10 Memes I've Done that You Have, Too

[talktooloose]

10 Things I've Done You May, Perhaps, Have Not:

I was paid to appear naked and simulating sex on Queer As Folk (I think it's season two, episode three, but it's almost impossible to see me).

I was not paid but was even happier to appear in a few frames of Cyndi Lauper's 1992 video for the song That's What I Think.

I was one of 120 puppeteers on the Muppet's 30th Anniversary special and had the honour of talking to Jim Henson for about 30 seconds. I was the Swedish Chef's hands in one scene.

Had sex in a love hotel in Tokyo

Had brief but enthusiastic sex in the bushes in front of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington

Watched Charles and Diana's wedding on the only television on Grand Manan island, New Brunswick

Met three of the four members of ABBA (of course, not Agnetha)

Prepared a presentation last month for Kofi Annan's top aide and another for the CEO of Dow Chemicals

Held Jules Styne's original piano music for "Neverland" from the musical Peter Pan, a song my mom used to sing to me as a lullaby

Held at the Polish border in the middle of nowhere at 1a.m. and not in a romantic sense. Actually, it was Snake's passport they didn't like but I insisted on getting off the train with him and our luggage. After a brief phone call to Warsaw during which he was clearly given shit, the chief border guy told us we could go. At that point our train, which had been waiting just for us, decided to go on without us and the border guy grabbed our stuff and we all ran for the train, jumping on it as it began to move.

Then there was the guy who told me that he was... but it's probably not true...

Comments

[snowmit.livejournal.com]

I was one of 120 puppeteers on the Muppet's 30th Anniversary special and had the honour of talking to Jim Henson for about 30 seconds. I was the Swedish Chef's hands in one scene.

YOU ARE THE COOLEST PERSON I KNOW. I USED TO HAVE THAT ON TAPE (BETA) AND WATCHED IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND IT WAS YOUR HANDS ALL ALONG THE WORLD IS SMALL PLEASE MARRY ME.

MARRIAGE IS A FASCIST INSTITUTION!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I MADE SNOWMIT HIT CAPS LOCK!!!

The show was shot up at CTV studios near 401 and something Scarborough-like (also where I met Joni Mitchell when she was Dini Petty's guest. Why didn't I mention that?). The tops of all the banquet tables were up at about 2 metres and we were underneath, screened by the decorative "booth" fronts. Henson was directing the shoot on a headset because he was everywhere -- putting on anonymous bunny rabbit muppets and joining in with little groups. He was very mischevious -- as the late Richard Hunt (Scooter, Janice, Sweetums, etc.) warned us about not pushing the mouths of the muppets inside-out, Henson did just that to Kermit behind Hunt's head.

In the scene where Miss Piggy arrives and tumbles down the steps during her entrance, I was the Chef. Look for my expressive hand take in the reaction shot.

The full background to this is that I had been studying puppetry and fell in the with the group that was to become the Canadian contingent of Fraggle Rock. I watched tapings at the Scollard Street Studios in Yorkville two or three times. I think the studio is no more. This would have been 1984, '85 I guess.

I also submitted songs and scripts to the Muppets that were summarily rejected. One of them was for a Muppets in Space movie. Did they later steal that from me? Well, it's not exactly the most original idea so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I wrote a great song for Kermit, though, called singing for my supper. I had forgotten all about it until a minute ago.

Re: MARRIAGE IS A FASCIST INSTITUTION!

[manny-script.livejournal.com]

In the scene where Miss Piggy arrives and tumbles down the steps during her entrance, I was the Chef. Look for my expressive hand take in the reaction shot.

I agree with snowmit - you ARE the coolest person alive. Have you ever told the story of your involvement with the Muppets to mossandavocado?

Re: MARRIAGE IS A FASCIST INSTITUTION!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Trust me, she knows. She could tell the moment we met. She gazed up and down at me and said, "You've been there, haven't you? You've walked the bouncy, legless waltz of the GODS!"

[gloeden.livejournal.com]

Showoff.
Cool.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Um, isn't showing off the whole point of the meme?

[ladykutenay.livejournal.com]

You have my name sort of!

[gloeden.livejournal.com]

I don't understand.
You mean in real life?

[ladykutenay.livejournal.com]

My name is Eden. I get gleeful when I see it places. It's a simple joy.

[manny-script.livejournal.com]

Held Jules Styne's original piano music for "Neverland" from the musical Peter Pan, a song my mom used to sing to me as a lullaby
I wish you could see the big grin on my face right now.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

It was a level-10 frisson, monsieur.

[briseur.livejournal.com]

All the ones that aren't historically significant are sexual. Can't wait to see you.

you forgot...

[codystrum.livejournal.com]

A couple of things you didn't mention which I know about:

-you had a half-hour conversation with Joni Mitchel
-you performed in a federal meaximum security prison (women's)
-you and I appeared on much music commercial 12 years ago
(or at least I did; not sure as I never saw it)

Here are a few of mine:

-I've seen the world cup football (er soccer) on location in two continents: Spain (1982) Tokyo (2002)
- I got gently scolded by Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies when I wished her a good show instead of "happy new year"
-I appeared nationally with my guitar on CBC's Performance in 1981 at the tender age of 17 (in the same year I was molested in the basement of Western University by a personal friend of Mick Jagger's; he showed me the pics; freaked me out then but I think it is cool now)
- I smoked a joint with Neil Finn and his band when they played Sneaky Dee's in 91 or so and in the same year
- I was briefly questioned by Tokyo police on suspicion of being an Arab terrorist (i was deeply tanned that summer); luckily I found my passport tucked in my knapsack and I was carrying it
- I got a media pass to the 1996 vancouver AIDS Conference and almost got into a fight with the New York Times AIDS reporter and had lunch with Spin Magazine's Celia Farber

-I sucked off a college boy in a Johnny on the Spot
-I chikan-ed (fondled) a 25 yo salariMAN (not a woman) on an overcrowded Tokyo commuter train (he got off BEFORE his stop)
- canoe sex in Northern Ontario (maybe many of you have done that)
- I tried to get my sex buddy to get laid by Scott Thompson at a Ru Paul concert (I wanted a threesome) but my buddy was too shy
- I jerked off a young yakuza gang member (hey, I liked his tatoos) in a hotspring in Nagano

Hey Loose...is this a contest?

Re: you forgot...

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

"Is this a contest?"

No, but it is a meme. Post it to your journal, baby! Wow, awesome list.

Thanks for the additions to my list! I asked Joni a question on air (I still have the tape) and then talked to her briefly in the hall and she signed my copy of Don Juan's Restless Daughter. It certainly wasn't a half-hour conversation but it was memorable. Can you believe I forgot to bring my camera with me? Someone snapped one of me and Joni and I gave him my address and phone number, but I never heard from him.

I remembered another one: when we shared the gig with Beverly Bratty's band Urge to Purge at the Cameron, I was on door for a while and Jane Sibbery came in. She gave me this look like "Look! It's me!" and I fucking didn't recognize her. Heh.