Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world

[sovay]

This has really been a good weekend. I hung out with gaudior and 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 weirdquark and Thrud as Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd, with the occasional quick pussycat. Saturday, 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.

Comments

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

There are few things more fun than sorting books (at least, alphabetizing them upon the shelves). My wife does not get this. Nor does anyone else I know. I don't understand why.

[yendi]

The carrier pigeons ad was wonderful; I think it's up there with the Coke ad with the balloons and the Bridgestone one with Richard Simmons and Alice Cooper as far as just catching me completely by surprise.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The forest creatures love Princess Tutu... they've watched the whole thing and just rave about it. I've only seen stills from it.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

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?

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Books. Freezer. In plastic bags.

Nine