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1) Saw Joe Mande do some comedy at The Parkway Sunday night. [annoying hipster voice] I saw him open for John Mulaney at the Chicago Theater when John was shooting what would become The Comeback Kid.
Anyway it was a good set. Laughed a lot. Thought about the final bit callback yesterday in a way where I wished one of my stand-up nerdlinger friends had gone with me so I could Share An Opinion or Say a Thought that someone else might have some interest in. But I know my audience here, as well as the friends who went along (read: citizens). So... I'll just have my thought here on my own.
2) Went to this exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and was moved and learned so much and wished I could've spent more time there with less people and also wasn't right up against my work holiday party deadline (I WAS ON THE HOLIDAY PARTY PLANNING COMMITTEE! As I said to a friendly joke: yes, I was the Angela). This was also a lesson in joining the MiA newsletter and maybe possibly becoming a member one of these days? They do really really great stuff there. The Walker has a mini golf course on the roof AND the cherry in the spoon sculpture. They don't need my money.
3) Saw Mean Girls: The Musical: The Movie. It was a hoot. The music is still surprisingly forgettable, given how pointed and hilarious Jeff Richmond's songs and bits were on 30 Rock. Tim Meadows? Still got it as Principal Duvall, though I'm sad they lost the Joe Clark bit. Gen Xers all thought that was funny in the OG. And cameo thoughts: ( spoilers )
4) Also saw Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder as I continue to work on my noir passport/shoot for free popcorn. I think it was a good workout for my brain. Not just seeing a movie I hadn't seen before, but seeing an early work of a director who made a film I really admired, but also having to struggle a little and be a little less surefooted in a movie's language because I don't have the cultural shorthand. Sometimes things would happen that I thought were funny and then sit in the discomfort of not being very certain if that was the director's intention. I will say it was also a good workout to watch a movie and be incessantly certain the film would follow the Law and Order rules of the road and introduce the killer to us within the context of the movie. And spoiler: it doesn't. You're just left with uncertainty.
Future plans include: American Fiction (maybe), Hard Eight (for my noir passport, and I can picture my unwatched Netflix-by-mail disc so clearly in my mind for this first PT Anderson film), if I'm feeling ambitious THIS?, maybe River Butcher at Acme in February, and DEFINITELY Paul F. Tompkins's Varietopia at the Fitzgerald in June. Oh, and I'm going to Funny Girl this Sunday. [annoying hipster voice] I saw Debbie Gibson play this role in a touring production back in the mid-nineties (learn more about this very solid, good idea of a production here).
OFMD) I'm telling myself that Taika's radio silence on soc med with regards to the Max cancellation means he is working his back channels because he has development deals with Disney/ABC/FX/Hulu/Sheinhardt Wig Company and Apple+. I feel like less cuckoo-birdism saved B99 for another few seasons. I'm holding out hope.
Anyway it was a good set. Laughed a lot. Thought about the final bit callback yesterday in a way where I wished one of my stand-up nerdlinger friends had gone with me so I could Share An Opinion or Say a Thought that someone else might have some interest in. But I know my audience here, as well as the friends who went along (read: citizens). So... I'll just have my thought here on my own.
2) Went to this exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and was moved and learned so much and wished I could've spent more time there with less people and also wasn't right up against my work holiday party deadline (I WAS ON THE HOLIDAY PARTY PLANNING COMMITTEE! As I said to a friendly joke: yes, I was the Angela). This was also a lesson in joining the MiA newsletter and maybe possibly becoming a member one of these days? They do really really great stuff there. The Walker has a mini golf course on the roof AND the cherry in the spoon sculpture. They don't need my money.
3) Saw Mean Girls: The Musical: The Movie. It was a hoot. The music is still surprisingly forgettable, given how pointed and hilarious Jeff Richmond's songs and bits were on 30 Rock. Tim Meadows? Still got it as Principal Duvall, though I'm sad they lost the Joe Clark bit. Gen Xers all thought that was funny in the OG. And cameo thoughts: ( spoilers )
4) Also saw Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder as I continue to work on my noir passport/shoot for free popcorn. I think it was a good workout for my brain. Not just seeing a movie I hadn't seen before, but seeing an early work of a director who made a film I really admired, but also having to struggle a little and be a little less surefooted in a movie's language because I don't have the cultural shorthand. Sometimes things would happen that I thought were funny and then sit in the discomfort of not being very certain if that was the director's intention. I will say it was also a good workout to watch a movie and be incessantly certain the film would follow the Law and Order rules of the road and introduce the killer to us within the context of the movie. And spoiler: it doesn't. You're just left with uncertainty.
Future plans include: American Fiction (maybe), Hard Eight (for my noir passport, and I can picture my unwatched Netflix-by-mail disc so clearly in my mind for this first PT Anderson film), if I'm feeling ambitious THIS?, maybe River Butcher at Acme in February, and DEFINITELY Paul F. Tompkins's Varietopia at the Fitzgerald in June. Oh, and I'm going to Funny Girl this Sunday. [annoying hipster voice] I saw Debbie Gibson play this role in a touring production back in the mid-nineties (learn more about this very solid, good idea of a production here).
OFMD) I'm telling myself that Taika's radio silence on soc med with regards to the Max cancellation means he is working his back channels because he has development deals with Disney/ABC/FX/Hulu/Sheinhardt Wig Company and Apple+. I feel like less cuckoo-birdism saved B99 for another few seasons. I'm holding out hope.
But if it doesn't come together, maybe I'll sit down and write a missing scene fic about a conversation I really wanted to see, the one that results in Stede and Ed staying behind at their inn with the hole in the roof and many dead birds inside. I feel like that return to the captain's cabin after burying Izzy, where the two of them hadn't been together since they'd whimproned the deed, would've been wonderfully romantic and also fraught.