Monday, June 26, 2006
Shoes
Yay, this weekend I got two pair of shoes -- one black and one brown. I also bought a few new shirts, which was a lot of fun. I'm slighty addicted to shopping for clothes. I still have a few more things I want to get at H&M as well mostly in the way of pants.
I also got Liza's Carnegie Hall concert CD used for only $10 and a book for my grandpop for his birthday.
Tonight I watched Honey We're Killing the Kids with Christina and Leah in order to feel good about myself.
Tomorrow is the College picnic, so I only really have to work for 4 or so hours, and I'm still getting paid for the whole day. Yippee!
I also got Liza's Carnegie Hall concert CD used for only $10 and a book for my grandpop for his birthday.
Tonight I watched Honey We're Killing the Kids with Christina and Leah in order to feel good about myself.
Tomorrow is the College picnic, so I only really have to work for 4 or so hours, and I'm still getting paid for the whole day. Yippee!
Saturday, June 24, 2006
"Grey's Anatomy," "Maurice," etc.
So, this week I've watched all of the first season of Grey's Anatomy as well as the movie of Maurice, based on the wonderful novel by E.M. Forster. Other than that, not a whole lot has been going on, though I did read Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein at work as well, which was a very funny and well-written play.
Tomorrow I'm going shoe shopping for my birthday.
Oh, and I also organized a mini-trippy to see Seven Guitars at Signature Theatre in NYC for Christina, Richard, Emma, and I.
Oh, and my birthday is this coming Friday, so if anyone's interested in seeing Bright Lights, Big City at Prince Music Theatre for $10 (student rush -- no guarantees) on Saturday to celebrate, let me know! The backup plan is probably either a movie or gellato.
What have I most been thinking about lately? How much a lot of gay people bother me. Not all, but blah.
Tomorrow I'm going shoe shopping for my birthday.
Oh, and I also organized a mini-trippy to see Seven Guitars at Signature Theatre in NYC for Christina, Richard, Emma, and I.
Oh, and my birthday is this coming Friday, so if anyone's interested in seeing Bright Lights, Big City at Prince Music Theatre for $10 (student rush -- no guarantees) on Saturday to celebrate, let me know! The backup plan is probably either a movie or gellato.
What have I most been thinking about lately? How much a lot of gay people bother me. Not all, but blah.
Monday, June 19, 2006
Trip to NYC for the weekend with Emma
So this weekend I went up to New York City from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon to visit my friend Emma. We had a great time, and the trip went really well besides for the last day, when we rode the subway in the wrong direction coming back from Central Park and ended up taking an hour and a half to get from Central Park to 14th Street.
On Friday night, we ate at Spice on University Place, which has excellent food, and then saw Stuff Happens at the Public Theatre. Since Emma knows someone who used to work there, he helped us get $15 tickets, and we also ended up in the front row. The play, by David Hare, is about the Bush Administration, particularly focusing on the time leading up to U.S. involvement in Iraq. The theater it was in was very amazing, with a rectangular playing area in the middle of the theatre serving as the stage in between two blocks of seats looking on from either side. The major props were desk chairs, and projections on the walls of either side of the stage added additional effects. The show did a great job of articulating various perspectives (those of U.N. members, reporters, Iraqis, the administration itself) and had a wonderful focus on Colin Powell that really added a great deal of interest.
On Saturday, we did some fun shopping at H&M. We also went to Marc Jacobs to look for a really cool Rufus Wainwright T-shirt sold there exclusively for the Carnegie Hall concert, but they were sold out; Emma got a really huge purple ring there for $1. We also looked in a lot of nice stores with prices far too high for me to ever consider, but we had a great time overall, and we ate at Peanut Butter & Co. on Sullivan Street.
Later on Saturday, we met up with David to have tea, and he came with us to the Public Theatre and waited with us while we tried to get into another play at the Public, Satellites by Diana Son and starring Sandra Oh (featured at left with Kevin Carroll). We got in and ended up with second row seats, which were superb. The show was really great. It addresses a young interracial couple (she's Korean, he's black) who move into a Brooklyn brownstone with their infant daughter and how they deal with their various pasts and reconciling them with the future of their child. The performances were excellent all around with Oh a particular standout, and the set was absolutely stunning. When you enter the theatre, it seems as if they won't be able to fit the proceedings into the relatively limited dimensions of the stage area vertically and horizontally, but once the play starts, the depth of the stage becomes apparent, and the various settings of the brownstone's floors transition on and off, backward and forward with amazing precision.
Overall, two spectacular evenings at the theatre. We both agreed that we preferred the more human drama of Satellites to the politics of Stuff Happens, but we both enjoyed each of them.
