TODAY, however, I got lots of nice emails (one from a fab professor in California, one from a friend in Prague who's turning our conference proceedings there into a book including the musings of yours truly and one from RUPAUL. THE RuPaul!!) and I did a huge amount of WORK. So now I feel very worthy.
I'm back at rehearsals with Ninagawa out in Saitama every day now, and that's amazing, and my sound design for Cherry Orchard is finished and will be submitted tomorrow. ELEOS - ARXIDI GAMIMENO!! (That's Greek, by the way.) After the Christmas computer meltdown fiasco, I am re-writing the book again. Hurrah.
I have managed to see a few episodes of Celebrity Big Brother and confess to absolutely loving Pete Burns. Favourite moments have to be his live rendition of You Spin Me Round, his heinous gorilla coat and his turning to Rula Lenska and quipping that she was a dried up husk, with the nonchalance of a till-girl announcing one's change in Tescos.
Here's the songs I can't stop playing at the moment:
Alanis Morissette - Surrendering
Let It Will Be, Hung Up - actually, the whole album - Madonna
Ride the Pain - Juliet
I Said Never Again - Rachel Stevens
Stir It Up - Patti LaBelle and Joss Stone
Cool On Your Island - Tori Amos (thank you Joe*)
I Was Made for Loving You - Queens of Japan (thank you Cian!)
Bleed from Within (Thin White Duke RMX) - The Music
Lose Control (Thin White Duke RMX) - Missy Elliot and that girl who can't pronounce Ciara properly.
(The AntiChrist?)
And a thought for the day - I am terrified of Chantelle, the non-celebrity from Celeb BB. She and her stringy hair (which she never stops touching, no matter how dirty it gets, ugh) are famous for absolutely no reason whatsover. Brains, breasts, beauty, money, talent, lack of a gag reflex, merciless determination, cruelty, pure evil - any of the above are the more usual means through which people gain notoriety or even infamy. But she has none of these things at all. She makes Paris Hilton look like a worthy celebrity. I sincerely hope she doesn't get very far, but the fact that she is now considered famous and congratulated for this achievement is very sad indeed. They've taken the idols and smashed them. The Fairbanks, The Gilberts, the Valentinos... They've trampled on what was divine....
Yes, that WAS a quote from Sunset Boulevard. Which is being re-made as a movie musical starring Glenn Close. Let's face it, she's played every other crackpot going, from Cruella to Blanche to Merteuil to Gertrude to Alex Forrest...
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