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I'm in the middle of Michael J Fox's autobiography right now and feeling that old fifth-grade crush resurfacing.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A little peace, a little stability - that's all I ask. Please?

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

I'm happy to say that the pre-move went extremely well, thanks to a close friend with a minivan. We got all the stuff that needed to go to my parents' place to Roosevelt Island, all the Peña stuff that needed to go to Brooklyn this weekend there, and got quite a few things over to the new place in Hoboken, as well. My arms will be sore, I'm sure - a lot of lugging of heavy things - but a good chunk of the stress source is chipped away.

Of course, next weekend is the hard part - the move-move. But at least this much is done. I feel justified in resting for awhile.

*zonk*

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Does anyone know a carpenter?

I want one of these.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

I wanted to talk more about last week, especially about the friends I got to reconnect with, but I'm so busy and tired from packing and work &etc, &etc.

Sorry. I'll try, soon.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Happy Earth Day. I did nothing to make my planet better today. I'm not proud of that. In the new place, we have a good-sized terrace and may put in some boxes and try for a terrace garden. (After reading this article in the Sunday Times, I'm all het up about the idea.)

I'm trying for a KITH-free post, how'm I doing?

(D'oh!)

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Monday, April 21, 2008

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Network's down so I can't do anything right now so this is justified.

My personal KITH tour is over, unless I get some sort of brain sickness.

As I ease back into the stresses of work and moving to a new apartment, I am still finding myself insanely distracted by this tour. Maybe because I add a thousand people a day as Myspace friends, or because I'm Tavie.

Anyway, Jim Millan was kind enough to provide me with a track list of the music for this current show. The preshow music is in no particular order (the cue music, of course, is.)

Preshow music:
Pump - B-52's
Rockferry - Duffy
Warwick Avenue - Duffy
03 03 A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Everything Is Average Nowadays - Kaiser Chiefs
Most Exalted Potentate Of Love (The Cramps Cover) - Queens of the Stone Age
Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
la la her madly - ruff muff
ageless beauty - Stars
take your mama out - scissor sisters
Let it Ride - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Everyday Should Be A Holiday - The Dandy Warhols
Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
Filthy and Gorgeous - Scissor sisters
Here It Goes Again - OK Go
My Doorbell - The White Stripes
Highway 61 Revisited - Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers
Stuck In The Middle - Mika
I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor - Arctic Monkeys
Gay Bar - Electric Six
Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
Me And Mr Jones (Fuckery) - Amy Winehouse
Bodysnatchers - Radiohead
Tear off our own head - Elvis Costello
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Rollover D.J. - Jet
Hey Ya! [Outkast Cover] (Live (BBC Live Lounge with Jo Whiley) - Razorlight
Just Because - Janes Addiction
Big Sur - The Thrills
Heterosexual Man - Odds
The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Shut Up & Drive - Rihanna
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And this is the cue list in the show with interstitial music
Having an Average Weekend - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Here I Come - - The Roots (Feat. Malik B & Dice Raw)
take your mama out - scissor sisters
Get Out of My Dreams, Get into My Car - Billy Ocean
You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told) - The White Stripes
Cheap And Cheerful - The Kills
Everyone's A V.I.P To Someone - The Go! Team
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1 - The Flaming Lips
LA Woman - The Doors
Dragonballz - Dragon Ball Z scary fight music(1) - Dragon Ball Z
Male Pee - Kids in the Hall
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
Superman Theme - John Williams
Ever Fallen In Love - Nouvelle Vague
Ask Me Nice - Mose Allison
Theme From The Tiki Wonder Hour - Combustible Edison
Salma Dance - Los Lobos
Hey Little World - The Hives
The Doorbell Encore - team9 - white stripes vs jayz vs queen
Ballad of Mack the Knife - Three Penny Opera
Grade 8 Dance - Kids in the Hall
Brokeback Mountain Theme - Wings - Gustavo Santaolalla
Meeting Paris Hilton - CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
la la her madly - ruff muff
Music Is My Hot Hot Sex - CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
Teenagers - My Chemical Romance

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

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Originally uploaded by Tavie

Yesterday I went to a taping of a radio interview for XM satellite radio, a show called "Unmasked". They interviewed three of the guys - Dave, Kevin and Scott. It was maybe the most insane, loosey-goosey interview I'd ever seen - almost all physical comedy (YES, on the radio, although it as being taped for a video podacst) and slapstick goofiness, sexually assaulting audience members and pouring water over each other's heads.

These people are insane.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:35 PM | shower me with attention

Sorry I haven't posted, but the guys are in town and I'm having crazy fun.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

KITH profiled in this week's Time Out New York.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

I'm flabbergasted and delighted that the Myspace page has gotten so popular. I log in several times a day, and each time I do, there are another 300-400 people to add. When I woke up this morning, 524 friend requests had appeared while I slept.

I wonder how many of the people I add as friends remember me from the old days. They probably don't realize I run the page (there are dozens of messages of fan mail and comments directed at the guys every day) or remember who I am. But I've had a lot-lot-lot of friends in KITH fandom over the past 14 years. Surely some of them are now one of the 7,649 (at this moment) "Myspace friends" of their official tour page.

It's kind of fun to think of, is all. I wonder if they'd be happy to know it's me "friending" them, or betrayed that it's not Mark, Dave, Bruce, Scott or Kevin sitting there clicking "approve" hundreds of times a day.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 9:41 PM | shower me with attention

Do not understand the phrase "thanks for the add", or why everyone says it when you accept their friend request.

