also seth and i did a Big Twilight Rewatch this week…lemme tell you, jacob’s joke at the end of pt 2 (so should i call you dad now) truly gets more horrifying every time i watch those movies
I am so jealous of everyone who gets to see The Clock and annoyed that i didn’t catch it when I was in NYC last month
So excited for Caught by the Tides, I’ve been playing Jia catchup and I was so taken with Ash is Purest White recently, one of my favorite movies this century
Liz is out of town so I’m watching a bunch of old odds and ends. Was in the mood for some Westerns to pair with Lonesome Dove and I put on The Bravados last night. A total masterpiece I had never heard of, even though it stars the dry as hell Gregory Peck. So many interesting shots and compositions, gorgeous colors, fantastic script. Need to see more Henry King!
Bravados sounds awesome. If Sinners inspired anything it was an overwhelming desire to revisit Rio Bravo, a perfect western-musical. Eager for your Caught by the Tides thoughts — I have some Jia catchup to do too but right now really just enjoying all his interviews.
I’ll never forget seeing Sutton Foster give Bobby Cannavale an extremely emotional hug on 8th avenue in the, like, post-matinee hour on a Sunday afternoon circa 2011 (maybe 2010? I was in college). This was in a time where I witnessed a lot of very intense moments between celebs (I think that same year I saw Kieran Culkin consoling a sobbing Emma Stone in Columbus Circle).
Re the racism of Thoroughly Modern Millie — I sometimes think of all the teenage white boys having yellowface foisted upon them so they can play Ching Ho and Bun Foo (yikes) between 2006 and 2016. Do you think high schools have stopped doing that?
omg... two really crazy celeb sightings.... Sutton's place in popular culture is kind of a mystery to me. Like she is - to some people - extremely famous, and then to others... not so much. But she's not really a niche interest?? Unless???
We definitely had teenage boys doing yellowface in 2007 :( I would like to think that most high school have just reverted back to doing, like, Grease. Perhaps you know this but there was a pre-COVID plan for Ashley Park to do Millie in an "updated" version and now I feel like that thing is dead in the water... but so much of that music is really good that I think it's worth TRYING to figure out how to retool it. Somewhat relatedly: I saw the "amended" version of Book of Mormon last year that is purportedly less racist... ummmm... I would say it is still really racist!!!
unrelated so I hope this isn't annoying: I'm going to Chicago (and actually the US) for the first time in a couple of weeks and booking the architecture boat tour entirely bc of the Fran mag endorsement. wanted to double check it's the Chicago Architecture Center one? any intel on their walking tours as well?
I'd welcome any other suggestions for Chicago, NY, east coast, particularly film related -- v weird to be travelling through the States now, but also presumably the last time I will be (or, for awhile...)
OMG!!! That is so exciting - I hope you have the best time. There are a FEW Chicago river tours but it is generally agreed that the Chicago Architecture Center one is the best. Though the other's are plenty good too! I'm afraid I know nothing about their walking tours but the CAC is awesome - would trust them.
Send me an email franhoepfner @ gmail and I can send along other recs for Chicago/NY
I do not fw energy drinks as a whole, but I did have my first (and second) espresso martini on Friday night to keep my energy up while DJing. it worked!
Bandit's mustache is a DELIGHT. I hope to scratch that lil chin someday!!
Get a load of this 2017-ass passage in an Ebert review from 1984: "As a Gemini, however, I contain multitudes, and I also have a highly sophisticated, sharply intellectual sense of humor."
Sutton is my favorite living performer, I've seen her in a musical probably 8-10 times and 3 times in concert. I feel like 2 out of 3 concerts she encored with Gimme Gimme but I have had the sense that she is trying to move away from it as her signature number (there's a recent album of hers where she has a former student or something sing it in a medley with her). I would love to see her in one of her Kelli O'Hara double bill concerts that is such a throwback to like the Ethel Merman/Mary Martin shows of legend that makes me really happy.
