now onto the interesting part of the production for me. It's minor, but I'm still thinking about it ( Read more... )

Out of respect for a friend of mine who loves this show, I'm not going to utterly bash it. However, I am going to say that I am sad. I had really wanted to be wrong. I had wanted to be exposed in my snobbery by a Bway musical that could make my knee-jerk reaction to its cooption of a brilliant piece of art somehow seem unmerited ( Read more... )

I'm going to ASTR! I'm all jittery with excitement. I've never been to the East Coast before, much less Boston. Wow. Boston. So much American history centered there. AND home to Hammersley's bistro. I would really love to go; Gordon H. is one of my culinary heroes!

but slowly. Settling into the house continues, the projects multiply every week or so. Some things I added:

I tore out some turf around/under the locust tree in our front yard and ringed it instead with a number of flowers and shrubs that should grow right to the edge of the sidewalk: dark red mums, a dark red coreopsis (flowers kind of look like ( Read more... )

just died of pnuemonia. Supposedly unrelated to the inflammatory lung disease, sarcoidosis, which he has (but which, papers/doctors/spokespeople claim, was "in remission since 2005).

here's the brief: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/09/obit.bernie.mac.ap/index.html

That's right, because SO many people are dying of pnuemonia these days. ( Read more... )

feeling slacker-ish and out of sorts, tired, body hurting, maybe a little depressed? I think more overloaded and like I never get anything done. Frustrated might be the word, yep ( Read more... )

just saw this last night and LOVED it. It was really late and we were watching on the laptop in bed, and were only going to start it ... but it completely captured us until the very end. Not only do I want to buy the film, I most definitely want to buy the soundtrack.

I would say this film combines the two-ships-passing element of Lost in ( Read more... )

time to make some july goals - the month's only nearly half-over, there's still time, there's still time  (seriously, D'OH, this summer is getting away from me - fast!)

July = start fresh. These are not "hold overs" from June (this is a more positive way to frame things, don't you think?)

Books:
Index to the Story of my Days (Edward Gordon Craig)
Swann ( Read more... )

let's see...

we got the moving truck today at 10 am. The piano movers (the first piece of the packing puzzle) came at 1:45 or so, and were done around two. It's 6pm and about 10 min ago, Cass and Joel left to return the rental car. IN the course of about 4.5 or 5 hours, then, we loaded most of our loose goods (Peggy is downstairs washing the empty ( Read more... )

As I started packing tonight, something I'd suspected was proven true: I own a lot of clothes and shoes. I mean, a lot. Three discoveries I've made while in SB have greatly contributed to this fact ( Read more... )