Columbia Explorers! or, Stories are Like Pasta
Posted by Alan on January 29, 2010
Hi, the internet. This is Alan. I’m one of TWO official show bloggers for the Columbia Explorers show. The other blogger is Alex, who plays the banjo, also.
Here’s something I’ve always admired about my fellow monkeys. (I saw a lot of it today, at our first rehearsal, is why I’m bringing it up.) My fellow monkeys do such a consistently brilliant job of taking an incredible story, by an incredible kid; reading it over once or twice; and immediately, instinctively figuring out what makes the story tick. These stories, as we get them, are these crazy little blobs of awesome, but to figure out who says what, and when, and more importantly, where the pivotal points in the story sit - that takes some serious talent, folks. I can write a pretty good song, but this stuff, man - I marvel at this company of people who just know how to draw out the essence of a story like a delicious, delicious strand of spaghetti.
Speaking of: time for lunch.
Can’t wait to see what other stories we do!
Thanks for listening, the internet.