50th fabulosity tour - draft overview

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The Official Programme

Terry s 50

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Fabulosity

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Contents

THE PURPLE ESSENTIALS FOR THE WEEKEND 4

What to bring 4

Itinerary 5

Accommodation 5

Food 5

Drinks 5

Costs 5

Volunteers 6

THE MOVIE AND PLOT 6

The Setting A world turning Beige 6

The Movie Plot and Journey 7

INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CHALLENGES / EVENING ENTERTAINMENT 9

TOP OF THE CHARTS IN NZ ON 13 SEPTEMBER EACH YEAR 10

SONGBOOK 11

Purple People Eater 11

Purple Rain 12

Purple Toupee 12

Purple Haze 13

Purple Sky 13

Purple Cow 14

Lily the Pink 14


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The Purple Essentials for the weekend

What to bring

A few essentials to remember:

Before the Tour (over the next few weeks):

1. Please confirmover the next week or so that you are definitely going tobe there, and that you can make it by 9.30am on the Saturday. I just needto firm up on final numbers there appears to be 38 definites and 7maybes, but based on previous experience this could vary wildly up ordown.

2. Volunteers needed for some tasks(see below) please let me know ifyou would like to volunteer, or else Ill arbitrarily allocate people I thinkmight be able to use this as a learning experience.

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Think of ideas for group activitiessee the individual and groupchallenges section below.

4. Send me any suggestions for individual challenges - see theindividual and group challenges section below.

5. Send me any ideas you have about the movie plot (to enhance it andmake it more ridiculous).

On the Tour (over the next few weeks):

1. Wet weather gear / umbrellaif the weather looks dodgy probablybest to come prepared anyway (except Mrs Punga please dont bring

that red mackintosh). There will be a couple of outdoor stops.2. Some comfortable walking gearthere will be an optional walk of anhour or so on Sunday morning.

3. A sleeping bagthere is a mix of made-up beds and un-made-beds, butprobably best to bring a sleeping bag (let me know if you dont have asleeping bag as Ill also assign rooms to people, so not everyone will needsleeping bags).

4. An outrageous costume for your characterwith some sympathytowards the colour purple.

5. A prop of some sorte.g. flags or protest banners6. A musical instrumentif you can play one (or just pretend anyway).

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A great sense of humour and attitude.


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Itinerary

Saturday, 13 September

9.30am

10.30

6pm (ish)7.30

Breakfast at 111A The Ridgeway, Mornington, Wellington groupsand challenges assigned.

Transport departs Chateau Ridgeway 10.30am, with various stopsthroughout the day, including a light lunch at around 12.30pmArrive at accommodationDinner & entertainment

Sunday, 14 September

8.30 - 9.309.3010.4512.30

4pm (ish)

BreakfastOptional walkPick-up stragglers (those who elect to sleep in or not to do the walk)Arrive at lunch destination (potentially showing raw video footagefrom yesterday)Arrive back at The Ridgeway (may do a stop in town also)

Accommodation

The accommodation is wonderful and although it isnt 5-star, it is reallycomfortable, clean and private rest assured, its not dormitories or Marae-stylesleeping. To avoid a shambles, Ill allocate people to rooms generally a coupleor 2-3 singles per room (or, if you would like a threesome, let me know who thethird person is because this will make it easier to allocate rooms). Some roomshave en suites but a lot will share bathrooms which are clean, private and

wholesome.Food

There will be plenty of food provided. It will be mainly hearty Kiwi fare. If youhave any dietary requirements, there will be other options available but just letme know in advance so I can make sure they are taken care of.

Drinks

Well operate a kitty for the bar (see costs below) and after thats run out, its up

to you what you buy (or shout).

Costs

Most of the essentials (transport, food, accommodation and any site fees) aretaken care of. I originally suggested a $50 contribution, but what I suggestinstead is that everyone from Wellington put the $50 into a kitty (Ill havesomeone collect it at breakfast on the day) and well put this on the bar whereverwe stop and at the final destination until it runs out. After that its free range.


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Volunteers

To make it easier, can I have some volunteers for the following tasks:

Two more volunteers to be Beige Dictators.

Someone to take care of the bar money - collect the $50 bar kitty from

everyone at the breakfast, and organize the bar tab/s. Musicians anyone who can play the guitar or piano or any other

instrument.

