Pinkies, DR JRand!
Good morning, all! I have more work this morning on that Act One finale of Mr Herbert's before I make a trek to Toyland. I have to find that OH BOY! score, although I am beginning to wonder if in a fit of distraction I pitched it.
Last night was another night of weird dreams, one about this July trip to Canton, OH, to lecture on THE WIZARD OF OZ and being totally unprepared. Another invovled my hometown friend Margo Skinner, her ex Dan Von Bargen, and our DR FJL! Before the alarm rang, I was having peculiar dreams about a haunted apartment, a car, Marian Seldes, whom I love, and one of my brothers, I think. It was an epic night.
I have nothing else to report. I will check in from Toyland.
Jane will HATE that photograph.
DR JRand--why don't you be a trendsetter and use the theme from GHOSTBUSTERS as the opening music for BLITHE SPIRIT?
And the word of the day is: NIDIFUGOUS!
First of all, I'm not a reviewer, just a person with thoughts on these movies. That said, most of these people who are "reviewers" are not really reviewers as they have no idea what these things really looked like when they came out. And that is the difference between me and them - I saw these films, and then I owned many of them in 16mm and 35mm prints. And yes, you should have a properly calibrated TV - the player won't really be the problem. And no, most people who watch these things have no clew. But I feel it my duty to say it like it is, especially when the color is off.
Hello to DR PENNYO.....I know that she and DR JANE and Sherlock are having wonderful time.
Hi, DR PennyO!
Hi, DD Sherlock!
Oh... And Hi, DR Jane!
;)
I have no idea what show she was on or what this woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YktczvB-XvQ&feature=youtu.be) is laughing about, but she sure was enjoying herself...
Jane, my head feels better and I've only been dizzy a couple times today. Much better than yesterday.
We're having a taco party for dinner tonight to celebrate Rob's completion of his first quarter of paramedic classes. In the next week, he'll do his hospital clinicals and have 1/5 of the program under his belt.
Jane, my head feels better and I've only been dizzy a couple times today. Much better than yesterday.
Good, I suppose. I hope the dizziness goes away soon.
Lesson Three: Red onion can give you killer heartburn.
I hate four day work weeks. They always seem longer than the five day variety. Tomorrow should be Friday.
Lesson Three: Red onion can give you killer heartburn.
Pepcid.
I think the red onion may have been one of the reasons I didn't feel so well over the weekend. I ate a lot of tuna pasta
Sometimes you need to just sit and get nothing done :)
Lesson Three: Red onion can give you killer heartburn.
Pepcid.
I've been taking them all day.
I'm ok with Vadalias or Walla Wallas, but the others....not so much
Watching a rerun of Modern Family---love that show!
DR elmore---TD Bank is here in Northern Virginia, too. And we get those commercials with Regis and Kelly too.
DR elmore---TD Bank is here in Northern Virginia, too. And we get those commercials with Regis and Kelly too.
Those commercials with Mr Philbin trying to be coy and cutsie-poo are so horrid I will never go near that institution!
PAGE THREE 5TH AVENUE CANDIDE DANCE!!!(http://www.seattle-theatre.com/images/homepages/candide_homepage_01.jpg)
SOUTH PACIFIC on PBS? Hurray! Bring it on!It is on DVD. My library had a copy. Spectacular.
Now if only the Met production of DOCTOR ATOMIC would get released on DVD.
"...I began to realize that I needed a career change. Maybe it happened when I was doing MAME in Cincinnati, Ohio. Or maybe when I was doing HELLO, DOLLY in Columbus, Ohio. Or maybe when I started doing Mame in the middle of HELLO, DOLLY in Akron, Ohio..."Was this with the Kennely Players?
BK, I was listening to "Unsung Musicals" today and I particularly love the recording of "Sherry!" My question is, how did you come in contact with the song that made you want to record it? Christine Baranski and Jonathan Freedman are "so alive" in that version, to quote one of the lyrics, that it makes me hit replay almost every time I heard it.
BK, I was listening to "Unsung Musicals" today and I particularly love the recording of "Sherry!" My question is, how did you come in contact with the song that made you want to record it? Christine Baranski and Jonathan Freedman are "so alive" in that version, to quote one of the lyrics, that it makes me hit replay almost every time I heard it.
