Puppetmaker and musician Erik Sanko (Lounge Lizzards, Tom Waits, Lou Reed.) has created a puppet show called The Fortune Teller. He made the puppets and wrote the music with Danny Elfman. Pre-recorded narration courtesy of the great Gavin Friday.

The show opens at the HERE Theatre in New York on October 19th and will play through the 31st.

‘The Fortune Teller reveals a world of curiosities as seven unusual characters are invited to the estate of a late millionaire industrialist and informed they’ve been included in his will,’

The Fortune Teller
Created and Directed by Erik Sanko
Original Music composed by Danny Elfman and Erik Sanko
October 19-31, 2006 | Tickets ($20.00)

As with a lot of the artists I like his output is low and he hardly ever tours. But he’s finally getting back on the road.

Tickets went on sale today. I didn’t know about it, so by the time I got to Ticketmaster, all the shows’ (£100, £60 and £40) tickets were sold out. I tried again a few hours later and they’d put some more shows on, one of which was still giving results for single tickets. So I got one.

I’ll be checking out George at Earl’s Court in London on November 28th. Dutch shows haven’t been announced yet, but I’d rather travel to London than see him here (in Rotterdam most likely) anyway.

…mother goose-ing two seemingly unrelated interviews done for two of my sites. Although the interviews are unrelated, the people interviewed have known each other since the late 70s and it is likely that subject matter will overlap. The people interviewing do not know each other, and could both be seen as ‘amateur’ journalists. Both are involved with sites of mine, but have not had an active role for a long time. One interviewer has avoided questions about the other’s subject. The other interviewer hasn’t. One of the people interviewed is a musician. And the other… turns out to be a musican too. One of the people interviewed is a journalist himself. The other one… isn’t.

I feel like a spy master running agents in the field.

A spy master who has a ‘cover’ job on the side that sadly takes up most of her time. Running spies is so much more fun.