Gwen's Corner

The 60's Show

First of all... HELLO!?? No one even brought up the MOST important event of the 60's. Yeah that's right. *I* was born. If it weren't for the 60's you wouldn't be able to harrass me now. Think about how much more boring your lives would be. That's right... think about it.

Enough thinking, on to the show.
Here's the line up! (You know you were waiting on this important info)
Frank - Beau as Marilyn Monroe (yes. It was disturbing)
Janet - Madame Leah as Jackie Kennedy
Brad - Fish as JFK and later some random hippie
Riff - Nuggett as a Hippie and later a Hell's Angel
Maggie - Emily as a hip coffee drinking, cigarette smoking beatnik and a mod girl later
Columbia - Amy as a hippy chick/flower child
Eddie - Cody as James Bond
Dr. Scott - Mike as a paralyzed VietNam war vet
Rocky - Wes as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise
Crimmie - Saturn as Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone

Opening music... It took me a long time to come up with just 6 songs to play for this show. The 60's were so full of great music it was hard to pick so few. I ended up deciding that Louie Louie, Aquarious, Respect and Born to Be Wild would be good at the beginning. It seems that those worked out pretty well!

Movie started... but not the sound. Fun times! Bastard continue business as usual until things get straightened out, then they casually pick it back up when the sound comes back on... This is why I love Bastards. They keep going when technical things get jacked up!

Okay... the first thing that really sticks out in my mind is watching Brad shove Janet so hard during Dammit Janet that she fell to the ground and her hair went skidding across the floor. Honestly...I thought Fish would be far more damaged by the end of this scene than he was. While Janet was scrambling about on the floor putting herself back together, Kirk stepped in to take over the role... which was slightly disturbing.

Crimmie comes out and his sound cues didn't work... it was supposed to play that ding ding ding ding Twilight Zone intro music but the disk wouldn't read.. :( Saturn carried on without a hitch... I think people got it even though the mic was feeding back something fierce.

After this was car scene. JFK and Jackie are driving along... and... What's that!?? There's a sniper on the box of death/book tower! What was that bang!?? Aww!!! JFK has been shot! There's blood and screaming... but he seems to have recovered this time.

Time warp happened and then Frank/Marilyn shows up and does his/her thing. He had a fan set up to try and blow the skirt up like in that classic Marilyn pose but the fan didn't blow hard enough. I think we may all be a little grateful for that...

Frank speechifies and instead of clapping Emily is over there hanging onto her coffee cup and snapping her fingers... She's such a good beatnik!

Tank reveals the Yellow Submarine, which I painted last week and finished about 4 hous before the show. You can't have a 60's sow without the Yellow Submarine, right? Go to the website (www.losbastardos.com) and see the pictures. You simply must. The song played during this was Shout. Interestingly enough this was about the first time in history that the floorwalkers and cast didn't have to prompt people to get up out of their seats and dance. I guess I did good cause most of the audience was up for this one.

Anyhow.. Captain Kirk pops out of the tank and does his song and dance then runs away from Marilyn... probably because she isn't green or an Andorean or something...

An alarmingly well dressed Eddie shows up... also sans sound... but Marc started singing the James Bond theme and all was good. Cody was afraid people wouldn't get that he was James Bond since his costume was kinda ghetto... (like everyones silly boy!) It was fine. He cleans up well that Eddie guy.... Eddie chases people around... the vietnam soldier comes over to me screaming something about 'charlie being after him'... I told him he was probably a relative of mine somehow... anyhow.. Eddie gets corpsified just in time for dinner.

Moving on... Sheets... um... While it didn't really make sense, Marilyn sang Happy birthday Mr. President to Janet... who was Jackie Kennedy... but it was more disturbing to Janet than it would have been to Brad so Beau totally went there and yes... Madame Leah made so many "Oh god this is so disturbing" faces this night it was hard to get a picture of her with a normal face.

Riff, poked Captain Kirk in the butt with a big stick!! I was thinking that the classic Star Trek fight music (you know... that song they played when Kirk fought with that lizard alien on that planet where he had to make his own gunpowder in order to win... but it was really just another alien race testing the humans tooo-o-o... okay.. yeah.. So WHAT! I know my original Star Trek.. SUE me!) Anyhow THAT song would have been great here.

Sheet scene the second... I have just one thing to say... FISH! Never grab Cory's crotchable areas again!! You pulled on his underwear and caused all his junk to slip out the leg hole! NOONEWANTEDTOSEETHATHOLYCRAP!!!!!!

Janet went and fixed up the Cpt.Kirkmonster and then they were in the tank and lesbians were on the box.. then lesbians were in the tank and a bunch of boys who claim to be straight were on the box... I'm beginning to suspect that they may not be as straight as they claim cause they always seem to end up molesting each other.....

Dr. "paralyzed Nam vet" Scott comes rolling down the aisle and proceeds to antagonize the others. Mike is such the little professional. I didn't tell him that his hair looked like it should have been in an 80's movie workout montage rather than the 60's...

Columbia screams. Janet hugs Rocky. Frank pushes Rocky. Frank chases Janet... yeah.. business as usual, right? Everyone gets frozen...Feet, wheels and socks refuse to move... yadda yadda yadda... Good god! It's time for the floorshow!

Marilyn changes into this dress that was obviously made for someone with BEWBS! Beau, unfortunately does not have them... so Amy fills his frock with candy! Riff and Maggie show up again ready to rumble. Riff is now a Hells Angel with pistols and Maggie is totally mod in this amazing patterned dress. Go see the damned pictures!! Marilyn goes to sing her swan song and while sitting there several people try to help stuff her bra... with a metric ton of toilet paper from the floor...

Frank apparently took the phrase "drop acid not bombs" to heart and hallucinated up a big crowd of people to sing to...

More people get corpsified... Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott leave.... NOW.

That was pretty much what I remember...