I especially wanted ur take on her — I need to send you the program for your thoughts. She is just so special to me… I’m not so keen on whatever her coal miner daughter’s show will be but I’ll be seated nonetheless. What musicals have you seen her in?
Yeah Coal Miner’s Daughter doesn’t have me running out the door but I love her having a star vehicle built around her.
I think my total count is Shrek x4 (Freshman year at NYU lol), Anyone Can Whistle at Encores!, Anything Goes x2, Violet (one of my fave performances/theatre experiences of all time), and Music Man. I missed the 2 most recent shows sadly by being out of town the entirety of their runs.
I wish I saw Anything Goes so bad...... was binging some old performances of it the night we got back from her show this week. Phil saw Once Upon a Mattress and loved.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the confidence of them to hold that press event where they were in rehearsal for the title number and did it all in rehearsal clothes on no real set and she debuted the option up on that last “Goes!” and it was like “well this Tony race is over.”
The Clock! I saw it when I lived in Boston, and it was running at the Museum of Fine Arts. Went a couple times, once in the afternoon and once after a bartending shift at like 3am. Both viewing sessions were fantastic but I cannot recommend the experience of walking through a stately museum like the MFA in the middle of the night highly enough.
I wish they did more regular 24-hour showings of The Clock here - I feel like those all dried up in the first few months and then they never brought it back. I would DIE to see the midnight session.
i only knew sutton as an "underrated actress" from bunheads and younger until she sang songs on the summer episode of the gilmore girls reboot and i did one second of research and found out she's actually an extremely famous broadway star lol the strangeness of knowing nothing about the great white way
So true - I have the opposite thing of only learning she was ever on TV like two years ago. You need to see her live one day: she's completely insane (endorsement).
exactly the same as the time i became i obsessed with the annaleigh ashford song in john mulaney & the sack lunch bunch without having a single clue who annaleigh ashford was, i was just like "wow this totally unknown lady they found is great!" lmao
Theater and film/TV are like separate universes. Patrick Stewart is a knight and acting titan because of his decades in the Royal Shakespeare Company. On screen, he's known for X-Men, Star Trek and quasi-ironic roles (classing up junk with that legendary voice).
You'd assume just about every Sir or Dame has been Oscar-nominated at least once, but I don't know that he's even been in serious contention.
we are energy drink trier friends this week - i had a monster for the first time ever. i have mega severe, disabling adhd, and i cannot currently afford my adderall prescription, so i have been staying as far away as possible from energy drinks bc i am terrified of getting addicted and self medicating with them. anyway. it was delicious and i’ll probably have another one today LOL
I'm literally so scared of Monster but I can take a Celcius no problem. I blame this entirely on Phil btw - I don't think I'd ever so much as a a Red Bull until we dated.
let me tell u - i drank that monster, took a twenty minute nap, and then booked all the hotel rooms for the big road trip we’re taking in a couple months, and it only took me 45 minutes for 9 different hotels. that shit was magical.
Caffeine dependency is a thing but there's no such thing as energy drink addiction. (Whereas Adderall addiction is VERY REAL, let me tell you.)
I have zero interest in those "XXXtreme" drinks in neon cans—anything carbonated in the morning just feels wrong—but I drink 5 Hour Energy in the morning. (I buy in bulk from a site called allstarhealth.com. Even the 10-packs at CVS are overpriced.) Doesn't stain your teeth, no coffee breath, no need to brush teeth and scrape tongue afterward.
If I stay with my family for a week or two, I have coffee instead and I'm fine—no 5HE "withdrawal." Same amount of caffeine, just in a different form.
also seth and i did a Big Twilight Rewatch this week…lemme tell you, jacob’s joke at the end of pt 2 (so should i call you dad now) truly gets more horrifying every time i watch those movies
Those movies are sooooooo crazy like no one will ever get close to that ever again
The final battle was Avengers: Endgame before Avengers: Endgame.
It's also funny when Jacob starts to strip in front of Bella's dad and Mr. Officer Swann thinks it's a gay thing.
