Cleveland is having their annual endeavor called Ingenuity Fest this weekend. I believe it is the third year they are holding this fest downtown, but this is the first year I've attended.
Yesterday I saw the world premiere of a play called "The Fire Inside: The Story and Poetry of Nikki Giovanni" there, being (obviously)
about the life and writings of American poet Nikki Giovanni, who was in attendance at the premiere last night. Aside from one blatantly reverse racist line that caught my attention ("If it were true that he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword, there would be no white people alive..."), I thought the play was pretty good. I am not all that familiar with her writings, but I know she was a part of the Black Power movement. And I discovered in the play that she began her young adulthood with strong interests in Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, and Star Trek! (Just thought everyone here would appreciate that fact.) So she sounds like she was libertarian-ish at some point in her life, anyway. The play depicted her as a freedom advocate, even if it was mostly in the context concerning the trials of American blacks.
I also saw this pretty sweet performance by this dancer named Lisa Lock called "Gravity Well Movement".
And I saw an art exhibition of manipulated photographs created by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo fame. Pretty neat.
I just posted this thread in "books" since I was mentioning the author Nikki Giovanni and thought this might be an apropos place for it.
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I think you mean Mark
I think you mean Mark Mothersbaugh of Rugrats theme song fame.
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Re: Ingenuity Fest and the world premiere of the play "The Fire
Oh yeah, that.
I don't think I actually know the song you speak of, since whenever I saw Rugrats on TV (and this was only when I was at someone else's house, because I don't have cable) I would change the channel. But I might recognize it as a Mark Mothersbaugh creation. He has a pretty recognizable songwriting style, I think.
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Re: Ingenuity Fest and the world premiere of the play "The Fire
I always think of him as Mark Mothersbaugh of soundtrack to "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tennenbaums" fame.
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Ok, then maybe I don't recognize his songwriting. I didn't know he did the soundtracks to those movies.
Anyway, I hate Wes Anderson.
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Didn't he make all those Nightmare On Elmstreet movies? :-)
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No, he played the flute in Jethro Tull.
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I love Rushmore, but I only kind of found the Royal Tenenbaums amusing, and Bottle Rockets just plain sucked.
But I have a severe case of Wilson Brothers Overload. I saw them in more than one movie, which I consider to be overload. Still don't hate them like Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, or Keanu Reeves, though.
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I made the mistake of watching The Royal Tennenbaums, Idiocracy, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend on three consecutive days. Wilson overload indeed.
But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal, and animals never had a war... who's the real animal?
=Professor Farnsworth