Tuesday, November 18, 2008

So what is this "Playlist Earth" anyways?

So I don't know if you're aware, but a little while back the BBC got a telephone call from someone claiming to be GOD. At first they were skeptical. Their thinking was basically "what is the likelihood that this is the real GOD and not just some crazy crank pretending to be GOD?" So they politely told "GOD" to piss off, and hung up. Well they got a call a minute later and this time, the caller offered to prove it really was GOD and so he made it snow, which was weird since it was mid august, then he made a rainbow appear within the snow, which none of the BBC Execs had ever seen before, then he was starting to get fancy and spell things out in lightning like "Believe me yet?" and so the executives said "all right! All right! We believe you!"

So apparently what had happened was GOD had gotten a really nice HD camera from Jesus on the previous Father's Day, and he'd been feeling real guilty because it was collecting dust so he took it out for a spin one afternoon and got a few shots here and there. Nothing crazy, just some tuff he'd made that he thought was cool and kind of wanted to get out there for general public consumption. He'd initially thought to throw it onto YouTube and maybe see if he could get some blogs to link to it.

But then when he showed it around to friends and family, everyone was like "This is great! you've GOT to try to get this on the air." SO GOD, being a fan of Ricky Gervais generally, and the original British version of the Office specifically, decided he'd see if the BBC wanted to put it on the air. A

And , of course, they snatched it up, threw together a score, dusted off David Attenborough and had him explain in voice over what we were seeing, and voilá- the result was the wildly popular 
Planet Earth series.

But after sitting around for a while, GOD got to thinking, and if GOD was going to be honest with GOD, GOD really didn't think that the finished product had turned out how GOD had envisioned it. GOD supposed GOD could just miraculously change it so it more resembled the film GOD had in mind, but miracles tend to feed into the hysteria of the craziest of GOD's fans, and GOD really didn't want to encourage more of that type of behavior. In the old days GOD might have just smited the BBC with a plague of locusts or something, but again, GOD had toned it down in recent times, and left all that smiting and smoting and rivers of blood in the past. So what to do?

Then inspiration struck. Remembering how he had solved that whole crazy animal boat problem,  GOD made contact with an unlikely earth bound source to rectify the situation. Actually this time it was three earthbound sources, but like Noah they were all unlikely candidates for a divine mission. But it's hard to say no to the almighty, and so they set to work using all the tools GOD had laid upon the earth for just such an occasion... or at least a few of the tools... OK mainly just the internet for gathering music and the leafy natural mind expanding goodies that GOD had sprinkled about as little batches of inspiration in waiting.

And so they did the good work... and the result was just as good. A series of what amounts to 45 minutes of the most amazing audio/visual experiences known to mankind. 

But it turns out that simply creating such a treasure trove was not enough. Nay,  now that they had the sacred recipe they must spread it to the world.

And so they made arrangements, and on November 20th, at BAR 4 in brooklyn (www.myspace.com/bar4) they unveiled the performance that would mark the beginning of a new age for mankind.

And the music was good.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

444 7th Ave. Park Slope Brooklyn


November 20th 


11 p.m.


Near the 7th Ave (F) stop or 9th st. (R) stop.




Bar 4 website