Favorite movies of 2005 and such

Mysterious Skin. Poignant, creepy, powerful. Joseph Gordon-Leavitt was great. Michelle Trachtenberg was better than "not awful." Probably my favorite movie of the year. Still want to reread Scott Heim's novel, then watch the movie again.
( And the rest ... )

Hope to get to the theaters more this year. Yeah, this is an echo from the beginning of last year.

Lestat

Here's an article about recent happenings, now that the musical has ended its San Francisco run.

The songs, particularly in the first half, had a sameness even though different characters were singing. The acting was okay, but the presented plot covered a long period of time. The second half moved better and the songs had more variety, and one in particular was nicely sung by the lead playing Lestat. Some of the visuals were interesting but many seemed, well, cheap and uninspired. Some costumes were beautiful and others were no big deal.

Of the four of us -- debmats, herefox, singular_girl, and myself -- none loved the show, which was kind of sad. Still, it was an interesting experience.

And I got a show cap, t-shirt and magnet, courtesy of singular_girl. Yay. She and I had dinner earlier that evening at Cortez and the food was good. Too bad there was more adventure in the meal than the musical.

Cindy memories, Part 2

( The song that got me on Cynthia McQuillin's radar was Arise, My Love. )

Thanks Cindy!


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