All That Glitters 86

A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.

Books
READ: Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes.

Movies
SAW: Love Happens [terrible], The Prowler.

Music
BOUGHT: REM, Reckoning: Deluxe Edition; The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses.

Current Interests
George W. Bush, books, the Internet, Glenn Beck, Oscar Wilde, Latinos, Wal-Mart, Project Runway, Sissy Spacek, dick, Glee, the grotesque, my co-workers, Saved by the Bell, kitsch, fashion, Kito, Whitney Houston, 30 Rock, musical theater, Oprah, the BFF, marriage equality, Kanye.

Fool's Four
FOUR SUPPOSED TEARJERKERS THAT DO NOT MAKE ME CRY:
1. Love Story.
2. The Notebook.
3. PS I Love You.
4. Titanic.

Foolish Flashbacks
TWO YEARS AGO: "If you can find a more enjoyable musical about fucking corpses, I'd like to see it."
THREE YEARS AGO: "I realize that a certain moral laxity hangs around the indomitably cheerful (generally speaking, if you're not miserable, you're probably not paying close enough attention), but I really haven't the temperament to sustain a depression for any substantial length of time. After all, there's always something good on TV."

Glitter
Yeast Nation, the new musical by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, opens this week at American Theater Company. The title is only slightly less awful than that of Kotis and Hollmann's previous effort, Urinetown.