Perhaps I am getting old.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Lordy-loo. Myspace Comedy made KITH a featured comedian, and all of a sudden the friend requests for our little page have skyrocketed - something like 1,200 today. (It was at 3,000 for the first 3 weeks or so of its existence.)

My mind is blown.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Mom and I just got back from seeing the glorious current production of Sunday in the Park with George at Studio 54. So beautiful.

A'course, Bernadette will always be Dot to me, and Mandy Patinkin (irritating though he is) will always be George. But I loved the working-class-British accent Jenna Russell uses for Dot, and Daniel Evans was really touching, particularly (for me) as the latter-day George.

Really, though, it was all about the art design. The use of animation and projecting colored lights on the set was the most perfect visual accompaniment to this show imaginable. It surpassed the original. which I've watched many times on video since discovering it as a Sondheim-lovin' teenager. Such is my nerdy love of this show, that when I visited the Art Institute of Chicago (specifically to see Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte), I had my headphones firmly plugged into my ears the entire time I was in the building, playing the Original Cast Recording of this show. I believe I timed it so that the finale (reprise of "Sunday") was playing just as I got to the room that housed the painting. I stared and stared, dimly proud of my own geekiness and moved by the colors and the music.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 5:53 PM | shower me with attention

Great underused word in the English language: defenestrate.

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Friday, April 11, 2008

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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Nerve.com & IFC present the Top 50 Comedy Sketches of All Time. Although apparently, the greatest comedy troupe of their generation doesn't rate the top 25, they do manage to make the top 50 thrice:

41 - Chicken Lady at the Strip Club
40 - Citizen Kane
27 - Head Crusher v Face Pincher

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:10 PM | shower me with attention

Guess I should update fairly regularly, prove I'm still alive. I'm still alive. I'm about to finish one of the most satisfying novels I've ever read, and I wish it wouldn't end. That's always an experience. What's the last book you read that made you feel like that? (Not a rhetorical question; please reply in comments.)

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Monday, April 07, 2008

As you may or may not know, depending on how long you've been reading my blog and how much you pay attention, I do not read the news very often, nor listen to it on the radio, nor watch it on tv. I occasionally try, maybe a few times a month, and every time I do, I get depressed. I mostly get my news from scanning headlines in RSS feeds, or from the Boing, or from hearing other people talk about it, or sometimes The Daily Show. Sometimes I learn things on Sunday mornings as I'm digging through the paper for the Times Magazine (which I read cover to cover every week, my noggin's one regular foray out of the sand.)

Been getting a little more since joining Twitter, 'cos those NYT headlines are right there.

This Sunday I learned that people are blogging themselves to death, and that it's more dangerous to be a professional blogger if you're over 40 and have a bad heart. Yup, and it's more dangerous to be alive if you're over 40 and have a bad heart. I think the longer you're alive, the more likely you are to die. Isn't that how it works?

And just now, I've learned that Princess Diana was "unlawfully killed".

Unlawfully.

Doesn't... I mean... is there a lawful way to do that?

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Sunday, April 06, 2008

As usual: if I took you out of the blogroll, it doesn't mean I don't love you, just that you don't update anymore.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 1:05 PM | shower me with attention

Insomnia doesn't have many uses, but I did figure out that tax thing.

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Saturday, April 05, 2008

OK, seriously. I need someone to help me fill out my IT-203. Like, now.

I did the NJ stuff and the federal stuff months ago, but I never did figure out that non-resident NY form. And yes, I know I did it last year but I lost those forms so I need help.

Like, now...

Why are you in Tavie's head? 5:23 PM | shower me with attention

I'm sick of packing already, and I haven't even begun to tackle that massive bookshelf stuffed with books, by far the most plentiful commodity in my room.

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

This makes me happy.

A Quick Word With Kids In The Hall

Why are you in Tavie's head? 11:01 PM | shower me with attention

Sweet shout-out in this Paste article about the tour. Nice.

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The Belsey children repaired to a nearby cafe. They sat on stools lined up against the windowpane, looking out over the blasted heath of Boston Common. They caught up with each other's news casually. leaving long, cosy gaps of silence in which to go to work on their muffins and coffees. Jerome - after two months of having to be witty and brilliant in a strange town among strangers - appreciated the gift of it. People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two lovers, but this too was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it was populated, and before there were wars and jobs and colleges and movies and clothes and opinions and foreign travel - before all of these things there had been only one person, Zora, and only one place: a tent in the living room made from chairs and bed-sheets. After a few ears, Levi arrived; space was made for him; it was as if he had always been. Looking at them both now, Jerome found himself in their finger joints and neat conch ears, in their long legs and wild curls. He heard himself in their partial lisps caused by puffy tongues vibrating against slightly noticeable buckteeth. He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
Zadie Smith, On Beauty

Why are you in Tavie's head? 8:18 PM | shower me with attention

It's amazing how many people think I have access to presale passwords or can somehow convince the people who create tour schedules to add a show in such-and-such a city. If I had that kind of power, I'd use it for something truly awesome, like flying or making myself invisible or something.

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

I have a song in my head. It starts,

I met a man
in the can
wouldn't you know, he was goin' my way...

(In case you were wondering*, this is a real song, from a musical called In Trousers.)

*Which you were not.

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