Live Chat With Dave Adams
January 24, 2001 at the Whirlitzer Chatroom
This is a transcript of a live chat. It is unabridged, so everything, even dumb comments made by certain storytellers are included. The only changes which have been made are to correct the very obvious typos made during fast typing. No other liberties were made, and nothing was cut. Only the text in italics did not appear on the chat screen.
SYSTEM: Mustapha enters the room
SYSTEM: Guest- Dave Adams enters the room
Mustapha says: Greetings, Dave!
Mustapha says: You're the first one here, besides me
Guest- Dave Adams says: Hello, Lady Mustapha
Mustapha says: Did you have any trouble getting here?
Guest - Dave Adams says: I came early so I can practice typing fast
Mustapha says: :)
Guest - Dave Adams says: No, no problem at all
Mustapha says: Glad to hear it. I did!
Guest - Dave Adams says: It's been awhile since I was in a chatroom
Mustapha says: We've been on every night at this time, making sure the system worked so we'd be ready for tonight.
Mustapha says: Me and a few other Whirlies, that is.......
Guest - Dave Adams says: So far, so good - don't mind my typos
Mustapha says: No one does, on a chatroom. It's hard to type fast and correctly at the same time.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Tell me about it - I'm a hunt and picker
Mustapha says: :)
Mustapha says: I've had too many typing classes for that......groan......
Guest - Dave Adams says: How did you latch onto our stories?
Mustapha says: Me? I heard Incredible Adventures from a college buddy, and never looked back! That was about 10 years ago......
Mustapha says: She should be here tonight, I hope.......
Guest - Dave Adams says: I started way back in the 70's
Mustapha says: Was MOM your first radio work?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yes. I read for Tom and he liked my voice and inflection.
Mustapha says: Ooooopppps..... I was gonna wait for other people to get here before I started asking questions! I know they're gonna want to know, too......
Mustapha says: Mea Culpa.....
Guest - Dave Adams says: That's okay, I don't mind answering twice
Mustapha says: If you don't mind, that's fine. I didn't want you to feel like an answering machine or a parrot, repeating yourself too much.
SYSTEM : Lila Olupe enters the room
Mustapha says: Lila! Welcome!
Guest - Dave Adams says: Believe me, I talk a lot at work and among friends. I've had to repeat a lot of my adventures.
Mustapha says: :)
Lila Olupe says: Howdy
Guest - Dave Adams says: Hello, Lila
SYSTEM: little_Frieda enters the room
Mustapha says: Lila is the one who first introduced me to ZBS
Mustapha says: Hi, Frieda!
Guest - Dave Adams says: Hi, Frieda...
Little_Frieda says: Hello, Lady Mustapha
Little_Frieda says: Hello, Dave
Mustapha says: Hi, did you have any trouble signing in?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Well, I'm ready to talk
Little_Frieda says: I have Shazam with me
Little_Frieda says: Nope
Mustapha says: Cool. You type for him, okay?
Little_Frieda says: Yep.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Hello all who will be dropping by
Little_Frieda says: Hello
Lila Olupe says: We're so happy you're here!
Guest - Dave Adams says: I'm glad to be here - I didn't know my work was so well heard
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: Hello
Mustapha says: I'm just waiting for someone else to say something so I don't mob the conversation, that's all...... I guess we need to wait until everyone settles in a bit......
Guest - Dave Adams says: Any relation to Billy Batson?
Mustapha says: Not me......
Guest - Dave Adams says: Shazam
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: Yes?
Mustapha says: Cute......
Guest - Dave Adams says: The old Captain Marvel comic hero
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: Nope Wam Bam Shazam from the Fourth Tower of Inverness
Guest - Dave Adams says: Billy Batson would say ‘shazam' and turn into Captain Marvel.
Mustapha says: I remember that!
Lila Olupe says: Neat Trick!
Mustapha says: Of course, Nicola Tesla's been saying it a lot recently, too.....
Little_Frieda says : Oh?
Mustapha says: You haven't heard that one yet, Frieda
Guest - Dave Adams says: Ah, yes. The Tesla coil and the phased arrays.
Little_Frieda says: Oh okay
SYSTEM: guest-PMS enters the room
SYSTEM: Crystalopus enters the room
Crystalopus says: Hello?
Guest - PMS says: Hello
Crystalopus says: I got through!
Guest - Dave Adams says: Hello, Crystalopus
Crystalopus says: Yaaaay!
