am starting a script for a ten minute play which is a parody of h.p. lovcraft and h.r. puffenstuff... any ideas... I have a few already but am thinking that some may have ideas that my little monkey brain may not come up with.
Is it a musical?
Quote from: SssBella, Oracle of DoomIs it a musical?
I'ts a ten minute play... so maybes but not much of one... we are going to try to do a stage version of like "journey to the moon"
Cool.
I wish Demonica was around....she's really good at ideas for this kind of thing.
H.P. Lovecraft actually has to leave his basement for ten minutes and has to cope with how uncomfortable he is with everyday life, (because of some extremely meaningless and mundane task).
Random notion: If memory serves (and it never does), wasn't there a talking flute on hr puffinstuff? Cross-reference with Nyarlathotep, "the crawling chaos that howls beyond the stars... surrounded by idiot flute players".
Incidently, I came across 'The Dark Messenger' (http://www.zone.ee/weirdfiction/Dark_Messenger.htm), by John Beal while I was looking for the HPL quote. Interesting, tho the purple text on black makes it impossible to read.
Quote from: St. PynchonRandom notion: If memory serves (and it never does), wasn't there a talking flute on hr puffinstuff? Cross-reference with Nyarlathotep, "the crawling chaos that howls beyond the stars... surrounded by idiot flute players".
Incidently, I came across 'The Dark Messenger' (http://www.zone.ee/weirdfiction/Dark_Messenger.htm), by John Beal while I was looking for the HPL quote. Interesting, tho the purple text on black makes it impossible to read.
why thank you... I thought so to... now I can keep the "give me some skin, flute" line.... thanks alot.
H P Lovencraft
Floating through the void on Cthulhu's raft...
Anyone know the rest of the song?
H.P. Lovesnatch and the Call of Clitulhu (http://www.nerdrotica.com/)
damn it, I really wanted that link to work
EDIT: OMG, I typoed it. Try again, and it will. :D
YAY
A conversation in which HPL tries to explain the Cthulhu mythos to someone who hasn't got a clue about the mythos?
10 minutes of people trying to pronounce the names?
Old McCthulhu had a farm, IA! IA! O! (http://flem.keenspace.com/d/20030417.html)
Quote from: lachjawA conversation in which HPL tries to explain the Cthulhu mythos to someone who hasn't got a clue about the mythos?
10 minutes of people trying to pronounce the names?
A skit in which the Mythos is combined with a episode of h.r. puffenstuff... I'm very sorry that I didn't make that more clear earlier... the play now has three acts and clocks in at about twenty minutes.
I think the elder gods should be a band in a bar that they go in.Kinda like the canteena in star wars.The song they sing should be Theres a light,from the rocky horror picture show,
also eric Zhan could be there toying with puff n stuff while the mad arab walks around in drag addicted to heroin.
Quote from: DusioI think the elder gods should be a band in a bar that they go in.Kinda like the canteena in star wars.The song they sing should be Theres a light,from the rocky horror picture show,
also eric Zhan could be there toying with puff n stuff while the mad arab walks around in drag addicted to heroin.
The song they sing may be a parody or satire of that song but not that song... copyright laws you understand.
Quote from: chaosgraves:agentoferisQuote from: DusioI think the elder gods should be a band in a bar that they go in.Kinda like the canteena in star wars.The song they sing should be Theres a light,from the rocky horror picture show,
also eric Zhan could be there toying with puff n stuff while the mad arab walks around in drag addicted to heroin.
The song they sing may be a parody or satire of that song but not that song... copyright laws you understand.
Laws regarding copyrigght of songs are fairly easy in that regard. So long as the content of the lyrics changes you can call it a parody but you can't claim it as your own. You don't even have to get permission (it's just nice to). It's how Weird Al gets away with it (that and being a guerilla discordian who's also a national treasure) And anyways, people play covers of songs in clubs and hotels all the time, if however you were to make your living playing other people's songs and claiming them as your own, then you have a problem. Funny isn't it? The music industry appears to rely somewhat on the honour system.
Quote from: St. Trollax, ODDLaws regarding copyrigght of songs are fairly easy in that regard. So long as the content of the lyrics changes you can call it a parody but you can't claim it as your own. You don't even have to get permission (it's just nice to). It's how Weird Al gets away with it (that and being a guerilla discordian who's also a national treasure) And anyways, people play covers of songs in clubs and hotels all the time, if however you were to make your living playing other people's songs and claiming them as your own, then you have a problem. Funny isn't it? The music industry appears to rely somewhat on the honour system.
Thank you for continuing my thought. I didn't think to speel it all out like that but sometimes I must remember that not everybody has been involved in theatre as long as I have so they have not had the opprotunity to understand copyright as I do .
but we had a bad run in with the inclusion of a song in one of our plays as the damn thing was a musical... appearently we can use the song in the background of a play but when we use the lyrics as is in order to further the plot we get busted( we settled for a portion of the box office for the nights that the offensive song was in our show and most of us involved in the production have never listened to the offending song again.)