KT covers The Jackson 5′s “I Want You Back” in this live version from Jools Holland’s Hootenanny New Years Eve special, December 31, 2005.
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Quotable: Megan McArdle
I’m betting that what the public, God bless ‘em, really wants is for Congress to go back and find a fairy bill that covers a bunch of people, doesn’t cost anything, offends no popular special interests, and generates broad bipartisan support. While they’re at it, I want a pony. And a sous vide machine.
via Megan McArdle.
Quotable: The myth of Nylachi
From Scott Walters today:
But the real thing that the arts community needs to learn from all those studies, it seems to me, is that what doesn’t work is the current system that depends on artist-specialists creating products built with a lot of resources and sold at high prices to passive, middle-class spectators who sit in large, expensive pieces of real estate — and it doesn’t take more than a glance at a theatre’s balance sheet to see how much unearned income is required to keep the H. M. S. Arts Status Quo afloat. Regardless, none of these statistics justifies anyone whistling their way to Nylachi in the hopes of “making a living.” That’s a myth that needs to be retired altogether.
Song of the day: “I’m Not Supposed to Care” by Tim (GordIsKing)
Here’s a very nice cover of one of my favorite Gordon Lightfoot songs, “I’m Not Supposed to Care,” from 1976′s Summertime Dream. Since I couldn’t find a video version done by Gordon himself, this one is done by Tim, who goes by the screen name GordIsKing on YouTube.
Song of the day: “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart” by Alicia Keys
There isn’t anything I can say about this woman’s voice that you can’t experience better by just listening:
No strange interludes, part two
Take it from Zac Efron: “Word of advice… look at who you’re talking to!”
No strange interludes, please
I’ve seen a couple of plays lately – one a drama, one a comedy – where an actor suddenly moved downstage, faced the audience (and away from the person they were talking to), and delivered a “powerful moment.” Each time I cringed a bit, and I wanted to yell at them to get back upstage where they belonged, look the other actor in the eye, and deliver that moment to him, not us. Trust that the audience will get that it’s a powerful moment.
Do we walk away from people when we are telling them something painful or emotionally charged? Not very often, and usually only after we’ve said our piece and we’re heading out the door. The movement downstage screams “look at me acting!” and I believe it’s inappropriate unless you’re in a soap opera or about to burst into song.
Or possibly if you’re doing Eugene O’Neill (or Groucho Marx doing a parody of Eugene O’Neill):
Song of the day: “O Canada” by Roger Doucet
Just to see if anyone’s paying attention, here’s a National Film Board of Canada vignette from the 1970s featuring Roger Doucet, who sang “O Canada” at Canadiens, Expos and Alouettes home games. Living in the Detroit area, I watched a lot of Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday nights on the CBC, and there are as many audio as visual memories of those evenings. Two of the fondest memories are M. Doucet’s wonderful baritone rendition of Canada’s national anthem (starting in French and ending in English, as seen in this video), and Paul Morris, who was the public address announcer at Maple Leaf Gardens for 38 years until the team moved to the Air Canada Centre in 1999.
