theatre conversation

where have I been?

2008-01-17T09:51:00.000-05:00

Been pretty busy lately. Doing a lot of writing, and I have two major and somewhat ambitious projects I am working on with constant deadlines to meet. Trying to focus on that, I guess.

Plus I get bloggishly lazy sometimes.

Also, American Idol started on Tuesday. It's so comforting. And even though we're only in auditions (for 4 whole weeks), American Idol has a tendency to take over my life during the 4 1/2 months it's on the air. Just wait till we get to the Top 24. From then on it's like all I think about. Go team Johnston.

I'm going to be moving this blog to another blogger address today or tomorrow, so keep a look out so you can change it on your bloglines, bookmarks, and whatever.

Everybody having a good week?

american idol starts tonight!

2008-01-15T10:36:00.001-05:00

golden globe winners

2008-01-14T09:49:00.000-05:00

An incredible amount of Surprises here. Atonement's win is one, Mad Men, a show I have never seen (have you??) won two major television awards, and the genius that is 30 Rock, only came away with one (Total cheers though, Tina Fey!!)

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Atonement

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Julie Christie – Away From Her

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Javier Bardem – No Country For Old Men

Best Animated Feature Film
Ratatouille

Best Foreign Language Film
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (France, United States)

Best Director - Motion Picture
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
No Country For Old Men

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Atonement
Composed by Dario Marianelli

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Guaranteed" – Into The Wild
Music & Lyrics By: Eddie Vedder

Best Television Series - Drama
Mad Men (AMC)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Glenn Close – Damages (FX NETWORK)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)

Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Extras (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
David Duchovny – Californication (SHOWTIME)

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Longford (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Queen Latifah – Life Support (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jim Broadbent – Longford (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Samantha Morton – Longford (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO)

the story of my life...

2008-01-11T13:12:00.000-05:00

Jack Donaghee: You wanna get drunk Lemon.

Liz Lemon: No. There's too many phones around here.

- 30 Rock

i've said it before and i'll say it again...

2008-01-11T11:35:00.000-05:00

.... I'm going back to dating my T.V.

no golden globes

2008-01-07T16:41:00.001-05:00

Looks like it's pretty much official, No Golden Globes this year!

Details

1/2 dialogue

2008-01-07T14:24:00.000-05:00

How am I doing? I'm alright I guess.

What?

Yes! Okay. I still have that one song from Hairspray on repeat.

I don't know how many times I've listened to it today. 13 maybe?? Who knows.

Ugh. I don't wanna talk about it.

No thank you. Seriously.

Wait wait wait hold on the good part's coming up.......

.................love love love................

..................no no no........doo doo doo.....

Ok. Yeah. So. What?

I didn't write about National Britney day on Thursday because I figured out that everyone pretty much had it covered. And what can you say about that anyway?

Celebrity Crushes? No one has ever asked me that before...

No it's not unorthodox. I have 3.

Hayden Panetierre, Amanda Bynes, and Rachel Ray.

I know I know! She runs her mouth a bit. But consider the possibilities. She's gorgeous and an amazing cook. I mean. Come on.

Watch it dude! Amanda Bynes is way past her Nickelodeon days my friend. Step off.

Yes that's what I said. Can I help you?

Exactly. Bitch.

No it's not true that I don't like theatre anymore. I love theatre. I just don't have the attention span to actually watch plays very often. I still like directing them.

Who told you that.

Whatever.

That's what she said.

Whatever.

Well. If I was a woman I would want Tina Fey's talents and career. But I'm a dude so I want to be Mike Nichols.

What celebrity do I secretly want to be?

Exactly, it won't be a secret anymore if I say -

Alright alright. Ryan Seacrest. There, I said it. Right that up in your phony column tomorrow.

No no, thank you. This has been a lot of fun for you I'm sure.

another spears' career dies...

2008-01-04T10:23:00.000-05:00

Nickelodeon has cancelled Zoey 101. Apparently they didn't want to write teen pregnancy into Zoey's story line. Those morons.

troy and gabriella broke up!

2008-01-04T10:10:00.000-05:00

Apparently The Zefron dumped the scandalous Vanessa. This is going to kill their chemistry for High School Musical 3!

today's random thought

2008-01-04T09:44:00.000-05:00

The theatre community would benefit enormously from ridding themselves of the guilt they have for consuming and enjoying parts of mainstream culture.

Get over it already. We're not judging you! And if somebody does, they're not worth your thoughts anyway.

get out of my head!

2008-01-03T10:41:00.000-05:00

Hairspray soundtrack! Especially Without Love!

I don't understand why but for the past 2 days, Without Love had been the only song running through my head. Which leads me to listen to it on repeat over and over and over again. I can't solve it, it's an epidemic.

I am worried it has something to do with a secret weird jealousy for Zac Efron. Houston, we have a problem.

i just feel like writing a blog entry.

2008-01-03T10:10:00.000-05:00

I just feel like writing a blog entry.

So what's going on in my life. Well. I bought a new geek toy. A 22" widescreen flat panel monitor for my home computer. It makes that endless stream of 30 Rock look much more bitchin'.

I have two major projects that I am working on, or supposed to be, that I need to finally get grinding on. My headspace has been occupied with lots of other things recently and it's time to get to work. Especially since one of them is incredibly ambitious and I'm supposed to be co-writing/co-producing/co-directing/co-creating it. Yeah. Need to get on that.