Mustapha says: Hi, PMS
Guest - PMS says: Hi
Crystalopus says: :) Greetings to every entity present in this chatroom
Mustapha says: Any troubles signing in ?
Crystalopus says: (greetings Dave)
Guest - Dave Adams says: Ditto
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: Hello, Crystalopus
Crystalopus says: Big time!
Mustapha says: We've missed you, Alex! I hope you're doing well......
Crystalopus says: (Hello, Shazam~))
Crystalopus says: I'm doing exceptionally well today
Mustapha says: Good to hear.
Crystalopus says: Thank you..... yourself, Mustapha?
Lila Olupe says: Okay, Mustapha, let's get to the questions
Mustapha says: Can't complain. Well, I could, but it wouldn't do any good.
Mustapha says: You've got questions, Lila, ask them!
Little_Frieda says: Sounds good to me.
SYSTEM: Inky enters the room
Crystalopus says: Alright ~ gettin down to business: :()
Mustapha says: Inky! Welcome!
Lila Olupe says: Mr. Adams, how did you first get involved with the ZBS gang?
Crystalopus says: Hey, Dave, what the hell's it like to work with all of the coolest people in the world?
Little_Frieda says: I wonder if Rubeus will be joining us tonight?
Crystalopus says: (sorry)
Mustapha says: Frieda: Rubeus won't get off work until about 8pm our time. Albus will join us, though.
Guest - Dave Adams says: This will take a while, be patient
Little_Frieda says: okay, that works
Guest - Dave Adams says: I met Tom Lopez here in Philly in 1970
Guest - Dave Adams says: He was doing his Meatball Fulton show for a PBS radio station
Guest - Dave Adams says: He and some radical friends of mine ran into a problem with the locals
Inky says: Did you listen to it then, Dave?
Mustapha says: Inky, I can't read you.
Guest - Dave Adams says: The friends along with other friends set him up in Fort Edward.
Guest - Dave Adams says: He started doing ads and small programs and things just grew
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Inky says: How about now, Mustapha?
Guest - Dave Adams says: What happened?
Mustapha says: Much better, dear, thank you
Mustapha says: I don't know
Guest - Dave Adams says: I pushed the wrong button.
Crystalopus says: That's a lot of empty spaces
Mustapha says: What happened on your end?
Guest - Dave Adams says: I read for MOM and Tom liked it. The rest is history.
Crystalopus says: ::laughs:: technology is the best ~
Mustapha says: It certainly is!
Lila Olupe says: Was it fun?
Mustapha says: Everybody else liked it, too!
Guest - Dave Adams says: I have done many shows over the last 25 years. It was and is great fun.
Little_Frieda says: Mr. Adams, what was your favorite part to do in Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Oh, I liked a lot of them, but Jalulu is my favorite
Guest - Dave Adams says: Tom wrote Mojo for me because that is the way I am.
Mustapha says: I wanted to ask something like that: how much of the character came pre-packaged, and how much was you?
Crystalopus says: The way you are....... could you go a little deeper into that?
Crystalopus says: ::smiles to Mustapha ::
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: Mr. Adams, what is your favorite color?
Guest - Dave Adams says: I love science and science fiction, I study voodoo and other mysteries
Guest - Dave Adams says: My favorite color is purple.
Inky says: Jalulu is the guy in Stars and Stuff?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Boogie Woogies to the stars and Bach again.
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: cool
Guest - Dave Adams says: I study yoga and astral projection
Mustapha says: So you have a lot of input in the way the character develops, then?
Lila Olupe says: Can you do that? Astral Projection?
Little_Frieda says: Are you very good at it?
Crystalopus says: ::wriggles hand in air:: Astral projection! Who are some of the authors that you like to read that are on this topic?
Mustapha says: His parrot and his monkey think so.....
Little_Frieda says: yep
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yes, I can. Tom knows me well, so he writes what he thinks I would say and do
Crystalopus says: ::giggles::
Mustapha says: Have you ever had to disagree with him about Mojo?
Guest - Dave Adams says: No authors, I just wanted to do it.
Little_Frieda says: Wowie Zowie!
Guest - Dave Adams says: No, Tom and I don't disagree on anything
Crystalopus says: What was your first experience? What got you started?
Mustapha says: That's a rare treasure......
