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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
Mephistopheles of Pancakes' LiveJournal:
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | |
| 12:22 am | Note to Self Self: Do not--repeat, DO NOT--use tax refund to buy a Wii. You will not play it enough. Also, cutest thing ever. Link from Neatorama. |
| Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | |
| 8:57 pm | Spoils of War: Mount Pleasant Public Library Used Book Sale Same as it ever was. Not much in the way of commentary this time. ( The Books ) |
| Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | |
| 11:47 am | The key is there Actual subject line of spam just received: hummock hump humpback humphrey humpty |
| Monday, April 28th, 2008 | |
| 3:07 pm | |
| Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | |
| 1:44 am | Spoils of War: Tarrytown Public Library Used Book Sale You know the drill. ( The books and commentary ) I also picked up several CDs--the soundtracks for The Ten (which includes several songs with music by David Yazbek) and the remake of The Wicker Man, the OBC of Me and My Girl (which I somehow didn't already have), a BBC Music Magazine CD of Britten's Prodigal Son, a CD of 20th Century music for flute and cello, and something called Kaddish by a group called Towering Inferno, which apparently wasn't really a group but was a big hit in the mid-90s, mainly in Europe. |
| Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | |
| 12:29 am | No Life So no, I didn't like Sunday in the Park with George very much. (It's the first time in recorded history that my mom and I have disagreed on a show.) Jenna Russell is marvelous, and the supporting cast excellent (seriously? those people in those tiny roles?), but the production is ugly, the animated projections are distracting, the orchestrations are an insult to the score, and I seriously have no idea what the hell Daniel Evans was doing. (More accurately, I have no idea what he was doing in Act I. In Act II, he seemed to not even be bothering to create a character beyond a nervous smile.) But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln...? |
| Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | |
| 11:52 pm | |
| Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | |
| 3:26 pm | Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls! Did you know that there's a yearly Father Ted convention? I didn't. And now I am marginally happier than I was five minutes ago. (I'm a happy camper!) |
| Friday, March 21st, 2008 | |
| 10:07 pm | I can't explain it; I can only post it. The Neutrinos from TMNT cover "Sweet Home Alabama," backed by a choir of Soviet officers. (Two thirds of that sentence is completely true.) Link from Jason Grote. ADDENDUM, 3/21/08, 10:17 PM: "Still Alive" performed by Mario Paint. Link from the man himself. |
| Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | |
| 12:33 pm | Controversial Statement Conan was so much better during the strike. Since the writers came back, they've gone back to the same old tired shtick. Seeing Next to Normal for the third and last time tonight. Le sigh. |
| Sunday, March 9th, 2008 | |
| 2:13 pm | Number 763 on the list of Things I Have Seen and Cannot Unsee Craig Bierko being anally violated by an orangutan on last week's premiere of Unhitched. (Seriously, Rashida Jones left The Office for this?) |
| Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | |
| 12:17 am | It's Dark...Is It Always This Dark?? My light switch is broken. The lights themselves, as far as I can tell, are fine--my room has perfectly fine power--but the switch just won't respond. So it's very dim in here, but I've gotten the assistance of a standing lamp. Bonus points to anyone who can identify the subject line without Googling it. In other news, there isn't much other news. |
| Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | |
| 11:58 pm | Bad Design If you are doing a production of The Cherry Orchard--or anything by Chekhov, really--whatever you do, don't use "Korobeiniki" for scene change music. Because really, to people of a certain age (mine, roughly), it means only one thing: falling blocks. |
| Friday, January 18th, 2008 | |
| 12:16 am | Let There Be Light Attn. New York folks and those in the environs: Go see Next to Normal at Second Stage. Now. Do not wait until it blows up and becomes an obscenely hot ticket. I'm serious about this: it's extraordinary. It is not perfect (the ending still needs a little work), but the sum of the parts is tremendous. The expert cast, led by Brian d'Arcy James and Alice Ripley doing their finest work in years, and featuring a dazzling young lady (fresh out of Spring Awakening) named Jennifer Damiano; the moving book and literate lyrics, both by Brian Yorkey; and especially the astonishing music by Tom Kitt, hewn out of the tradition of Pete Townsend into something wholly new. Steven and Duncan: this is how to do a rock musical. (So, incidentally, is Passing Strange, although it's as different from Next to Normal as night from day.) |
| Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | |
| 1:53 pm | Three from PBOL Daniel Davis will play Lear at NJ Shakespeare. That's...interesting casting. Shrek: The Musical has the ugliest logo I can recall. "Conjure Woman, presented as part of Black History Month, is a one-woman folk opera written by the late Beatrice Manley. 'A conjur woman uses spells and potions to turn her lover into a tree so that he cannot be sold into slavery. Tragically, even the conjur woman's powers cannot stop the tree from being chopped down and made into logs,' according to production notes." Not a comedy. Just La Mama. |
| Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 | |
| 2:07 pm | Dark Party Would anyone be interested in joining me for the Weimarband's concert at Joe's Pub next Tuesday (1/22) at 9:30? The band is obscenely awesome and tickets are only twelve bucks. (I realize that I haven't written in a while. That'll be rectified soon.) |
| Sunday, January 6th, 2008 | |
| 12:34 am | 2007 Theatre Wrapup ( Clicky-clicky. ) |
| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 | |
| 1:47 am | |
| Monday, December 31st, 2007 | |
| 2:27 am | Results, Fall 2007 Production/Direction Workshop: B American Drama, O'Neill to Albee: A Sweeney Todd this afternoon, then time spent reading to finish up my final book of the year (Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian), then creation of The Big List Of Books I Read This Year. But now, to bed. |
| Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | |
| 1:31 am | What does it all look like now? So tonight I saw the Beckett Shorts at NYTW. I stand resolute in my belief that the great bulk of Samuel Beckett's work was an elaborate joke played on the theatre world. It opens with an amusing Act Without Words I, continues with a less enjoyable Act Without Words II (although the Jawsish music that Phillip Glass has provided for the goad's appearances is fun), moves on to an unpleasant Rough for Theatre I, and closes with an incoherent (more so than usual) Eh Joe. At least it was only 75 minutes long. |