a few idle thoughts

[ritaxis]

#If the nice fellow were a bit nicer or he loved me a bit more he would not buy an entire gallon of ice cream when he's the only person in the whole house who's allowed to eat it.  For the same money, he could go to Maryanne's a bunch of times and get really luxurious milkshakes every time, and have more fun.

#The miniature racing tank baby I wrote about a while back has turned into a demon dancer.  He's pretty eclectic: he'll spin and spin like a dervish, and then butt his head like he's in a mosh pit.  But mostly he just clog dances and claps his hands.  He grins like the movie toy "Chuckie" but hde really looks like Orson Welles.

Also, he no longer pushes the cute little babies over.  He just walks over, a thoughtful look on his face and his arm held out, and they fall over screaming before he gets there. I'm afraid he finds this phenomenon endlessly fascinating.  You can see his thought processes: "What was that?  Can I do it again?  How close do I have to get before she'll flop over and scream?  What's supposed to happen next?"

#It takes almost eight apricots to fill a dehydrator tray, which means forty apricots to fill the whole dehydrator.  when the dehydrator is full of trays of thin thin apricots it takes about sixteen hours to render them dry enough to pack away.  Putting the antioxidant in a bowl and stirring the slices around is not as good as sprinkling the antioxidant on a tray, laying out a layer of apricots, and sprinkling them again.  Sadly.

#I'm going to the opera Friday! Lucia di Lammermoor, though I'd rather have seen one I had never seen before.  Quite the cultural journey, huh -- Orchestra Baobab to Verdi in less than two weeks.

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[diminishedsheep.livejournal.com]

As you know, I get stupid-limited comps, but you and Ted can choose any one of these plays and I will see to it that you get to go. Also, Frank can probably go too. If it's opening night, I can get four comps, so depending on the play it could be some sort of family outing, I don't know.

Anyway, SSC plays this summer:

1. All's Well That Ends Well. It's got vaguely thirties costumes.

2. Romeo And Juliet. It's set in hungary, and everything is gypsy-ish. Um, also made out of cheap shiny shit. So probably not accurate-gypsy but sterotypical-costumey-gypsy.

3. Bach At Leipzig. A bunch of working-class composers compete for the position of a lifetime whilst a war is starting, or something. Late 1700's, it looks pretty cool.

4. Burn This! I have no idea. We haven't really started working on it, so all I know is that the original script was four hours long, they cut it to three hours, and John Malkovich bitched about every single word cut.

5. The Fringe Play! I don't know what it's called, and we're not making the costumes, but it's a 400-year-old french play that's never been played in the States before. Seriously, it just got finished being translated last week. It's the intern show, so it probably will get less than no press.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

This sounds wonderful. Without further consultation, I'm most interested in All's Well, because they always do a really good, really raunchy version of that, and the Bach one. John Malkovich being pissy creative about a long play isn't so promising. The Fringe Play sounds interesting but I'd have to know more. Yes, let's head for the four if we can make it happen, or we can buy two tickets for a performance that we can get two comps for.