Monday, May 22, 2006

The comedy trio of Lee, Myself, and I

I've posted a few of these before, but most are new to the Blog cosmos. The bits are anywhere from five to fifteen years old; I wrote and performed them for cassette tapes I sent to my Navy buddy, Lewis, who lives in Texas. A few years ago, I decided I should save the better bits, and so I've been doing that. MAGIX editing has allowed fades, reverb, and other effects not available to me then. My studio consisted of two cassette decks, a microphone mixer, and the living room of my apartment, upon whose carpet the scripts (and mixer) laid. Everything was written out--very little improvising takes place in these routines, save for when I couldn't read my writing.

You'll hear some multi-voice bits--these, I accomplished by going back and forth between my two decks. Two bits stand out as ahead-of-their-time pieces, imo: People Who Want Money and Murder. Maybe I should sue the folks behind Millionaire and/or all the crime-scene-investigation-type shows. Real, Genuine, True-Blue, Authentic Roots Music was inspired by an NPR piece that credited Earl Scruggs with inventing bluegrass banjo. Right. I guess that all of the bluegrass banjo that preceded Earl Scruggs was planted by the Musical Satan in order to test our faith, or something like that. Fake geological clues/fake audio clues--all part of the same evil plot.

And now for the comedy magic of Lee, Myself, and I:

Information Magazine

Great Dialogue from the Movies

Extremely Brief Tales of the Old West

Commercials (Laundry detergent, coffee)

People Who Want Money

One-Liner Therapy

Real, Genuine, True-Blue, Authentic Roots Music

Spiritual Reflections

Tales of the Unexpected

The Adventures of Self-Help Man

Tales of a Paranormal Nature: Revenge of the Creature

The Grant Seldstocker Show

Corporate Man, Part One

Corporate Man, Part Two

The Inane Ministry of Virgil T. Lunarorbit

The Inept Invaders from the Planet Duhhh

The Y2K Bugs

Murder

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mostly Harmless.

Lee Hartsfeld said...

Yes, I pride myself on not being edgy. I'm anti-edgy.

Lee

Anonymous said...

Marty - London.
That's odd - when I read your blog you ALWAYS have an English accent ...just like mine!?!?!?! hahahaha

Lee Hartsfeld said...

Marty--

Ha! Amazing how that works, isn't it? ( <:


Lee