Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Now, the extended Blue Tree Whacking gang in...

Dramatis Personae, Part II
the Bald Mountain - you all know the Bald Mountain. He's a great kid.
K. Steeze - Kevin Stermer is our leader. God help us. I've never met anyone else with as much imagination or enthusiasm as Kevin. Sure, he can't talk, but he also doesn't know when to say when, so most things we do end up being too much, that is to say, just enough. Kevin's problem is that he's adorable and girls love him, but he's interested in very few of them. Kevin's an engima wrapped in a riddle buried deep beneath a mystery.
Guy Zach Nie! & Sarah - Zach Nie! is an elemental force of chaos. He isn't evil, he's just up to no good. When he starts to giggle, run, because something unfortunate is about to happen to you. Sarah Kline is his patient girlfriend; she likes video games as much if not more than he does, making her the perfect girlfriend. Zach and Sarah think it's awesome that Ben Folds has a song titled "Zak and Sara."
The Professor - Jonathan Eli Mace is the Smartest Man Alive. He's got a full ride scholarship to college; so, he's always down in Florida, damn it. I hope to one day play Trivial Pursuit against Jon. I have no illusions that I could beat him, I just want to see if I could hang, even for a couple turns. How smart is Jon? During one frustrating game, it was decided that he had to answer a question without it having been asked. He said, "Pork." When the answer was looked up on the card, it read "Pork." Holy. Fucking. Shit.
The All-American Boy - Adam Lubert, who has a twin sister, Anna. The Luberts are good people. If you look up good people in the dictionary, there's a picture of the Luberts. Lube is going to be a doctor. Good people.
the Evil Princess - Leah Sanders isn't from Grand Blanc, she doesn't act in the BTW films, and she's not a member of RCY. But she's got a mischievious streak a mile wide and she loves a good rock show. Leah's cool: she likes ska and Star Wars, but we could never spend too much time together because she really likes to party and I really don't. Still, you've got to love a girl who when she's told has to take her nose stud out for work goes out and gets a bigger one.
Liz Ele - Liz is a mystery to me. Or, more accuately, I just don't know her very well. Liz doesn't like ska or punk rock, but she loves being in RCY and MTD before it. She shows up when we ask and plays the hell out of her drums. A girl drummer. Liz is awesome. And she weighs seven pounds.
Jason Coliadis - I don't think you could really consider Jason a member of BTW anymore, but he must be mentioned as he was instrumental in the early days. Jason has portrayed Smith in all the Smith and Winkler movies and was the guitarist for Murky Transport Disaster. He and David are sworn enemies, but in high school they were best friends.
Leadership - as Jon once said, "We don't really have any leadership. David and Kevin just make the decisions." The Mountain likes the analogy of Steeze as George Lucas, the visionary, while he is Rick McCallum, the producer of Episodes I - III. Rick McCallum has been George Lucas's right hand for over ten years now. His whole job is to make what George Lucas envisions happen. That's a hell of a thing. George Lucas couldn't write dialogue to save his life, but the man has an amazing imagination. Sort of the same thing with Kevin and David. If there is one thing we Wilsons love, it's organization. (I prefer the term order.) Kevin does the imagining, David does the grunt work to pull it all together. They really work quite well together. It's extraordinary. The rest of us are little space monkeys.

Sometime I'll tell you about BTW Films. I fear we may never make another, but even if we don't we still had a good run. I can't wait to see how good I'll be at portraying Captain Dick when I'm actually forty-three years old. Someday, it would be nice to make a Smith and Winkler prequel; so, we could see Dick and Foreman in action. I can see it now, Smith and Winkler: The French Poodle Caper. Man, that'd be great.

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