Listening to: The Fine Print with Rebecca Baines on WPLN. Today, she's talking to Pat Conroy. Not an author I particularly like but interesting nonetheless. Although whenever I think of the Prince of the Tides, I have to think of Barbara Streistand and that leads to that episode in the Simpsons where Marge re-enacts the Lowenstein scene from the Prince of Tides...:::snicker:::

Welcome once again to my mind. I don't know if it's how other artists' minds work or not...

Still reading:   The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon ~ Tom Spanbauer.

Just Acquired: Coldheart Canyon ~ Clive Barker and Magical Passes by Carlos Casteneda. I couldn't stand it. I really wanted that Clive Barker book.

Tangent alert (already?): I've heard a few interviews with Clive Barker on the radio and he is a little hard for me to listen to. There's something about the quality of his voice ~ it almost sounds as if he voice hasn't quite entirely broke yet. There are all these low tones in his voice and then there's a few high ones thrown in...maybe I just heard interviews that were done after he had finished writing and he hadn't entirely recovered yet.

The topic of Carlos Casteneda could be a whole entry unto itself.

Oh my god. I am so glad I went to see Rocky Horror ~ it was so f***ing great! They used the original script ~ I didn't realize that it had been a play before being made into a movie. The theater they used was almost in the round too ~ the audience sat to either side and the play went on in the middle.

Tangent alert:
I got quite a few looks both at the play and when I went into Books-A-Million (which looks more like Books-A-Hundred or So now that they've downsized quite a bit.) I don't know why ~ couldn't be the way I was dressed with the black shoes, black pants, black blouse with silver zipper, silver septagram on a choker and a black three-quarter length sweater coat. Nah...:::chuckle::: It was cool...
(/tangent)

We got to be smartasses and yell back at the play. Every now and then, the actors incorporated some of the smartassery into the play. My favorite was during the scene where Frank slipped into Brad's room. Frank says, 'There's no crime in giving yourself over to pleasure' and the crowd almost took over: "Except in Tennessee!" "But not in Kentucky!" "Roadtrip!" Later, when Janet saw Frank and Brad in the bedroom, Frank said, "Oh Brad! Take me to Kentucky!!!"

There was even a flub and most of the people in the crowd didn't catch it (there were quite a few virgins there, though.) When Columbia brought Dr. Scot into the room with Frank, she somehow got all tangled up in the wheelchair and they both ended up on the floor. The cast went right along, complete with Brad saying, "Dr. Scot!! Are you all right?" as he and Frank loaded him back into his wheelchair. The woman playing the Transyl-vanian sitting in front of me almost lost it, though. I didn't know if she was going to be able to stop giggling.

Still, there were one or two things that could have been better. All but one of the actors seemed to rely on the microphones to carry their voices and those things were not up to the task when they sang. There was a live band too ~ they usually drowned out most of the songs, especially since the mics weren't up to the task. To tell you how much some of the performers weren't projecting: I was in the second row and one of the singers stood right in front of me. I couldn't hear her at times.

I don't know how the guy playing Frank did it in those shoes. I don't know where he found those things, but they were chrome(!) open toed platforms with five or six inch heels. They didn't seem to fit him very well ~ he looked as if he would slide right out of them at any second, despite the ankle straps. Still, he did a good job with the dancing and vamping.

Yep. Definitely going to see it again. Now I have to write a three page critique on it for Monday's voice class. Shouldn't be too tough.