WELL. Spent the past week sick as a dog, getting a cold (with fever), sinus infection, and finally an ear infection one after the other over the course of five days, and feeling progressively worse until antibiotics happened - which, btw, is the opposite of how a regular winter cold should go. Everybody knows the first few days should be the worst ( Read more... )

Just got back from a delightful trivia-for-charity night hosted by John Hodgman at the Bell House (kudos to scrunchy for being GREAT and participating!). At the end of the night, Kevin Kline and I were standing on the sidewalk, waiting for our cabs and smoking in companionable silence (shuddup), which was pretty much the perfect ending to a great weekend ( Read more... )

Hey locals - any interest in checking out the documentary about the Bowie exhibit? It's playing one night only at the Angelika on Nov. 20; there are just a few other screenings in NYC, but I'm sentimental about that venue ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Somebody linked to this tumblr on my twitter feed ETA it was Lucy Liu. She recced the artist on twitter, and then I spent an hour browsing his enchanting artwork online at Le Cirque BrutaleThe pieces range from adorable to creepy; there's a note of intimacy in most of them, the portrayal of workmanship behind the showmanship (and the associated ( Read more... )

So, it's been a few weeks of marvelous events.

***

The first was the evening of Shakespeare's Sonnets at BAM, directed by Robert Wilson, scored by Rufus Wainwright, and performed impeccably by the Berliner Ensemble. In Wilson's signature avant garde fashion, the source material was deconstructed, subverted, and reinvented on multiple levels - the ( Read more... )

...so it looks like it'll take me a few months to get through the actual 30 daily entries here. Nobody cares, right? Our memes are what we make of them, etc? Yeah, thought so ( Read more... )

(Another day of feeling icky and insubstantial, so... more recs!)

Janelle Monáe's new album ELECTRIC LADY comes out on September 10th; until then, you can stream the whole thing online.

You can read about the album artwork, Concerning Cindi and Her Sisters and the Skull of Night Thrashings, here. Isn't it fantastic?


( Read more... )

First, a quick but heartfelt TV rec: Restless, a British miniseries (two 90-minute episodes, natch) with Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell, Michelle Dockery and Rufus Sewell. It's a flashback-structured spy thriller about an agent recruited by the MI6 on the eve of WWII. She could have been easily portrayed as the female James Bond, except the tone ( Read more... )

A few highlights; no surprises here, I'd say. :)

1. "...but you dare not dream about it, you dare not dream. Sometimes to dream it, you think, almost, you kill the dream by trying to conceive it in your imagination." (source)After a quick review of my 2011 posts, it's pretty clear this has been the year of Hiddleston: it started around my ( Read more... )