Boilerplate bit: with merciful rarity, I'll play a song I like on my old acoustic, record it on my home-recording setup, and post it to the blog. You can see earlier entries here , or subscribe to these as a podcast ( click here if you use iTunes) . If I ever had any music cred (and no, I didn't), now's the time I get to watch it all go up in flames: #46. Hall and Oates - You Make ...
Videos:
The first two minutes of Castle = amusing Firefly reference.
A Lego pop-up book.
"Just Like Heaven" + mandolin = http://bit.ly/1E1oU
A day at Disneyland, in tilt-shift video.
Pictures:
How to not be creepy.
Cat + isopod + Japanese TV = this
"That might be your belief system, someday." (Be sure to read the commentary.)
"Zoom. Enhance."
ICHC ...
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This past Tuesday we had another rehearsal for the Dickens show . The show opens November 6th, so it's crunch time now. Fortunately, all the elements we've been rehearsing this month are coming together nicely.
In the first half of rehearsal, we went over stage combat.
"Stage combat" = how to fake violence on stage so that (1) it looks convincing, but (2) we don't wind uphurting ...
Movies: Great Expectations (1946) TV: books: Great Expectations (1946) This is the David Lean adaptation of the Dickens novel -- yes, more preparations for the Improvised Dickens show. I watched this film when I was in... high school? middle school? Probably middle school. I remember the class had read the book as well. We'd read sections of it aloud in class, and the ...
So, where were we? Ah, yes. I was sitting in Central Market Café, eating an overpriced sandwich and bad chili. So, after finishing my meal (and writing for an hour or two more), I finally packed up and headed off to the art museums. I went to the Nasher Sculpture Center, where the highlight was Spenser de Grey's tour of the Foster and Partners exhibit. After that I took in the usual ...
... I nearly wound up becoming a con man (gah, why did I say 'no' to that? bad imp!), went to prison, and was somehow dispatched to seduce the warden's wife. (And let's remember: " hujhax " plus "seduction scene" equals "awkwardness-comedy gold".) Shortly after that, we cut that story short and started anew. In the third one, we were working in a kitchen. Again, the narrator -- "Roger" ...
Dickens Rehearsal, 10/13 Well, this was another rehearsal that wasn't as impressive as that 9/30 rehearsal , but I think that's okay. On 9/30, we focussed on the plot structure of the early Dickens novels, and then worked at making long-forms that would reflect that structure. So I think our attempted long-forms that night had a really clear storyline, which is what always makes me happy ...
Movies: TV: The Middleman [Bonus Disc] Books: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew The Middleman [Bonus Disc] I had high hopes for the bonus disc of The Middleman . The series was put out on DVD by Shout! Factory , which treats its television properties very well indeed. The amazing DVD set of Freaks and Geeks was one of their productions, as was the recent...
Movies: Iron Man TV: The Middleman [1x09-1x12] , A Colbert Christmas Books: Iron Man Y'know, maybe superhero movies just aren't for me. Yes, I liked The Dark Knight , but maybe that's about it. But with Iron Man , I had that odd sensation of knowing I was watching a good movie, and knowing it was doing everything a superhero movie is supposed to do, but just not ...
