2:55 p.m. - 2008-03-19
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It turns out to be kind of hard to play the melody of "Sabre Dance" while simultaneously singing the melody. Harder than I would have thought.
Wait, did I just type "Sabre Dance"? Because I meant to type "The Kick-Ass Theme Song from the Geoff and Kia Show"! To the untrained ear, it may SOUND like "Sabre Dance", but it's not. Just listen to the words: nothing about sabres, but lots and lots about Geoff and Kia and how it's their show. "The Geoff and Kia Show" isn't, as one might expect, a television program (yet). Rather, it's our first attempt at a duo performance, scheduled for three days from today at the Mother Fool's. In addition to the fabulous theme song (which TOTALLY wasn't composed in the thirties by a Soviet/Armenian composer for a ballet) we'll be performing other original music, directing scintillating drama to be enacted by our resident sock-thespian troupe, and maybe enjoying a laugh or two, or at the very least awkward silence where we had expected laughs to occur.
But it's not ALL laughs and awkward pauses. Preperations have to be made, hard work has to be done, sweat has to be extracted in order for "The Geoff and Kia Show" to be successful. The Horamatic 9000 has to be dusted off and oiled up. Rehearsing has to be put off until the last minute. Costumes have to be selected. Sock puppets, notoriously difficult and often emotionally unstable, have to be cajoled into learning their lines, attending rehearsal and not falling apart onstage. Such a pressure cooker environment can take its toll on the best marriages, and we're bracing ourselves for difficult, stormy times over the next few days. Tempers will no doubt flare. The word "divorce" will be strewn about casually as the dishware and crockery flies across the room. There will be tears, shouting, dramatic walking-out-of-the-room, and every other troubled marriage trope I can remember from the movies.
Will it be worth it? No. That is, not until we launch furiously into "The Way Amazing and Totally Original Theme Song from the Geoff and Kia Show". At that moment, no matter how emotionally wounded we are, no matter the scars we bear, nothing will matter but the show. And then, it will be worth it, provided I don't fuck up the words to the song.
As for the name of the act, I realize it seems unseemly and patriarchal for MY name to go first and not Kia's. In this regard we're merely following convention. Steve and Eyedie, Captain and Tenille, Donny and Marie: the husband's name (or rank) is always first. It's not for us to question the tradition from which we sprang. We did some research on these, our forebearers, via the internet. This research raised more questions than it answered. Apparently both Steve and Eyedie had seperate acts BEFORE they were wed. Which one sold more records, and has that topic come up frequently during marital spats? And the Captain and Tenille: Captain appeared never to talk or sing, but in one video from a seventies TV show he was surrounded by his keyboards and sitting on a boss lucite stool. Was it his personal stool, or part of the set for that TV show? It appeared to be a very nice stool. Additionally, we steered clear of anything involving Donny and Marie or Sonny and Cher, as either of these acts would cause one's skin to crawl horribly.
So that's the story on our duo plans. If you're unable to make the show, due to some crippling infirmity or other reason, try logging onto Stevergo for LIVE BLOGGING from the event. It will be like other Stevergo entries, but typed MORE HURRIEDLY and with tons more MISSPLLINGS!
