sophomore schlump

[Bizarro]

Yeah, so 30 pages yesterday?

Today's thread will inevitably seem feeble by comparison.

[Bizarro]

"Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is a stage musical based on the tunes of 1980s alt.melodrama band The Smiths. Directed by Andrew Wale with musical direction by Perrin Manzer Allen, the show runs for another week in London, followed by Ireland and Australia. From the New York Times:

"Some Girls" seeks the spirit of the Smiths' songs by transforming them. The arrangements are not for rock band, but for string quartet with electronics. Morrissey's heartsick legato croon is reassigned to four women and two men, who deliver anything from keening, primal unaccompanied wails to swing-era harmonies. The Smiths' lyrics were proudly defenseless and unguarded: "I know I'm unlovable/ You don't have to tell me." Yet the staging doesn't wrap them in obvious scenarios. The show is an allusive, surreal, ever-mutating fantasia on love and sex, family and control, violence and death.

The women take on archetypal roles as a child, a young woman and a mother; there's also a red-headed diva. An older and younger man are like a father and grown son; and there's a young boy on video, at first isolated and frightened, but eventually smiling and stepping into the light. They interact in love and rage, but there is no simple story. The younger man, Garrie Harvey, sings, "I am human and I want to be loved" while dressed as a rabbit; the girlish Katie Brayben is at various times a cellist, a trapeze artist and a gunslinger.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I used up all my best material yesterday...and all of my worst too.  

[captqitn]

ew.  (scrunchy nose)

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Ali G star Sacha Baron Cohen is under fire for playing a trick on an aristocratic family in America's Deep South, after they failed to see the funny side of his latest race-inspired prank. The British comic, posing as his documentary-maker alter ego Borat Sagdiyev, descended on the impressive home of George Matthews Marshall IV, 75, who believed Cohen was making a film about life in America's southern states. But Marshall and his daughter Heather were horrified when Cohen started implying they were racists. Marshall tells website PageSix.com, "Our understanding was that we were going to have a documentary 'supper' in which they would be learning about the South. We signed a release because we were trusting. Our ancestors have been in this house for 152 years. In that time, we've never had anyone try to deceive us. This turned out to be the first unpleasant episode we have experienced since the (nineteenth century) Civil War. They tried to get us to say we approved of slavery. I was, of course, aghast." Matters spiraled further out of control when the cheeky funnyman introduced a raunchy extra character into the situation. Heather recalls, "Cohen attempted to shock (us) by introducing a black woman who pretended to be a prostitute. She kissed and groped him at the dining table." Marshall adds with disgust, "She was a huge woman, grotesquely dressed." And once the furious family realized they had been tricked, they threw Cohen and his crew out, who "stayed on the property and banged on the door, screaming, 'I do not understand your customs!'" Cohen's publicist Matt Labov says, "I have to give a boring old, 'No comment.'"

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

The soil in my garden is a bit sandy.

I had a dream that Crispin Glover encouraged me to shit all over it.

Not bad advice actually.

[Sabamah]

30 PAGES??!?!?!?

[TheSTLKid]

 

[regular tom]

get to reading, bearden.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Ha!

I told you guys she was going shit her shorts! poop her pants! blacken her britches! crap her capris! desecrate her drawers! foul her flank! tar her trousers!

[regular tom]

I decree today that life
is simply taking and not giving,
Crappity is mine,
and it owes me a living

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Sting, Rod Stuart, and Ryan Adams may have done it all for love, Bamah...but we did that all for you.

[Sabamah]

gah, i actually have to have 2 crappity pages open or else i'll probably miss oot on, like, 10 pages over here.

[regular tom]

i'm pleased that plasto plopped a post in there.

[regular tom]

gah, i actually have to have 2 crappity pages open or else i'll probably miss oot on, like, 10 pages over here.

just read the Kurt's Notes version.