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xiphias, which was highly therapeutic. We went to the Border Cafe and the Deluxe Town Diner, and hiked around the DeCordova Museum (or technically around Flint's Pond, for two hours, before we doubled back and actually went into the museum park itself).happyfunpaul has been visiting from Boston (or rather, en route back to Boston), and as a result I have now met a bunch of the NYC filk crowd, first at a dinner foo on Friday evening and then at a housefilk in Harlem on Sunday afternoon. It seemed very wrong that filkerdave was not present for either one, but I enjoyed meeting a lot of other new folks. *waves to otherdeb and sodyera -- oh, and batyatoon, finally*justom's modern-dress production of Hamlet (which closed yesterday). Yup, still in love with him. Come back next month. The thing that was interesting about the production itself was the pacing, particularly of Hamlet, who basically delivered all his speeches (dialogues as well as monologues) in a rush, half the lines practically muttered under his breath, and punctuated with the occasional wild giggle, cackle or eyebrow-waggle. It transformed the whole process into a sort of manic free-association, not to say raving... yet there was method in't. And charisma. I tend to think of Hamlet as sort of a wet blanket, and this made me see for once how, within that little microcosm of the court at Elsinore, this oddball prince's force of personality could basically take over the room every time he showed up. I wasn't at all sold for the first scene or so, and then by the middle he had totally won me over.
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theatreatfirst's 2005 production of this play back in Boston, so it's very close to my heart. justom's class is having its LA Showcase performances today, starting in just a few hours (2pm PDT)! Wish them broken legs, or whatever non-fate-tempting expressions of luck you prefer. ablocktremontstshuljustom and the denizens of La Mancha?theatreatfirst scriptreading
chuckro has been jethrien were performing in the cabaret last night, so I wanted to make sure to go.teddyleevin as well as the above, and it was fun to see mnemex and drcpunk there.justom this past weekend, which is: that I have built up a certain amount of baggage regarding all things BDSM, a kind of knee-jerk negativity, if you will, based on one or two specific past relationships. I will be glad to say more about that, but now is not the time (and a public entry is not the place ;-) -- so consider this a placeholder. tenore, which was not the worst breakup ever in history, but was still pretty upsetting at the time. And it was around that time that I also first learned about the concept of Mercury in retrograde, which gets far more acceptance as a real phenomenon in many otherwise-rational circles than I would expect, so the two are kind of co-substantiated in my mind. So for many weeks I've actually been harboring some vague secret dread knowing that the next Transit of Venus was impending. But we appear to have lived through it with no ill effects, and possibly some extra snuggles to ward off the doom. :-)justom messaged me midafternoon that there were apparently a plethora of unclaimed tickets due to glitches with the online reservation system. justom already had plans to go see the new Will Eno play, and I was supposed to have dinner with my friend Amy who was passing through NYC, but I told her about the available tickets and we did that instead. At intermission I looked around the amphitheatre and said to Amy, "Hmm, I feel likeI must know someone else here!"... and it turned out later that crewgrrl and mbarr had also been there. Hee hee hee.
justom went down and ascertained that it was in fact immediately downstairs (but unresponsive to knocking on their door, no surprise) did I think to apply the universal "cut it the f**k out" signal of stomping on the floor five times. This had the desired effect: it did come on again a bit later, but more quietly and not so cell-pervading, hardly worth getting up to register another complaint. justom, I managed to stay in bed and mostly asleep until 10:30. I'm grateful to be on vacation and get to do that, but I feel awful for him today, poor love. jessruth for hosting us, even in partial absentia!
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