        |
|
|
|
3 rd August 2005 Hello friends, Today is one of those days where I fell the need to make justice. Yesterday I was having dinner with Joey Arias, Rayvan O and Elliot. I spent the night eating very nice food, drinking a very good wine and having a wonderful conversation with Joey Arias. And I have to be fair in this place with someone that is amazing as an artist but also it is amazing as a human being. This person is Joey Arias. He is great. Since I know him two or three years ago everything about him I think it is absolutely delicious and superb. I do think that the show that we all do everyday does not make justice to him. Probably it does not make justice to any one of us either. But the sin is especially big with Joey. I was having dinner in front of Joey and he was telling me stories about the old times. I should not say the old time when I talk about Joey I think I will say from now on the good times and I was just flabbergasted with the amount of people that is by now history that he has known or knows. To mention some of then so the people who do not live the Zumanity life can have a fair idea of who we are talking about here I will mention, Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Patty Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Led Zeppelin, etc Also Joy is a fantastic storyteller. You could spend day listening to him and all the things that he has to say and if it happens that Raivan O is there then you are ready for treat. The both of them do a fantastic couple, one is the one that tells the story and the other one is his perfect sidekick. I love Joey and I want everybody to love him. Have fun
2 nd August 2005 Hi¡¡ There are many things that you can do at night and one of them is to do a movie. We did a little movie for Bob on his farewell homage The story was: Three gangster clowns are in the car listening to hip-hop music while they check how their “hos” are doing. As they pass the corner of New York New York they see Bob the cow fucking one of his “hos”. The car breaks and the guys drive back. One of the gangster-clowns tried to shoot with pistol balloon and it does not work. So they leave the car to give Bob the cow a lesson. Open the trunk and they get a big slash hummer. One the gangster clowns hold the “ho” real tight while the chief of the gangster clown get ready to hit Bob the cow with the slash hummer. At the same time the third gangster clown take of his trousers and starts to take Bob the cow up the ass. Bob the cow fight for his life because he know he is about to loose it. He received the first hit on his head while he is getting pump up his ass. The scene is getting really cruel and poor Bob the cow does not stop muuing. He has received another big hit on his head and lots of white milk was starting to go out from his head. Another hit in the head and the third gangster clown put up his trousers. The “ho” cries desperately Bob cow is dying and nobody is going to do anything to save him. The gang of gangster clown have finished Bob the clown and in order to be sure that he is dead one of the gangster clowns tried to find his pulse. No there is pulse in Bob the cow and the chief of the gang takes his cirque du soleil bathrobe to cover their victim. But “this is your only one” and the chief of the gangster clowns answer “I have another one, I got it on e-bay” and the other gangster clowns said “we bought our second one from Terence” Ja, ja ,ja, ja, ja, ja ,ja, ja, ja, ja , ja , ja , ja, ja, ja, ja , ja, ja, ja, ja, ja,ja, ja, ja, ja,ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja Have fun.
1 st August 2005 Hi¡¡¡ I discovered something yesterday in the show, something that it could be very dangerous. Everything is going to be fine from now, once I reveal my discovery. I was on top of the wings, those things that move back and forward that are on stage and get stuck many times when I realise that the show is not very good. I actually thing that is very bad and the only way the show keeps alive is because the people in the show are very good. Well, I was thinking about that because It was Sunday night and there were not too many people and everybody was kind of doing the show and not giving everything. And them everything got really clear for me… let me explain, for the last two years this show was not good and the people who created came here telling us that it was amazing, that the audience loved it and that this is a success. No one of this people dared to tell us the reality of the situation, the show was fine as long as we were fine because that fact would have put them in the position of admitting they fucked up. Now the show need to survive to be in that place were you have to save it from the flop, this is the same for every show but here is even more. In order to get that felling they have to come here and like good football manager slashed every body and kill their souls so they have something to fight for. If the whole group get together like they did in the beginning the beautiful personalities of the performer would come through and the show may shine again. I do not think this is going to happen because Cirque is a big corporation and they never tell the truth. Have fun.
31 st July 2005 Hello Everybody; I am sure you all know the famous novel. I am sure you all think it is fiction well let me tell you it is not. In fact there is a case of Dangerous Liaisons in Zumanity at this precise moment. As a respect for my informer to who I will refer as Deep Throat I am not going to be able to use real names. I am sure you all understand why is that. The people that I am talking about are real people and these words could hurt them. There is a Viscount like in the novel. The Viscount a real bon viveur had an affair with a young girl. The young girl fell completely in love with her seducer and when the affair finished she was left devastated. Nobody can underestimate the power of love. The Viscount finally found love himself but at the same time did not stop his career as a Casanova. One of his more interesting passions was the white powder use by the ladies of high society to keep in shape and kill the appetite. As you all can imagine one thing lead to the other and one day that our hero was having a round de but with one of this ladies the husband of her catch them. He got really hungry and he treated our hero. He got scared and asks for help. The young girl from the beginning of the story found the news about our hero very exciting because she had someone to help her to get her revenge. She sent an anonymous letter to the betrayed husband telling all the passed affairs of our Viscount. The husband full of hate and hunger run fast towards our hero and this time treated him “ you are going to get kill”. Our hero now is somewhere in a remote place where nobody could find him. So how this sounds? Is it good? Have fun.
