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This is a gurnal entry
Dec. 10th, 2023 08:38 am Hello. How are you? That's nice. I'm glad to hear it. Or, obversely, sorry to hear it.
The plans today are to visit a holiday market, maybe drop in on one or two shops as long as we're in NE... pardon me, NORDEAST... and then have lunch. I'm going to try my best to start packing up/wrapping some Christmas stuff. Not out of any sense of getting organized, mind you. It's so that whichever cat or cats like going in the office and playing Michael Scott Parkour! Parkour! will have less enticing piles to knock over.
Amy G and one of her work friends and I went to the Waitress Fathom event on Friday afternoon. I'll say my one minor nitpicky thing before I write the thing I basically came here to write: if you are filming a stage musical and you don't normally have a live actual infant, you don't have to film close-up footage of Sara Barellis holding a live actual infant, because it makes it MEGA distracting when you move back to the footage of the live performance, shot from further back, where it is clearly a stiff-ass doll.
( Meandering thoughts about the last 7 years and Waitress )
In other media news, I watched ep 2 of The Great (Ann) (finally, right?), and I think Julie and I are in on it being our new show, though it is decidedly more bleak and cynical than Our Flag Means Death. I'm watching Fargo S5 with Mel, and I love it the way I love a lot of Noah Hawley stuff--enjoying the operatic highs and the weird, nihilistic lows while also frequently wondering, "Am I dumb? Am I a dumb person who doesn't get this?" I watched an ep of Digman, and it had jokes about Andy Capp, the 2011 INEXPLICABLE Oscar winner The Artist, and Andy Samberg clearly doing his Nic Cage, so I'll keep watching that. Mostly I continue to pine in my heart for Max, even though I also hate Max, because I really just want to rewatch OFMD S2.
Here are Christmas artists I've listened to the past few days:
The plans today are to visit a holiday market, maybe drop in on one or two shops as long as we're in NE... pardon me, NORDEAST... and then have lunch. I'm going to try my best to start packing up/wrapping some Christmas stuff. Not out of any sense of getting organized, mind you. It's so that whichever cat or cats like going in the office and playing Michael Scott Parkour! Parkour! will have less enticing piles to knock over.
Amy G and one of her work friends and I went to the Waitress Fathom event on Friday afternoon. I'll say my one minor nitpicky thing before I write the thing I basically came here to write: if you are filming a stage musical and you don't normally have a live actual infant, you don't have to film close-up footage of Sara Barellis holding a live actual infant, because it makes it MEGA distracting when you move back to the footage of the live performance, shot from further back, where it is clearly a stiff-ass doll.
( Meandering thoughts about the last 7 years and Waitress )
In other media news, I watched ep 2 of The Great (Ann) (finally, right?), and I think Julie and I are in on it being our new show, though it is decidedly more bleak and cynical than Our Flag Means Death. I'm watching Fargo S5 with Mel, and I love it the way I love a lot of Noah Hawley stuff--enjoying the operatic highs and the weird, nihilistic lows while also frequently wondering, "Am I dumb? Am I a dumb person who doesn't get this?" I watched an ep of Digman, and it had jokes about Andy Capp, the 2011 INEXPLICABLE Oscar winner The Artist, and Andy Samberg clearly doing his Nic Cage, so I'll keep watching that. Mostly I continue to pine in my heart for Max, even though I also hate Max, because I really just want to rewatch OFMD S2.
Here are Christmas artists I've listened to the past few days:
- Charlie Brown Christmas (natch)
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Nat King Cole (is his "O Holy Night" one of my faves? It feels like yes)
- Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood
- A classic country playlist that included "Pretty Paper" by Willie Nelson but ALSO included "To Heck with Ole Santa Claus" by Loretta Lynn
- Robbie Williams
- An Amazon playlist called "Tears in my Eggnog"