Now further imagine that these discarded bits, the stuff that failed to make even the failures, found their way out of the waste bin and into a splicing machine and onto a projector.

Equipment in the Reprographic Unit includes four microfilm cameras, a digitised reader printer, an ultrasonic splicing machine, a colour enlarger, a photographic colour processor and a 35mm microfilm processor.

Backstage at Mr. Brooks' show lurked music industry executives from Los Angeles wearing Hawaiian shirts and carrying cellular phones; at times, the power scene resembled a Robert Altman splicing machine gone haywire, in which scenes from the movie "Nashville" accidentally got spliced with "The Player."