30 th July 2005 Hello Guys; We are recording Mr. Sandman so we can have it on tape and that would help us to sing it while we do it in the show. Jean Francoise Tivo is the sound engineer and Toby is the M.D. I think they work together very well and it is going to be an amazing thing for us to have in the show. I also think that to have all the songs that we have recorded in a CD it would be a very nice idea. I arrived there almost on time. I got lost in the middle of another street. Like any professional recording TIVO had just woken up but after a boll of cereal we started to record. I always get very intimidated by musicians and the things they do. The reason is that I do not know much about music but I know something, enough to make me self-conscious when I make mistakes. So I was real nervous because I have never been very secure with the song and for everything else that I say before. I did the first try out and the guys were happy. Then all the things that were wrong were going to have to be redone. My self-confidence was low, so low that I could not believe what they were saying about everything being just fine. My paranoid sense was kicking and I was felling all over the place. At the same time the guys could see in my face how I was not enjoying anymore so they were really careful with all the notes that they were trying to give me. I have a very bad reputation for taking notes. And I have to say that I take notes very bad. Also I forgot to mention here that I am shit with rhythm. I cannot keep rhythm in music or singing or dancing. My problem is so big that even when I dance by myself I loose the rhythm. It took us one hour and half to record the whole thing and when I left I was felling shit for being so crap. Have fun.
29 th July 2005 Dear diary; Today I went to the school. I had to go to the school every Monday. My teacher, Miss Martens was there like every Monday and any other day of the week when we need to learn something very important. Today it was one of those days because we had new friends to play with. They have come from very far way countries to study in our school and they are really nice people. That is what Miss Martens told us and Miss Martens is always right. Well, once she was not right but my friend told me that she was even all the other people said that she was nor but I believe my friend because he is my friend. If he would not be my friend I will not believe him. Our new friends in the school were introduce by Miss Martens and they have funny names, one is called Sergey and is a boy, another one is called Nicky and he is a boy too and then there is a girl and she is called Shannon. Miss Martens told us something very important. She told us that we should not be judgemental because everybody when they are new in a place is very bad and they do not want to hear it because it makes them fell hurt. She also said that we are very bad people because when we say what we think people suffer and that is not nice. Have fun
28 th of July 2005 Hello to all; Yes, I went to the movies. My very generous employer gave us tickets to go to the movies. They did not give us a bus ticket, no; I did not meant to say that they gave us the tickets, for free, to see movies. They gave us four tickets each and that is very generous. For a moment I thought I was going to meet everybody from the show watching the same movie as me but then I realised that there were at least teen different movies so at least we will all be going to see different ones, and the odds of meeting everybody got reduced. I went with my babe. I can call her babe here because she is another one that does not read me so I am protected. We arrive early and did the whole deal, popcorn, coca cola, etc I got inflated like a balloon. But let me tell you about the movie; it was very funny. Of course it is a Hollywood movie and they always fucked at one point but I had a brilliant time. The two main actors are very funny. I think one of them is better than the other, the one I mean is so relax and so funny. My favourite moments are when the two guys are going trough all the weddings that they crash. You can see that they are having an amazing time. And even if we were the only ones laughing in the cinema on those little moments it was worthy. Go to see it because it is funny. Have fun.
27 th of July 2005 Hello This was all a secret and a very well kept secret. For weeks after his anniversary things were getting organised. Papers were given to the right people and everybody was getting excited. Of course the man did not have an idea of the big plot that was being created all around him. It was a sunny day. I had lost the map of the address and I did not know how or where to go. I called my friend Stephan to let me know where the place was, he said in this moment I am on my way and I am passing through your house so you can meet me in the corner of Eastern with Rusell. And that is what we did, as fast as we could we drove in the car the meeting spot and there they were. We followed them to what my wife called the clit of the world. It was quite far a way indeed. It was real south east but it was worthy. It was in a big house over a big golf course where you could see an amazing view of Las Vegas and at the same time had not the extreme heat. A grand piano in the leaving room was waiting for all of us and that gave us an idea of the kind of surprise party that we were about to have. I loved the house very spacious and with tons of light coming from all the sides of the house. When we made it there few people had already arrived but we could not see any cars outside. When we left there were so many cars outside that we could not believe that we were in a residential area and not in the middle of the strip. Once everybody got there we had to wait for the star of the party. He arrived a little bit later. We all hided behind a corner and surprise him as he was getting in. He face was amazing, very difficult to describe but it was really shine and full of happiness and surprise. We love Elliot and we want all the best in the world for him. Happy Birthday Elliot and hopefully we will have the opportunity to be with you on your birthday next year. Have fun.
