December 2008
9 posts
why wait?
Time for a break from those ham-handed “Favorite Things” posts.
Someone recommended to me yesterday that I grab a bus and take a trip to New York some time. My response? “Why?” I may now have my answer.
Today’s New York Times reports that the Roundabout Theatre’s upcoming revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot has all but rounded out its cast. ...
WatchFavorite Things - Day 4
In a 2006 interview, Josh Ritter mentioned that he had “tons of songs with nowhere to go —- I could fill two CDs with misfits.” In one of those songs, he explained, “two people who work in a missile silo fall in love.” Either he was underplaying the quality of that particular misfit or he realized between then and the recording of his most...
WatchElvis Costello’s new program, Spectacle premieres tonight on the Sundance Channel. While it is my sincere hope that this show came about as a direct result of Elvis’s appearance as a guest host for David Letterman (which included interviews with [inexplicably] Kim Cattrall and [more explicably] Eddie Izzard as well as a performance by Elvis himself and the late Mitch Hedberg’s...