Choir a backing choir to chorale the massed singing (Mahanga will leadthis activity Ive decided).

Film assistants a couple of people to give our film director a hand on theday. She will tell you what to do.

Sheep-rouser someone to get everyone out of bed and to breakfast onthe Sunday.

Random acts volunteers to perform any random acts of your choicethroughout the weekend (e.g. a random performance by ConstanceCraving, or a random song).

The Movie and Plot

The SettingA world turning Beige

Around the world, a plot to ban purple has been taking hold. Purple has beendeemed to be a subversive colour, often leading to acts of spontaneity, outburstsand general rebellion.

Dictators and one-party states are particularly keen to ban purple or any acts ofpurple expression. Their preferred colour is Beige, and beige is being promotedthroughout the world. In many countries, people are being forced to wear Beige,drive Beige vehicles, live in Beige houses and have Beige kitchens. Songs andmovies are being written to promote Beige. Countries are falling like dominoesto the Beige revolution. People in Beige countries are afraid to be non-compliant,as they see many people fall victim to the purple purge. In some of the moreextreme Beige states, people flouting the Beige laws and wearing or promotingpurple are being rounded up and publicly humiliated by being made to paradeBeige smocks and hang signs around their necks with humiliating messages such

as Im a Beige Person or I love our Dear Beige Leader.

New Zealand has yet to topple to the Beige Revolution, although the mainopposition Beige Party has been attracting increasing support, and there is realfear that the nation will turn Beige before long. Many New Zealanders are quietlyputting away purple, discarding purple clothing, painting over purple houses,and buying Beige cars just in case the country turns Beige. No one really wants tobe persecuted and the Beige Brigade is making a comeback.

However, through the gloom of the Beige wave, there are glimmers of hope and

pockets of resistance as some people continue to flaunt purple. The PurpleIndependence Mass Movement Society (aka PIMMS) has many members, someunderground and some open. Those PIMMS members who are underground


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wear subtle and sometimes hidden expressions of purple, and those openlyPIMMS members flaunt it with everything theyve got. PIMMS leaders are oftenseen wearing the most radiant shades of purple and drinking their signaturePimms in public (Pimms is the drink of choice for PIMMS members as a completecontrast to the Beige Baileys and Beige Beer favoured by the Beige Revolution).PIMMS members are also often heard singing purple-themed songs and eruptinginto spontaneous acts of ridiculousness and self-expression in public. Its enoughto make the esteemed founders of the Beige Revolution turn purple with rage even the calmer ones such as Jimmy Carter and Jim Bolger (those names are noaccident Jim is a preferred name of the Beige Revolution, and Jim is now themost popular baby name for boys and girls).

Throughout it all, there are subversive plots to promote purple, such as thisshop:http://www.thepurplestore.com/cgi-bin/product_detail.cgi?pstore_id=14810and this article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/men-wearing-purple-study-ariel_n_1967226.html

The Movie Plot and Journey

The PIMMS leaders from throughout the world have gathered in Wellington, NZ,as the recognised PIMMS capital of the world. Many of these are famous peopleor celebrities in their own right. Others have adopted the personas of famouspurple luminaries from throughout history such as Julius Caesar, NelsonMandela and Maa Nonu(either as a disguise, or to provoke the Beige Brigade).

The PIMMS leaders embark on a journey to a secret location where they will beholding the International PIMMS Conference. Along the way they spread thepurple word and wage war against beige. Some have purple protest and PIMMSbanners and make every opportunity to recruit people to the cause evenhanding out purple gladioli, purple flags, hats and propaganda to the masses.

However, theres a sinister undercurrent going on. Beige infiltrators, some ofthem even Beige dictators themselves, are tracking the group and spying onthem along the way trying to incriminate the PIMMS members. They will use any

means possible to incriminate he PIMMS members and get them to admit theerrors of their ways. To incriminate a PIMMS member, the Beige dictators mustget the PIMMS member to utter the Beige word or phrase which only the Beigedictators know. Once a confession has been extracted, they photograph thePIMMS member wearing a Beige smock the worst thing imaginable for PIMMSmembers. The PIMMS member will then be required to record a confessionadmitting they are really a Beige sympathizer. What generally happens, however,is that PIMMS members will ensure their confession is so elaborate andridiculous that no one would possibly believe them and know that it is a hoax.

