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Big, snooty "What Happened When I went to the Tonys" post

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:04:00 GMT

This is an amazingly long import from my myspace blog.

I had the pleasure of going to the Tony Awards again this year. Although I was far away from the stage, in the second balcony, it was pretty damn thrilling.

This year I got to see a lot more shows than I did last year in New York. Here's what they were:

*Grey Gardens (mah favorite, love Christine Ebersole)
*Spring Awakening (Over-rated but still good)
*The Apple Tree (Revival of an old musical nobody really cares about, notable only because of Kristen Chenoweth from Wicked)
*Heartbreak House (Revival of a George Bernard Shaw play, starring the great Swoosie Kurtz)
*High Fidelity (RIP, sadly under-rated, great pop score)
*Lovemusik (A musical about the songwriter Kurt Weill and singer/actress Lotte Lenya. Pretty much a misfire but still entertaining)
*The Little Dog Laughed (Bad except for the hilarious Julie White as a bitchy agent)
*The Drowsy Chaperone (holdover from 2006, loved John Glover in the Bob Martin role)
*Avenue Q (holdover from 2003. Awesome, especially w/ Rob McClure from camp)
*Spamalot (holdover from...2005, I believe? Hilarious)
*Pig Farm (Off-Broadway, kinda weak)
*Howard Katz (Off-Broadway, amazing Alfred Molina performance)

And I'll be seeing 110 in The Shade (and hopefully Frost/Nixon) next week.

This is a lot more than what I saw last year, including a lot more Tony-nominated shows, so it was a lot more fun to be at than last year, when the few things I did see and liked barely won anything.

First of all, Radio City is the most beautiful theatre on earth. It's so sad that most of the time it's reduced to crap like Lyle Lovett concerts. However, it's a perfect location for a big show like The Tonys. I always went to the Rockettes show at Christmas time when I was little and I loved it then and I love it even more now that I can appreciate the amazing art deco architecture and sheer scale of the damn thing. Nothing like it could ever be built today.

Anyway, the show itself…Like I said, I was at the second balcony and it's a very well-designed house so that you have a pretty good view no matter where you sit. Although it was far away, I could see the whole stage and there are two huge screens hung on either side to show what the audience at home was seeing.

The show started with the technical awards, which the TV audience doesn't get to see except for a brief recap (in this case flashed over a performance by the Jersey Boys. Ugh). No big surprises here, mostly wins for Spring Awakening (some deserved, some given just because voters liked the show over-all) and The Coast of Utopia (which I wish I saw but never did). I was glad, though, that Grey Gardens picked up a well-deserved Tony for costume design. That was a bit of a surprise.

The televised show began with a performance from A Chorus Line, which I have never seen, but it was pretty cool. The section which takes place outside Radio City was pre-filmed. Here is that performance:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KbKJolByom4&mode=related&search=

Then Angela Lansbury did the welcome speech (I love Angela Lansbury). They gave out the best supporting actor award (Billy Crudup), then the best supporting actor in a musical award. John Gallagher Jr. of Spring Awakening, the Brandywine High drop-out, won that one, probably deservedly.

I really couldn't care less about most of the play awards since they mostly went to Coast of Utopia, which, again, I didn't see. There was a big surprise, though, when Julie White, from The Little Dog Laughed, won best actress over amazing competition. I saw that show and I have to say she was the only good thing about it. She was hilarious; the rest of it was some really melodramatic thing about a gay actor's private life. Even the full frontal nudity was boring. I was glad for her, though, she seemed genuinely shocked during her hilarious acceptance speech. Here's one of the worst quality videos of all time of that speech, but you can still hear her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CQ5XmJUQtY

Best actor in a play went to Frank Langella as Nixon. I can't wait to see him, he gave a wonderful speech which I wish I could find a youtube video of.

Curtains, which I have not seen yet, performed the song Show People. It looks okay. David Hyde Pierce surprised everyone when he won over Raul Esparza, of Company, in the best actor in a musical category for this show. I do hope to catch it eventually.

Raul Esparza performed Company's song Being Alive (they won for best musical revival). I've been wanting to see this show for a long time now and now I really want to after catching this incredible performance:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BwDnQB1FbCE

Mary Poppins' cast did a pretty disappointing number in my opinion. The "Step in Time" scene from the movie where all the chimney sweeps dance was never one of my favorite parts and it looks like it won't be onstage, either. Still, I do want to see the show. Can't find a youtube video of that performance.

