Returned from watching A Chorus Line. I must say I enjoyed the performance thoroughly. I’ve seen the film adaptation several times but seeing it on stage was a worthwhile endeavor. However there was an over makeup’ed women a few seat down from me. You could smell her cheap powder and upon the lights going up she proceeded to spray six to seven spritz’s of perfume on herself. Needless to say, a short inhale later and I could taste the dollar 99 mist at the back of my mouth and proceeded to gag a little. Then as the parade of people made their way to the exit a woman was kind enough to step on my jeans and rip them. To her, many thanks for not being at all apologetic.

Sweeney Todd is coming to the fisher soon, might check it out. I hope Cabaret makes its way to the D soon.

I was teaching class and had a few student lingering in the lab working on their homework and other things. I was listening on the radio in my cell phone. I put my head in my hands like I was nursing a headache, so they wouldn’t notice the glaze in my eyes.

So in a moment of nostalgic weakness we decided to watch all the Alien(s) movies this weekend. Not having a single one in my collection, I turned to the legal online services I enjoy. I began with Netflix and they had the first three movies. So without much hassle and thanks to the new silverlight player we were watching the first three movies, no problems. Then came the 4th movie in the installment. Now I know it’s not that good a movie but it was a marathon, it can’t be stopped. Netflix however failed me. They didn’t have it on play it now. No biggie, I can’t expect them to have all of them. I turn to hulu in hopes that they might have it. Nope, just a few clips to entice. So I broke down and rented it from iTunes. Now the pc I have hooked up to my TV isn’t the greatest so the rental ended up crashing iTunes every time I tried playing it. I copied it over to my intel iMac and was about to watch it there when I get a prompt saying that the movie was authorized on a different computer. This is one of my 5 authorized computers for music but apparently the rental movies are locked to one machine. I ended up letting iTunes support know about the problem. I think after all that including paying the 2.99 rental fee from iTunes I’m entitled to watch the movie. So I torrent the flick and within about 40 minutes we were watching the movie. We used the break to make snacks and the like. BTW 20th Century Fox I deleted the movie after viewing. I just wanted to watch it, not sell or distribute it. Hell I don’t even want it as part of my collection.

If only apple would release new Mac mini’s, so I can make a new media server. *sigh*

So it’s about that time. Yep, time to redesign the site. I think this is going to be the new logo for ‘09. Still working on the site concept.

It has been snowing for the past three days and rather than despair over the snowfall, I decided to make a snowman. You can tell he’s my creation, he’s a little over dramatic.

I came across a rather interesting band recently and I’m a little upset I missed them. It’s a really artsy, literary band and most people will consider it a little ultra-hip. I’m really enjoying the album, a few songs are hard to get through but it’s very whimsical and well orchestrated. In addition, the video for one of my favorite songs on the album, I have really come to enjoy. It’s really well shot and very simple and minimalist but very beautiful.