Where you lead, I will follow.

I have watched all the Gilmore Girls in my house now-- seasons 1, 2, and 4. I'm very sad to be missing 3 because I love Jess and that's his season. Here are some thoughts:

I love this show, at least the first four seasons. I'm really sad it went downhill. By the end, I kind of hated Rory.

I'm also sad that Luke lost his healthy/environmentally zealous ways that he had during the first half of season 1.

Chris was So much better at the beginning! By the end the actor got lazy. As several others did.

So many of those day players are really bad actors. They can't find anyone better in all of L.A.? Ridiculous. I should have been on that show.

I wish Lorelai had married Max. Sorry Luke, you're fine, but I really loved Max.


I really REALLY wish Rory had ended up with Jess. He is by FAR better than any of her other boys. I love him.


I need to have the first four seasons of Gilmore Girls in my permanent collection, (I've been watching my sister's). It is my number one comfort show.

I am going to Yale tomorrow (where Rory fictitiously went), and on the way I will be passing through Hartford! Where the grandparents live, where Chilton is. I am going to the land of the Gilmore Girls, and I am, silly though it is, pretty excited. I hope it's sunny.

Loving the Fall.

Excited for:

Christian Bale, I love you.

You were lost and gone forever, oh my darling Clementine

Canadian Border Patrol: Where are you going?
Me: Niagara-on-the-Lake.
CBP: What are you doing there?
Me: Seeing a play at the Shaw Festival.
CBP: Are you importing anything?
Me: Nope.
CBP: Who are you meeting there?
Me: No one...
CBP...
Me: I'm just... going by myself...

Awkward.













That exchange at the border pretty much sums up my experience at the Shaw Festival. But I love the Shaw Festival. Just not so much when I have no one to share it with. Niagara-on-the-Lake is this uber-charming little town in Cananda with three theaters along its main street. Fountains of flowers, beautiful parks surrounding it, British candy, and black squirrels. Charming shops. Working as an actor there is one of my dream jobs, I just looooove this place.

The drive there is pretty, especially once you're in Canada. Once you've gotten off the highway it's a dream. The first day I was seeing a matinee production of " A Month in the Country" by Turgenev, translated/adapted by Brian Friel. Very Chekhovian. I really liked the play, and it was a good production. There were a couple of people I didn't like but the cast was mostly solid. I really enjoyed the play, except that about 4/5ths of the way through I just could not stand the protagonist anymore. Not the actress, the character. I was so done with her and her selfish, manipulative ways. So, once you're totally sick of the protagonist you kind of just wish the play would end. But all in all, a very satisfactory experience.

At this point, I was STARVING. But didn't want to buy anything, so I decided to go for a walk in the park and eat my Clementine tangerine. Here's what happened:

Alone in Canada from Lola on Vimeo.

The second time I went up was for an evening production of "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams. I LOVE this play, it is Beautiful. It was quite a bit colder than the previous trip, but it put a nice October sharpness in the air, and if you imagine the most delicious Autumn smell, that's what it smelled like. It was a beautiful day in an overcast way. I got up there at about 6, just the time when everyone retreats into restaurants, tucking themselves into corners with friends and food. Several of the shops were closed, so I window shopped. The windows of the shops and restaurants glowed with warm light, and I looked in at all the happy people, feeling more alone and cold than ever with my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

I love Summer and Smoke, but I did not love this production of it. The actress who played Alma was loud and said everything super fast. It was... an interesting choice, but I don't think the right one. I kind of felt like the doctor was phoning it in a little, and I was also troubled by his choices at the end-- he was pretty much making out with his fiance right in front of Alma! I was not ok with that. I really don't think he would do that, because he did care for her and that is just cruel. And I hated a few of the secondary character actors. But it was nice to see the play on its feet instead of on the page so that's something.

I love the Shaw Festival, but don't go there by yourself.

mind boggled

Please go to this website and then comment on this post and tell me if you saw the dancer moving counter-clockwise or clockwise. I have been staring at it for a long time and I cannot for the life of me get her to go the other way from the way I see her.

One of my favorite songs from Across the Universe

This is when Max gets drafted.

Breakable

by Ingrid Michaelson

Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?
Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts.
So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess,
And to stop the muscle that makes us confess.

And we are so fragile,
And our cracking bones make noise,
And we are just,
Breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys.



Two reasons for putting this up:
1) This clip kind of suits me tonight. I'm a little bit miserable.
2) I've been enjoying this album very much. In general, it's a happy CD.

p-Shaw

I am so excited. I love the Shaw Festival. I love Niagara-on-the-Lake and it's supposed to be a beautiful weekend. I am going by myself, which is sad, but I am just so excited to be there! Tomorrow I am seeing "A Month in the Country", an adaptation of Turgenev by Brian Friel. Chekhov era, looks Great. And next week I am seeing "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams, my favorite Tennessee play! I am so excited! I haven't been to the Shaw Festival for years and the fall foliage is going to be gorgeous and I love the little shops. I would also really like to see Saint Joan and Tristan, a new musical. But I'm not rich.

The only unhappy news: I missed the auditions for next year. Damn. I'm really quite unhappy about that. The cutoff for registration was August 23rd, and that was before I knew I was moving back to NY, so I can't beat myself up about it too much.

I really can't wait.

In other news: just one letter of recommendation to go before I can apply for substituting. This last one is a little slippery, but hopefully I can get it soon. This whole process has me worried about my grad school recommendations, I think it must be so much easier to get these things when I'm in Provo with the professors reminding them with my face every day.

to fill the gaping void left by Gilmore Girls

I caught this show tonight after the gym and was DEElighted. I had been indisposed to watch it merely because I've seen commercials for it before every movie I've seen in Provo for the last few months and the commercial didn't make it look that great. And I was sick of seeing the commercial over and over. But watch the first episode online somewhere friends because I knew it would be added to my weekly lineup five minutes after it started. I would be sad if you just caught it next week and didn't get to see how it all started. The writing is great, the people are great, the idea is new and innovative. I don't believe I've really ever seen that main guy before but he's doing very well indeed.

And do you recognize this girl? I do.

From one of my favorite BBC miniseries! I love her and always have though I've only seen her in Our Mutual Friend and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She is just great and I couldn't be more delighted that she is gracing America's network television.


Other notes on TV: When I finally got to watch Greys Anatomy on Friday I realized how much I'd missed it. Private Practice is underwhelming. I hope the magic doesn't leave The Office now that Pam and Jim are hooked up, but they couldn't have drawn it out longer so what are you gonna do? I laughed out loud several times during the premiere so that's a good sign. Man I love that show.

every day is a moving day

Well, I still haven't moved in. I'm essentially living out of my suitcases and boxes. Because I'm still kind of wishing that I'm just home for a break rather than LIVING here. I had a lot of drive to move in and make the best of things when I got here, but there weren't any boxes to pack up boy things in. So today is the day, I am breaking out some boxes and filling them up with my brothers' plethora of stuff. This room is such a boys room. I can't really change that very much since the furniture is all very masculine, but I think changing the comforter will help.

I need a job so badly.

In other news, I love October.

some things I'm looking forward to: