s + tv = <3 4EVA!! also, classical music.
Oct. 10th, 2009 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmastolenSo I may just flat-out keep watching NCIS:LA, and not just to track the level of fail in the representation (or total lack thereof, as in the third ep) of Latinos. Because the tech guy is silly and has glasses and wears sandals and is a surfer (and reminds me of Anthony Rapp who is cute like a bunny), and I want to know his story. Still not that into Chris O'Donnell's orphan!manpain, but LL Cool J as former SEAL is cool, and I am desperately amused by the outrageously homoerotic things Chris O'Donnell says to him. (Yeah, the "we accept gays" vibe still feels like trying too hard, but I do prefer it to some of the mildly homophobic things that Tony and McGee have said. Despite their apparently going to dinner together at trendy cafes, and other scenes of obvious homoerotic bromance.)
Enough of the spinoff. I love NCIS like burning, and the new season is no exception. Also!! USA finally picked up season 6, so I will no longer feel like I... missed something there, sorry, can you stop and explain? Plus everyone has really good hair this season, which has not always been the case. And, I feel kind of silly about it, but I want more of the Tony/Ziva UST. It's just so good.
Today: The LA Opera costume shop is having a sale and I cannot wait to be there, although I won't necessary be buying a lot of stuff. I just -- costumes. You know how I love costuming. And the opera costumes are always so good, and OBTW it's opera so they'll have real people sizes and not just model-and-actress sizes. Hah. The press release stresses it as ideal for Halloween Costumes! and I'm not sure why that wasn't my first thought. My first thought was more like "OPERA!! COSTUMES!!! LOVE." The e-mail about it claims there will be "many items under $10!" but I'm thinking those will probably be, what, gloves? fans? bags? and the ones used by the chorus, not the principals. Which is fine, you know. I definitely don't have the funds to get, like, a gown from Don Giovanni or Tannhäuser or anything. I think I'm going to enforce a strict $50 limit on myself (or maybe $60, depending on whether I have a ten in my wallet right now, because the ATM works in multiples of 20, yay). And, really, I'm not expecting to find something to buy, but I definitely want to see what's there.
Related to Halloween, I think this year I'm going to be a dinosaur tamer. I have a stuffed triceratops and a bullwhip. Now, as I see it, I could go two directions here: khaki-and-pith-helmet, or a more circusy-bondagey look. THOUGHTS??? (I kind of just want a pith helmet to have a pith helmet. Um.)
Anyway. Yeah. I was going to say something about last weekend but I forget what.
Oh, hey, by the way, I am absolutely loving all of the excitement about Gustavo Dudamel. Last weekend he conducted Beethoven 9 at the Hollywood Bowl and this weekend opens the 09-10 season at Disney Hall. For the first time in the years I have been at UCLA, though, we weren't offered tickets to the opening night gala, which was Thursday. Probably because it sold out for real and they had no seats to offer us (and anyway why would they want to underwrite tickets for a bunch of students if they can sell them to actual interested members of the public?). Still, I'm a little pouty about it. Especially since I've been eaten by music ed work so I didn't even know it was happening, until I was listening to the end of Mahler 1 on the radio in the car and I was, "okay, 5 minutes of applause, whatever, I want to know what orchestra this is!" and then the radio was all, "THAT WAS THE END OF DUDAMEL'S FIRST CONCERT AS MUSIC DIRECTOR AND YOU MISSED IT BITCH" But then I got to hear him do an adorable euphoric post-concert interview with the KUSC broadcasters, in which he stole a bottle of water from their table. And seriously, this is probably one of the best things ever to happen to classical music in Los Angeles. The fuss over Dudamel is generating so much interest. Movie stars were at the gala concert! It was clear that if you were in the know, it was the place to be, and that is thrilling. (there are "viva Gustavo" posters all along the big street by my flat. I've tried to photograph them, later on when I finally upload my camera I'll show you. it makes my daily commute a happier event.)
Enough of the spinoff. I love NCIS like burning, and the new season is no exception. Also!! USA finally picked up season 6, so I will no longer feel like I... missed something there, sorry, can you stop and explain? Plus everyone has really good hair this season, which has not always been the case. And, I feel kind of silly about it, but I want more of the Tony/Ziva UST. It's just so good.
Today: The LA Opera costume shop is having a sale and I cannot wait to be there, although I won't necessary be buying a lot of stuff. I just -- costumes. You know how I love costuming. And the opera costumes are always so good, and OBTW it's opera so they'll have real people sizes and not just model-and-actress sizes. Hah. The press release stresses it as ideal for Halloween Costumes! and I'm not sure why that wasn't my first thought. My first thought was more like "OPERA!! COSTUMES!!! LOVE." The e-mail about it claims there will be "many items under $10!" but I'm thinking those will probably be, what, gloves? fans? bags? and the ones used by the chorus, not the principals. Which is fine, you know. I definitely don't have the funds to get, like, a gown from Don Giovanni or Tannhäuser or anything. I think I'm going to enforce a strict $50 limit on myself (or maybe $60, depending on whether I have a ten in my wallet right now, because the ATM works in multiples of 20, yay). And, really, I'm not expecting to find something to buy, but I definitely want to see what's there.
Related to Halloween, I think this year I'm going to be a dinosaur tamer. I have a stuffed triceratops and a bullwhip. Now, as I see it, I could go two directions here: khaki-and-pith-helmet, or a more circusy-bondagey look. THOUGHTS??? (I kind of just want a pith helmet to have a pith helmet. Um.)
Anyway. Yeah. I was going to say something about last weekend but I forget what.
Oh, hey, by the way, I am absolutely loving all of the excitement about Gustavo Dudamel. Last weekend he conducted Beethoven 9 at the Hollywood Bowl and this weekend opens the 09-10 season at Disney Hall. For the first time in the years I have been at UCLA, though, we weren't offered tickets to the opening night gala, which was Thursday. Probably because it sold out for real and they had no seats to offer us (and anyway why would they want to underwrite tickets for a bunch of students if they can sell them to actual interested members of the public?). Still, I'm a little pouty about it. Especially since I've been eaten by music ed work so I didn't even know it was happening, until I was listening to the end of Mahler 1 on the radio in the car and I was, "okay, 5 minutes of applause, whatever, I want to know what orchestra this is!" and then the radio was all, "THAT WAS THE END OF DUDAMEL'S FIRST CONCERT AS MUSIC DIRECTOR AND YOU MISSED IT BITCH" But then I got to hear him do an adorable euphoric post-concert interview with the KUSC broadcasters, in which he stole a bottle of water from their table. And seriously, this is probably one of the best things ever to happen to classical music in Los Angeles. The fuss over Dudamel is generating so much interest. Movie stars were at the gala concert! It was clear that if you were in the know, it was the place to be, and that is thrilling. (there are "viva Gustavo" posters all along the big street by my flat. I've tried to photograph them, later on when I finally upload my camera I'll show you. it makes my daily commute a happier event.)