110 in the Shade performed a funny little number called Raunchy. It stars Audra McDonald, who has an amazing voice. I have tickets for that one coming up. They went home empty-handed.

Grey Gardens had Christine Ebersole performing The Revolutionary Costume For Today. Now, this was my favorite musical this year and I was a little disappointed that they decided to do this song. I guess it sets up the story for the TV audience that the producers want to come see the show, but there are much better songs in the show. Around the World and especially Another Winter in a Summer Town are also sung by Christine Ebersole and I think they are much better songs. Still, it was exciting to see her perform again! Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTzrAS5KJi8

Grey Gardens went home with three awards. Besides costumes, it won awards for its two amazing leading ladies, Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson. Christine Ebersole was the surest bet of the night, people have been raving about her performance for a year now. It's honestly the best performance I've ever seen on a stage. Mary Louise Wilson gave a funny speech. Here's a horrible quality video of it which someone actually filmed off their TV:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I5kqrkx6Ip0

Then, of course, there's Spring Awakening. They did something truly bizarre. They did this medley of songs, and completely changed the lyrics to The Bitch of Living to make it acceptable for TV, but they still said "bitch" many times and the lyric changes really do much, they were just irritating. When they got to Totally Fucked, the cast put their hands over their mouths every time the F word came up. It was pretty funny. I can't find a video of the performance, but here's a bootleg of a rehearsal for it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JorWtL75V34

S.A. pretty much swept the major artistic categories—score, book, choreography, and finally best musical. They lost for leading actor, costume design, and set design.

Both Lovemusik and Legally Blonde were nominated in a number of categories but went home empty-handed. The flop High Fidelity, which I absolutely love, had the most amazing and clever set I have ever seen and it did get a nomination but lost to Mary Poppins, which was to be expected.

Of the famous people who presented, seeing Usher, Ben Vereen, Kevin Spacey, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Heche, Felicity Huffman, Bernadette Peters, and Dwight from the office was all pretty cool. I got to see a few of the presenters (Felicity Huffman and Jeff Daniels, among others) as I was leaving. And I practically walked home with Patrick Wilson. In a totally non-stalker sort of way. Seriously, we just happened to be going in the same direction, ok? OK?!

So, Spring Awakening swept the Tonys as expected. I sorta came to accept that going in. It's the fresh new thing that, like Rent, people think will change everything. At least I sincerely liked the musical, so it wasn't too bad, I just happened to like something better. It was a really exciting night and it's always awesome to be in the same room as all those freaky-talented people. Dream come true for a theatre nerd like myself.

Been a LOOOOONG time

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:34 GMT

Damn, I wish more people were on livejournal than myspace. I love this thing. But I haven't been on in MONTHS.

Anywho, Wanted to do a breif update on my HUUUUGE THEATRE SUMMER.

I just got done with my show American Original at the Delaware Theatre Company's Young Playwrights Festval. It was quite amazing for me.

This summer, I"m working at the DTC's camp again, one last time. I think I mean it this time.

I am writing a show for the Wilmington Drama League's one-act festical, which is a fun little 1950's horror spoof. I'm not acting or directing, just hanging out and doing the script.

I am, however, acting in two shows at the same festival--I'm playing "Tom" in "Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World", and another character of the same name in "Curtain Call to Arms."

Also, I'm part of a staged reading of a new play for the Wilmington Drama League, written by Bernardo Villela, called Light Amidst the Darkness.

Last, I think (but I'm not sure) we're doing a movie version of the One-Act play One More Time for YouTube, etc. I first played "The Director" in it last year (the show's first performance) and have since done it in two more festivals.

And I'm going to the Tony Awards again!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:25:25 GMT

I WON THE YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL AND THE DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY is DOING MY SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

THE LIBRARIAN IS NO LONGER ALLOWED TO THROW OUT BOOKS (actually never WAS allowed to) and MY ANGRY, ARTICLE ABOUT HOW DISGUSTING SHE IS IS GOING TO BE IN B'wine Line NEXT WEEK (I'm sending it in to the News Journal also)

MILLIE IS NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!! FIRST AUDITION WITH THE PIT BAND WENT GREAT!!!!

WHAT A BIZZARELY GOOD DAY!!!!!

-dan

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/Obnoxious caps lock

Facebook

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:56:01 GMT

http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513999735

^That's my facebook. No photos yet.