Crystalopus says: (Rarer than a cosmic popeye)
Guest - Dave Adams says: I'm an avid reader and I know what's expected of an actor
Little_Frieda says: Cool
Guest - Dave Adams says: It felt right to act in front of a microphone
Inky says: Have you done any other acting? Have we seen you, and didn't know it, maybe?
Mustapha says: T.V., right?
Little_Frieda says: I was wondering that, too
Guest - Dave Adams says: No, I only act for ZBS.
Mustapha says: someone mentioned to me that he had worked with you in television. Maybe he got the wrong Dave Adams.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Television, oh, man - not me
Lila Olupe says: Hehehe
Little_Frieda says: How come?
Crystalopus says: The reason not all people wanna become president.
Guest - Dave Adams says: I like being unknown among the diners and movie goers.
Inky says: There was an adventure recorded in Philly - did you get to go on any ‘sound capturing' expeditions for it?
Little_Frieda says: Oh, I see
Mustapha says: You mean because he doesn't want people to hate and despise him?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Oh, yeah, that was with the Fritz.
Little_Frieda says: As if that were possible.
Crystalopus says: Could be ~ could be political as well
Guest - Dave Adams says: The Fritz could pick up any sound, so we had to do it all on location.
Mustapha says: If you're the president, somebody will hate you, no matter how good or bad you are....
Lila Olupe says: That must have been tricky!
Inky says: Were there still trolley cars to record from?
Guest - Dave Adams says: It was. I had to pick up a woman bodily three times
Mustapha says: Woah
Lila Olupe says: Hehehe!
Crystalopus says: Eh?
Guest - Dave Adams says: You can't fake it with the Fritz.
SYSTEM: guest - PMS leaves the room
Guest - Dave Adams says: We had to be in a mansion and on city streets
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: how did you come to be a part of ZBS?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Through my friends
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: cool
Crystalopus says: Dave, when did you start projecting?
Inky says: I think you did the artwork for the cassette, too?
Guest - Dave Adams says: The Farm is an awesome place and I love the people there.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Oh, yeah, Mumbo Jumbo
Guest - Dave Adams says: I project when I paint
Inky says: Do they still grow tomatoes there? (Is there an ‘e' in tomatoes?)
Crystalopus says: Is that how you started?
Mustapha says: I think there is.
Guest - Dave Adams says: They grow a variety of things
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yes, Crystalopus says: , that's how I started
Crystalopus says: Awesome <>
Mustapha says: Nice paintings, too.
Crystalopus says: (Everyone can call me Alex)
Guest - Dave Adams says: Your mental image must be strong enough for you to see it on the surface.
Crystalopus says: Now I haven't seen any of the paintings
Guest - Dave Adams says: Then you paint it in.
Crystalopus says: Sort of like mystic tracing...?
Mustapha says: Man! That does need to be strong! I can't do that, yet....
Little_Frieda says: In Moon Over Morocco, were you actually playing the piano in the studio?
Guest - Dave Adams says: You could call it that
Lila Olupe says: I saw your ...ummm ‘Stolen Treasure' online. It's beautiful!
Mustapha says: I'm listening to the tape right now - Mojo Plays Morocco
At this point, I was booted offline and spent a few moments reconnecting. I have no record of the conversation during this time.
Mustapha says: Sorry about that, I got booted off
Little_Frieda says: Ok
Inky says: That was FAST - you were in a hurry...
Mustapha says: It wasn't that fast, really. You did the same thing when you got booted off the other night.
Mustapha says: You appear to be still in the chatroom until you re-enter.
Inky says: It looked fast here.
Mustapha says: Where'd Dave go?
Crystalopus says: ::laughs::
Inky says: But you were quiet
Little_Frieda says: Good question
Mustapha says: Maybe he got booted off, too? My register doesn't show him as being here.
Mustapha says: What happened while I was gone?
Crystalopus says: It shows him on my list... what's the limit to this room?
Crystalopus says: ( I got a drink of tea)
Mustapha says: We had 7 or 8 in here before PMS left....
Little_Frieda says: It shows that he is in the room at this end
Inky says: Does anybody remember Jalulu? He was stern and humorless, not like Mojo at all?
Mustapha says: I never heard the story
Lila Olupe says:
Crystalopus says: (Neither have I)
SYSTEM: guest - Dave Adams enters the room
Lila Olupe says: Welcome back
Mustapha says: Did you get booted, too?
Crystalopus says: Huzzah<>
Little_Frieda says: What happened?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Sorry AOL blinked out on me I had to reconnect.
