In just a couple days, I’ll get up at are-you-fucking-serious o’clock to get on a who-flies-this-fucking-early plane to go across the country, where I will land at you-just-spent-the-entire-day-on-a-plane o’clock, just in time for rush hour.
I know, I make it sound really awesome, and you’re all deeply envious of me. I’ll try not to flex about it too much.
I’m going to be on a little tour of New England to watch Stand By Me with my cast mates and a few hundred of our closest friends. It’s just three nights, with five hours days in a tour bus between them. It’s all going to happen so fast, it’ll be over before I know it, and that feels weird, since we’ve been talking about it for almost a year. I don’t know how the reality can match the buildup, but I’m looking forward to seeing what it brings.
If these shows go well (and we all expect them to go well) we have plans to do a bunch of cities next year, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of our film, and what it continues to mean to multiple generations of audiences. We already booked a handful in March, and if the stars and planets align, we’ll be doing something in a city near you, and something in Oregon, close to where we filmed the movie, next summer. Cross your fingers for us!
Once again, the locations for this week:
- December 4 at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire
- December 5 at Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey
- December 6 at Lynn Memorial Auditorium in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Oh, also! We didn’t release a new Storytime last week because it was a holiday here, but there’s a new one dropping on Wednesday. ALSO! I have my very first host-read ad coming up, which is something I never thought I’d been excited about, but it turns out I am. It’s so cool that something I made, that I love so much, that I want to do until I retire, is working out the way I’d hoped! Getting sponsors is one of those things that creates its own inertia, and is the best way we can keep doing the show for years (unless I get super lucky and 100,000 people want to be Patreon supporters — not entirely unrealistic, but not very likely, either).
I’m super grateful to be doing something I love, that I do well, that matters to people. It’s easy to forget that, or lose sight of it in the *gestures broadly at all this fucking shit every fucking day*, so I’m making an effort to remember.
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Just wanted you to know I love your narrations for audiobooks. You are so entertaining that you bring the book alive. I have listened to several of the audiobooks you read more than once because of your narrations. Thanks!
Have a blast with it all, Wil!
I moved to Florida 3 weeks ago, so no traveling for me for awhile, though that is a fan event I only wish I could have gotten in on.
I used to pilot those “who the fuck travels at this time o’clock” flights (suck it up bud – the whole crew got there way earlier 😉 )
Have an amazing time – wish I could attend.
Maximum gratitude and respect, always, to the flight crew. Y’all do something I never could do, and I love you for that.
Question about Storytime; will there ever be a written compilation of stories by season released in print, perhaps with a foreword by you? I only ask as I work a desk job and don’t have time to listen as I am rarely on the road and my time at home is spent with my family. I do make time to read though and I’d love to be able to read these stories that you find worth while and interesting, and I’d like to make sure you continue to have a way to do that so I’d love to pay for it in print medium if possible. If that would help out those authors too then all the better! Just and idea. Thank you.
Keven
I don’t have plans for that, but I always link to the original publication when I release the episodes. You could easily build your own pdf of all the stories with just a little time.
My favourite compilations are those with both the stories and some framing devices, from the author or someone else. Sometimes a foreword, but more often, an afterword, explaining what drove the story.
That’s what we want – the Wil Thought / Selection Process, or maybe the Wil / Author discussion about the story.
(Basically, we love what you’re doing so much that we also want the DVD extras)
Yes, Oregon!
Why New England? I know the story took place there but I thought you filmed it in Oregon?
Please come to Oregon. I promise we will treat you well!!
Please bring g the Stand By Me tour to Denver!!!!
I have been looking forward to this, it’s almost here! So excited!!
Nothing like traveling to cement in your love of…. your own house and bed. Lord I do not envy your early waking and plane shenanigans.
I do envy you sharing Stand By Me with your fellow actors and friends.
Good luck on the tour!
Hope close to Oregon is Washington lol. That would be so cool.
Excited to see this! If you like BBQ – while in Concord, 603bbq is amazing if you get the chance. The line is usually crazy long but it’s super good. Safe travels.
Fingers crossed that it goes amazingly well so that (fingers crossed) you can do a bunch more cities close to where I live.
😀 Thanks for the post. I needed the smile. Wishing you a wonderful whirlwind trip.
You should visit Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad! They operate the locomotive from the trestle scene!
