I would like to turn the Book of Job into the biggest rap battle of all time someday, but that might be too ambitious of a project to complete in a week. I’m still thinking about it. The advantages of the story are an audio version wouldn’t require many sound effects, and the original story is mostly written in poetry anyway. The disadvantages are it’s a very long story with seven main characters (eight if you include a narrator and nine if you include Job’s wife, who only has one or two lines in the whole book). Aux Cable 037 only had eight voices in it, and one of those was Chris Howard. Then again, Explosive Yeast, Brooke, Superchris01, and others had ambitions of involvement but missed out due to lack of time. All things are possible with God, so if he blessed it, we could do it. The closest thing I could find to re-working Job into a rap battle I could find on the internet was a 2003 show called “Job: The Hip Hop Musical” which was a two man stage show that tried to set Job in modern America to mixed success.
I think an audio production of some sort would be fun to do again, but only if Franklin was on board for editing if need be and we all understood the project we were working on.
Perhaps we could do something like “Aux Cable: The Musical” only “Not-Forum: A Sample” by re-working some of the most iconic threads into entertaining comedic bits. I’d be up for an actual “Aux Cable: The Musical”, but music adds a new dimension of planning to the collaboration station game. Not that we couldn’t do it with God’s help…(sorry for all of the negatives in that sentence)
I’m throwing out ideas here, guys. Any of them spark other ideas in your minds? I’m sure there are all sorts of things we could do together to celebrate such an excellent year.
