The Next In Line To Be The Voice Of God.
It was my birthday yesterday! And it was far too warm, but I had a great time.
Tem gave me a copy of AI: The Somnium Files: nirvanA Initiative, so we spent some time playing that together. It's absolutely ridiculous. We're enjoying it enormously.
Game character: I've known Date for a long time. We're so close we've seen each other's buttholes.
Tem: What?
Riona: They're so close they've seen each other's buttholes, Tem.
Tem: Riona, I'd say that you and I are quite close.
(pause)
Tem: However.
And then I went to the theatre!
In late 2019, I saw The Book of Mormon in the West End and loved it. I thought it'd just be fun and mindless, but I got genuinely invested! It was recognisably by the team behind South Park, with all that entails, but it was a lot warmer than I'd expected, I liked the characters (particularly Elder Kevin Price, a flawed but well-meaning teenager who makes terrible decisions and struggles with guilt and increasingly falls apart, i.e. absolute catnip for me), and I thought it had some really interesting ideas about the power of fiction and how things don't have to be real to have value.
I wanted to share it with my mum, so I bought tickets for her upcoming birthday.
This was 2020. Her birthday is in late March.
For obvious reasons, the show was cancelled, and I received a voucher for the value of the tickets. The voucher was due to expire this summer, so I decided I'd take Mum to The Book of Mormon for my birthday instead.
My mum really enjoyed it! She was laughing all the way through. I'm glad; I thought she'd probably have a good time, but The Book of Mormon isn't going to click for everyone, so I couldn't be sure.
Dom Simpson remains absolutely perfect in the role of Elder Price, and I'm so glad I got to see him again. I'm constantly watching Elder Price in any scene, whether he's the focus or not; I probably missed a lot of things going on elsewhere on the stage! But I have no regrets; he was wonderful.
!!! I just checked, and YouTube has a professional video of a Dom Simpson song performance! It was impossible to find any video of him as Elder Price the last time I saw this show! Here it is: 'You and Me (But Mostly Me)'.
I love the hell out of Kevin Price - this earnest little shit, basically good-hearted but deeply self-absorbed - and I think Simpson is absolutely stunning in the role. Getting to see it up close like this, I caught a lot of fun little details about the performance that were hard to spot from the circle, too!
Tem gave me a copy of AI: The Somnium Files: nirvanA Initiative, so we spent some time playing that together. It's absolutely ridiculous. We're enjoying it enormously.
Game character: I've known Date for a long time. We're so close we've seen each other's buttholes.
Tem: What?
Riona: They're so close they've seen each other's buttholes, Tem.
Tem: Riona, I'd say that you and I are quite close.
(pause)
Tem: However.
And then I went to the theatre!
In late 2019, I saw The Book of Mormon in the West End and loved it. I thought it'd just be fun and mindless, but I got genuinely invested! It was recognisably by the team behind South Park, with all that entails, but it was a lot warmer than I'd expected, I liked the characters (particularly Elder Kevin Price, a flawed but well-meaning teenager who makes terrible decisions and struggles with guilt and increasingly falls apart, i.e. absolute catnip for me), and I thought it had some really interesting ideas about the power of fiction and how things don't have to be real to have value.
I wanted to share it with my mum, so I bought tickets for her upcoming birthday.
This was 2020. Her birthday is in late March.
For obvious reasons, the show was cancelled, and I received a voucher for the value of the tickets. The voucher was due to expire this summer, so I decided I'd take Mum to The Book of Mormon for my birthday instead.
My mum really enjoyed it! She was laughing all the way through. I'm glad; I thought she'd probably have a good time, but The Book of Mormon isn't going to click for everyone, so I couldn't be sure.
Dom Simpson remains absolutely perfect in the role of Elder Price, and I'm so glad I got to see him again. I'm constantly watching Elder Price in any scene, whether he's the focus or not; I probably missed a lot of things going on elsewhere on the stage! But I have no regrets; he was wonderful.
!!! I just checked, and YouTube has a professional video of a Dom Simpson song performance! It was impossible to find any video of him as Elder Price the last time I saw this show! Here it is: 'You and Me (But Mostly Me)'.
I love the hell out of Kevin Price - this earnest little shit, basically good-hearted but deeply self-absorbed - and I think Simpson is absolutely stunning in the role. Getting to see it up close like this, I caught a lot of fun little details about the performance that were hard to spot from the circle, too!