Thanks for making me smile today, Wil! Have a wonderful (quick) trip through New England! 😀
There are a few good places to eat in Lynn; I’ll be supporting you all from the North Shore! (No one in my immediate circle is as much of a nerd/fangirl as I am, so unfortunately I don’t have anyone that I could get to drive)
Have a great trip Will! I just recently rewatched Stand By Me and was very happy to see that it still stands up to the test of time!
Hey Wil. I mentioned this before in a previous post, but just wanted to reiterate here. When you get to the Capitol Center for the Arts, the city you will be in is pronounced Kong-Kerd. like conquered. I’m sorry I won’t be there to see you but please enjoy your time in NH. Temps are supposed to be in the mid 30s, so make sure to layer up.
One of my and my family’s favourite films…it really does stand the test of time. I must watch it at least once every year with the now grown up kids. Please, please bring the road show to Canada.
Careful up there – us South Shore guys used to say …. Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin, you never come out the way you went in! But nice to have you in the neighborhood anyway!
My friend’s wife is from Lynn, and I’ve been hearing that saying for months!
I mean, I really hope it lives up to its reputation, because if I don’t get some good sin while I’m there, I’ll feel cheated.
Ah, yes, ye olde “it’ll be worth it when we get there” and “I know I’ll have a good time in the end, but why is it such a pain in the ass now?” travel stresses. Hang in there on the travel stuff, and I wish the tour great success. Bummed I no longer live in Maine (hoping to go back permanently soon if I don’t cross the magic line in the sand up there that means I might have health care without paying half my rent to get it), but for now, I will wave from afar. Safe travels!
I’ll see you in New Hampshire! Can’t wait!
You added Seattle, YAY!! going to try and make it over for that!!
The Seattle show sold out in less than 5min 🙁
Add moar shows!!!!
Also/Or what would be cool is some kind of produced version of the movie+cast+behind the scene stuff (“SmartLess: On the Road” style) that could be streamed after the tour is over (probably all kinds of BS lawyer stuff to wade though for that to work but I bet it would get watched)
Come to Nashville!
Wil, I’d like to produce a stage version of Stand By Me, perhaps make it into a musical, or possibly a play.
I know I’d need to raise money and go through the Stephen King estate for the rights. Would love to get you guys involved.
Thoughts?!
I was at the event in Concord last night and had a great time. It was amazing to see you in person. There were a lot of laughs. Thank you for doing this.
Hiya Wil,
Longtime fan of both you and THE 500 podcast, on which you have just been a guest…(not forgetting
RADIO FREE BURRITO, natch).
I was especially jazzed that Josh brought you on to discuss MARQUEE MOON, as I have been
fascinated by Television the band ever since by chance picking up a copy of
ROCK SCENE Magazine. Sort of a hipper version of 16 Magazine, all photos along with the occasional essay, such as the
one in this particular issue: a feature article about Television by none other
than Patti Smith. And this was the Richard Hell iteration of the band, writ two years before the release of their ‘Little Johnny Jewel’ single (as in 1974 – yes, I am that old).
Since then, I have hacked away at the coalface of the Fourth Estate in one form or another,
in online ezines like PERFECT SOUND FOREVER and TANGENTS U.K., as well as L.A. based
RECORD COLLECTOR NEWS. But at one time I did a stint writing liner notes for limited
edition vinyl releases on a label called Water Recordings and their 4 Men With
Beards imprint…including notes for the first two albums by Television,
ADVENTURE and the aforementioned MM.
I would very, very much like to send you copies of those notes, along with other work
of mine that I have a sneaking, but viable, suspicion you might derive an at
least perceptible buzz from.
Are there snailmail coordinates by which I might accomplish this? (Your management,
perhaps?)
In the meantime, I look forward to hearing your 500 appearance…hoping this finds you
and yours well and good down in the Southland…
All best
from San Francisco,
Michael Layne Heath
privately reachable via
[email protected]
PS Here’s a link to a podcast I myself was recently on, which might give some background as
to my fandom of TV among other legendary NY Rockers…
REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE
https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-7whi2-28d2e65d
Fuck, Wil.
I’m so sorry about Rob.
Hey Wil. I am a fan so much so in my 20’s I had a son and I named him William. I chose this name for all the great people with the name. William Shakespeare, William Walace, William Shatner, Wil Weaton, Will Smith and William Riker. Lol. I just have a question for you. Do you guys think you will come to Vanada and watch?Stand by me with some of your fans here? Vancouver in particular?