A response to Whoreville Redencocker's open call for a Dinner for 20:
I thought originally to have this party with fictional people, but I think I can come up with something darker and more insane using actual personages. Then again, this dinner party will be highly anachronistic.
So I won't waste too much time cooking. I'll serve a whole bunch of pigs in a blanket, or perhaps some expensive Swiss pizza. Or some fresh wild boar crudite. Maybe I'll also introduce some fried hostess snacks as deserts.
There will be nothing to drink but absinthe. Not even water.
I'll host this party inVilla Diodati, the Lake Geneva cottage that spawned Frankenstein and Lord Ruthven - see above - surely there's dark residual energies to tap there?
At some point I'll have to rush everyone through their eating, but not their drinking. More absinthe! Because you see, what I want to do is 1) stage a seance and 2) have a art-off, a wild and mad absinthe and spirits fueled creation of art contest - whether they write, sing, sculpt, play the ukelele, etc.
My guests will pass out and crash after their frenzied scribblings. I imagine a few of them would get into fist fights with each other, or watch a little late night TV and comment on it
Everyone will hand in their results the next morning and stumble out, hail cabs or step through teleportation portals that return them to their own time period, while gritting their teeth through a wicked hangover.
Will I plagiarize, publish or destroy the results?
The guest list:
1) Mikhail Bulgakov, author
2) David Blaine, extreme escape artist
3) Ann Rule, true crime author
4) Dale Bozzio, lead singer of Missing Persons
5) Maggie Cheung, actress
6) Steve Ditko, Objectivist comic book legend
7) Robert McCammon, author
8) Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter
9) John Boorman, film director
10) Umberto Eco, author
11) Nancy Grace, host of "The Nancy Grace Show"
12) Kathryn Bigelow, film director
13) Valerie Solanas, feminist philospher
14) Andrew Eldritch, lead singer of the Sisters of Mercy
15) Robert DeGrimston, founder of the Process Church of the Final Judgment
16) Busta Rhymes, actor/rapper
17) H.R. Giger, artist
18) Countess LuAnn Delesseps of the Algonquin nation, celebrity personality
19) Stephenie Meyer, author
20) Dr. Frederic Wertham, psychologist and anti-comic book crusader
Whoreville Redencocker invited us to have a special musical guest at our gathering. Dale Bozzio, Busta Rhymes and Andrew Eldritch I'm afraid will be too busy to perform. And while I would love to plug Diamanda Galas into whatever powerful spiritual energies reside at Villa Diodati, here is only one artist who can provide a soundtrack to my planned madness:
So....yeah.
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Shiral - they're all scary enough on their own!
VA - Damn! Lady Bump would be perfect, especially the seance. "Are you with us, spirits?" Lady Bump: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"