Here's what happens when you get a bunch of egotists sitting around drinking all day under a tarp. They play "Cast the Movie!", which is a favorite game of mine. Dmitri and I often lay awake at night playing this game. We cast comic books, novels, situations (Kinkos: The Movie!).
The rules:
Majority rules
Money is no object.
Time and age is really no object, either. Just don't do anything stupid like cast Jessica Tandy as Dora the Explorer.
If someone really hates the choice, they can request a recast. (So, yeah. Elphin, you owe me. And you can thank Aysha for saving the day for you.)
So...the next logical step was, of course, Painted Wheel: The Movie! We mostly just did people who were at this particular party, with a few irresistable local exceptions. (I'm looking at you, Geldemar.)
Katherine: Loretta Switt (MASH era)
Morwenna: Sigourney Weaver
Vincent: Gene Hackman
Aysha: Janeane Garofolo
Ivar: Johnny Depp
Denys: Vigo Mortensen
Bardulf: Fred Dryer
Dulcy: Lucy Lawless
Etain: Stockard Channing
Elphin: Keifer Sutherland (we decided Doc from Young Guns was pretty much Elphin)
Delia: Carrie Fisher
Geldemar/Kazimir: Jack Black (I mean, really.)
Dmitri: Jeff Goldblum
Leave your suggestions for other Atlantians in the comments section and I will post them as well!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
A Wake At The Wheel MP3s
Okay, as promised, we've been doing some recordings. These are not fancy studio mixes, so, you know, they are what they are. Basically, we set up a stereo mike at practice and forged ahead.
Special thanks to Katherine, who is the one doing all the behind the scenes work on these.
You can just click the links to play the songs, or if you want to download and save the mp3, right click. You have our permission and our blessing.
Watch this space, we have three more recorded already in the que. We plan to update often.
Thanks for listening!
A Pace-Egging Song/The Burning of Auchindoun
Lyrics for A Pace Egging Song by Dulcinaya. The Burning of Auchindoun is traditional. Katherine sings lead on Auchindoun.
Cruiscín Lán
A traditional and a Chalkman Pub favorite. Ivar on lead vocals. "Cruiscín lán" is Gaelic for "little full cup."
Derry
An Irish rebel song by Bobby Sands. No, this is not the Gordon Lightfoot song. Katherine on lead vocals.
Erin
A house original by our own Vincent d'Orleans, who also sings lead on this one. Sometimes, one can change their stars simply by falling out of bed.
Kayla
Lyrics and arrangement by Dulcinaya, who also sings lead. This was written after a local event where some of us were trapped in a tin-roofed barn by a pounding rainstorm. Also trapped was a five year old girl named Kayla, who everyone all day had teased us not to steal. So we gave Kayla a tambourine and jammed until the rain let up.
So last practice, I walked in and the gang said, "It's raining too hard to record, the mike's picking up all the noise." So I said "Let's record Kayla, then." The faint sounds of rain and thunder in the recording are not dubbed, they were picked up real time.
Old Dead Soldiers
Another house favorite written and sung by Vincent. "Dead soldiers" is slang for the empty bottles you find lying all over the place at the end of a session. The song is about playing music with friends, and is kind of a tribute to our friends in Hot Irish Sausage, the Chalkman's house band.
Painted Wheel
Written by Vincent. Go us!
Katherine-lead guitar, vocals
Ivar Ulfsson-dumbek, various percussion and other drums, penny whistle, vocals
Aysha-Fiddle, Bodhran, Dumbek, Zils, Vocals
Vincent-djembe, vocals
Dulcinaya-guitar, mandolin, melodica, bodhran, various percussion, vocals
Special thanks to Katherine, who is the one doing all the behind the scenes work on these.
You can just click the links to play the songs, or if you want to download and save the mp3, right click. You have our permission and our blessing.
Watch this space, we have three more recorded already in the que. We plan to update often.
Thanks for listening!
A Pace-Egging Song/The Burning of Auchindoun
Lyrics for A Pace Egging Song by Dulcinaya. The Burning of Auchindoun is traditional. Katherine sings lead on Auchindoun.
Cruiscín Lán
A traditional and a Chalkman Pub favorite. Ivar on lead vocals. "Cruiscín lán" is Gaelic for "little full cup."
Derry
An Irish rebel song by Bobby Sands. No, this is not the Gordon Lightfoot song. Katherine on lead vocals.
Erin
A house original by our own Vincent d'Orleans, who also sings lead on this one. Sometimes, one can change their stars simply by falling out of bed.
Kayla
Lyrics and arrangement by Dulcinaya, who also sings lead. This was written after a local event where some of us were trapped in a tin-roofed barn by a pounding rainstorm. Also trapped was a five year old girl named Kayla, who everyone all day had teased us not to steal. So we gave Kayla a tambourine and jammed until the rain let up.
So last practice, I walked in and the gang said, "It's raining too hard to record, the mike's picking up all the noise." So I said "Let's record Kayla, then." The faint sounds of rain and thunder in the recording are not dubbed, they were picked up real time.
Old Dead Soldiers
Another house favorite written and sung by Vincent. "Dead soldiers" is slang for the empty bottles you find lying all over the place at the end of a session. The song is about playing music with friends, and is kind of a tribute to our friends in Hot Irish Sausage, the Chalkman's house band.
Painted Wheel
Written by Vincent. Go us!
Katherine-lead guitar, vocals
Ivar Ulfsson-dumbek, various percussion and other drums, penny whistle, vocals
Aysha-Fiddle, Bodhran, Dumbek, Zils, Vocals
Vincent-djembe, vocals
Dulcinaya-guitar, mandolin, melodica, bodhran, various percussion, vocals
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