Yesterday was an intense day of work, a labor of love. We arrived at the compound at 8:00 am to start painting. We quickly decided that if we were to premiere the movie that evening that we needed to step it up a few notches. This my friends is where technology came in to save the day.
We rented two industrial paint sprayers. We finished the tent at 5:00 pm with the help of the sprayers. ( and the five of us working diligently) Even with the help of the sprayers it was still not an easy task. We were after all painting a circus tent made of vinyl in the wind.
That being said we painted it black. While the others started preparing the seating I was handed the task to hang the lighting. *(40 feet in the air) I took neon green christmas lights and strung them from one support beam to the next. Then Michael and I set up the surround sound 5.1 system and calibrated it for the tent.
At the same time Chris was putting green lights around the top of the tent. Things were starting to come together. We just finished putting in theater seating which Wayne procured from someone somewhere here in the city. At the minute that the last seats were put into place the first guests started arriving.
It was amazing. We did it, with not a minute to spare. Now I'm not one to normally pat myself on the back but I do not believe that I have ever been so proud of the amount of work that we accomplished in such a short amount of time. Once the movie started it was amazing. It felt as if you were in a theater. Every bit of attention was on the film. We did it, we created a movie theater out of a circus tent. The sound system is so intense that at moments when the bass kicks in you eyeballs rattle. This is truly something to behold. I mean, after all, the Flaming Lips did have a hand in this. It was great, we did something amazing. We took one reality and turned it into another. Everyone bought it.
Wayne's wife Michelle handed out popcorn, beer, and soda, every one settled in the lights went down and the movie was a hit. It was such a hit that at the very end the Oklahoma City Police arrived. This was at 9:30 pm. It was quickly apparent that not only my eyeballs rattled when the system boomed. If you lived in the neighborhood you may have thought that a UFO hand landed somewhere nearby.
Somewhere over Kansas at the moment those sounds are still floating in the air, rattling, rumbling, and roaring, that supersonic sound. So if you hear something in the middle of the night don't be alarmed, it just the Flaming Lips and Christmas on Mars.
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