August 9, 2006
Not dead yet...
Okay, so I disappeared for a while. Moops.
No I'm not dead. Not even injured. A little sore, a little fatigued, but definitely in fine shape otherwise.
Life has its upsides and its downsides, and sometimes they seem like polar opposites, where one facet of life brings nothing but utter joy and happiness, while the other just pulls you down and sucks you in like the undertow. Needless to say, both bring with it a lot of tiring mental activity and in many cases physical as well, which leads to both brain drain and body drowsiness. I'm recovering fine though.
Things of note, which I'll expand upon later:
* I've forgotten to write about Coroleanus at Stratford, as well as the gigs for Diableros/Camera Obscura and Modernboys Moderngirls/These Electric Lives. In quick: awesome; good/meh; surprisingly awesome/always solid
I'll be doing a "Short Rounds" over on Ent.Etc. later this week for these.
* Recent viewings of A Scanner Darkly, Miami Vice and Clerks 2 all need reviewing. In brief: Ah!; uh...; and say whaaa?
* I saw Wolf Parade on Saturday. I missed the opening acts (Frog Eyes and Holy Fuck!) but I heard Frog Eyes were kind of gaunch and Holy Fuck!'s last song, which I did catch, was droneariffic. Will probably need to check them out again to be sure. The Parade will get reviewed, but, in slight: blah. No pictures.
* I'm slowly working my way through, now, a half dozen TV on DVD sets... some more long-term than others: Space: Above and Beyond; The Flash, Superboy, Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Angel season 2, and a few others. Reviews for Kids in the Hall v4 and Home Movies season 4 are pending as well. In vague: rock!; yeah; NO(nononono); holy frak; hehehehe; and weeeeee.
* Standup comedy albums by Frasier Young, Mike Birbiglia, Eugene Mirman, Patton Oswalt all have a place for assessment, but reviewing comedy is hard without retelling people's jokes. Young is Canadian, good but a little loose and unfocussed at times; Birbiglia I really liked until I actually saw what he looked like (khakis and golf shirts? really?), now his faux-prep image doesn't fit his slacker stylings; Eugene Mirman is just whacked and I love it, he won't be for everyone though; Patton Oswalt is brill, merging obscure pop culture with cynicism and the occasional "is it funny or offensive" drop.
* Spamalot Toronto. I saw Spamalot New York, and honestly the Toronto show is better. Screw the big names (Tim Curry, Hank Azaria and David Hyde Pierce), the non-name actors tried harder and did a lot better at making the roles their own while still maintaining the Python-ness. The Lady of the Lake was about half as good in the Toronto show, though, but the Toronto French Taunter actually one upped John Cleese which rocked my socks. As opposed to my 50/50 rating of the New York show, the Toronto show is about 74/26.
*my brain's been creating its own playlist including
- "Good to feel like" by the Super Friendz
- "Wonderful" by the Beta Band
- "She's the one" by the Beta Band
- "Honestly Trudy" by the Femme Generation
- "I'll believe in anything if you believe in anything" by Sunset Rubdown
- "Pretenders" by City Field
- "Crips" by Ratatat
- "1979" by Smashing Pumpkins
- "Flattery" by Prince Paul
- "4 out of 5" by Soul Coughing
- "Goddamn" by the Flints
- "The New Teller" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
- "Closer" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
- "Me and her got a good thing goin" by Jonathan Richman
* plotting many things, scheming many other things, both written and web and life
* looking for apartments still rots, but Rooms and I have a great lead on a place which we hope works out but reality says not to get to excited nor bank on it.
* oh yeah, and Quad CD samplers are getting done at a very slow pace. Everyone should have theirs or at least be in the mail by month's end.
And that's life for the past three weeks in a few minutes of blogging.
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