this simultaneously pissed me off and cracked me up ( Read more... )

i had a costume fitting at the met today. they were rehearsing "first emperor" cuz i could hear it over the speakers. as i was getting on the elevator backstage, placido domingo walked by and said hello. i'm sure i blushed like a schoolgirl ( Read more... )

i haven't watched you in a long time. i'm bored with the contestants and the judges' banter and the ridiculous theme weeks you impose upon the poor contestants. but i tuned in recently, because you had dolly parton week, which was pretty awesome because dolly parton is freaking amazing. but that was an anomaly ( Read more... )

[pertaining to a discussion about Lully's opera Armide]

gravytation: "Yeah, I was gonna say something about there being a LOT of dancing interludes... They was all like th' muthafuckin' fly girls, yo. Except Baroque."

radiohead is headlining lolla this year?!?!?

is anyone going? i've practically booked my flight already.

i may be way out of the cool kid music loop on this one, so forgive me if this is old news ( Read more... )

i have nothing to do, and lj isn't blocked at this temp job. yesssssssss. ( Read more... )

the show went great. family is well. friends are well. i'll miss california.

but i am glad to be back in nyc. no job yet, but whatever. spring and summer are going to be amazing. i can feel it.

i didn't mean to. it was dark, i was anxious to get home and eat dinner and take some more cold medicine, and its little white stripe looked like a plastic bag flying around on the street. once i realized, i swerved, but it swerved the same direction ( Read more... )

in santa barbara, that is. and life is really freaking good ( Read more... )