I used powerpoint to create a slide show of the lyrics to “phantom of the paradise,” this past saturday’s movie being shown at the Trash Film Orgy. The presentation was 491 slides, with each slide representing a line of a lyric, or a blank slide in between songs or within songs.
I watched the film several times over the past week, using an open-captioned version a friend has, in order to synchronize my advancing of the slides with the songs. I had to do a manual advance, because we weren’t sure what kind of shape the print was going to be in, although we knew from our earlier run-through on tuesday that is was in pretty poor shape.
When the show started, I was sitting at the front of the stage, with laptop and lcd projector sitting upon the edge of the stage. I felt like a human karaoke machine, clicking the mouse button to just be slightly ahead of the music, so the audience could have that split-second to read the lyrics and sing along.
During intermission, we had a wedding of two of the trash film fans. Fat Dead Elvis performed the ceremony. OK, they actually were legally married the week before in Reno or somewhere, but they wanted to get married at the Trash Film Orgy, so we obliged them. It was especialy great when we killed the entire wedding party right after they were married.
So, the show went really well, and we have one left – Trash Til Dawn.
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