Along the way, the PIMMS members are into purple anthems, with purple

resistance songs, dance and colourful protests and chants. PIMMS members are
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divided into groups for this purpose and their mission is to convert the Beigemasses to the cause.

The PIMMS members are also recording a purple resistance movie along theway, demonstrating the liberation of their members and the power of purple.Every opportunity to highlight purple beacons is taken and filmed.

At the ultimate destination, PIMMS members are free to celebrate their freedom,spontaneity and general love of purple. The Beige Dictators are finallyoverthrown and become PIMMS sympathisers.

In preparation beforehand,if you have any ideas about how you think this basic

plot could be enhanced or made more ridiculous, feed them through to me.


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Individual and Group Challenges / evening entertainment

Upon arrival at Chateau Ridgeway on the Saturday morning (9.30am), you willdraw a number and be randomly assigned a group (6-8 people per group). Eachgroup will then get together to plan the following:

1. An act to perform at their designated stop. You have fairly much freereign, but it should be designed to support PIMMS and to publiclypromote purple emancipation. It could be a protest march, a purple-themed song, a dance, or pretty much anything you want the moreattention it attracts the better. Your groups mission is to also geteveryone else involved in performing also (including strangers in thevicinity). There are prizes for:

The most fabulous performance;

The performance that gets the most people involved; and

The most surprising or out of the comfort zone performance.

2. Their groups theme song, which they must get everyone in the group tosing at some point along the way.

3. An activity or item of entertainment for the whole group in the evening.This could be a game, a performance or a challenge of some sort ideallylasting for around half an hour or so (or a couple of activities).

So in preparation beforehand,think of an idea or two for each of the above so

that your group can decide fairly quickly on the day what to run with.

Also upon arrival on Saturday morning, you will select from a hat an individualchallenge. If you dont like the challenge, youre allowed to nominate someone

else to swap with until such time as you have a challenge youre up for (at whichpoint you can simply say no to any further swaps).

In preparation beforehand, think of an individual challenge youd like to put into

the hat and let me have any ideasit must be something that you would beprepared to do yourself if you picked it out of the hat, but something that will beamusing (not humiliating) to everyone. Could be absolutely anything, such astelling a bar person that theyre quite beautiful, starting to sing in the middle of a

conversation, doing a chicken dance at a random moment, telling a group ofpeople that the world is about to end, and so on. Use your imagination.


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Songbook (in progress)

Purple People Eater

Well, I saw the thingA comin' out of the skyIt had a one long hornAnd a one big eyeI commenced to shakin'And I said "oohweeIt looks like a PurplePeople Eater to me"

It was a one-eyed, one-hornedFlyin' Purple People Eater

One-eyed, one-hornedFlyin' Purple People EaterSure looked strange to meOne eye

Well, he came down to earthAnd he lit in a treeI said, "Mister Purple People Eater,Don't eat me"I heard him sayIn a voice so gruff,I wouldn't eat youCause you're so tough

It was a one-eyed, one-hornedFlyin' Purple People EaterOne-eyed, one-hornedFlyin' Purple People EaterOne-eyed, one-hornedFlyin' purple people EaterSure looked strange to meOne horn

I said, "Mister Purple People Eater,What's your line?"He said,Eatin' purple people,And it sure is fine.What is the reasonThat you came to landI wanna get a jobIn a rock 'n roll bandHe wears short shorts

A friendly little People EaterWhat a sight to see

OooohhhAnd then he swung from the tree

Well, bless my soul, rock 'n rollFlyin' Purple People EaterPigeon-toed, under-growedFlyin' Purple People Eater

And he lit on the groundAnd he started to rock,A-really rockin' aroundIt was a crazy ditty

With a swingin' tune, singin'Bop bapa loop a lapA loom bam boomWell, bless my soul rock 'n rollFlyin' Purple People EaterPigeon-toed, under-growedFlyin' Purple People EaterI like short shortsA Flyin' Purple People EaterWhat a sight to seePurple people

Well, he went on his wayAnd then what-a you knowI saw him last nightOn a TV showHe was blowin' it out,Really knockin' 'em deadPlayin' rock 'n roll musicThrough the horn on his headBoogie woogie


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Purple Rain

never meant 2 cause u any sorrowI never meant 2 cause u any painI only wanted 2 one time see u

laughingI only wanted 2 see u laughing in thepurple rain

Purple rain Purple rainPurple rain Purple rainPurple rain Purple rainI only wanted 2 see u bathing in thepurple rain

