30 October
Boy has it ever gotten cold!
Last week it was 70º for heaven's sake, and yesterday it was suddenly 45º, just like it's really going to be winter soon. Which I don't believe. Nope, forever summer, that's what I'm banking on.
I never claimed to be realistic. I mean hey, I wore sandals yesterday, and it snowed on me!
It was change the clocks day, and I had forgotten, so it was 10.15a and I got up and turned on the computer, which told me that it was changing the clock, so then I knew.
I have a feeling that the real sign of adulthood is not going "Hooray, I can sleep an extra hour!" but instead saying "Hooray, I have an extra hour to be awake in!" I may be doomed.
Of course, I probably spent that hour playing Snood, so it's not as though I spent it in a useful fashion, so perhaps I'm not.
Yesterday I managed to get time in the theatre, so I used it to block my show, there being actual room for Winni to walk around and everything. It went pretty well, and Le and Kirsten came in and watched the last ten minutes, and they laughed and stuff, so I think that it won't be a disaster!
I really do need to start to learn my lines, though.
I am listening to David Hasselhoff sing "This is the Moment" from Jekyll and Hyde on Today. I am trying to listen with an open mind, realizing that it's no walk in the park to sing outside at 8.55a when it's 39º, but I must say, it's my considered opinion that he sucks rocks.
Speaking of singing badly, on Saturday night I watched the Rocky Horror 25th Anniversary Special on VH1, which I was really excited to see, but boy, was it ever awful. It was a bunch of minor TV actors doing karaoke, no more interesting than if it were a bunch of ordinary people doing karaoke, at least as lamely as they were doing it.
The only two good people were the real singers in the group, Jesse L. Martin from Law and Order and Rent, who kicked out the jams on "Science Fiction Double Feature" and Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy who played Frank on the London stage and did a brilliant version of the worst song in the show, "Planet Shmanet Janet".
If he did that lousy song that well, think what he could have done with "Sweet Transvestite", which Will from Will and Grace sang pretty well, but just basically did an exact copy of what Tim did in the movie.
The whole thing was just a festival of lameness, and at the end Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell came out to sing "Time Warp" (after the Mystery Celebrity Bijou Phillips butchered it before--the Mystery is why she is a Celebrity at all!) and proved that while Patricia Quinn sings as badly as she ever did, and Little Nell can no longer hit those high, squeaky notes, so she sang them off-key instead, Richard O'Brien's still got it.
All in all, though, you could tell what the producers thought of the audience, clearly a bunch of real cultists, that they had TV screens with the lyrics scrolling across pointed at them. Rocky Horror fans don't need no stinking lyrics, you fools!
Were you ever a Rocky Horror fan?
And we're still talking about being happy, romance, getting well-know phrases wrong, attending our high school reunions, and being from a small town.
Today's horoscope:
You and someone you love struggle between a need for adventure and a need for security. Create a life with both.
One year ago today:
I am regarded as an amusing eccentric at my office who walks around in bare feet and swears loudly, so spreading seven slices of white bread on my desk was par for the course.
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