The geeky-looking Bostonians won over the crowds at the same stage with their melodic synth-pop, to the extent that the dancing crowds were repeating the riff to "Sleepyhead" after they left the stage.
"Hey there, sleepyhead," he says.
He has decided that the wounded man is Tom, that Tom loved Exley to the exclusion of all else and that Exley is therefore the only person who can rescue Tom from permanent sleepyhead status.
"Spring is here!" "I'm hungry!" "Have the flowers blossomed yet?" The last dozing, snoring sleepyhead is the hardest to stir.
Beatle John contains both "Ed Sullivan" John, yodeling harmonies and bending his knees in awkward demi-pliés, and "Revolver" John, acidhead, sleepyhead, drug dormouse, singing in that cold little cocoon voice (Riley calls it "time-frozen") about floating downstream and not wanting to be woken up.
The comatose veteran's current state, according to a nurse who mistakes Miller for a normal boy and soft-pedals reality to protect him: "quite the sleepyhead".
In the first piece, "Thorne: Sleepyhead," on Tuesday night, we learn one reason that Thorne seems so haunted: The creepy present-day case he is working turns out to be related to a case from his past in which his conduct was not exactly by the book.
Since moving from acting and stand-up comedy to crime writing with his 2001 debut Sleepyhead, Billingham has written 11 novels, which have met with both commercial and critical success.
Yet a decade ago she was a mesmeric sleepyhead in Kevin Elyot's Forty Winks.
She lifted him down and tweaked his nose and said, "Sleepyhead, sleepyhead".
The Munchkins on hand were Jerry Maren, a Lollipop Guild member; Mickey Carroll, a fiddler; Margaret Pellegrini, a sleepyhead and potted flower; Karl Slover, a trumpeting herald; Clarence Swensen, a soldier; and Meinhardt Raabe, the coroner who certifies the Wicked Witch's death.