MASSIVE update coming with a bunch of art projects and photos of New York coming soon.

So...

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:41:10 GMT

I'm playing an Asian named Ching Ho who is unwillingly involved with a ring of Whiiite Slavery for the musical.

I speak only chinese.

Yeah, I really hoped for Trevor Gradon, but there is no way this will be anything but extremely fun.

I'm terrified of being in a musical--singing in front of all those people alone and what-not, and I don't think having to learn Chinese is going to make it easier, but it should be a lot of fun.

...Eh, the whole cast list made no sense at first. At all.

Please don't rest in peace, High Fidelity...

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:27:44 GMT

In October, visiting Boston, I had the pleasure of seeing a new musical in previews before it made its Broadway debut. That musical was High Fidelity, based on the book of the same name (they turned it into a movie with John Cusack, remember?). I thought I would like it mildly at best, but it turned out to be one of the most fun nights I've ever spent in a theater; the music was hummable, the jokes were hilarious and the performers were nothing short of outstanding. After the show, they seemed so enthusiastic and excited.

Unfortunately, that show has only been on Broadway six days and already it's closing. Get this: it's closing THIS SUNDAY. That's only a ten-day run on broadway, which is pretty much unheard of. It's times like this I get so pissed off that Phantom and Wicked manage to sell out night after night on Broadway for years when there are so many smaller shows that are just as good that aren't even given a chance to build an audience.

It's really sad. I feel horrible for the cast and writers, who probably will never be able to drop the label of having worked on a multi-million dollar flop. The absurd thing is that the bigwigs waited almost no time at all to make their decision--it's like suicide.

In any event, there are much more tragic things happening in the world, but the idea of something I love failing so miserably gets to me.

HIGH FIDELITY on BROADWAY:
DECEMBER 7-DECEMBER 17, 2006

The Slow and Painful Death of LiveJournal

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:47:25 GMT

Where is everyone? Why has everyone flocked to MySpace and deleted their Livejournals when LJ is so much better? Arg! It's really not worth posting here anymore because nobody's on these days. :(

I think I have finally earned the RIGHT to wallow in self pity

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:14:52 GMT

Thank God for watching good movies in film class to take my mind off the fact that I should be crying hysterically during every class. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong in the past three days--has and then some. Good God. And the thing of it is, it's all my own damn fault and I know it and now I have to deal with what's happened. It's really time for me to grow up. Oh, well. In a way, I suppose I already have and in a way I never will. For one thing, I really need to get my act together in school, though, my grades are punishment enough. Frankly, I don't care what anyone thinks any more because I'm genuinely worried to death myself. My college situation is gonna be pretty damn bad if I don't start getting 100s on everything now. Psych test today was not a good start...

Also, due to yet an another enormous fuck-up that actually isn't my fault, I don't believe I will ever drive. Until I am seventy. By which time my eyes will be gone.

Then I turn on the news and see some starving kid and I want to slap myself in the face for being so selfish. I've done so little with so much.

Well then.

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:53:27 GMT

hmm.

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:07:39 GMT

Today I saw Borat with Larissa. Holy God, that is one disgusting movie. I actually could not open my eyes for one extended scene because it was just so godawfully disgusting. But it's a great movie, it's not as stupid as it is on the surface, it's one of the most intelligent and clever movies this year. Not that that's saying much in the year of Jackass: The Movie. It's also potentially a terrible date movie and will probably put anyone off the very idea of sex for several months. In some ways, it's just an extended episode of Da Ali G Show, But it's definitely worth seeing. Can't wait to see what this guy does with the role of Pirelli in the upcoming Sweeney Todd movie. It probably deserves to be successful as it's been. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at a movie, Larissa was literally crying from laughter.

Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
*** out of ****

Recurring Dream...

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:03:31 GMT

For the past month or so, I've been having the same dream.

I show up at a theater and go backstage, the cast grabs me and tells me I'm going to be in the show. I get thrown onstage before I even look at my lines. It's a musical. Awkwardness ensues.

I wonder if this is supposed to mean something. Perhaps that I'm hopelessly unprepared for everything that is being thrown at me.

It's beginning to feel a lot like...

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:03:40 GMT

Christmas is far, far away still and yet I feel like it is coming. Very strange feeling.

