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It Is to Laugh (and perhaps have a pint or two and sing a song)
Posted by: Hilary Martin on May 23, 2007 09:55 AM | Comments (0)
Deep Wireless is turning out to prove my genre connection theory. Met up with Dan Bernard and Michael Townsend on Saturday at the Greyhound Station and took them for a few pints at Molly Blooms, well deserved after 12 hours of travel.
Trying to find an open bar on campus during Victoria Day Weekend was impossible, and as we hunted, we discussed the differences between Americans and Canadians (which is thematic to their upcoming performance, It Is To Laugh), including parking practices in Manhattan and Toronto, and a comparative study of The Mercer Report and The Daily Show.
They had never heard of ‘Talking to Americans’. I told them that the recordings they did during their trip to Toronto, interviewing people in American airports about the possibility that Bin Laden is hiding in Canada, seemed by turns to resemble the familiar Mercer shtick.
By the end of the night I had volunteered to do an Alanis Morisette cover tune during their performance on Friday or Saturday. Dan is doing something devilish with the lyrics to ‘Ironic’. I suspect there will be some sort of karaoke theme to the evening. He said some of the best collaborators you meet by chance.
Michael has set up a blog for ‘It is to laugh’ at http://itistolaugh.blogspot.com/.
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