A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: The Tempest by William Shakespeare, ed. by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan; Animal Farm by George Orwell [pigs are jerks].
Movies
SAW: Our Idiot Brother; Contagion [finally! acknowledgment that Gwyneth Paltrow is a plague on the planet]; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T [see Glitter, below, for a clip]; The Red Balloon and White Mane.
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
THEME: Straight People Pretending to Be Gay.
KITO'S SELECTION: Partners (dir. Burrows, 1982).
MINE: Cruising (Friedkin, 1980) [I know it's supposed to offend me and all, but I found the depiction of Sodom's seamy underbelly kind of hot].
Music
LISTENED TO: Dolly Parton, Better Day [I like "Country Is As Country Does" best].
Art
SAW: Matt Irie, "You Are the Vanishing Point" (Ebersmoore); "Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945" (Art Institute Chicago) [lots of ratlike Hitlers getting stabbed with bayonets].
Television
WATCHING: Top Chef: Just Desserts (Bravo), Project Runway (Lifetime), Warehouse 13 (Syfy), Glee (Fox) [but it's on thin ice].
Current Interests
Theater criticism, the gays, black folk, comedy, The Real Housewives, attractive men, musicals, conservatives, travel, animals.
Fool's Four
WAYS I HEARD "NEWFOUNDLAND" PRONOUNCED IN CANADA:
1. NEWfndlnd.
2. NewFOUNDlnd.
3. NewfndLAND.
4. New Finland [Kito].
Flashbacks
ONE YEAR AGO: "Have You Met Chris Jones?"
TWO YEARS AGO: "FOUR SUPPOSED TEARJERKERS THAT DO NOT MAKE ME CRY."
FOUR YEARS AGO: "Two shows that make light of the sometimes dark and desperate urges of the human heart. And crotch."
FIVE YEARS AGO: "Now that Slater has shown his behind on Nip/Tuck and Mark-Paul Gosselaar has shown his on NYPD Blue, only Dustin "Screech" Diamond and Dennis "Mr. Belding" Haskins need drop trou', and I can die a happy man."
Glitter
ELSEWHERE:
My review of Circle Theatre's Urinetown is in this week's Time Out Chicago.
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