Christmas can't come early enough for me this year. I'm getting nostalgic for the years back when I'd go to my grandparents' house in Cape Cod every Christmas. I miss them so much. I miss getting to see my extended family once a year, and I think the different place and different people made it more special for me than Christmas is for a lot of folks who just stay at home every year.

Do I really have to wait for after Thanksgiving for it to be soon enough for me to get a tree out and change my MySpace profile for the hollidays?

WOW.

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:52:41 GMT

WOW
WOW
WOW
WOW
WOW
WOW
WOW

Best night in New York of my life. Saw Rob McClure's (for those of you who have somehow missed my obnoxious ranting for the last month, a really funny actor I used to work with at the Delaware Theater Company this summer)first Avenue Q show with some other DTC apprentices.

HOLY SHIT THAT WAS THE MOST AMAZING NIGHT.

It is 3:44 AM, I just got back, but I can't go to sleep because I'm so excited.

He was so good as Nicky and Trekkie and the Bad Idea Bears and...

...I still can't get over the fact this is the same guy I used to sing Avenue Q songs with at lunch, doing the real thing, the only production of Avenue Q in the US (the Vegas production is already gone) on FREAKING BROADWAY.

He talked to us after the show for a while, I miss him so much and it was great to talk to him again, I only wish he was allowed to bring us backstage, that would have been incredible.

And I just hope I wasn't too obnoxious with my claque-ing during the show.

Also, we shelled out and had dinner at the Marriot Marquis and had this very odd waiter named Samir who was really sucking up well for an enormous tip, and then he oddly showed up several times later in the same night and kept waving at us. And it was like in Times Square. Very odd...what are the odds?

I began to get suspicious.

Oh, Samir, if you are reading this, I didn't think you were serious when you called me your "best friend." I'm really not that interested.

And then Larissa had never been to New York at night before so, of course, we had to go to the top of the Rockefeller building, which is the most amazing view in the entire world. There's nothing more wonderful than seeing someone see that for the first time. It's beautiful.

And...I'm not going to school tomorrow. I mean today. It starts in about three hours.

DTC Tickets

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:08:47 GMT

I SHOULD be able to get an extra free ticket for anybody interested in seeing some Delaware Theater Shows on the first Sunday matinee performance (2:00 PM)

The shows are
*Sam Cooke: Forever Mr. Soul (Some new musical revueI have only a passing interest in)
*The Retreat From Moscow (Should be good, my friend David Stradley is directing)
*Driving Miss Daisy (Yeah, they're doing a lot more typical shows now at the DTC, unfortunately)
*Shakespeare's R&J (To dispute my last comment, it's an all-male version of Romeo and Juliet)

So yeah, it's not a guaruntee, but it's about an 85% chance I'll be able to get an extra for those, so just tell me if you're interested.

TURN OF THE SCREW was the first show of the season, I saw it today and I doubt anything else this season will be as good.

Sam Cooke: Forever Mr. Soul

The Retreat From Moscow

Driving Miss Daisy

Shakespeare's R&J

Busy weekend...

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:48:28 GMT

THURSDAY there was rehearsal for Little Women after school that went on for approximately 15,129 hours, and art club.
Followed on Friday night by setting up for the haunted house, followed by the actual haunted house which slightly sucked that night, followed by me going to the Regal with people who were smart enough to get tickets for The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D in advance, looking like a moron with my backpack still with me and red tempra paint poured on my hands and face and shirt. Sooo, Nightmare was sold out for the whole night, and I saw Man of the Year instead, which was better than I thought it would be, got home at 1 AM. I really want to see The Prestige and Flags of Our Fathers sometime soon, though.

Saturday: extra-long Little Women rehearsal, then went to see Nightmare Before Christmas with Teri, and it was still fairly packed at 2:30 PM though not sold out. Disney is going to make more money on this re-release than the original, I swear. By the way, it's really worth seeing. It's so much better than watching the DVD. The 3D isn't gimmicky and pop-outish or anything, it's exactly appropriate and realistic, and this new "Digital 3D" process is amazing. No more ugly red-and-blue, headache-inducing picture. I noticed lots of little things I never noticed the seventy-five times around, unless I forgot them from when I saw the movie in a theater when I was three. Still a beautiful movie.

Um, so after that it was haunted house time again and we completely gutted and redid our room completely differently (and better), it was fun, stayed there until about 10. Saw Maggie briefly for the first time in several centuries, yet oddly had nothing to say.

