“We All Will Do the Hukilau in Heaven” was a bit of lyrical theology, envisioning heaven as a vacation in Hawaii. It was part of a show by Doug and Barb Roesch, American Excess, examining televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. It appeared at NYC’s Middle Collegiate Church in 1986.

Barb Roesch did the choreography; the chorus was Jane Setteducato, Stephany Willman, Sean Kelly, Martin Gould, Laurelie Kilmartin, and Lissy Trachtenberg.

We also did this number later that year on Mike’s Talent Show, at the Public Theater. And I’ve also written a version with viola obbligato that I’ve sung from time to time.

Barb died in 2009; at Doug’s request, I sang it at her memorial service.

Walter and Danny talk things over in this one-pager from Carousel Comics (2004).

You should always sketch your motel room when you’re on the road.

The Regard of Flight was taped for the PBS series Great Performances in 1983. Here I am in a press photo with Bill Irwin, Michael O’Connor, and Eddie Gray.

Adrian was Doug and Mike’s acting teacher in “Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment.” I made him; Carol Brys made his costume. All of his students were also in his group therapy sessions, which led to some complications. He sometimes appeared as Mr. Corndog, a costumed mascot for a corndog stand, that being his only acting experience.

This song was suggested by a photo of a two-headed kitten that appeared in the Fortean Times. You can find it in The Doug Skinner Songbook and on the album That Regrettable Weekend. Here’s how it begins.

A setting of my own abridged translation of a profoundly disturbing passage in the Fioretti di San Francesco, in which Saint Francis opines that true happiness is being beaten mercilessly with a heavy knotted stick while contemplating Christ’s suffering.

This photocopied dossier collects 49 pages of my keyboard music. Let me know if you’d like one.

The pieces are:

Life’s Little Sorrows
Mozart at the Cannery Works
Waltz
Under the Weather
Fort in Solrésol
Chuff
The Scenic Route
Stevenson at the Flageolet
Lull
Lorem Ipsum Dolor
Bach Had a Bad Headache
The Passing Clouds Mock the Sky’s Stasis and Purity
Pillow
Music from Dreams 1-4
Music for Organ 1-3
Sabbat
This
Chorales 1-6
Sore Spot
Dirgette

This lively fanfare was written for two of my favorite instruments. They don’t get to play together that often. Here’s the opening salvo.