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Oh my, this is delicious:

NYT article on the public feud between Broadway composers Marc Shaiman ("Hairspray", "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut") and Michael John LaChiusa ("Hello Again" "The Wild Party").

The age old High Art vs Popular Entertainment war, but bitchy.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 2:32 PM | shower me with attention

Fresh Direct now delivers to our neighbourhood.

Ma vie est complete.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 9:31 AM | shower me with attention

Thursday, August 11, 2005

FRANCIS is here! FRANCIS is here! FRANCIS is here!!!!

We ate chili and played Dance Dance Revolution!!!!

I KICKED HIS ASS!!!!

But I was much sweatier and out-of-breathier when it was over.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 9:18 PM | shower me with attention

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Everything in life makes me tired lately.

Here. Dave Roman's Ron Weasley fanzine is completely adorable. (Supporting characters are always the best, anyway.)

Why are you in Tavie's head? 7:06 PM | shower me with attention

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

I'm pooped.

There was an article about my childhood hero, Glen Keane, on Jim Hill Media today. Although it was a favourable article, it made me very sad. Why is he wasting his immense gifts on computer-generated crap?

Why?

I guess if he's making it, it probably won't be crap. But reading that article made me want to cry. I wish I could meet him and talk to him and ask him why he doesn't try with all his might to save traditional animation...

Glen Keane's one of the people I couldn't ever meet, though. I've met a few of my heroes but I think if I met him, I'd just start blubbering all over him...

Why are you in Tavie's head? 8:24 PM | shower me with attention

Sunday, August 07, 2005

I uploaded the rest of the non-lamp WDW photos.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 8:07 PM | shower me with attention

My Sunday Times didn't come again, which means no magazine and no crossoword, and they're all out of them in the store downstairs.

POOH.

That plus the fact that the air conditioner flooded all over the stuff inside my closet, ruining, among other things, my passport and my collection of Kids in the Hall HBO screening dubs (which aren't even mine), this has been one of the more unpleasant Sundays in recent memory.

Anyone have an extra copy of the Sunday magazine?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 4:14 PM | shower me with attention

Anyone want a 30-gallon tank?

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:50 PM | shower me with attention

Sorry I haven't blogged since Thursday. I've been incredibly exhausted and sick of the computer, and also, my mother has been refusing to hide the fact that she reads my blog again, which makes me unable to say anything here. (And I know you're reading too, Tante Joan.)

If people can't even maintain this mutual illusion that we've set up here, I will be completely stifled and unable to use this outlet anymore. So just quit it and go away please.

Now to the business of recapping the last few days:

1. Happy belated SERRA (whose real name is SARAH) DAY! It was yesterday according to the clock. She and her brother were born on August 4 and August 6, so they celebrated together on August 5 at a very cool bar with comfy couches that I very much enjoyed lounging on. (Did I mention how extremely exhausted I've been?) Anyway it just reminded me that if I think it's bad to have to share a birthday with my sister, I can't imagine having to share birthday parties growing up when it's not EVEN on the same day!

2. I saw an amazing movie that knocked my socks off my ass: Spirited Away.

I was supposed to have watched it ages ago. I think it took me so long because the Yu-Baaba character scares me so much. Miyazaki's character design sometimes gives me the willies. I'm very sensitive to scary animation. But it was worth it, the movie is absolutely breathtaking. One of the most imaginative things I've ever seen. The man is a genius.

3. I played Scrabble in a bar tonight.

4. Good night.

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