Reviews of "Puppet Motel"

From: Mike G. giamomj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu Newsgroups: alt.fan.laurie.anderson Subject: Puppet Motel Discoveries... Date: 17 May 1995 23:51:18 GMT Organization: Drexel University Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: giamo.ocs.drexel.edu X-Newsreader: Nuntius Version 1.2 X-XXMessage-ID: X-XXDate: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:48:21 GMT Boy oh boy... Got to fooling around w/ Puppet Motel after a three-week absence.... [I've been busy - and my very wonderful and multitalented father is actually dying of a brain tumor in the hospital - this all just happened out of the blue - and it's terrible.....but.....the quote at the bottom by Laurie is now haunting me. Anyway this CD is diverting me from the sadness of what is happening to me personally because of my dad.] So -what a trip. This CD_ROM is incredible. Lot's of 'Laurisms' - art and sounds and music and clips from recent times (Nerve Bible/Bright Reb/Tighrope) and waaaaay back on earlier albums (Mr. Heartbreak) and tours and stuff.... I THINK I FOUND THE secret 'TRAP DOOR.' too: I got into the 'green room from the stage set (after seeing Laurie apppear in several different 'dissolve in' video segments about the stage show and design [including the laser 'time tunnel'] which is interactive(!)...wow. Anyway - I got into the green room and the puppet showed up and then I accidently put him away...I hate it when I'm really onto some cool thing and then I do that out of lack of experience navigating around....and I clicked someplace and got onto the coffee table and somehow got into Hsing's (the designer/programmer) notebook and it looks like all of the Lingo MM Director 4.04 code is in there and I could actually edit it! [But I am afraid to save any of it - tho I can't overwrite the CD, I think the HD files/Puppet Motel Prefs may in fact be tracking me....so I don't wanna wreck anything it is tracking. ] Someday... And there is SO much in here: i.e. acupuncture lessons, and THAT is incredible interactive in itself. My favorite stuff is the info, videos, and performances on the tour set! This thing is brilliant. "When my father died, we put him in the ground.....when my father died, it was like a whole library burned down....." - Laurie Anderson From: Mike G. Newsgroups: alt.fan.laurie.anderson Subject: Still more Puppet Motel discoveries.... Date: 18 May 1995 00:39:53 GMT Organization: Drexel University Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: giamo.ocs.drexel.edu X-Newsreader: Nuntius Version 1.2 X-XXMessage-ID: X-XXDate: Wed, 17 May 1995 01:36:56 GMT Got into a variation of the Hall of Time screen.......clicked around and got Web address sites, (the CIA, Stanford, Chinese something or other and many many more flashed by) and when I held the mouse down as they quickly went by, the current one would freeze on screen so I could read it. I was able to do this several times...of course she is talking and there is changing music in the background....it graphics are stunning here.......anyway one of the addresses looked like it MIGHT be an address to Laurie that we haven't seen before....I could grab that on, but as I tried and I got it to flash by again later - the program QUIT me out to the Finder....did I discover something? Hmmmmm.... Did I get 'to close?' Is this just a bug - or did my system just overload and quit.....? I wish I could more easily retrace my steps..that seems very difficult - I'm sure it's on purpose, too. Also discovered a weird street scene with a big square shape underneath a big tarpaulin. Tried to get the tarpulin off...the screen disappeared.....dammit! I wanna get back there somehow try to get a look at it a different way and check this thing out. It's very strange. Also got into a 'secret package' address to one Laurie Anderson....it was a child's book inside.....she wrote the original many years ago, apparently....very dark and eerie...and illustrated like an Edward Gorey book. Fascinating....didn't get to go thru the whole story - but it's spooky. This thing goes on and on. Utterly amazing.