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I held out on reading this for a while because I wanted to save it. I *love* Mrs. Pollifax. This time, she had to escape a tricky double agent and travel across Morocco in a beat-up truck dressed like a peasant in order to save the freedom fighters. Mrs. Pollifax is the best!
Nov. 3rd, 2006
Alan Tudyk is awesome
Nov. 3rd, 2006 09:46 amI would just like to note that on last night's CSI, Alan Tudyk was the creepily-hottest pedophile EVER. (When I got excited to see him on TV, my mom said, "Ew, but he's a pedophile!" to which I replied, "No, no, he's really a spaceship pilot!")
Apparently we can get discount theater tickets through my work. I just got an email from HR about what's available right now. I totally want to go to this:
JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY: "Don’t Miss the Year’s Most Unexpectedly Captivating Show!" – TONY. The Two and Only is the hilarious and intensely moving story of a boy growing up in Texas whose only dream is to entertain. It’s the story of his mentor, a Midwestern puppet-maker who provided him with inspiration to be a star. It’s the story of his best friend, hand carved to perfection. It’s the story of Chuck & Bob from TV’s Soap. Simply, it’s the story of Jay Johnson--writer, philosopher, comic, artist & one of America’s foremost ventriloquists.
A puppet maker was his mentor, and his best friend is made of wood! But it's in New York and the tickets even with the discount are $56. :(
And Jorn, there was even a show on the list for you:
EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL: November Special! The 1980’s Cult-Classic Films Come Alive! Based on Sam Raimi’s cult films, Evil Dead The Musical now slashes its way to the NYC stage. This “dis-arm-ingly” riotous musical comedy unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends go to abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, boy fights until dawn to survive. “Camp” takes on a whole new meaning as buzzing chainsaws & Candarian Demons slay audiences in this tale of lust, love and dismemberment.
A musical with dismemberment, isn't that what you've been hoping for all along?
JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY: "Don’t Miss the Year’s Most Unexpectedly Captivating Show!" – TONY. The Two and Only is the hilarious and intensely moving story of a boy growing up in Texas whose only dream is to entertain. It’s the story of his mentor, a Midwestern puppet-maker who provided him with inspiration to be a star. It’s the story of his best friend, hand carved to perfection. It’s the story of Chuck & Bob from TV’s Soap. Simply, it’s the story of Jay Johnson--writer, philosopher, comic, artist & one of America’s foremost ventriloquists.
A puppet maker was his mentor, and his best friend is made of wood! But it's in New York and the tickets even with the discount are $56. :(
And Jorn, there was even a show on the list for you:
EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL: November Special! The 1980’s Cult-Classic Films Come Alive! Based on Sam Raimi’s cult films, Evil Dead The Musical now slashes its way to the NYC stage. This “dis-arm-ingly” riotous musical comedy unearths the old familiar story: boy and friends go to abandoned cabin, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes ancient evil spirit, boy fights until dawn to survive. “Camp” takes on a whole new meaning as buzzing chainsaws & Candarian Demons slay audiences in this tale of lust, love and dismemberment.
A musical with dismemberment, isn't that what you've been hoping for all along?
I've been meaning to read this for a long time. I first heard of Aphra Behn in college, while I was taking a class on Jane Austen, because my Austen professor was a passionate Behn scholar and encouraged me to read her as well. I found the book at Edward McKay's back when I lived in Greensboro, and I've been carrying it around ever since; luckily, it's a skinny little volume.
That's the back story. This book was actually very cool. Aphra Behn (born in 1640) was the first Englishwoman to support herself with a writing career; she was a novelist and playwright as well as a spy and was supposedly bisexual. (I just went and looked up these facts about her, since if I had known them before I would probably have read the book sooner.) ANYWAY, it's a book about slavery and the human condition; a book about an African prince who is betrayed and sold into slavery, and how gallant and noble and brave he is. Definitely worth reading, and I want to read more of Behn's work and more about her own life as well.
I feel like I'm always reading trash--though I adore Mrs. Pollifax, she's hardly high literature, and I read a lot of YA and fantasy novels, which are fun, but not exactly challenging. Maybe I feel bad because I have been reading mostly for fun and not challenging my brain, or maybe I feel bad because I feel like classics are more work than fun. I was an English major, I should be joyously and ravenously devouring Dickens, not just drinking his cider. I have whole boxes of books I haven't read that are classics, and hauling them around and not reading them makes me feel like a schmo. Especially the collected D.H. Lawrence, which I sincerely doubt I will ever crack open no matter how ambitious I get--it's just too large and intimidating. And we won't even get started on the poetry books. But in the past two months I have started on Virginia Woolf; I've read Aphra Behn, and I've been working my way through a collection of Alice Walker essays, all of which make me feel like I'm doing *something* with my brain besides just feeding it fantasy stories. Not that fantasies don't have their place in a well-rounded book-diet; it's more that my book intake was not at all balanced, and I am trying to get it to a good place.
PS. The next book I read will be #100. I better pick a good one!
That's the back story. This book was actually very cool. Aphra Behn (born in 1640) was the first Englishwoman to support herself with a writing career; she was a novelist and playwright as well as a spy and was supposedly bisexual. (I just went and looked up these facts about her, since if I had known them before I would probably have read the book sooner.) ANYWAY, it's a book about slavery and the human condition; a book about an African prince who is betrayed and sold into slavery, and how gallant and noble and brave he is. Definitely worth reading, and I want to read more of Behn's work and more about her own life as well.
I feel like I'm always reading trash--though I adore Mrs. Pollifax, she's hardly high literature, and I read a lot of YA and fantasy novels, which are fun, but not exactly challenging. Maybe I feel bad because I have been reading mostly for fun and not challenging my brain, or maybe I feel bad because I feel like classics are more work than fun. I was an English major, I should be joyously and ravenously devouring Dickens
PS. The next book I read will be #100. I better pick a good one!