I am so jealous of everyone who gets to see The Clock and annoyed that i didn’t catch it when I was in NYC last month
So excited for Caught by the Tides, I’ve been playing Jia catchup and I was so taken with Ash is Purest White recently, one of my favorite movies this century
Liz is out of town so I’m watching a bunch of old odds and ends. Was in the mood for some Westerns to pair with Lonesome Dove and I put on The Bravados last night. A total masterpiece I had never heard of, even though it stars the dry as hell Gregory Peck. So many interesting shots and compositions, gorgeous colors, fantastic script. Need to see more Henry King!
Bravados sounds awesome. If Sinners inspired anything it was an overwhelming desire to revisit Rio Bravo, a perfect western-musical. Eager for your Caught by the Tides thoughts — I have some Jia catchup to do too but right now really just enjoying all his interviews.
I’ll never forget seeing Sutton Foster give Bobby Cannavale an extremely emotional hug on 8th avenue in the, like, post-matinee hour on a Sunday afternoon circa 2011 (maybe 2010? I was in college). This was in a time where I witnessed a lot of very intense moments between celebs (I think that same year I saw Kieran Culkin consoling a sobbing Emma Stone in Columbus Circle).
Re the racism of Thoroughly Modern Millie — I sometimes think of all the teenage white boys having yellowface foisted upon them so they can play Ching Ho and Bun Foo (yikes) between 2006 and 2016. Do you think high schools have stopped doing that?
omg... two really crazy celeb sightings.... Sutton's place in popular culture is kind of a mystery to me. Like she is - to some people - extremely famous, and then to others... not so much. But she's not really a niche interest?? Unless???
We definitely had teenage boys doing yellowface in 2007 :( I would like to think that most high school have just reverted back to doing, like, Grease. Perhaps you know this but there was a pre-COVID plan for Ashley Park to do Millie in an "updated" version and now I feel like that thing is dead in the water... but so much of that music is really good that I think it's worth TRYING to figure out how to retool it. Somewhat relatedly: I saw the "amended" version of Book of Mormon last year that is purportedly less racist... ummmm... I would say it is still really racist!!!
unrelated so I hope this isn't annoying: I'm going to Chicago (and actually the US) for the first time in a couple of weeks and booking the architecture boat tour entirely bc of the Fran mag endorsement. wanted to double check it's the Chicago Architecture Center one? any intel on their walking tours as well?
I'd welcome any other suggestions for Chicago, NY, east coast, particularly film related -- v weird to be travelling through the States now, but also presumably the last time I will be (or, for awhile...)
OMG!!! That is so exciting - I hope you have the best time. There are a FEW Chicago river tours but it is generally agreed that the Chicago Architecture Center one is the best. Though the other's are plenty good too! I'm afraid I know nothing about their walking tours but the CAC is awesome - would trust them.
Send me an email franhoepfner @ gmail and I can send along other recs for Chicago/NY
I do not fw energy drinks as a whole, but I did have my first (and second) espresso martini on Friday night to keep my energy up while DJing. it worked!
Bandit's mustache is a DELIGHT. I hope to scratch that lil chin someday!!
Get a load of this 2017-ass passage in an Ebert review from 1984: "As a Gemini, however, I contain multitudes, and I also have a highly sophisticated, sharply intellectual sense of humor."
omg Ebert!!! of COURSE he's a Gemini... and Siskel an Aquarius...
Have you tried the cola celcius flavor.....rare and dangerous
No I’m literally scared lol
I went to The Clock at the MFA the day after Trump got elected in 2016 lol!
Yay!!!!
Sutton is my favorite living performer, I've seen her in a musical probably 8-10 times and 3 times in concert. I feel like 2 out of 3 concerts she encored with Gimme Gimme but I have had the sense that she is trying to move away from it as her signature number (there's a recent album of hers where she has a former student or something sing it in a medley with her). I would love to see her in one of her Kelli O'Hara double bill concerts that is such a throwback to like the Ethel Merman/Mary Martin shows of legend that makes me really happy.
