Well before the party started, the line forming outside looked for all the world like an Important Special Screening, which, of course, it was. The 300 tickets for the charity screening of Buffy’s musical episode ‘Once More with Feeling’ and Angel’s puppet "Smile Time" took less than three weeks to sell out, once they became available online. In addition to the cost of tickets, "goodie bags" were sold with such treasures as bubble-blowers, glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth, Sunnydale Parking Violations (specially designed by Alikhat), light sticks and "Grr-Argh" finger puppets, that are vital to audience participation in the show. Drawing tickets gave people a shot at owning their own Puppet Angel doll from Sideshow Collectibles or a complete set of Spike: Asylum comics from IDW Comics. Also, items unique to the evening, buttons and bookmarks, were given to those filing in, loudly handed out by Suzanne as "two pieces of crap! Have you got your two pieces of crap?" Never were two pieces of crap more highly prized.
I heard that Marsters bloke what looks like me was going to be in town, doing a concert and whatall, so I figured I’d pop in, check out the action, see what was the up. It’d been a long time since I’d seen him, not since we’d shared the stage in Toronto. I stowed away in Kelly’s car, like I always do, and was ready for anything.
Lucky us, Common Rotation played L.A. again, this time it was at the Knitting Factory, Hollywood. I was particularly pleased to bring along my teenage daughter as the show was for all ages. Our taste in music differs. She blasts Rap, Latin Hip Hop and Old Skool all the time at home. Tonight she cleaned up her "home girl" eyebrows and accompanied me.
I have a passion, a love for live music. So, an added joy to being a fan in the world of Joss Whedon is that so many of his alumni have real musical talent. Their taste, genre and talent vary from James Marsters (Buffy‘s Spike), Adam Busch (Warren Meers, BtVS), Larry Bagby (Larry Blaisdell, BtVS) to Christian Kane (Lindsey McDonald, Angel).
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