26 th July 2005 Hello, He is in town. He is on his way to Mexico where he is going to be for six months. The fact of the matter is that looking at it from here it would be really nice to get away for a while to a country that you do not really know very well and you like a lot as I do and then go some where else. Sal has been spreading himself over Las Vegas in the last few days. Wait until he leaves. Today is his last day off and he has come to see Zumanity. We are not been very funny. It is the end of the week and the only thing in our minds is days off. Sal has not had a great year; well they would probably say that it has had a great year. He has been in Europe and the last three months in Paris. I have to say that I am jealous, spring and early summer in Paris. ! Fucking hell¡¡¡ I want that for me. Now Mexico for six months and then Biloxi (Mississippi) Sal is on tour. The live on tour is so different to the live in a fix show. I know it is a little bit stupid and obvious things to say but it really is believe me. When we were thinking of working for cirque we contemplate the possibility of doing some touring but we obviously again we said no. You move a lot and you go from one place to the other and that is what Sal does at the moment and that is why he is in town. Now Sal would be leaving tomorrow and thou is the oldest son of the Cirque du Soleil ‘s happy family. Well, if you have made it until here at the bottom of the blog you are very brave. The whole thing was a very stupid joke with the name of a show. It works a little bit because it looks like an Italian name. Have fun.
25 th of July 2005 Hello to the world, Remain me to change that hello thing, after some time it has become really boring. While I was going to the theatre to today many of you have told me that you do not want us to go or that you are going to miss us. I have been there and I told to many of my friends who left before the same thing. At the same time I knew while I was saying that to them that they were going to go, that their path was already written and that I will miss them but I will also will see them again in another place. As far as I am concern I am not going to forget anyone. I am going to remember all of you for as long as I can. I will go from here thinking that perhaps I should have stayed longer and that my decision was wrong. Also I know that in some time the whole thing would become a very long memory and it would be a really nice memory that I will make it better and better as the time goes by. I am not good at staying because I am very good at leaving. In my life I have left some places and it was never nice and it was never happy. The whole thing become a big pure of felling that you try to swallow as fast as you can. In may case as I kept doing the leaving part I try to enjoy the pure by swallowing slowly some times and by drinking a lot with the people that decided to stay. My heart will break and I will carry on leaving places on and on until I could not leave anywhere else. Have fun.
24 th of July 2005 Hello friends, There is a new adventure for cirque, they are going to buy a theatre in Miami, the Jacky Gleason Theatre and they are going to build a show Zumanity Like. They are going to build restaurants clubs and things to make some money in the same way they are used to see the Hotels in Las Vegas make their money. I am sure it is going to be a big success. And today all the big guys who matter in this country; the politicians came to see the show. Yes, I know that it is not extrictly true because the business people are more important than politicians but they are even at least. They were sitting in the first row, in the three love sits. I think they came with their wives and they seemed to be having a very good time. Cirque was trying to get the gig very well so they told us not to take them to the orgy, we could get them and play with all of them with everything but not for the orgy. Probably if someone takes a picture of them in an orgy their careers would end and the career of cirque in Miami would end too. When the show finished I went upstairs to have a coffee and they all were there. They all were very nice and they said that we were very funny in the show. That made me think, not too much because I have just finished the first show but I arrived to the conclusion that we might have a place in that show in Miami, perhaps not all the time but at least for enough time to make the numbers very good and then go to do something else. I hope that Gill read the blog and give us the job. Have fun
23rd of July 2005 Hello friends, It is a question of principals, Stephan says. This is a stingy company that does not really want to follow all the terrible amount of rules and regulations that make the whole cirque machine run. So if the rule says that the every artist takes a new bathrobe every two years in the company we deserve to get one before we leave because until now we have been working here for more than two years. I think it is just fair. It seems that our request for getting the bathrobes that we deserved by right has caused a mayor bureaucratic problem and still they have not granted the bathrobes to us. As I write here I realise that even in the way I explain you what is going on the words are deserting me. This company have claimed ownership of so many words that are very nice and good for human kind that they are starting to loose their real meaning. So our next step is going to be to speak to the ombudsman of the company. I will be surprise if this fair and very kind and worried about social issues company do not have that figure to protect the fair treatment of their valued employees. And I am sure that once he finds about our problems with our rightly deserves bathrobes we will receive them in no time. Thanks cirque du Soleil. Have fun.
|
 |
 |