that's so Weezer*
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lunabee341. Dylan has been accepted into grad school with a tuition waiver and stipend! We are so happy for them. They graduate with an undergraduate degree in anthropology on May 1.
2. I took Fiona to get her ears pierced. She is enormously proud of herself. It's pretty fricking adorable.
*Apparently one of her classes at school has a playlist of music they listen to while doing group work, and the teacher has put lots of music from the 90s on it, so Fiona has started to develop an interest in alternative music from that decade. She asked me if she could listen to a couple of Weezer songs she had looked up that weren't on the playlist, and after that, I played "Undone (The Sweater Song)" for her, and she looked at me with all the gravitas of an NPR music critic and said, "That's so Weezer." LOL
3. For anyone following along, I have reversed my opinion on the Living Proof Full Volume and Texture Spray. My hair is just too thin for it and because I have to rewet my hair pretty copiously to refresh at all, it just turns into a sticky mess. I think it would work really well for people with thicker, curlier hair than mine. I have gone back to thinking the Bumble and Bumble counterpart product is superior.
4.
Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is excellent. It's RPF written by the celebrity about himself, and it's very, very funny.
It also contains some very emotionally moving passages about the deaths of Spiner's close friend and of Gene Roddenberry as well as what playing Data has meant to him over the years.
It's a love letter to Hollywood, acting, and films. It's also a love letter to fandom, and Spiner is the biggest fan in the book.
Highly recommend.
View all my reviews
Around Theaters 1898 1903 by Max Beerbohm
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a collection of Beerbohm's theater reviews for The Saturday Review beginning in 1898 when he took over the column from George Bernard Shaw through 1910.
Beerbohm's reviews are racist and misogynistic at times, but they are at all times revealing of the culture in which he lives and his own personal, aesthetic taste. I find his opinions about theater fascinating in the way that they presage ideas about what makes good writing/acting for the screen and also fascinating in the way that they illuminate ideas and concerns about writing/acting that are no longer relevant in modern theater and modern cinema/TV.
Beerbohm was a wit, and this book is often funny even when it is cruelly cutting, perhaps especially so.
An obvious must-read for Beerbohm scholars, 19th-century/early 20th-century drama scholars, Shaw scholars, and scholars of a variety of other playwrights and actors.
View all my reviews
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book made me laugh out loud multiple times and cry multiple times, often moving from one to the other in rapid succession. Is there higher praise for a story? Not for me, I don't think.
It's told through not-quite stream-of-consciousness narration that shifts quickly from character POV to character POV of the many members of a sprawling family. This book is about so many of the important issues of the day--immigration, drugs, intractable community violence--but it is also about the issues that transcend the day--what it means to live and die well, courage, love.
Absolutely beautiful.
View all my reviews
I also reread Ouida's Syrlin, which I'm contemplating nominating for Yuletide this year.
2. I took Fiona to get her ears pierced. She is enormously proud of herself. It's pretty fricking adorable.
*Apparently one of her classes at school has a playlist of music they listen to while doing group work, and the teacher has put lots of music from the 90s on it, so Fiona has started to develop an interest in alternative music from that decade. She asked me if she could listen to a couple of Weezer songs she had looked up that weren't on the playlist, and after that, I played "Undone (The Sweater Song)" for her, and she looked at me with all the gravitas of an NPR music critic and said, "That's so Weezer." LOL
3. For anyone following along, I have reversed my opinion on the Living Proof Full Volume and Texture Spray. My hair is just too thin for it and because I have to rewet my hair pretty copiously to refresh at all, it just turns into a sticky mess. I think it would work really well for people with thicker, curlier hair than mine. I have gone back to thinking the Bumble and Bumble counterpart product is superior.
4.
Fan Fiction by Brent SpinerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is excellent. It's RPF written by the celebrity about himself, and it's very, very funny.
It also contains some very emotionally moving passages about the deaths of Spiner's close friend and of Gene Roddenberry as well as what playing Data has meant to him over the years.
It's a love letter to Hollywood, acting, and films. It's also a love letter to fandom, and Spiner is the biggest fan in the book.
Highly recommend.
View all my reviews
Around Theaters 1898 1903 by Max BeerbohmMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a collection of Beerbohm's theater reviews for The Saturday Review beginning in 1898 when he took over the column from George Bernard Shaw through 1910.
Beerbohm's reviews are racist and misogynistic at times, but they are at all times revealing of the culture in which he lives and his own personal, aesthetic taste. I find his opinions about theater fascinating in the way that they presage ideas about what makes good writing/acting for the screen and also fascinating in the way that they illuminate ideas and concerns about writing/acting that are no longer relevant in modern theater and modern cinema/TV.
Beerbohm was a wit, and this book is often funny even when it is cruelly cutting, perhaps especially so.
An obvious must-read for Beerbohm scholars, 19th-century/early 20th-century drama scholars, Shaw scholars, and scholars of a variety of other playwrights and actors.
View all my reviews
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto UrreaMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book made me laugh out loud multiple times and cry multiple times, often moving from one to the other in rapid succession. Is there higher praise for a story? Not for me, I don't think.
It's told through not-quite stream-of-consciousness narration that shifts quickly from character POV to character POV of the many members of a sprawling family. This book is about so many of the important issues of the day--immigration, drugs, intractable community violence--but it is also about the issues that transcend the day--what it means to live and die well, courage, love.
Absolutely beautiful.
View all my reviews
I also reread Ouida's Syrlin, which I'm contemplating nominating for Yuletide this year.
