Original by Leonard Cohen as rearranged by Judy Collins. The Argument: Gloria Jr. has been brought before Tempest, who is fascinated by her and asks her to describe her life. She has been ordered by Cookie to assassinate him with a dagger concealed about her person. She sings of her near murder by and the [...]
“The Gypsy Wife“ By Leonard Cohen The Argument: Tempest is ruminating on whether his wife Miranda is being unfaithful to him. (The song is to be arranged as a Heavy Metal ballad. Tempest stands on the ship overlooking Miranda and Cookie on the planet acting out his wild fantasies. (Not like that. Unless the director [...]
“After the Goldrush“ Original by Neil Young The Argument: Opening of Act III bar the Narration and “Fly Like an Eagle” riff. (Lights come up on Gloria Jr sitting at a piano with various Denebian Slime Devils in Hippie attire scattered around listening.) Gloria Jr: Well, I dreamed I saw the knights In armor coming, [...]
original by Toad the Wet Sprocket The Argument: Captain Tempest requests a mission report from the two new crew members picked up from La’Bohemia. They turn out to be Flowerboy and Gloria Jr. Flowerboy pulls out an acoustic guitar and proceeds to sing. Flowerboy: We spotted the Plot Hole high above the planet Why were [...]
For lack of anything better to post, bastardizing “Black Hole Sun” is a pain in the butt. I think I may try something else.
“Iron Man“ Original by Black Sabbath The Argument: The Narrator has just explained the events of the preceding play. He explains that in the ruins of D’ylliria a familiar power is still in existence… One which now appears on the video screen and sings! P: I am PROSPERO! Chorus Member: Has he lost his mind? [...]
“Major Tom“ Original by Peter Schilling, better known, perhaps, as adapted by Shiny Toy Guns. (Who appear in this video to have abducted Lady Gaga’s stylist.) See here for Schilling’s original German. The Argument: The crew fires up the warp drive for the return journey to Earth. Gloria Jr: The warp drive is checked. [...]
Since my primary computer has committed suicide and I can no longer work on the Richard III play or my coding project, I’m dusting off this blog for at least two weeks or so. I’ve made a major change. Instead of Gloria Jr. being raised by hippies, whe is now being raised by Denebian Slime [...]
About half to two thirds of my original YouTube song links have been taken down in the last year for copyright violations. I am not going to make any attempt to remap them. I certainly am not mad enough to try and host video or audio here on the site since that is a clear [...]
“Space Oddity” Original by David Bowie The Argument: The Captain, Miranda, Ariel, Cookie and the Navigation Officer get on a shuttlecraft to skim the surface of La’Bohemia. The ship communicates with them but something goes wrong. Gloria: Bridge control to Captain Tom Bridge control to Captain Tom Ready impulse drive and turn deflectors on (Ten) [...]