I knew the song from Marilyn Maye's version - but Larry Rosenthal, the composer, knew I was doing the album and sent me the show version and I flipped. I cast Jonathan right away and he recommended Baranski, who was delightful. elmore did a great chart, and it took about three tries for us to get just the right tone and joy - I just kept giving tiny little suggestions and they took them and ran with them. It's a wonderful track, and far superior to the one on the studio cast album, in my opinion (and the opinion of the composer).
And here is my treat for you tonight. Dancers Over Forty is an organization in NY - they do panels and evenings honoring various and sundried composers. A few weeks ago they did one honoring Michael Bennett. Here is part one of seventeen parts - watch them and be thrilled, be moved, laugh, cry - it's what I just did for the last three hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDYxqZN8BoU&feature=related
I have no idea what show she was on or what this woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YktczvB-XvQ&feature=youtu.be) is laughing about, but she sure was enjoying herself...
I don't know if TD Bank is national or local, but these commercials with the repellent Regis Philbin are particularly loathesome and unseemly.
We're having a taco party for dinner tonight to celebrate Rob's completion of his first quarter of paramedic classes. In the next week, he'll do his hospital clinicals and have 1/5 of the program under his belt.
Hi, DR PennyO!
Hi, DD Sherlock!
Oh... And Hi, DR Jane!
;)
:) And he gave her his sweet gentle kisses, without needing a treat to bribe him.
Lesson Three: Red onion can give you killer heartburn.
I think the red onion may have been one of the reasons I didn't feel so well over the weekend. I ate a lot of tuna pasta
DR elmore---TD Bank is here in Northern Virginia, too. And we get those commercials with Regis and Kelly too.
DR elmore---TD Bank is here in Northern Virginia, too. And we get those commercials with Regis and Kelly too.
Those commercials with Mr Philbin trying to be coy and cutsie-poo are so horrid I will never go near that institution!
back from the Vixter's last school concert of the year - it was really wonderful -despite lots of crying at the end!
Dumb question, Jose, but could you save (or freeze) that onion water and use it in soup broth or in cooking other vegetables?
Thanks, Jose.
My version of the pasta salad uses the light or low-fat mayo. I know the chefs on this board will be horrified; however, I am trying to avoid a future heart attack.
Sometimes you need to just sit and get nothing done :)
"If I had had some in my crisper" is the title of my new novel of revenge and regret.
Or maybe I'll just continue my story about "Little Mikey Barnum" and the Spirits of Bollywood Past and Present. ;)
...And those dolls were made in India by former bodybuilders... As they burned, the spirits of those bodybuilders were carried into the air by the smoke. Unbeknownst to little Mikey Barnum, as he breathed in some of that smoke, it would plant a seed in him that would begin to germinate many, many years later...
...And as little Mikey sat there in front of the fireplace curled up in a ball, his head between his knees, his tears now co-mingling with the grass stains on his dungarees, he looked up for a last second, and through tear-strewn eyes he watched those last remnants, those last embers of Raggedy Ann and Andy flicker and glow in the fireplace. All the while, that gray, mysterious and magical smoke filled the air, and eventually filtered into his lungs with each sobbing breath he took.
And from that day forward, Little Mikey Barnum was no longer "Little". Nor was he "Mikey". In fact, he was no more.
The prophecy had been fulfilled as it were. That magical, mystical smoke that Little Mikey had breathed deep into his lungs as a child, was suddenly exhaled. And in that puff of smoke, a whole new life began. A whole new world was born and discovered. A whole new land of people.
John Abraham. Tusshar Kapoor. Milind Soman. Dino Morea. Arjun Rampal. Amisha Patel. Mahima Choudhury. Ritesh Deshmukh. Mallika Sherawat. Kareena Kapoor. Sameera Reddy. Hrithik Roshan. Shah Rukh Khan. Priyanka Chopra. Katrina Kaif. Akshaye Khanna...
And as those last keystrokes transported him into the ether, into yet another world, he felt no fear, no anxiety. Even his kurta felt as though as if it fit better. As if it had become a second skin.
He was Home.
And here is my treat for you tonight. Dancers Over Forty is an organization in NY - they do panels and evenings honoring various and sundried composers. A few weeks ago they did one honoring Michael Bennett. Here is part one of seventeen parts - watch them and be thrilled, be moved, laugh, cry - it's what I just did for the last three hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDYxqZN8BoU&feature=related