Andy! Come to Chicago I am taking my mom to see this very double bill at Ravinia this summer
I especially wanted ur take on her — I need to send you the program for your thoughts. She is just so special to me… I’m not so keen on whatever her coal miner daughter’s show will be but I’ll be seated nonetheless. What musicals have you seen her in?
Yeah Coal Miner’s Daughter doesn’t have me running out the door but I love her having a star vehicle built around her.
I think my total count is Shrek x4 (Freshman year at NYU lol), Anyone Can Whistle at Encores!, Anything Goes x2, Violet (one of my fave performances/theatre experiences of all time), and Music Man. I missed the 2 most recent shows sadly by being out of town the entirety of their runs.
I wish I saw Anything Goes so bad...... was binging some old performances of it the night we got back from her show this week. Phil saw Once Upon a Mattress and loved.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the confidence of them to hold that press event where they were in rehearsal for the title number and did it all in rehearsal clothes on no real set and she debuted the option up on that last “Goes!” and it was like “well this Tony race is over.”
The Clock! I saw it when I lived in Boston, and it was running at the Museum of Fine Arts. Went a couple times, once in the afternoon and once after a bartending shift at like 3am. Both viewing sessions were fantastic but I cannot recommend the experience of walking through a stately museum like the MFA in the middle of the night highly enough.
I wish they did more regular 24-hour showings of The Clock here - I feel like those all dried up in the first few months and then they never brought it back. I would DIE to see the midnight session.
i only knew sutton as an "underrated actress" from bunheads and younger until she sang songs on the summer episode of the gilmore girls reboot and i did one second of research and found out she's actually an extremely famous broadway star lol the strangeness of knowing nothing about the great white way
So true - I have the opposite thing of only learning she was ever on TV like two years ago. You need to see her live one day: she's completely insane (endorsement).
exactly the same as the time i became i obsessed with the annaleigh ashford song in john mulaney & the sack lunch bunch without having a single clue who annaleigh ashford was, i was just like "wow this totally unknown lady they found is great!" lmao
Theater and film/TV are like separate universes. Patrick Stewart is a knight and acting titan because of his decades in the Royal Shakespeare Company. On screen, he's known for X-Men, Star Trek and quasi-ironic roles (classing up junk with that legendary voice).
You'd assume just about every Sir or Dame has been Oscar-nominated at least once, but I don't know that he's even been in serious contention.
we are energy drink trier friends this week - i had a monster for the first time ever. i have mega severe, disabling adhd, and i cannot currently afford my adderall prescription, so i have been staying as far away as possible from energy drinks bc i am terrified of getting addicted and self medicating with them. anyway. it was delicious and i’ll probably have another one today LOL
I'm literally so scared of Monster but I can take a Celcius no problem. I blame this entirely on Phil btw - I don't think I'd ever so much as a a Red Bull until we dated.
Actually that's a lie I had a 5 hour energy at senior prom
let me tell u - i drank that monster, took a twenty minute nap, and then booked all the hotel rooms for the big road trip we’re taking in a couple months, and it only took me 45 minutes for 9 different hotels. that shit was magical.
Caffeine dependency is a thing but there's no such thing as energy drink addiction. (Whereas Adderall addiction is VERY REAL, let me tell you.)
I have zero interest in those "XXXtreme" drinks in neon cans—anything carbonated in the morning just feels wrong—but I drink 5 Hour Energy in the morning. (I buy in bulk from a site called allstarhealth.com. Even the 10-packs at CVS are overpriced.) Doesn't stain your teeth, no coffee breath, no need to brush teeth and scrape tongue afterward.
If I stay with my family for a week or two, I have coffee instead and I'm fine—no 5HE "withdrawal." Same amount of caffeine, just in a different form.
The next Celsius you need to seek out is the Pina Colada flavor. It tastes like how Florida resorts smell and is awesome.
Pina Colada is my brother's FAVORITE drink.
I've been waiting 15 years for The Clock to come to Chicago. It never has! So annoying.
Thunder Up! :) :) :) :) :) :)