Jazz hands. JAZZ HANDS.
I apologise if I overuse the word 'fuck' in this post. It's writing Killjoys fic, getting the language is like make up some weird shit + insert 'fuck' every other sentence. Thank you to everyone who uploaded the radio rip of 'Na Na Na' so I could hear it properly. I am delighted with this track, hot damn. (Also, pondering the lyric 'eight legs to the wall' and the spider image; eight legs = four guys? Meaning they don't plan to take on a fifth permanent member?)
Glee was back on last night, and first off I have to say that it is fucking brilliant being able to see a TV show just hours after it airs in the US. Having said that, the episode was even more of a rollercoaster of "Yay - WTF? - omg they're singing a Travis McCoy song - how could they do that T_T - FUCKING HELL NO" than I remembered. If that's an indication of where this series is headed, I expect to shout OH JOHN RINGO NO a lot more.
Went to a town hall debate last night on the topic "Has Feminism Failed?" and was the bore who was all "We shouldn't be debating this in a masculine adversarial debating system as it's not conducive to finding real answers. Also the notion of concrete measures of process is patriarchal. Also this question is stupid because feminism is clearly both alive and needed so can we stop trying to assess the movement and do some moving?" Yeah.
To get even more middle class on you for a bit, a few nights ago I went to the Melbourne Theatre Company's season launch. I had no idea what to expect. It was actually really intriguing.
The season launch is kind of interesting, because it made me realise that the MTC subscriber group is, well, kind of like a fandom. It has its own in-jokes and references, and a shared history of other plays that have been put on and which everyone has seen. People heckled the company director which was pretty funny because he didn't hear what they said and asked them to repeat it. Everyone groaned when the director of "A Behanding in Spokane" said it was by the same playwright as "Pillowman" and then he was like "I KNOW YOU HATED PILLOWMAN SHUT UP this one will be better I promise, no really, you haven't been to the theatre till you've seen one actor slap another with a severed hand."
So the season launch is pretty much where they announce all the plays they'll be putting on next year. Each announcement starts with two actors doing a quick reading from a key scene, the company director describing it, and then either announcing the name or inviting someone else (writer/producer/key actor) to talk about it. There's a lot of suspense before they announce the names of the plays, which does make it more fun.
The thing I'm most excited about is Don Parties On by David Williamson, because so much of the election night and aftermath this year involved people saying "oh man it was like Don's Party" and now Williamson has WRITTEN A SEQUEL ABOUT THAT NIGHT OMG. Yeah, you don't care.
Sooooo, well, the last play announcement, the company director was being really coy about it, and finally he's like "So we got someone pretty special in to talk to you about this play which I will not name yet, he's been in the business for ages and he's performed this play before and decided to reprise it and it's awesome.......................................................................................................................................... here's Geoffrey Rush."
So Geoffrey Rush comes on (he wasn't actually in a dress at that point but I'll get to that later) and goes on this long talk about how twenty-five years ago he was a part of a play with a group of people who all became very close, and they toured that play for four years. And lately they got together and discussed and thought that it was such a brilliant play, such a brilliant blah blah blah that it should be reprised once in a generation. (He's listing all these things like its amazing insight into love and politics and manners and society and I'm racking my brains thinking I MUST HAVE HEARD OF THIS.) So he edges around it a while and is a total cocktease and finally anounces that it's The Importance of Being Earnest. YAY.
He said he and the other (still living) members of the original cast decided they should do it again but they'd all 'move up a rank' and play the older characters, and get some really new, unknown actors to play the younger characters, and read out who all the old cast members would be playing and you're sitting there like "but who will Geoffrey be?" and then he goes, "AND I................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. will be playing Lady Bracknell."
This entry was originally posted at http://little-cloud.dreamwidth.org/13882.html.
Glee was back on last night, and first off I have to say that it is fucking brilliant being able to see a TV show just hours after it airs in the US. Having said that, the episode was even more of a rollercoaster of "Yay - WTF? - omg they're singing a Travis McCoy song - how could they do that T_T - FUCKING HELL NO" than I remembered. If that's an indication of where this series is headed, I expect to shout OH JOHN RINGO NO a lot more.
Went to a town hall debate last night on the topic "Has Feminism Failed?" and was the bore who was all "We shouldn't be debating this in a masculine adversarial debating system as it's not conducive to finding real answers. Also the notion of concrete measures of process is patriarchal. Also this question is stupid because feminism is clearly both alive and needed so can we stop trying to assess the movement and do some moving?" Yeah.
To get even more middle class on you for a bit, a few nights ago I went to the Melbourne Theatre Company's season launch. I had no idea what to expect. It was actually really intriguing.
The season launch is kind of interesting, because it made me realise that the MTC subscriber group is, well, kind of like a fandom. It has its own in-jokes and references, and a shared history of other plays that have been put on and which everyone has seen. People heckled the company director which was pretty funny because he didn't hear what they said and asked them to repeat it. Everyone groaned when the director of "A Behanding in Spokane" said it was by the same playwright as "Pillowman" and then he was like "I KNOW YOU HATED PILLOWMAN SHUT UP this one will be better I promise, no really, you haven't been to the theatre till you've seen one actor slap another with a severed hand."
So the season launch is pretty much where they announce all the plays they'll be putting on next year. Each announcement starts with two actors doing a quick reading from a key scene, the company director describing it, and then either announcing the name or inviting someone else (writer/producer/key actor) to talk about it. There's a lot of suspense before they announce the names of the plays, which does make it more fun.
The thing I'm most excited about is Don Parties On by David Williamson, because so much of the election night and aftermath this year involved people saying "oh man it was like Don's Party" and now Williamson has WRITTEN A SEQUEL ABOUT THAT NIGHT OMG. Yeah, you don't care.
Sooooo, well, the last play announcement, the company director was being really coy about it, and finally he's like "So we got someone pretty special in to talk to you about this play which I will not name yet, he's been in the business for ages and he's performed this play before and decided to reprise it and it's awesome.......................................................................................................................................... here's Geoffrey Rush."
So Geoffrey Rush comes on (he wasn't actually in a dress at that point but I'll get to that later) and goes on this long talk about how twenty-five years ago he was a part of a play with a group of people who all became very close, and they toured that play for four years. And lately they got together and discussed and thought that it was such a brilliant play, such a brilliant blah blah blah that it should be reprised once in a generation. (He's listing all these things like its amazing insight into love and politics and manners and society and I'm racking my brains thinking I MUST HAVE HEARD OF THIS.) So he edges around it a while and is a total cocktease and finally anounces that it's The Importance of Being Earnest. YAY.
He said he and the other (still living) members of the original cast decided they should do it again but they'd all 'move up a rank' and play the older characters, and get some really new, unknown actors to play the younger characters, and read out who all the old cast members would be playing and you're sitting there like "but who will Geoffrey be?" and then he goes, "AND I................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. will be playing Lady Bracknell."
This entry was originally posted at http://little-cloud.dreamwidth.org/13882.html.