Let's go out to the lobby

So I am pretty well caught up on my current release movies, with a few exceptions.

I remember when I used to see EVERYTHING. I still do, just not as quickly.

I know I'm caught up because I was asked to go out to a movie tonight and it took a while to figure out something I hadn't seen, and I'm left with THE HAPPENING.

I look at this movie like you might think of visiting a relative or friend who used to be great and funny but has declined due to some unfortunate circumstance into a condition you cannot blame them for but makes you dread the visit as not to be reminded of the reality of constant entropy in life. You want them to be what they were, not what they are. That to me is M. Night Shyamalan's directing career. UNBREAKABLE is very high on my long long list of beloved films; SIXTH SENSE of course is on that list as well. Anything else he's done? Um... SIGNS was okay, maybe. LADY IN THE WATER? Now there's this film, which I have heard literally nothing other than absolute hatred for from anyone I know who's seen it. Hell, LOVE GURU got better buzz than this. No, I haven't seen that, either, and you can apply the analogy above to Mike Myers' career as well. Party time, excellent.

Vacation has been lovely, if uneventful. My friend Matt and I are going to Vegas at the end of the month after a spur of the moment idea in a phone conversation last week. I bought my birthday present, something I truly don't need, which will be delivered Wednesday to great fanfare. My scores for the Adrian Zmed show and the other stuff arrived FedEx last week, and are now hanging over my head.

Saw a very impressive production of MOON OVER BUFFALO here on Saturday and a decent attempt at BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO last night. Dear God the book to that show is horrible... at dinner with the cast after we were discussing how to improve it. My only suggestion is that everyone be more effeminate and German. It won't improve the script, but it'll make me laugh inappropriately.

I was sitting with a couple of friends from NY and around who happen to be in town right now while watching the show, and we realized we were not dressed like anyone else there. We are all - even those of us originally from KS - now from Someplace Else(TM).


I am in talks right now to do something(s) I coul dget very excited about. Nothing groundbreaking but creatively inspiring, which I could use right now. There's not a lot out there that flips my switch creatively lately, but...

Well, I'll let you in on a little bit of each thing... One, my longtime dream of starting my own company is starting to coalesce into potential reality. Two, unrelated, I may have the chance to come back here to reunite with my mentor for a once in a lifetime role... that I've actually already done once, so maybe it'll be twice in a lifetime.

Okay. Signing off, and remember I told you to check out www.drhorrible.com in the next few days.

BTW Some of you may be interested in a movie I ran across. A few years back I noticed Pittsburg CLO was doing Music Man with, of all people, Jeff Goldblum. Also Ed Begley Jr and Illeana Douglas were in the cast. Strange, I thought, how'd they swing that? Turns out they were doing the show to be part of a film, a sort of mockumentary, called "Pittsburg." Check it out.

An aside:
Last Thursday my aunt Pat had some kind of stroke or something, she was very very incoherent and had a number of other things wrong with her by the time my parents got her to the hospital. She's magically more coherent now, but... well, she thought she was in Kentucky when I saw her Friday, today she's fine as ever. The mysteries of the brain elude me. I'm just glad that she is fine and that this post doesn't have to be about losing her. Shutting up now. Will probably delete most of this post once it's up.... and.... I did.

You'll notice this post has been truncated, and while I pretty well stand by what I said this is not the proper forum. Actually, it is, but in deference to it not being worth dealing with, I removed it. I meant to do it sooner, but I entirely forgot I posted it. None of what was said here was meant to be offensive to anyone in any way, nor do I feel it really was. Simply my point of view, because sometimes even family can make you sad. Anyway, the post is gone now. It's not worth dealing with on this site, because let's be honest, it's not funny, it doesn't relate to travel or work, and pretty much none of you know any of who or what I was talking about anyway.

Does this help make it better? Helped me.