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May 31, 2004
Movie Math
Saved!-Jesus+good writing-pregnancy+more budget+subtlety and some follow-through=Mean Girls
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May 29, 2004
South Park Remains
Wow. Sh*t's still funny as hell. The Mr. Jefferson (Jackson) and the You Got Served episodes - killed me dead. There are links to download the entire episodes here. SO wrong. But so right.
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May 28, 2004
Orchestration Alert
Cello part in the verse of Ain't No Mountain High Enough. How did I never notice that before???
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May 27, 2004
A Whole New World
Thanks to Gabriel, I am now completely moved over to the new, more rubust and more fabulous Moveable Type blog system. Rock ON! You can now leave comments on posts (which could get dangerous), as well as subscribe to be notified when new things are posted.
Last night, Josh Goldowsky yelled @ me for not posting enough to my blog, so [Bill Cosby voice]CHALLENGE[/Bill Cosby voice]!
The Broadway Bombers defeated Baker McKenzie last night, 24-0 (or something like that). The Broadway Bombers are now entering their 7th season. Founded in the Spring of '98 by Josh Goldowsky, Spencer Quinn and myself, the Broadway Bombers was the Broadway management office answer to The Broadway Show League in which, because we worked 9-5, we could not participate. Initially, the team consisted of employees of the Wasser office and TDI. Since the Wasser office manages Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera, we got uniforms designed by the folks who did the logos for said shows. Back in the days of cartwheeling dinging and dancing outfielders, our look was all we had. Now we play hard and look fabulous. These days there are about 2 people from the Wasser office left, and TDI is now Broadway.com. Some folks form the Disney office joined us early on and some of them are still hangin' in. Josh and I are the only original members remaining (we miss you Spencer!), with Jen and Jamie coming in a close second. Drew has joined the coaching staff in Spence's absence, and after last night, we're lookin' to kick some ass and take some names this season.
Josh, I hope you enjoyed that Brief History of the Broadway Bombers. That was for you.
Last night I discovered that it's virtually impossible to play softball without drinking beer afterwards. No, really.
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May 25, 2004
Surreal. That is the word
Surreal. That is the word I choose to describe seeing Heather Headley in concert last night. For those who don't know, I went through the whole "college theatre department" experience with Ms. Headley. So, seeing her on the stage of the New Amsterdam Theatre, with a PACKED house in the palm of her hand, was surreal. When Clay Aiken came out (oh yes, Clay Aiken came out), it nearly killed me. Dead. I've been unable to come up with an analogy really. It was too much to see this girl who used to endure endless chorus rehearsals along with everyone else (sometimes), having the American Idol (an insane phenomenon unto itself) as a "guest" (an awestruck one at that) in this concert that was already too much for me to take. Just craziness. CRAZINESS.
Of course, the girl was phenomenal. Her personality so lends itself to the concert setting, the audience just eats her up. And clearly, her voice is incredible. She did an incredible version of Stevie Wonder's "As" as well as a great cover of Gladys Knight's "Neither One of Us." And the audience gave a standing "O" for her performance of "I Wish I Wasn't" (from her album).
I have a lot of friends who are successful to mildly successful, all of them as talented in their own way, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time until I see them in equally as surreal a setting. And I suppose that could have been any number of them last night. But I'm pretty damn proud of Heather - I think all of us who saw her steal show after show in the time she stayed put @ school feel that way. Like this little secret we had is out - and in a big way, and damn, isn't it just CRAZY??
Also, I must add what Dwayne reminded me of - that it was awesome to see so many people there for so many different reasons and everyone having a good time. In his words, when she started in on the evening, she said she "wanted to do a little Aida, a little Lion King" - the orchestra section went crazy. Then she said "and a little from my album, and some gospel" and the Mezzanine and Balcony went crazy. Good stuff.
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May 14, 2004
How come sometimes we just
How come sometimes we just know things, and no matter how often in the past we've known things and we've been right, we still resist the by now very familiar feeling of just knowing?
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May 13, 2004
[Mount soapbox] I can't help
[Mount soapbox] I can't help but be in a fury about the fact that what's going on in Iraq is a surprise why??? This is only the way We (as a country) have always treated humans that we've politically or religiously decided or been told aren't really human. It's deep deep deep in the history of this country - of this World for that matter - WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS??? (except Rush Limbaugh, who's callin' it like it is "just good ol' boys, lettin' off some steam"). Until we can look in the mirror and talk about these atrocities - that as they are happening are never atrocities, or only circumstancial politicized astrocities - for what they are and as a pattern, this will continue. Continously. [Dismount Soapbox]
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