Tempest, Vess, Eggs
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The Complex is Blue Man Group's next album, theoretically available in stores on Tuesday. Among the songs on the album are covers of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and Donna Summers's "I Feel Love." Also included is "Sing Along" with vocals by Dave Matthews. The video for "Sing Along" is available on the site (link at the bottom of the page), and it's pretty cool.
Satyrday morning E, K, Z, Crystal, and I all drive down to Abingdon (a few miles from Tennessee). Lunch is at a pretty cool little pizza place (Bello's? Something like that). Then met up with J and Maureen for Tempest.
It was a good show. Tempest isn't one of my faves (it's got no plot! All it's got is Prospero manipulating people!) but Barter did a really good job with it. They cut the first scene (on the boat) altogether, and combined several characters (Trinculo and Stephano, and Antonio and whoever it is he talks to (Sebastian?)), but they cut the pointless (to a twentieth-century audience) masque, too, so it was all good. Ariel was an American Indian, which was interesting; he probably gave the best performance of the lot. (None were bad by any means; Ferdinand was a bit blah, but not so much so as to be distracting.)
Then, since we'd just had lunch a couple hours before, we wandered over to Green Man Press to meet Charles Vess. (For those of you who are lost, he illustrated Neil Gaiman's Stardust and the two Shakespeare issues of Sandman.) He is quite possibly the most pleasant semicelebrity I've ever met. Not that the list is all that long-- Steven Brust, Andy Looney, and oh yeah I briefly spoke to Mike Stackpole at Origins last year. All pretty cool guys, but there was just something fundamentally decent about Vess. I mean, the man took time out of his Satyrday to show us around his workspace, and we stood around for an hour or so and talked about upcoming projects (a comic short-story written by Emma Bull, the limited edition of Martin's A Storm of Swords, a children's book byJane Yolen Charles de Lint) and books and artists in general. (The books. My God, the books. I could have stayed in there for days and been happy. The limited edition of Game of Thrones. An Alan Lee-illustrated Mabinogion (in print in the UK, available at amazon.co.uk). Jeff Smith's Bone and Walt Kelly's Pogo and so much other great stuff.) So cool. If I can be half that ... nice ... (without getting overly bitter), I will count my life a success.
Later, dinner at The Home Place, a restaurant outside Salem where they pry your mouth open and pour good home-cooked food down your throat until you can't eat anymore.
Today was E's easter egg hunt. Since the weather was only so-so (clouds and fifteen degrees, threatening rain) she hid eggs inside, and a bunch of people came over and hunted. Quite cool. Then tromping about with K and Dave in the woods. Likewise cool.
It's been a pretty good weekend.
evelynne)The Complex is Blue Man Group's next album, theoretically available in stores on Tuesday. Among the songs on the album are covers of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and Donna Summers's "I Feel Love." Also included is "Sing Along" with vocals by Dave Matthews. The video for "Sing Along" is available on the site (link at the bottom of the page), and it's pretty cool.
Satyrday morning E, K, Z, Crystal, and I all drive down to Abingdon (a few miles from Tennessee). Lunch is at a pretty cool little pizza place (Bello's? Something like that). Then met up with J and Maureen for Tempest.
It was a good show. Tempest isn't one of my faves (it's got no plot! All it's got is Prospero manipulating people!) but Barter did a really good job with it. They cut the first scene (on the boat) altogether, and combined several characters (Trinculo and Stephano, and Antonio and whoever it is he talks to (Sebastian?)), but they cut the pointless (to a twentieth-century audience) masque, too, so it was all good. Ariel was an American Indian, which was interesting; he probably gave the best performance of the lot. (None were bad by any means; Ferdinand was a bit blah, but not so much so as to be distracting.)
Then, since we'd just had lunch a couple hours before, we wandered over to Green Man Press to meet Charles Vess. (For those of you who are lost, he illustrated Neil Gaiman's Stardust and the two Shakespeare issues of Sandman.) He is quite possibly the most pleasant semicelebrity I've ever met. Not that the list is all that long-- Steven Brust, Andy Looney, and oh yeah I briefly spoke to Mike Stackpole at Origins last year. All pretty cool guys, but there was just something fundamentally decent about Vess. I mean, the man took time out of his Satyrday to show us around his workspace, and we stood around for an hour or so and talked about upcoming projects (a comic short-story written by Emma Bull, the limited edition of Martin's A Storm of Swords, a children's book by
Later, dinner at The Home Place, a restaurant outside Salem where they pry your mouth open and pour good home-cooked food down your throat until you can't eat anymore.
Today was E's easter egg hunt. Since the weather was only so-so (clouds and fifteen degrees, threatening rain) she hid eggs inside, and a bunch of people came over and hunted. Quite cool. Then tromping about with K and Dave in the woods. Likewise cool.
It's been a pretty good weekend.
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Date: 2003-04-20 07:27 pm (UTC)Ah well. Perhaps my lack of presence was a positive thing anyway.
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Date: 2003-04-20 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-21 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Adaptation
Date: 2003-04-20 07:48 pm (UTC)Re: Adaptation
Date: 2003-04-21 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: Adaptation
Date: 2003-04-22 09:18 am (UTC)Not that it isn't also a great film. I hesitate to even call it cliche... That's like criticizing Gone With the Wind for having a character too much like Rhett Butler.
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Date: 2003-04-21 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-23 08:23 am (UTC)If I'd known more than a day ahead...
(and it's looking likely that Vess will be a guest at Technicon next year, so you could always come down for that... :)