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Tolkien's elves frolicking in a 19th-century Norway parlor?
I saw Hedda Gabler at BAM tonight. It was a production by the Sydney Theatre Company and featured Cate Blanchett as Hedda and Hugo Weaving (of Matrix fame) as the judge. So a reunion of sorts, right?, for Hugo and Cate. Weren't they in Lord of the Ring together? Anyway, John Istel said it was an excellent translation of the play. Both of us, along ( Read more... ) -
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I have been reading too many global warming articles and books lately. i am feeling bummed and more than a little guilty! We are a horrible people ( Read more... ) -
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I am spoiled. I don't have to worry about where my next meal is coming from. I feel mostly safe (I do live in NY after all). I have a job. I can buy medications if I am ill. I have the best, least pretentious, most generous friends in the world. I have access to learn anything I want. I travel. I have opportunities and potential to do many things. ( Read more... ) -
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Toby Dawson won the men's mogul bronze last night. I was touched by his story. He was abandoned in Seoul, S. Korea; was adopted by a Colorado couple at age 3; had a hard time adjusting to his new life; but ultimately prospered. He is counselor for Korean adoptees and seems to be a stand-up guy. He's now looking for his birth parents ( Read more... ) -
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"Classical ballet is not earth and fire, it is water and air-the dewpoint of a culture. Ballerinas are not bitches throbbing out molten wants and recriminations (though in postmodern ballets they’re often asked to stomp and throb). They are cultivated like pearls or white peacocks or royal roses. They are trained on the luminous. National treasure ( Read more... ) -
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Hey, when did LJ give the free accounts three extra userpics? -
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Fucking strikers! I can't go to work because of egotistical MTA and TWU reps! -
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I've been listening to a lot of music and reading poetry. Yeah...it means that I am fixated and depressed. Anyway good things come from it because I come across lots of pretty things. I downloaded this gorgeous Mandarin lullabye today - "Green Island Serenade". This song is so sad and has such a longing ache that it makes me cry and cry ( Read more... ) -
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I had a lucid dream last night that woke me up at 3a.m. I know I was asking for it (yes, asking for some sign from the universe), but does it really have to scare me shitless? I mean, was that really necessary ( Read more... ) -
"I want someone to call my own"
I saw Shopgirl last Friday. I think I cried from the beginning to end. It's sad. More so than the novella, it's simply about love and how incongruous that love between two people can be sometime, actually a lot of the time. The novella was more a May-December romance and the complications and implications of that. The movie struck a chord with me ( Read more... )