So, our Kickstarter. We’re close. Really close. We’re at $3,215, 91%, and I can practically smell it. I imagine that when we cross the finish line, some kind of alchemical magic will be triggered and the smell of lilacs will pour out of my laptop in celebration of a successful kickstarter. (Is this weird fantasizing jinxing us? I hope not.) In any case, we’ve been scheming. You know what happens when a kickstarter succeeds, right? THE DREADED STRETCH GOAL.
I mean, we’re no Potato Salad so here goes nothing. We still have fourteen days and we hate LOVE fundraising!! I’ve been on vacation in Washington, DC. I came to see the cherry blossoms and crush on Thomas Jefferson, but I’ve also been going to a lot of big, imposing museums. You know, the kind that will last forever. I spend a lot of time thinking, “Man, when Mad King Thomas becomes president, those Kickstarter t-shirts are totally going to end up in the National Archives.”
And then I thought, “Shit, well, that’s great, but WHAT ABOUT THE WORK, MAD KING THOMAS?! WHAT ABOUT THE ACTUAL DANCES?!” I’m here because Mad King Thomas wants to finally create an enduring monument to itself.
So we decided to create a DVD of our tenth anniversary show! It’s like a big, Italian marble monument, but you don’t have to schlep it around when you want to show your friends.
We want to raise enough money to pay a professional (aka Ben McGinley) to create a mini-documentary of the show: The cast involved, our amazing mentors, us gibbering on like gibbons, the show itself, and some audience moments too. If we hit the stretch goal, we’ll probably give everyone who kicked us kickstarted us download/streaming access and, for those who want it, we may even be able to provide a physical shiny round disc that will transfer this documentary to your television. The details aren’t quite sorted yet but the idea is solid.
I’m so stupidly excited about this. I’m excited to have something to show people beyond the few video clips we’ve managed to upload. I’m excited to have something of Quality, not just our shitty hand-held camera in the back row. I’m excited to have a DVD to leave secretly in museums all over the world. I hope you’re excited, too. KICKSTART US, YOU GUYS. WE’RE WAITING!