Mustapha says: Me too.
Lila Olupe says: Two words... local server
Little_Frieda says: I hate it when that happens
Guest - Dave Adams says: It happens a lot
Mustapha says: Well, we're back now.....
Crystalopus says: Took the words right out of my mouth, Lila :)
Inky says: We were just talking about Jalulu - he's not much like Mojo, is he?
Guest - Dave Adams says: No, he's a two-fisted space ranger.
Lila Olupe says: Oohhhh, fun!
Inky says: You liked playing somebody different for a change?
Little_Frieda says: Mustapha, have I met Jalulu yet?
Mustapha says: It's a character, dear, not a person.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yes, I've even played an African Violet who went around potting people.
Mustapha says: Neato
Little_Frieda says: From what?
Inky says: Oh, yeah!
Mustapha says: I don't have it.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Putting them in pots
Crystalopus says: (Thanks for clearing that)
Mustapha says: Sure, sure, we believe you........ :)
Guest - Dave Adams says: It was ‘The Thing That Ate Aunt Sophie"
Inky says: When you record an adventure, are the people you're talking to there, in the studio?
Little_Frieda says: Oh.
Lila Olupe says: I'd hate to be Aunt Sophie!
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yes they are in the studio.
Crystalopus says: (What was the funniest moment in the production of Moon Over Morocco?)
Mustapha says: But the sound effects get put in later, right? Yes? No?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Casbah Kelly could always make us laugh.
Mustapha says: Yeah, me too
Inky says: The peacock saying?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Sound effects go in later. Yes.
Mustapha says: I loved the bit with the Gate of Peacocks!
Guest - Dave Adams says: The Gate of Peacocks?
Crystalopus says: (Ahh, speaking of Kelly, why do you call him Mr. Charlie at the beginning?)
Guest - Dave Adams says: It would be better to have a handful of dried dates...
Mustapha says: "Better a handful of dried dates, and content with that, than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel."
Mustapha says: Or was it bruty?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Oh, I called Kelly ‘Charlie' as a sort of militant joke.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Broody
Little_Frieda says: I don't think I have gotten that far yet.
Crystalopus says: Ahh~ the ex patriot... coolness
Mustapha says: That's what I thought.
Mustapha says: No, you haven't, Frieda.
Guest - Dave Adams says: You should meet Casbah Kelly - he's just like his character.
Little_Frieda says: Cool.
Mustapha says: Think we could talk him into a live chat?
Crystalopus says: He wipes himself w/Time Magazine?
Mustapha says: Alex!
Mustapha says: LOL!
Little_Frieda says: That would be so cool.
Crystalopus says: What?! :)
Guest - Dave Adams says: I haven't seen him since MOM - he's out on the coast somewhere.
Crystalopus says: How odd... Why aren't you guys still in touch?
Little_Frieda says: Yeah.
Mustapha says: Tom tells me that if this chat goes well (which it has, I think ... ) we might be able to get Robert Lorick to come chat someday.......
Guest - Dave Adams says: We come together to create a story and then we return to our separate missions in life.
Lila Olupe says: What's your mission?
Guest - Dave Adams says: My mission is Philly.
Crystalopus says: You sound like the Madonna Vampira when she's discussing destroying ideals, Dave ~
Guest - Dave Adams says: Hah Hah Hah
Mustapha says: I thought he sounded more like Little Flossie at the end of MOM.....
Crystalopus says: Okay... Little Flossie is played by the same actor as Little Frieda, right?
Lila Olupe says: I'm in Lancaster (PA).... do you have any suggestions of places to visit in Philly?
Crystalopus says: (That's directed to anyone that knows the answer to that question)
Mustapha says: Not exactly....
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yes, no one else could do it.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Places to visit in Philly? South Street.
Mustapha says: Spooner Duffy : P.J. Orte...
Little_Frieda says: Mustapha says that I sound like Little Frieda.
Crystalopus says: Why the name change?
Mustapha says: She does, trust me....
Guest - Dave Adams says: You should hear Little Frieda in Return to Inverness.
Lila Olupe says: Good bars? Art? Music?
Mustapha says: It's great! I love RTI!
Lila Olupe says: South Street
Guest - Dave Adams says: South Street is all that.
Lila Olupe says: Great!
Little_Frieda says: I haven't heard it yet.
Guest - Dave Adams says: I've got my copy.
Inky says: Just be good at parallel parking.....
Mustapha says: Me too, me too!
