more random fluctuations in space-time

[freckles_and_doubt]

Today's discovery: Danish chocolate has long, skinny divisions instead of the more familiar A4-proportioned rectangles. I find this curiously disturbing. Only Toblerone has the right to funny shapes in a chocolate bar.

Courtesy of Neil Gaiman's inimitable nose for the weird, Iggy Pop's concert rider. I am enlightened to discover that a concert rider is the addendum to the legal contract with the venue which governs a band's performance: the rider tends to include details such as the number of bottles of Evian which shall be provided in the dressing room. The whole idea confirms my suspicion that rock stars need a dedicated aide whose job is to take the star's ego out back and shoot it when it gets too monstrous, but Iggy Pop's rider-writer is (a) extremely articulate, (b) extremely funny and (c) insane.

Comments

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

Riders...isn't that when stars can ask for things like a bowls of M&M's with all the brown ones picked out, yak's milk yoghurt and the contents of a local pharmacy?

I loved this, it all seems so reasonable. I just hate to think what will happen if their manager doesn't get his local souvenir pins...there could be trouble!

I just had one of these for a yoga conference in which they asked for speakers big enough to talk directly to God (if he was hard of hearing). There go my pre-conceptions about yoga...

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Heh. That was fun.
Today the world, tamarasalata.

He contradicts himself several times over, though: 4 towels on one page, 12 on another, and many other examples. Do you think they're serious about the Bob Hope impersonator?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I thought the different towel amounts were for different dressing rooms? it seemed fairly consistent to me.

I'm sure the Bob Hope impersonator was not serious, but I cherish a happy mental image of some humour-deficient minion in middle America solemnly providing one at vast difficulty and expense, to the glee of the band. Possibly I am unduly sadistic :>.

[veratiny.livejournal.com]

I had thought that this was a rider for a European concert. I find the idea of a European search for a Bob Hope impersonator, with one finally being tracked to Benidorm...an unduly swarthy one... sort of Bob Hope dipped in gravy...to be utterly priceless :)

I think that from now on I am going to demand a Bob Hope impersonator in my office before I appear at work...hehehe!