I've tried with music, without music, covered, uncovered, whatever else there is, but I seem to have forgotten how to fall asleep these past few days. Twice I've slept for an hour or so only to wake up and spend the next few hours trying to get back. Needless to say, it has been vexing ( Read more... )

This is not insomnia.

This is me starting Almost Famous: Untitled at 3 AM. And wondering ( Read more... )

OH MY FUCKING GOD

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That is something I clearly have a need for. I mean, seriously, if anything could get me out of bed most mornings...you know? It's brilliant.

This evening when I was hanging lights for the dance show I was tripped by a stack of lauan, which somehow led to my watchband breaking. It's not a big deal, but seriously, Basil, stacks of lauan? Really ( Read more... )

For a couple years now, I have asked myself a question that seemed to have no simple answer: Why is there a complete dearth of conservative rock music? True, there is country music, there are a good number of "Christian Rock" groups; there is the God-awful "God Bless The USA" . But the rest of it is either leftist or merely apolitical. Perhaps you' ( Read more... )

Tonight was opening night for "Trifles" and 'The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould". From where I was sitting backstage on headset, it sounded like "Siren Song" was a smashing hit. And that's just awesome, because Liz and Emily and Alex and Grace just put so much into this and I just think it's a really awesome piece of theatre and I'm just ever-so- ( Read more... )

So I just watched the series premiere of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. And I just have to say...are they allowed to say "masturbation" on network TV? I mean, I'm not shocked or offended or anything (because, duh, it's me), but I honestly can't recall ever hearing it said. The closest I can think of is "The Contest" on Seinfeld which went out of ( Read more... )

So I went home this weekend for my aunt's wedding. It was a good time.

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Dear person who may or may not go to Drew, see Urinetown: The Musical. Everyone in it is exceptionally good--Charms, Buist, Doug, everyone--and the play itself is just so funny and smart and self-debilitating and dark and distopian. So that's my basic "I <3 Urinetown" spiel. I hope you enjoyed it. I know I did ( Read more... )