Blog: Doom Ahoy!

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This morning I received a message from Google Search Console to let me know that the Number One Search Term to this site has changed! EXCITING, right? I assume that the old top term was something like "International Rock Star" or "Unconventionally Handsome" or similar, but can you hazard a guess as to what the NEW top term is?

No, it's not "That Hey Hey 16K Guy" or "Mispelt Doctor From Off The Simpsons" (though I'm sure those are definitely in the top 7), it was in fact "DR DOOM"! HA! This fills me with DELIGHT as it has been an ongoing PROJECT of mine to make flipping well sure that MY name is associated with that of Doctor Doom as much as possible, so that when Robert Downey Jr starts appearing as him in FILMS it will be ME who the international media corporations call up to say WISE THINGS about it all, preferably at Glamorous Movie Premieres.

THUS I am doing my best to get onto podcasts or to WRITE things about him, and in that vein I have been toiling away for a while on doing a Doctor Doom LIVE show in which I will explain how he works, based on the RESEARCH in MY BOOK. Until recently I've seen this as a sort of Stand-up Comedy Affair, with me talking HUMOROUSLY (and simultaneously INCISIVELY) about it in front of some SLIDES, but since the sudden rush of SONGS that I mentioned a little while ago I have come to the SHUDDERING REALISTION that I should include some MUSIC in there too.

This may seem an entirely OBVIOUS idea, mostly because it IS entirely obvious. Whenever I've mentioned the fact that I'm planning to do a DOOM SHOW almost everyone has ASSUMED that it would be a MUSICAL of some sort, which I have stubbornly resisted, not least because I would be crushed beneath a deluge of LAWYERS if I tried to do something like that. However, once I had FINALLY written a song about Doctor Doom - explaining who he is in comparison to Batman - I realised that actually it would really WORK if I applied Musical Theatre SCIENCE i.e. in musical theatre the SONGS are meant to appear when the emotions get so strong that the characters can't do anything BUT sing.

So, using that methodology, I could use SONGS in my explanations when it all gets TOO EXCITING to do anything else. oR to put it another way, if I write SONGS which encapsulate the most important BITS then I can use those as TENTPOLES for the show as a whole, writing it as movements beteween the key points. That sounds like a good idea to me!

The CLINCHER for my thinking though came from a PROBLEM: if I'm doing a presentation with slides, how do I keep those slides working when I'm playing guitar and singing at the same time? As you may know, it usually takes TWO hands to operate a guitar, which is 100% of my total hand capacity, so I'd be unable to operate a MAGIC SLIDE CLICKER at the same time. "Hang on though," I thought, "What if there was a GUITAR PEDAL for slides? Surely, here in the futuristic space year 2024, such a thing exists?"

Friends, I am happy to report that IT TOTALLY DOES! On seeing this my BRANE immediately filled with GRATE IDEAS for how I could muck around with it and do LIVE VIDEOS and so on, and that was pretty much it. I have now written a grand total of TWO (2) songs, but I'm hoping to get a few more done before Christmas, and then in the new year I'll start looking out for places to go and DO the show, maybe in the spring. I will of course keep you INFORMED of this as I go along, but I am quite excited about it - MORE GADGETS for me!!

posted 26/11/2024 by MJ Hibbett

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