helicopter scooping the priests from traps laid in the ground and then carrying them over a tiny ways in the same shot to be dropped off at the Associated Press HQ to explain themselves and beg their forgivenesses,
"Make sure it's all in the same shot, so we'll just pan over," said Stone.
In a lunch-room with a microwave, coffee-machine and table-tennis table that no-body in the busy centre was currently using, CNN played on an unwatched TV....
the Eastern European lady that was from Greece on CNN, Vassileva, was explaining that State of the Union would be next and would feature movie director George Lucas and U.S. Army General Petraeus and a number of experts on climate change and geo-politics....
with the transition to the CNN show 'State of the Union' with Wolf Blitzer..... the usual timpani drums and orchestral music commenced -- as to be expected for such a show -- so often were the humble timpani drums and deep-stringed instruments like the viola used to project American grandeur,
however, this time, a surprise was in store for all viewers..... unexpectedly, after the dramatic 3 second countdown from the CNN control room to Blitzer's State of the Union show, there in the 'Situation Room' was Wolf Blitzer with his usual immaculate suit and shiny black shoes -- but this time he was adorned with a long-necked electric guitar and a number of cables hanging from it to some electric guitar pedals at his feet -- behind him was Larry King in his suspenders and crisp dark long-sleeved shirt and an excellent pair of heavy drumsticks in his hands and large percussion set up before him as typically used by a rock band - Mr. King also sported a gay-looking sun-visor like the ones poker players sometimes wear ....
the dramatic timpani and stringed-instruments in the lead up to State of the Union with Wolf Blitzer were actually the opening bars of Metallica's "No Leaf Clover" --- what followed was more pure American Glory delivered in a flawless and masterful rendition of this Metallica classic by Blitzer on lead guitar and singing and King on drums than the two could ever have hoped to have mustered after three decades gas-bagging before the tired camera.........
Blitzer had evidently studied Hendrix's guitar style in his free time as his usage of forehand, non-thumb picking plucking style and masterful fretting up and down the long guitar's neck fretboard as he occasional changed his pedal settings at his feet while delivering, note for note, a flawless rendition of this song which sometimes requires fluctuations from almost falsetto to baritones.......... King followed behind him flawlessly delivering staccato ripples on his large bass drum and machine-gun snare-drum riffs -- his arms a symphony of music as they rose and fell time after time executing perfect drumrolls and riffs like a Russian gymnast at the Moscow Olympic games delivering (what even the North American judges of Canada and the USA would consider as) a perfect 10 routine.......
after this magnificent gift to humanity -- perhaps the only true gift either man ever gave to humanity in the long series of their respective Souls pilgrimages from baby to baby through the centuries and across the universe covering various planets...... after this magnificent musical feast, George Lucas, General Petraeus and a number of experts discussed the ramifications of the inevitable Himalayan ice-glaciers melting and how the inevitable flooding of India and further flooding of Pakistan would affect not only the war in Afghanistan, but the geo-political situation in general...... at one point Mr. Lucas was even asked if he could be persuaded to organize a ticker-tape parade like the one at the end of one of his new Star Wars trilogy movies with Mace Windu for General Petraeus should he prevail in Afghanistan at some point..... all players went for power-words like 'game-changer' and 'clincher' -- but never would they remotely come close to the Glory mustered by Blitzer and King's Metallica rendition of No Leaf Clover: no-one ever did.....
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