On Sunday, we chilled in Central Park and overheard a really great phone conversation in Central Park with a guy recounting his wife's bowel movements and bra shopping to his daughter. He also saw Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Washington Square Park, and Emma and I had also spotted him on the same day in question. Then began the debacle of coming home. It took an hour and a half to get from Central Park to 14th Street, and then I got right back on the subway for a crazily long trip that lasted from around 5 to 9:30 and spanned two subways, two trains, a shuttle bus, and a trolley.
Anyway, I made it home alive and had a lot of fun with li'l Emms.
On Friday night, we ate at Spice on University Place, which has excellent food, and then saw Stuff Happens at the Public Theatre. Since Emma knows someone who used to work there, he helped us get $15 tickets, and we also ended up in the front row. The play, by David Hare, is about the Bush Administration, particularly focusing on the time leading up to U.S. involvement in Iraq. The theater it was in was very amazing, with a rectangular playing area in the middle of the theatre serving as the stage in between two blocks of seats looking on from either side. The major props were desk chairs, and projections on the walls of either side of the stage added additional effects. The show did a great job of articulating various perspectives (those of U.N. members, reporters, Iraqis, the administration itself) and had a wonderful focus on Colin Powell that really added a great deal of interest.
On Saturday, we did some fun shopping at H&M. We also went to Marc Jacobs to look for a really cool Rufus Wainwright T-shirt sold there exclusively for the Carnegie Hall concert, but they were sold out; Emma got a really huge purple ring there for $1. We also looked in a lot of nice stores with prices far too high for me to ever consider, but we had a great time overall, and we ate at Peanut Butter & Co. on Sullivan Street.
Later on Saturday, we met up with David to have tea, and he came with us to the Public Theatre and waited with us while we tried to get into another play at the Public, Satellites by Diana Son and starring Sandra Oh (featured at left with Kevin Carroll). We got in and ended up with second row seats, which were superb. The show was really great. It addresses a young interracial couple (she's Korean, he's black) who move into a Brooklyn brownstone with their infant daughter and how they deal with their various pasts and reconciling them with the future of their child. The performances were excellent all around with Oh a particular standout, and the set was absolutely stunning. When you enter the theatre, it seems as if they won't be able to fit the proceedings into the relatively limited dimensions of the stage area vertically and horizontally, but once the play starts, the depth of the stage becomes apparent, and the various settings of the brownstone's floors transition on and off, backward and forward with amazing precision.Overall, two spectacular evenings at the theatre. We both agreed that we preferred the more human drama of Satellites to the politics of Stuff Happens, but we both enjoyed each of them.
On Sunday, we chilled in Central Park and overheard a really great phone conversation in Central Park with a guy recounting his wife's bowel movements and bra shopping to his daughter. He also saw Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Washington Square Park, and Emma and I had also spotted him on the same day in question. Then began the debacle of coming home. It took an hour and a half to get from Central Park to 14th Street, and then I got right back on the subway for a crazily long trip that lasted from around 5 to 9:30 and spanned two subways, two trains, a shuttle bus, and a trolley.
Anyway, I made it home alive and had a lot of fun with li'l Emms.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Poem, missing Rufus
So, this post is going to be kind of random. Today I wrote a bit of a poem as sort of an amalgam of thoughts of An Inconvenient Truth and Samuel Beckett; I thought about writing a poem today as a response to the introduction of Donald Hall as the new U.S. poet laureate today. Here it is:
Gone
All gone now, I see –
Vast expanses – blue, blue –
Hanging from this bundle of balloons
I look up
Wonder what if
Pop!
A little lower
Nothing left
I remember green
Green below
Green to my right and left
Leafy and wide and – I forget the word
Word?
And rooted
I remember – and regret
Blue
Water and me
Water and me and then –
And then
As I slip and
Pop
Gone
Nothing left
I remember green and regret and leave
Last the leaves
The last
Tonight is Rufus Wainwright's recreation of Judy Garland's 
1961 Carnegie Hall concert, which, sadly I'm not able to see live. Luckily, the audio and video are being recorded for release. Lately, I've been listening to the Judy at Carnegie Hall CD a lot lately, and it's just a great CD -- it makes you so cheerful to listen to it, but at the same time, she's harrowingly haunting to listen to.
Gone
All gone now, I see –
Vast expanses – blue, blue –
Hanging from this bundle of balloons
I look up
Wonder what if
Pop!
A little lower
Nothing left
I remember green
Green below
Green to my right and left
Leafy and wide and – I forget the word
Word?
