I loved Batman Begins. When The Dark Knight was announced, I was nervous. Sequels are almost never the equal of the original after all. But then The Dark Knight was amazing too. So when Nolan announced The Dark Knight Rises, I was just plain excited. I wish I'd held onto my normal sequel reservations, because I think I wouldn't have been quite ( Read more... )

I've realized why I'm having difficulties with Mad Men ( Read more... )

I'd been meaning to see the classic version for ages, but a few weeks ago when I was looking for something fluffy and mindless to watch on Netflix instant viewing, the newer, Nicole Kidman version caught my eye. Of course, after watching that I bumped the original up to the top of my queue because I absolutely had to be able to compare. That said ( Read more... )

I recently watched Pee-Wee's Big Adventure for--possibly the first time ever, and certainly the first time in my adult life. It's been on my to-watch list for quiet a while as it's one of a very few Tim Burton movies I haven't seen (hell--that I don't own!). It was... interesting ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I updated. Rather than attempt a detailed and cohesive post about everything I've been up to for the last little while, I am, instead, going to give you some bullet-pointed highlights.

• Tiffany had an extra ticket to go see Wicked a couple of weekends ago, and very generously offered to take me. I'd never seen a traveling ( Read more... )

I went to go see They Might Be Giants with a ton of people last night.

Jonathan Coulton was their opener and--as I fully expected based on previous concerts--put on a great show. My single complaint about his set is how very short it was. Just six songs! I know he was the opening act... but he's a pretty big name in his own right these days ( Read more... )

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This was the plan: Drink heavily, purchase tickets to see New Moon, and spend the entire length of the movie mocking it. We even snuck in some spiked sodas to prevent anything disasterous like sobering up partway through. Someone suggested that we play a drinking game, in which you take a drink every time someone makes an inappropriate facial ( Read more... )

In case anyone was unaware, baronmind and I were in Edinburgh for about 5 days, visiting classytart and seeing a ridiculous amount of shows. However since I leave home again bright and early tomorrow morning for a White Elephants show in NJ, still have to rehearse both my numbers, fix a costume piece, unpack, and repack... I'll be sharing my trip with you in a ( Read more... )