A look at how I've been diverting myself lately.
Books
READ: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling [so are all the books exactly the same or just the first two?], Volpone by Ben Jonson.
COMING UP: Orhan Pamuk, Alastair Brotchie.
Plays
SAW: Eastland (Lookingglass Theatre Company) [the best show I've seen so far this year].
Movies
LAST WEEK'S MOVIE NIGHT PICKS:
THEME: Charles Dickens.
KITO'S SELECTION: A Tale of Two Cities (dir. Conway, 1935).
MINE: Oliver! (Reed, 1968) [see Glitter, below, for my favorite part].
Television
WATCHING: Warehouse 13 (Syfy), Louie (FX), Episodes (Showtime).
STREAMING: Boys over Flowers [I've decided that Jan Di should choose Joo Goon Pyo; Ji Hoo is WAY too emo], The LA Complex.
Current Interests
Chicago theater, movies, books, musicals, conservative Christians, food, dogs, the presidential election, Arkansas, Honey Boo Boo, the gays, crime in Chicago, Wisconsin, Latinos.
Fool's Four
FOUR KOREAN WORDS I KNOW (SPELLED PHONETICALLY):
1. "Anyong" [hi].
2. "Aish" [argh].
3. "Noona" [older sister].
4. "Bibimbap" [wonderfulness].
Flashbacks
ONE YEAR AGO: "If either of you boys get some pussy tonight, I want you to dust that pussy off for me. Dust it off!"
TWO YEARS AGO: "See, this is why new mothers drive their cars into lakes."
THREE YEARS AGO: "What I'm saying, basically, is that our entire office is covered in fecal matter."
FOUR YEARS AGO: "Monday Musical Mystery Solved."
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"Old or dead comedians who are still funny."
FIVE YEARS AGO: "I'm not saying you have to stay silent during sex, but jeez! Lower it an octave."
SIX YEARS AGO: "Zac remplacera Star Jones."
Glitter
ELSEWHERE:
My short review of 16th Street Theater's All Kinds of Crazy is in this week's Chicago Reader.
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