Mustapha says: Alex, are you strict with yourself, or have strict parents?
Crystalopus says: Yay for you. Having to deal with high school in the meantime is my lot :)
Mustapha says: I'd never be able to hold out......
Lila Olupe says: I have a honeymoon to save up for......
Crystalopus says: Strict mom, actually, she's pretty lenient, but we live in the bible belt, and though she's agnostic, she seems to treat me like all the other parents around here do.
Mustapha says: Ah.
Crystalopus says: I'm happy though ~ so who cares?
Mustapha says: You don't have to rub our noses in it, Lila. I'm already green with envy at your honeymoon...
Lila Olupe says: "GRIN"
Inky says: Dave, does the astral projection method in Fourth Tower work?
Crystalopus says: ::cough:: What honeymoon?
Crystalopus says: (Seriously!!!)
Mustapha says: That works, it does!
Lila Olupe says: Past life regression
Inky says: Or, how does your method work?
Mustapha says: Yeah, that one too.
Lila Olupe says: I'm going to Ireland.
Guest - Dave Adams says: Astral Projection is a natural occurrence. All you have to do is accept the reality of it.
Lila Olupe says: We
Mustapha says: Gggrrrrrrrrrr.........
Crystalopus says: I couldn't find any friends that would try it with me ( the massaging techniques)
Crystalopus says: Dave, I've accepted the existence of it, but I haven't had results in two years.
Guest - Dave Adams says: You do it all the time when you dream.
Crystalopus says: Aren't you actually accomplishing stuff when you're "asleep"?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Wake up in your dream.
Mustapha says: Don't try so hard, Alex. You're seeking Mind, capital ‘m' with mind, little ‘m'.
Lila Olupe says: Can you control your dreams?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yes, when you realize you are dreaming.
Mustapha says: Lucid dreaming is fun.
Crystalopus says: (VERY fun)
Guest - Dave Adams says: The colors are amazing
Lila Olupe says: I haven't been able to pull that off..... yet
Guest - Dave Adams says: Tell yourself as you go to sleep to wake in your dream.
Little_Frieda says: I don't think that one can control their dreams. I have been trying for years now with no luck.
Mustapha says: You can, it just takes patience......
Guest - Dave Adams says: I bring back paintings and ideas.
Crystalopus says: I don't normally remember colors, unless it's a strange abstract dream.
Mustapha says: I bring back music.......
Lila Olupe says: Are you a philosopher, too, I mean do you write?
Crystalopus says: (everything's for the taking, isn't it, Dave?)
Guest - Dave Adams says: I have written before.
Mustapha says: Titles?
Little_Frieda says: Shazam says: Goodbye but I may be back.
Guest - Dave Adams says: I was an editorial writer for a local paper.
Mustapha says: Are you both leaving, Frieda, or just your brother?
Crystalopus says: Sayonara, Shazam
Guest - Dave Adams says: Adios
Little_Frieda says: No I am staying.
Mustapha says: That's good, I'm glad.
Inky says: Was editorial writing fun?
Guest - Dave Adams says: It was fun and dangerous.
Inky says: Or was it frustrating, that it seemed like nobody was reading?
Mustapha says: I can believe dangerous!
Little_Frieda says: Vaya con Dios, Shazam
Crystalopus says: Yes indeed
Guest - Dave Adams says: People threatened to shoot me.
Lila Olupe says: Ooooh what kind of dangerous?
Lila Olupe says: Yikes!
Crystalopus says: Truthful thoughts dangerous ~ :)
Guest - Dave Adams says: But they didn't.
Mustapha says: Doesn't surprise me, people are like that.
Inky says: Wups - people were reading......
Little_Frieda says: yes, please do tell us
Mustapha says: :) LOL
Guest - Dave Adams says: I was a radical writer
Crystalopus says: Wowzers
Mustapha says: "He who speaks the truth better have one foot in the stirrup."
Crystalopus says: (Or at least a bullet proof vest)
Guest - Dave Adams says: I tried to write the truth and I had to ride.
Lila Olupe says: Everyone needs a little radical in their lives.
Little_Frieda says: For sure.
Crystalopus says: Had to ride....?
Guest - Dave Adams says: My pen name protected me.
Inky says: This was during hizzoner Rizzo's era?
Mustapha says: Quatlbaum?
Guest - Dave Adams says: Yeah, the Cisco Kid ran my friends out of town after moratorium day.
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