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I'm feeling not so eloquent but I feel I should post about what I've been doing the past few days...I saw 2 Broadway plays in 3 days, and for under $100, which is rare for me and quite cool. One was Talk Radio with Liev Schreiber, which I saw with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cynima last Thursday. I liked it a lot, very compelling and funny, a good combination, and Liev is of course great. And on Saturday I saw Translations, a Brian Friel play about the Anglicization of Ireland (meaning how the English went in and decided to rename everything in English instead of Gaelic) and how they started to take control of Ireland right before the Potato Famine of the mid-1800s. I went with my mom and enjoyed that too; even if it wasn't a lighthearted play, I found the topic interesting, and the set design was cool. After the play there was a discussion with some of the actors and an NYU professor of Irish culture, moderated by Angela Pietropinto, a woman who seems to keep popping up randomly in my life -- she was on an episode of Another World that Andrea appeared in and she spoke to my acting class in high school once. You may remember her as the mom in Welcome to the Dollhouse.
I also watched two movies this weekend: Babel and The Science of Sleep. I didn't love either one of them. Babel was another one of those Crash-type movies with lots of different people from different backgrounds and how their lives come together in various tragic ways. I thought the Japanese part was the best. I'm not very familiar with modern Japanese culture but the movie certainly made it look like those kids have a great social culture. (Then again, the same could be said for American teen movies.) As for the latter movie...well artistically it was cool, but I didn't completely get the point of it, and it didn't really have an ending.
I was pretty geared up for the Oscars this year, having seen most of the movies nominated for best picture, plus it seemed like this year there was no clear front runner and an upset could happen. But all the winners were exactly as predicted it seemed, with the exception being that Pan's Labyrinth didn't win best foreign film. It cleaned up in the art categories though, which is fair. Overall though, I have to say, with a few exceptions, that this year's Oscar telecast was one of the most boring and unfunny ones ever. I don't want to blame Ellen Degeneres, because she isn't the only one writing the jokes, but where *were* the jokes? Will Ferrell and Jack Black's song and Seinfeld's routine were the only saving graces. I also wish they played longer clips from each movie.
It's slushy and slippery and generally gross outside, I didn't get enough sleep and I feel very much blah this morning. This Sunday is the Woodside St. Patrick's Day parade. It's going to be my first one, anyone wanna come with? I'm also looking forward to the actual St. Paddy's Day parade in NYC, which is on a Saturday this year, which means there's an opportunity for much merrymaking if anyone wants to join me for that.
cynima last Thursday. I liked it a lot, very compelling and funny, a good combination, and Liev is of course great. And on Saturday I saw Translations, a Brian Friel play about the Anglicization of Ireland (meaning how the English went in and decided to rename everything in English instead of Gaelic) and how they started to take control of Ireland right before the Potato Famine of the mid-1800s. I went with my mom and enjoyed that too; even if it wasn't a lighthearted play, I found the topic interesting, and the set design was cool. After the play there was a discussion with some of the actors and an NYU professor of Irish culture, moderated by Angela Pietropinto, a woman who seems to keep popping up randomly in my life -- she was on an episode of Another World that Andrea appeared in and she spoke to my acting class in high school once. You may remember her as the mom in Welcome to the Dollhouse. I also watched two movies this weekend: Babel and The Science of Sleep. I didn't love either one of them. Babel was another one of those Crash-type movies with lots of different people from different backgrounds and how their lives come together in various tragic ways. I thought the Japanese part was the best. I'm not very familiar with modern Japanese culture but the movie certainly made it look like those kids have a great social culture. (Then again, the same could be said for American teen movies.) As for the latter movie...well artistically it was cool, but I didn't completely get the point of it, and it didn't really have an ending.
I was pretty geared up for the Oscars this year, having seen most of the movies nominated for best picture, plus it seemed like this year there was no clear front runner and an upset could happen. But all the winners were exactly as predicted it seemed, with the exception being that Pan's Labyrinth didn't win best foreign film. It cleaned up in the art categories though, which is fair. Overall though, I have to say, with a few exceptions, that this year's Oscar telecast was one of the most boring and unfunny ones ever. I don't want to blame Ellen Degeneres, because she isn't the only one writing the jokes, but where *were* the jokes? Will Ferrell and Jack Black's song and Seinfeld's routine were the only saving graces. I also wish they played longer clips from each movie.
It's slushy and slippery and generally gross outside, I didn't get enough sleep and I feel very much blah this morning. This Sunday is the Woodside St. Patrick's Day parade. It's going to be my first one, anyone wanna come with? I'm also looking forward to the actual St. Paddy's Day parade in NYC, which is on a Saturday this year, which means there's an opportunity for much merrymaking if anyone wants to join me for that.