Today I'm seeing Turn of the Screw at the Theater Company at 2.

Mr. Smith!!!!!!!

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:25:53 GMT

AAAAAARG!!!! Mister Smith, I thought you'd be one of the teachers I'd actually like!!!

Instead, you lose the one assignment you had me turn in this whole year and give me a zero for it and give me an F on my interim grade :(

I will be so pissed if he doesn't let me make this up.

In other news...
Um, I feel pretty good, I guess. I was in the woods accross from my house today and walked down to the river and saw this amazing bird. It was at least three feet tall, I think it was some extra-big king fisher. It was beautiful and had a long, swan-like neck. It was greyish blue and moved like a raptor. I've never seen anything like it, so I kept sneaking up to it to get a better look and, of course, it kept flying away; I followed it by the side of the river for about half an hour. It's so easy to forget that we share the planet with animals as amazing and unique as we are when we're stuck on the hamsteer wheel of bullshit every day.

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:55:11 GMT

So, yeah.

Little Women.

At the rate we are going recently, it may shape up to be a bit better than it has any right to be. With luck. I can safely say I give the most half-assed performance in the whole piece.

I need to get out...

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:07:41 GMT

I haven't seen so many of my friends for such a long time. I'm feeling so overly emo this year, so many people have moved on and I won't be seeing all the great people I met this summer again for a few more weeks in all likelihood. I like beeing alone a lot, I don't know whether that's because I grew up in a neighborhood with no kids my age or just because I'm an isolated person by nature, but I'm way too despondent in how I treat other people.

Also, what happened to livejournal? So many people are leaving! It's the same couple of (awesome) people commenting now over and over, and so many people have deleted theirs. Maybe people think it's getting outdated or something. I like it better than Myspace, though, because people actually take the time to read and comment on livejournals more than myspace blogs or bullitens.

We're in a bit of an October lull coming up this week, but the end of October will be fast and furious:

Throughout: Insane, numerous Little Women rehearsals.

October 20/21 (I think): Art Club Haunted House

INSANELY INSANE LITTLE WOMEN REHEARSALS

October 26-28th: Little Women performances

Monday, October 30th: Going to New York at night with DTC folk to see Rob's opening night in Avenue Q

October 31st: Still in New York, skipping, sleeping till like 1 PM probably, spend day in New York, and it's HALLOWEEN.

Boston

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:14:46 GMT

So I was in Boston this weekend looking at colleges I won't be able to get into. I think I'd like going to school there, it's such a pretty city, there's so much cool architecture and it's not too big but still feels cosmopolitan. I love New York, but I think I still have a bit too much Delaware in me to think I could handle that every day of my life for the time being. I'd like to retire in Manhattan. Like I'll ever afford it.

Anyway, I think I might want to go to Emerson.

I also got a chance to see High Fidelity, which is a new show about to go to Broadway, but it was previewing in Boston. They are still working on it, so there are some kinks, especially towards the end, but I think it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. The score isn't that original or catchy, and it's yet another musical based on a movie (which is a trend I hate) but I can say that it's worth going because it is just so hillarious. Great cast.

Rest in Peace, My Hair

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:38:03 GMT

I've kinda needed to cut my hair for months now and Mrs. Jolly was telling me it had to be cut for the show because I'm playing an 18th century grandfather.

So I got it done.

And it got out of hand.

Now my hair is shorter than it's been since I was maybe six.

I really hate it, it looks even worse than it did. It's like a crew cut or something.

Ouch.

Oh, well. Life goes on.

Several Things....

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:23:07 GMT

First of all, if you thought the old Nazi Librarian was bad, prepare to start begging she was back. Mrs. Hill was many things, but stupid and overwhelmingly inconsiderate were not on that list. Meet the new "media specialist."

Does anyone other than me remember how on the back wall of the Library, there were hardbound Life, Newsweek, and Time Magaziens dating back to the mid-40s? Some of these things are worth a hell of a lot a money, in additon to their extreme historical significance and importance. Sometimes I would look at these when I was bored during lunch period and look up old movies. I mean, these magazines actually had reviews of movies that seem old as time itself to me. And they have all kinds of primary sources on events that are just incredible. Magazines from when JFK was shot, that famous issue of Life when the Beetles first broke out. The list goes on. Not to mention really cool retro-fifties ads that I would (pathetically enough) make wallpaper out of if I had the chance.