And rooted
I remember – and regret
Blue
Water and me
Water and me and then –
And then
As I slip and
Pop
Gone
Nothing left
I remember green and regret and leave
Last the leaves
The last
Tonight is Rufus Wainwright's recreation of Judy Garland's 
1961 Carnegie Hall concert, which, sadly I'm not able to see live. Luckily, the audio and video are being recorded for release. Lately, I've been listening to the Judy at Carnegie Hall CD a lot lately, and it's just a great CD -- it makes you so cheerful to listen to it, but at the same time, she's harrowingly haunting to listen to.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
"An Inconvenient Truth," "A Prairie Home Companion," Wegmans
It was nice that they allowed some of the movie to be devoted to talking about Gore's personal experiences and their relation to his viewpoint in regards to the issues at hand as well. Gore shows great charisma unlike I've ever seen before, and it really makes you wish he'd shown as much personality when he was running for President. I was kind of turned off by the fact that it's essentially a PowerPoint presentation recorded as a movie, but it's a really clever, well-done presentation and it's enhanced by other elements that really contribute to an effective film. I really think that you have to be missing a heart to not be moved by this movie.
For more information on the movie, visit www.climatecrisis.org .
For 10 things to do to be part of the solution (otherwise you're part of the problem): http://www.climatecrisis.net/pdf/10things.pdf .
For ways to get others involved: http://www.climatecrisis.net/pdf/seethetruth.pdf .
Last night, I saw a much lighter movie (both were at the amazing Bryn Mawr Film Institute, by the way) called A Prairie Home Companion which documented the fall of a down home radio show. It was just a very fun, cute movie with some great people (Meryl Streep -- who can sing!, Lily Tomlin, John C. Reilly, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, and so on). Of course, in relation to the problem of global warming, I suppose the loss of a radio show is less lamentable, but it was still a very well-made fim (it was directed by Robert Altman). Apparently there's an actual Prairie Home Companion radio show on NPR too in case anyone wants to check that out.
Other than these really great movies, today I went with Christina and Leah to visit Ashley at the store she works at in Downingtown, Wegmans. It's a store that has a lot of really spectacular prepared food and a wide variety of groceries, and I must say I was immensely impressed. I got some rice and couscous for my mom as well as some chocolate and Chinese food for myself. I also had plum bubble tea that was supposedly not really what bubble tea is supposed to taste like. Anyway, that was a really fun thing to do today; I definitely hope it wasn't my last time at Wegmans.
Tomorrow night is the 60th Anniversary broadcast of the Antoinette "Tony" Perry Awards, and I'm having some people over to watch them and eat some specil desserts I'm going to spend a lot of time making tomorrow (banana cake with vanilla icing and my spongey lemon glazed cookies...mmm).
Anyway...good times. Next weekend I'm going to NYC to visit Emma and probably see a play, which I'm also very excited about. I'm sure I'll post again after that at the very latest.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
It's been a while
Well, it's been a while since I added a post, so I figured I'd write something.
I went to the shore last weekend, which was nice, since I had a long weekend from work. The weather was very nice (not too hot), and it's always nice to get to eat out at restaurants, walk around, etc.
Work has mostly been slow. My boss, Charlie, was out this week, so I didn't really have a whole lot of assigned tasks like I usually do. I read three books this week just at work (Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson and Night by Elie Wiesel).
Night is a really great book. It didn't really affect me a whole lot for most of the proceedings, but the very end really got to me and made the book as effective as it is. I've been reading more August Wilson lately to prepare for my class in the fall, and I've also been working on a timeline of events within the plays, events in African-American history, and events in August Wilson's life and the performance of his plays.
I also got a new recording of Sunday in the Park with George, a wonderful Sondheim musical. It's the 2006 London recording, and it's absolutely beautiful. The performances are very interesting with some great new accents, and the music is sung just wonderfully. It's definitely worth picking up. The Wedding Singer's cast recording comes out soon, which I'm also excited about.
I went to the shore last weekend, which was nice, since I had a long weekend from work. The weather was very nice (not too hot), and it's always nice to get to eat out at restaurants, walk around, etc.
Work has mostly been slow. My boss, Charlie, was out this week, so I didn't really have a whole lot of assigned tasks like I usually do. I read three books this week just at work (Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson and Night by Elie Wiesel).
Night is a really great book. It didn't really affect me a whole lot for most of the proceedings, but the very end really got to me and made the book as effective as it is. I've been reading more August Wilson lately to prepare for my class in the fall, and I've also been working on a timeline of events within the plays, events in African-American history, and events in August Wilson's life and the performance of his plays.
I also got a new recording of Sunday in the Park with George, a wonderful Sondheim musical. It's the 2006 London recording, and it's absolutely beautiful. The performances are very interesting with some great new accents, and the music is sung just wonderfully. It's definitely worth picking up. The Wedding Singer's cast recording comes out soon, which I'm also excited about.
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