In theatre news, I just cast my next play which will go up at the end of this month. So. Nice. It's just a one performance dealie but it is going to take an exorbitant amount of originality on my part which kind of scares the living shit out of me, but I like to meet insurmountable challenges head on. That's what she said.

Also, I somehow have fallen into a lifestyle which is starting to feel very odd to me right now and I'm trying to get back on track.

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am officially quitting my terrible weekday habit of drinking wine, watching two and a half men, and eating baked Doritos. None of which are healthy things. I'm a mad scientist for boiling them in the same pot. I do like that two and a half men though.....

mean girl

2008-01-02T10:37:00.000-05:00

Ha! The Lohaniac was up to her old tricks over the holidays. Smoking cigarettes, boozing it up, and getting groped by moderately attractive random Italian dudes. Oh we missed you The Lohaniac. We don't like to see you like this. But you bring it on yourself.

no more holidays

2008-01-02T09:41:00.000-05:00

Weird huh. To have the holidays done with now and things go back to normal. To be honest I usually look forward to this every year. Not that I don't enjoy the end of December, but everything is so irregular and I personally get thrown off every year and things get weird. So. Happy to be back.

Hope ya'll had a good new years. Mine wasn't bad, nothing too crazy. Just your average Nosedive drinking event, which apparently still had me looking like this by the end of the night:

hot mess ?

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

2007-12-31T15:20:00.000-05:00

say it ain't so cheerleader....

referral of the day

2007-12-31T13:30:00.000-05:00

Somebody just searched for "DIRTY NEW YEARS GAMES" (caps and all) and google sent them here. Awkward.

it's new year's eve.

2007-12-31T09:54:00.000-05:00

and I'm in my cubicle.

I'm drinking later. Muchly.

did you know...

2007-12-31T09:45:00.000-05:00

.... that they're making a movie of Doubt, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep?

good morning baltimore!

2007-12-31T09:23:00.000-05:00

brief reviews of movies i watched this weekend...

Hairspray:
This movie was so deliciously fun that it kept me smiling for 2 hours straight. Easily the best movie musical since Moulin Rouge. And what a cast! Nikki Blonsky was awesome in the lead role, John Travolta in drag was probably his best role in a decade, and Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Allison Janney, the always hilarious Amanda Bynes, and of course, the Zefron. REALLY loved this one.

The Elephant Man:
This movie just touches you. It has just enough David Lynch in it to feel like you are entering a somewhat obscured universe, but it still feels so familiar. An outsider pushed to the fringes of society. It's more than just a 'don't judge a book by its cover' story, though. Really great film.

Dune:
Masterful film adaptation. Agent Cooper rox out in a Lynch film once again.the first 2/3 of the movie are brilliant and interesting and mysterious. The last third of the film is where I felt it started to run away with itself a bit. I could see Lynch trying to shove tons and tons of time and space into a small amount of screen time and it just felt very rushed and plottish. But generally I think it's a great film.

Junebug:
Eh. Kinda interesting. Also kinda boring. No real opinion. Probably a bad sign.

idling

2007-12-28T09:45:00.000-05:00

Man. Things are slow on the intraweb right now.

Nothing really crazy or fun to report on in pop culture or the arts or any of that other shit I talk about on this blog. So I'll spare you my scraping for posting material.

I work out 5 days a week, and have been for awhile. And still I am sore from playing so much wii over the holidays. What's wrong with me? Odd muscles I didn't know I had are twitching in odd ways. Damn you Nintendo!

Since I'm still the only dumbass in town now, I have a fun-filled weekend of watching screens ahead of me.

DVD wise we're looking at Dune (David Lynch), Junebug, and maybe a rewatch of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

I'll be watching lots of Heroes on Netflix on demand this weekend as well, still only halfway through the first season. I'm digging it much more now. I finished season 3 of Weeds last night, which I surprisingly really took a liking to over the past season and a half. But now I'm out, have to wait for season 4.

And if I do in fact get the motivation to leave my apartment and get on the subway, it'll be for Sweeney Todd, and/or Atonement.

screens screens screens.

I am so interesting.

back!

2007-12-27T09:22:00.000-05:00

exclamation point?

But yeah, I'm back in New York City after an enjoyable holiday where I spent most of my time playing wii and drinking merlot. Because that's the kind of classy mo fo that I am.

I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday. Of course, most of you are probably luckier than I and are still basking in the glow of your respective holidays; sitting in larger than life hot tubs, sipping finely tuned glasses of aged chardonnay and nibbling chocolate covered strawberries while gently gripping your blackberries and emailing the poor mother fuckers like me who are sitting in their cubicles, fully clothed, formatting excel spreadsheets.

sigh.

Next year I'm taking a month off. Mark my words. Mark them.

exclusive with jamie lynn!

2007-12-24T18:03:00.001-05:00

so funny.

thundercats are go!!!

2007-12-22T18:27:00.000-05:00

don't know what I'm talking about? Then go see the movie already! Gee Whiz.

Roger Ebert just released his top 10 movies of 2007

Guess who's #1........

paperlilies

2007-12-21T15:01:00.000-05:00

Her Amy Winehouse impression.

this girl is FUNNY. You should really watch all of her videos by clicking here.

Especially the ones where she answers a bunch of questions about the UK and lies her ass off. Funny girl.

Apparently she's like the biggest youtube superstar. So that's something. Bet there's a tv deal on the way for her!

what's your favorite xmas song?

2007-12-21T12:10:00.000-05:00

Here's mine. I don't know why but I can't get enough of it!