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Wow wow wow I been
invited to a GREAT party! Thanks Mary Jo & Danielle & Istanwyk &
Everybody!
This Dead or Alive part makes it REALLY
hard to pick the guests!
I second those invitations for Prince!
(He's Prince again, no longer TAFKAP or [that ineffable symbol].) He's just an
explosive creative force, a force of nature. When he and Mozart get together at
the party, they will definitely be on the same wavelength, and who knows, they
might decide to collaborate on a new opera! It is one of the totally
inexplicable mysteries of the universe that Prince and MST3K are from
Minneapolis.
What will the PrinceChat be like? I saw
Larry King interview him just before Y2K (because he was going to have a Y2K
pay-per-view concert at which he was going to sing "Tonight We're Going to
Party Like It's 1999" for the Very Last Time), and while Larry was his
usual brain-dead, disoriented self, Prince was -- well, simply brilliant,
stimulating, drily funny, with a deep spiritual dimension that reminded me of
Carlos Santana. He talked about his nasty, protracted contract dispute with
Warner that silenced him for several years. He'd attend board-room meetings to
hash out the dispute with the word SLAVE painted huge on his forehead with a black magic
marker.
Gould clearly had a very prissy side,
and yet he was also a creative force of Niagarac proportions. I wonder how he
was able to handle mixing with flamboyant kinds of creative artists like
Prince? Did he just hide in the basement and not mix socially, or did he
actually hit it off with some of these creative Outer-Space types and enjoy
these kinds of events?
I think I've asked before -- did Gould
and Trudeau ever meet, chat and chow? One of the perqs of being The Boss is that
you get to invite (command) all the Show Folk to the Royal Palace. (Somehow I
see Trudeau as a Gould fan, rather than an Anne Murray fan, but I could be
wrong. I don't think Gould would have liked Margaret T. and vice versa, but I
could be wrong.)
I can't wait to hand the butler my
invitation! Here's my list, also in no particular order!
1. Glenn Gould
2. Joe Orton
3. Rene Descartes (but NOT that creepy
Pascal guy, and NOT that sleazy Liebniz!)
4. Sir Richard Francis Burton (the
explorer dude)
5. Doris Lessing
6. Dalton Trumbo
7. Gunter Grass
8. Tycho Brahe (just to see his silver
nose, which was second prize in a youthful swordfight)
9. Groucho Marx (he and T.S. Eliot were
huge mutual fans, and dined together shortly before Eliot's death)
10. Vanessa Redgrave
11. Stanley Kubrick
12. Arthur C. Clarke
13. Edith Wharton
14. Sergeant Edgar Millen,
RCMP
15. Pierre Trudeau
16. Robert J. Oppenheimer
17. Cyndi Lauper (she's got a new
album!)
18. Wolfgang Mozart
19. Friedrich Durrenmatt
20. Edmund Halley (for a little salty
sailor talk, and maybe some gossipy tidbits about his pal Isaac
Newton)
Elmer! who will Definitely Not Be
Late!
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