The final curtain

[martin ewen]

I really like street performance but one day I’m going to stop breathing and quietly decompose.
I was wondering whether any other street performers might know what happens next.
I’ve heard lots of storys, most involve a heaven full of unimaginable bliss.
Not really my taste.
Apart from having children how do other street performers cope with their mortality?
Please reply within 30 years.

[Butterfly Man]

Heaven is escape & hell is other people ...

[martin ewen]

Wow so you create your own hell every time you get an audience?
Robert, you're an ex chemist brainiac so your probably biased but you seem to be selling heaven like some heavy pharmasuitical.
Masses of shuffling vacant tranquilised souls who never acknowledge each other.
One flew over the cookoos nest without that terrible nurse.
Excellent, see you up there. (If I don't see you next week)

[worldwidese]

To know what happens, go to the nearest cemetary. As for heaven or hell, they are right here on earth. The rest (hell) was created by the church to try and keep us in line by scaring the bad guys to be good, and (heaven) a promise of a reward for those whose lives are miserable here on earth. Just in case, though, I'm opting for cremation, so i can't burn for ever in hell's fire! Bring on the rebuttals! Kelly.

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[martin ewen]

I disagree on a few things but think your small paragraphs enough to build a small counterculture on.
Hell existed long before churches.
Some earlier primate, having recently gorged on bananas and the inflamed buttocks of the fairer sex discovered hell in that post coital funk where you’ve had every thing and achieved nothing.
Scattering ashes is the only production that gives death a point to people with no prior performance experience.
Optimism is a good thing and if we didn’t have it most people would quietly cease as redundant selfconcious implosive nonentities.
Personally I think at best we’re algae with a sense of humour.
But graveyards are funny though, Halifax has a huge one full of people that have never visited. Halifax harvests bodies from the sea, titanic etc then burys them in town as a tourist attraction.
Death scares me but I’m going to try an maintain my dignity and have an open cast funeral with a pie in the face.
But what I’m really after are hints for coping till then

[Butterfly Man]

A couple of things ... first of all, you are coping (as we are) through your brief dips into your ingenious psyche. Believe it or not, you are a motivating influence to all of us at various stages of our careers, no matter what we do or aspire to do. Secondly, I have watched you both high in the air and low to the ground and your comic irreverence and smorgasbord of facial ticks deftly defy one’s cynical death of imagination. Were it not for your obvious lack of nurturing as a neonate this bulletin board would be as boring as a noontime showing of Gazzo’s act in Stratford-on-Avon by Trevor Rooney’s sister.

[scot]

I believe that the guidelines which make any certain action a sin are set to let us know how to live enjoyable lives.

One solution for you, Martin, could be to fake your death a few times to feel more control over your after life.

I don't know what I mean.

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[martin ewen]

Hi, when I'm not out motivating the world,
I drink [Insert brand]
I just thought as street performers we could address the big questions.
Death, is it an accident?
My contributions to pnet are evidence of boredom and a complete lack of social life combined with my natural insensitivity and gall.
Robert those tics are facial tourette's syndrome, apparently its progressive.

[worldwidese]

Martin, to cope till death do you part- i suggest you become a stand up comedian with death as your subject. Your posts contain plenty of good material.

[martin ewen]

Tragicly standups not possible for me.
A lifetime on stilts and a couple of other social disabilities mean I can't actually stand without swaying.
It can be disconcerting for audiences and at worst nauseating.
I suppose i could use one of those hannibal lector trolleys.
I'd need to research material, where could I pick up a dead person, are they expensive to post?

[worldwidese]

Martin- do outdoor standup. as for a corpse, try one of those street performers who've just died in front of an audience. Hopefully a heavy drinker, so he'll already be preserved in alcohol.

[martin ewen]

Heavy drinking street performers.
I've never heard of such a thing.
You're starting to scare me now.
How could you possibly keep up your yoga and juggling workshops and making children laugh and doing good deeds knowing it'll all return tenfold while drowning yourself in a hopeless corrosive
indulgent pitiful passtime like drinking.
My body is a temple.
I'm quite worried about my mind though.

[worldwidese]

I've just seen the light. Martin you are using us to while away your idle minutes till death comes to claim you. I don't want to be a party to your morbid ends, so for me on this subject, this is the final curtain. Please start a topic with a little more life in it.

[martin ewen]

Whiling away Idle minutes?
the last 32 hours have been spent on planes crossing hemispheres,watching the same movie on three different planes, organising a new show with actors and everything, trying also to think of a prank that leaves nick nickolas breathless, naked, tied to a tree with local tv coverage with local dogs borrowed from the pound licking still undecided substances from his lower body.
I also have an alphabetical quest and other things to keep me occupied until final ni ni's.
I'm beginning to ask myself , if I held a party for my own morbid ends, who to invite.
We havn't even broached necrophelia yet.
I may make it the price of admission.
Forgive me I'm jetlagged.

[Humanoid Gone Mad]

Get over you'r self Martin and stop being such a drama queen!



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[Prof Willie B]

I offer this quote from George Costanza (Sienfeld)

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up most of your time. What do you get at the end of it? Death. What's that, a bonus?!? I think the life cycle is all backwards.

You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, go collect all your super, then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work for forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and get ready for High School. You go to Primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsiblilties, you become a little baby, you back into the womb, you spend 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off as an orgasm! Amen."

[nick nickolas]

We will all go and leave some sort of energy behind....a buzz....a laugh.....a thought!.....
It does matter(well that's what I think)
So whatever you do, do it with positive effect and maximim love !!!

P.S.
Don't get caught off guard by your own brilliance while dealing with what you may percieve a mild shower or you may experiance a hamster enema.....


anyway that's just what I think


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[Mr.Taxi Trix]

It wouldn't be a full curtain conversation without my favorite death quote from Woody Allen: "Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down."

Coping? I heard you can take workshops on that, there's still room in some. http://www.performers.net/ubb/smile.gif And each moment is eternal, and we have no clue what human awareness is as a force in nature. Refuse to believe even for a second that you have it figured out. Cultivate mystery. Express love.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

PS Hi Nick. You still alive too? Love You. You rocked my world at Edmonton.