I was outdoors earlier this morning, before the sun started beating down hard, looking for one of the cats, Abbie, along the river, and got to thinking.
The Powerball lottery jackpot as of today stands at "$61,000,000," which means that really, when all is said and done, one has about $20,000,000.
franksolich has three sets of numbers on the current Powerball; the drawing is tomorrow, Saturday, at 10:00 p.m. central time, 9:00 p.m. mountain time.
I've always wanted to do a musical comedy about Skins's island and the primitives, for both Broadway and Hollywood.
A long time ago, I began having this dream about this musical comedy. When I win the Powerball, of course most of the dough's going for sensible things, such as real-estate in the Sandhills of Nebraska, bison and Clare Boothe Luce memorabilia, but surely there'd be enough spare change left over to fufill this dream about doing Skins's island and the primitives.
When I first got this idea, I figured P-J Comix of the most-excellent DUmmie FUnnies could be in charge of direction, with Charles Henrickson and Paul Heinzman from the same place, being in charge of music and editing, respectively.
I know talent when I see it.
And then later on, Freeper impressed me, really impressed me, with his skills, and so I thought, okay, Freeper could write the script, or the screen-play. And most recently, miskie has come into the mix, with his awesome talents, and so now I had two co-writers, assuring the best work since Shakespeare.
And then Servonaut entered the picture with his sublime wit, to be in charge of both titles and one-liners.
CelticRose then popped into mind; I thought, yeah, sure I could make her a star.
Which femme primitive, though, I'm not sure yet.
Acting is difficult, demanding work, requiring commitment and dedication, and so none of the primitives could possibly play themselves; one would have to use decent and civilized people to play the roles of primitives.
mamacags would be brilliant as the Vermontese 0bamaite cali primitive.
Probably an Oscar-winning performance there.
This is NOT to infer that mamacags has any similarities with the bitter old woman cali primitive; it is to say only that mamacags could act the cali primitive, and brilliantly.
Either RobJohnson or Rebel, similarly, could act Skins, despite that neither of them in real life have any similarities with my fellow alum; one just intuitively senses either one could act the part successfully.
There's the, uh, awkward matter of the subway cat and Doug's ex-wife; there is just no way a decent and civilized person could replicate either primitive.....and so alas, probably Freeper, miskie, and Paul Heinzman would have to write those primitives out of the script, or screen-play.
As for franksolich myself, being the financier of the project, there is some ego involved, and so I would assign myself at least a little cameo role, that of playing Pedro Picasso.
Seriously, no one could possibly play Pedro Picasso better than franksolich.
No one.
Because franksolich is a deaf person who acts as if he can hear, franksolich at a very young age developed the skills of John Barrymore. The supercilious sneers of Pedro Picasso, the pusillanimous prancings, the arrogance, the contempt in which Pedro Picasso holds for all the other primitives, and the utter stupidity of Pedro Picasso, would be nothing, nothing at all, for franksolich to portray, stellarly.
Of course, there's the matter of the voice.
That problem however could be solved by having BadCat, a superb musician and one assumes equally a superb mimic, behind the curtain, ventroquilizing franksolich's lines as Pedro Picasso.