I never wanted 2 be your weekendlover

I only wanted 2 be some kind of friendBaby I could never steal u from anotherIt's such a shame our friendship had 2endPurple rain Purple rain

I only wanted 2 see u underneath thepurple rain

Honey I know, I know, I know times arechangingIt's time we all reach out 4 something

newThat means u 2U say u want a leaderBut u can't seem 2 make up your mindI think u better close itAnd let me guide u 2 the purple rain

Purple rain Purple rainPurple rain Purple rain

If you know what I'm singing about uphere

C'mon raise your handPurple rain Purple rainI only want 2 see u, only want 2 see uIn the purple rain

Purple ToupeeI remember the year I went to campI heard about some lady named Selma and some blacksSomebody put their fingers in the President's ears

It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's waxI remember the book depository where they crowned the king of CubaNow that's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something elseWay down inside me I can feel it coming backPurple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down(Purple toupee when summer brings you down)Purple toupee and gold lam will turn your brain around(Purple toupee and gold lam)Chinese people were fighting in the parkWe tried to help them fight, no one appreciated thatMartin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottomsTen years later they were sharing the same cell

I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67"Till they stepped on my hair, and they told me I was fatNow I'm very big, I'm a big important manAnd the only thing that's different is underneath my hatPurple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down(Purple toupee when summer brings you down)Purple toupee and gold lam will turn your brain around(Purple toupee and gold lam)Purple toupee is here to stay after the hair has gone awayThe purple brigade is marching from the graveLa la la la la la la La la la la la la la la La la laWe're on some kind of missionWe have an obligationWe have to wear toupees


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Purple CowDoris Day - 1953

The very day the day we kissed

I went to see my occulistThe occulist said "I insist, it looks like love

I never thought I'd ever see a purple cowI never thought I'd hear a butter flymeouwI never thought I'd see these funny thingssomehowBut you've got me seeing them now

I never thought I'd ever see a green giraffeI never thought I'd ever see a waltzing calf

I never thought I'd see a weeping willowlaughBut you've got me seeing them now

Ev'rything's hazy, upside down aboveDon't think I'm crazyI'm in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in Love

I never thought I'd ever see a purple cowYou gotta be in love to see a purple CowBut since the day you kissed me, Baby

Take a bow, 'cause you've got me seein'one now

(Instrumental Break)

I never thought I'd ever see a purple cowYou gotta be in love to see a purple CowBut since the day you kissed me, babyTake a bow, 'cause you've got me seein'one nowBetter than bein' oneYou've got me seein' one now

Purple Cow(Flaming Humidifer Teabag from Hell)

You ever seen the purple cow, I neverhope to see oneBut I can tell you anyhow Id rather seethan be oneYes I wrote the purple cow, I never wishId wrote itBut I can tell you anyhow, Ill kill you if

you quote itIll kill you if you quote it

Lily the Pink

We'll drink a drink a drinkTo lily the pink the pink the pinkThe saviour of our human raceFor she invented, medicinal compoundMost efficacious in every case

Mr freers had sticky out earsAnd it made him awful shyAnd so they gave him medicinal compoundAnd now he's learning how to fly

Brother Tony was notably bonyHe would never eat his mealsAnd so they gave him medicinal compoundNow they move him round on wheels

We'll drink a drink a drinkTo lily the pink the pink the pinkThe saviour of the human raceFor she invented medicinal compoundMosr efficacious in every case

Old Ebenezer thought he was Julius Caesar

And so they put him in a homeWhere they gave him medicnal compoundAnd now he's emporor of Rome

Jonny Hammer, had a terrible st st st ststammerHe could hardly sssay a wordAnd so they gave him medicinal compoundNow's he's seen, but never heard

Aunty Milly ran willy nillyWhen her legs they did recede

So they looked on medicinal compoundNow they call her milipede

Jennifer Eccles, had terrible frecklesAnd the boys all called her namesBut they gave her medicinal compoundNow he joins in all the games

Lily the pink she turned to drinkShe filled up with parafin insideAnd despite her medicinal compound

Sadly piccalilli died

Up to heaven her soul ascended


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All the church bells they did ringShe took with her medicinal compoundHark the herald angels sing

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