Some of these mags would have fetched some pretty big money on e-bay. What's more, they were just damn IMPORTANT.

You want to know where they are now?

In a fucking landfill.

I saw them being carted out in a trash can two days ago. It made me physically sick. I would have paid for these things myself, really. They're something original that the world will never see again, and now they're gone forever.

What an unbelievable moronic thing to do. You might as well burn them publicly. At least tell people before you do it.

I talked to the Librarian about it for a moment and realized what a total douch she is. A somewhat ignorant and well meaning one, but still a douch.

She won't let me buy New York Times, either, which was like a morning ritual last year. I'm sorry, but I actually want to learn something in school. Is that too much to ask? Especially when you have like five copies in front of you and nobody else is reading them?

Bitch.

Two projects I'm working on:

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:43:04 GMT

SCHOOL

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:32:03 GMT

Wow. School is obviously back in, and with a vengeance.

Good things:
Really fun electives. Film as Art and Creative Writing in the same semester! :)
Psychology Class is probably the most interesting academic course I've ever taken.
Mr. Smith is cool and the smartest English Teacher I've had in years.
I understand what's going on in Math.

Bad Things:
WORKLOAD. Holy God. It's ridiculous.
Driving; due to Mr. Sansoti's forgetting that I existed last year, I have been forced to do driving this year, which sucks very much. It should have been done long ago. I should be driving to school.
The Library won't sell me New York Times this year. Apparently it's illegal. I guess it's part of the new Make Absolutely Sure that No Child Actually Learns Something in School plan.

...And it's school. Which always kind of sucks no matter how much pretty paint you throw on it.

Are we still the children we once were?

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:30:13 GMT

I took a look around today...
And realized that everybody's all damn grown up!

When the hell did this happen? Did I miss the memo? Are we supposed to be near-adults now? What happened to 10 lasting forever and ever and ever times infinity? What happened to driving and college being a distant fantastical possibility on the very edge of the horizon? What the HELL happened to hide-and-go-seek? Maybe spending a summer working at a camp set me back some, but I am so not ready for this. And my WORKLOAD this year...it's fucking ridiculous! What happened to the world being big and wonderful and mysterious? What happened to the thought of being able to find your way around New York City being ridiculous? All I want is to wake up on the couch on Saturday morning because I stayed up too late watching Doug and being just in time for Batman cartoons on channel 4. What happened to actually LEARNING in SCHOOL? What happened to great teachers who cared? What happened to tag? What happened to climbing a ten-foot-tree or getting on top of a van and feeling like you're on top of the world? What the HELL happened to spaghettios (the meatball kind) and lunchables and kraft macaroni and cheese? What is this weird, fancy stuff I'm eating at restaurants?

I had almost forgotten.

Did everyone else already forget?

That's what it seems like.

Isn't that what all the old people used to tell you? "Hold on to it...it goes so fast...it's an incredible time for you." And you think, what are those old people talking about? But now it's gone forever. Just a few years.

Somebody stop the world, because I'm just slow.

“Does anyone ever realize life, every, every minute? Perhaps the saints and poets do.”
--Thorton Wilder.

What the hell is going on?

Brief Sunday NY Update

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:36:17 GMT

Sunday was fun, I got to meet two pretty cool people. First of all, Greg Kotis, who people probably would best know as the guy who wrote the lyrics and book to the Broadway show "Urinetown". He has a new play called "Pig Farm" that I saw yesterday and afterwards he came onstage and answered questions. Now, this was a funny little satire of the food industry, not great by any means, but totally innocuous and enjoyable. And he was ATTACKED by the barage of old people who found it offensive and thought it meant nothing. There was this one guy, about a 75-year-old, who didn't even ask questions, just made rude comments. Saying stuff like "This was a failure because I could not take this seriously at all. I could not even begin to get the point from you because you made it all silly and stupid." I did the best I could to defend the show whenever I got the chance, since that's the whole fucking POINT of satire, to make light of a serious situation. Some people just want attention so badly...it's quite pathetic.

Oh, after the show I was walking back to Penn's Station (early train) and Martin Short's new show was letting out and I decided to wait by the stage door and pretend I saw the show. He came out pretty quick and was very nice and signed for everybody and joked. The show looks pretty hillarious and is getting great reviews, so I guess that one's going on my to-do list.

Arg, school tomorrow.