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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2008-02-04 02:07 am

Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world

This has really been a good weekend. I hung out with [livejournal.com profile] gaudior and [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks on Friday for the first time in a ridiculous while, watched three more episodes of Princess Tutu, which continues to make me happy, and witnessed a photo shoot with [livejournal.com profile] weirdquark and Thrud as Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd, with the occasional quick pussycat. Saturday, [livejournal.com profile] ericmvan and I saw a matinée of the ART's Copenhagen, which I had wanted to see in a general fashion for years and specifically since this summer when I read the play for the first time: and which I found brilliant, fiercely intelligent and far more textured in voice than on the page—John Kuntz as Werner Heisenberg particularly caught at me, tightly mannered and fractured in glimpses between rapid-fire confidence and awkward concession, not innocent; even in the shadowy afterworld in which the play takes place, still passionate and still in pain. I had an unexpected bonus in the form of a comp ticket to the Lydian String Quartet at Brandeis, where I had my mind blown by Reza Vali's "Quartet #3." And tonight I watched the Super Bowl, which was a rather less jubilant occasion than the World Series.* Fortunately, I am even more indifferent to football than to baseball. I still care about archery, though.

Tomorrow, sorting books. Joy.

*The ad with the giant carrier pigeons was like something out of Narbonic, however, and therefore entirely worth seeing.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Why are you sorting books? For heaven's sake don't get rid of any without consulting me.

You realize I'm keeping Ilario here as a lure. *dangles it* Don't you want this back? Isn't that hole on your shelf beginning to nag?

DON'T YOU WANT TO FROLIC WITH THE PUPPY, WHO IS HIS OWN MARKETING TEAM?

:P

Oh, and in re Samuel Bak, it will likely have to be October. Will he be there then, too, dio volente?

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if I win the lottery, I'll send a cardboard return shipper with air holes poked in it; you should be able to fit...

I am extremely sorry to hear this. I hope it's along the lines of hair dryers and clotheslines for most of them and that the conservators can help the rest. *pet pet pet pet*

Also, you should come work here.

Did YOU get to meet Samuel Bak? What did you think of him if so?