For years magic fairies have been doing my dishes. Sometimes the dishes pile up for a few days but the magic fairies always make their way around. I don’t leave food or money for them because fairies don’t eat food and don’t use money. It never occurred to me that there was something I should do because they were always there and I don’t fix what isn’t broken.
So I’m on the road now sitting in my apartment far away from home and can’t help but notice how the dishes are piling up. I let USPS know I was going on the road but wasn’t aware of any particular protocol to let the magic fairies know. Or are they mad at me? Maybe I was supposed to leave money or food after all and nobody told me.
I asked my family about it and they said they would look into it. I received this photo today detailing the tragic death of the magic fairies. This photo shows in detail how they actually clean the dishes…
So there really aren’t magic fairies that do the dishes? If someone had told me this a long time ago it could have saved me a lot of confusion.
But just in case their are magic fairies, can you tell them that I’m in Canada and I need my dishes done?
Here are sound effects you can use in Seussical the Musical. This is a free download. I have provided the files in .wav format so they are ready to burn. The Seussical FX are a single download as a compressed folder.
These are the same effects I used while conducting Seussical the Musical in 2006. It covers effects for the Act II Overture, last scene egg breaking, bird chirping after the egg hatches, Horton’s frustrated elephant call, wild animal grunts for “Monkey Around”, Thunder for opening of Act II, explosion from Jojo’s military scene. I used the water splash sound for when the Cat in the Hat sneezes on the Who’s in “How Lucky You Are”. It was a pretty funny addition.
If you find these sound effects useful or if there’s any problems with them, please drop a note on this post and let me know. Of course I’d love to hear about your Seussical production and how these sound effects worked for you. This sound effects download is free, if you feel like putting a link on your site to mine that would be much appreciated.
Seussical FX Pack Includes:
bang-wonk
bird-chirp
bugle-cartoon
dog-bark
elephant-single-call
explosion
eggshell-crack
grunt1
grunt2
horn-ahooga
horn-comedy
slide-whistle
thunder
water-splash
7,676 kb download in compressed file. All sound fx are in .wav format ready to be burned to CD. On a fast internet connection this free download should only take a couple seconds.
Click on link above and save this compressed folder to your computer. Once downloaded, right click on the compressed folder and select “extract” to uncompress the folder contents.
Drop a note and let me know how these worked for you. ROCK ON SEUSSICAL!
TECH NOTES:
I ran the sound fx live from a virtual keyboard on a laptop. It allowed me to time the fx exactly where I wanted them. You could also have a sound tech run the effects, but they might need a couple cd players with fast transports (For instance, in the Overture to Act II if you want three distinct “wonk” sounds, this would require fast juggling between the CD players).
I added the slide whistle in a lot more than the score called for – had a great effect especially in the circus scenes.
Update May 2009
“VIRTUAL KEYBOARD” – Had a question as to what that is. I used the software Kontakt to map these sound effects to a keyboard, then triggered the sounds live from a midi keyboard connected to my laptop. This gives easy triggering for keyboardists that can time the sounds to the action, or trigger the sound effects to the exact beat needed in the scores (like in the Entracte to Act II). Kontakt costs several hundred dollars and has a little learning curve to get into. If you’re used to using music software, you should be able to figure out how to drag the sounds to the software, with only a few *minro* headaches (translation: it’s not super dooper easy for a first time user).
T-Stylez, a member of our RapDogs.com hip hop battle forum, said he could write about any subject and wanted people to test him. I gave him the subject of the Destruction of the Library at Alexandria. Here’s what he came up with:
Third century BC, Aristotle student Demetrius of Phaleron
had a idea for a library Which was gonna be so strong
that scribes were so precise that the originals were in the Library
Egypt had the finest library in the world, u gotta agree
Then According to “Plutarch lives” written at the second century
the man known as Caesar, had a conquest a 48 BC
He wanted to burn the library by settin of a fire-in-docks
But it didnt work good so he luckely didnt retire-the-rocks*
But Then there was a emperor named Aurelian with a revolt
It made huge loses but the library still was good controlled
Was it known as the everlasting or as the lucky thing
But in 391 theophilus had something to bring,
Or rather to take cuz he took away alot of the books
Right after that in 641 the muslims took some looks
All the books need to have on of the biggest erases
so Commander Amr bin al’s dilemma then took a big places
Touching the books you mention, if what is written in them agrees with the Book of God,
they are not required; if it disagrees, they are not desired. Destroy them therefore hot.”
Now a days some historians say its just a false tale
If u ask me, this library was unable to fail
