04/21/2006: "Kong, Gong, and Songs"

music: Take the lead soundtrack
mood: Friday. Enough said.

The weather has started to behave, my car has ceased to cop attitude for the most part, and my room was clean for about 17 hours. Last weekended I gardened in the rain making my body ache. It was a good ache for the most part, but a sad ache becuase I need to exercise a hell of a lot more for my mind as well as my body then I am doing. My hip is still out of joint from over a month ago and I walk like I am 3 times my age. But enough about me.

Saw the Ballet last night with Espe. I was MOST impressed with a short 3 1/2 minute piece called Strange Fruit danced to the original 1939 Billie Holiday song of the same name. Strange fruit refers to the lynchings in the south. AMAZING history of the song and WONDERFUL solo dance by a beautiful man. It was emptional and heavy but just so cool. An Er-Hu driven piece with beautiful laterns that we swung aroudn in the dark by the ensemble as awell as a really moving chinese duo was very entertaining. I particularly liked the haunting music and the modern "humor" it had. The opening piece was exactly what you would expect to see if youhad never been to the ballet before. Lots of women in frilly white taffeta on point with moonlight simulated lighting. VERY PRETTY. but fluff and no so much substance. What killed me though and REALLY made me enjoy the piece was it was danced to several chopin solo piano pieces. It brought back SO many memories of my older sister Rebecca playing the same pieces while growing up, and me marking up the chopin music book with the letters of the notes becuase I couldn't read the lines with my dyslexia well enough at age 9. It made me totally yearn for my piano, which is graciously hosted temporarily at Chris Tann's house. I should be able to play piano. I know I can. I still know the beginning of a mazurka. It took every fiber of restraint I have to not hum and sing to each one. I didn't think I was old enough to know what nostalgia felt like. I think maybe I am. Is that a sad thing? Anyway, the last piece sucked, and we should have left and gone back tot he Melting pot where we had had dinner (yum fondue and wine!!!) but we didn't.

From the sublime to the ridiculous...Saw King kong. In my hermitous efforts I have taken to late night movies, in my room, with my head phones in my laptop to seclude and detox from the daily frustrations. King kong had surprised a lot of people, admittedly my expectations weren't too high. still. Saddest movie EVER. I know I know, it's not like the movie is a surprise, but it sucked. The efect were great, the acting good but I already SAW jurassic park, and I'm sorry I know you have to have a certain beiefe system suspended when youhave giant bugs, dinos and apes, but come on, ther eis NO way they escaped from bugs, NO way the t-rex didn't kick kongs ass, and there is NO way Beauty killed the beast. If I can talk to my car, I can talk to an ape, and had he fallen in love with me I would have totally prevented that ending. boo hiss. sad. but over all 3 out of 5 RRD's. Cause I want a king kong of my own now.

Last week Dinner with my roommates at Spiedo was MOST excellent. Food was super 9 I never got past the gnocchi on the menu.. I always order gnocchi...the pino was good, we had a cupon for free Calamari AND I met the mysterious NICOLAS (from Romania) that lives upstairs. The boys and I (except for Scotty who still had the flu and couldn't join) had a great old time and have set up our next house dinner at the Fahrenheit Ultra lounge. Don't ask what the diffrence between lounge and ultra lounge is....I'll tell you when I find out...I'm sure there are less Australians. ouch.

Got a chance to hang with a few of my cast memebers from Magician's nephew and see Antonio Bandaras in TAKE THE LEAD. Predictable but decent movie. The surpise was how much I REALLY liked the rap songs they chose. I was in touch with my inner gagsta...J-wong would be proud.

Also caught up with Randy Sterns and John Byrd as we ventured to San francisco's mission district to see Randy's show at the Amnesia bar. The after party was plesant and it made me cogizant that there have been a few shows in my life where I have met a HUGE number of people I stil hang out with...Pride and Prejudice is one of them...It all caomes back to easy street I guess..They are producing tonight's entertainment...


Easter (I hardly know her) last weekend rocked, it was a productive cleaning weekend but most of all I can from behind to win the scrabble match...STILL the victor.

Tonight as I said I see a show where I know all but 1 member of the cast...Haunting of hill house, tomorrow a rehearsal, a book club meeting and then a sleep over in Oakland with Espe while my Brother is at a Wedding in Puerto Rico. Whoo hoo!!! There will be spending of Wedding gift certificates, farmers market and rearranging of the apartment! OH yeah...

Sunday, free tickets to the Improv 7pm show with Michael Pease as offical comedy critic. Our experience last Friday at the free comedy showcase in Mountain View was....PAINFUL. 4 hours of comedy and maybe 15 minutes of funny. I wonder why my funny friends don't get up there instead of the freaks and geeks that spend 4 minutes of their 5 asking how the audience is and if they want to hear jokes. I would have to be paid major MAJOR bucks to do even 5 minutes of stand up but if I did you can be DAMN sure I would know what I was going to say ahead of time.


annnnnyyyywayy...

New favorite TV show is my wanna be boyfriend David Spades 30 miunte Show biz show. It's just witty and sarcastic and edgy and adorable. I'm waiting by the phone for his call.....

Stay safe and be wicked!