Good People with Frances McDormand, the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Robert Lepage's Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung.
John Legend and The Roots, Wake Up.
You Lost Me There, Rosecrans Baldwin.
The Azure Ray tour.
Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met.
The Social Network. (Well? Hated the script, but the trailer is just killing in theaters).
Centurion. What? Yup.
The Vimeo Awards.
Danny Meyer taking over the Whitney cafeteria.
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence.
Nikita. Sorry, we can't say no to the CW's latest iteration! (We're trying to say no to Hellcats but we'll see. Ditto with Running Wilde on Fox.
And let who among us that is unintrigued by Machete cast the first stone.
Experimental Women in Flux at MoMA.
Kanye West taking Twitter down.
Animal Kingdom
Black Swan. ("Supernatural ballet thriller"!)
Ne-Yo, Libra Scale.
Sinatoro, Grant Morrison.
Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlight.
Every single forthcoming Helen Mirren movie, including The Debt and Red, but not so much The Tempest.
Jackass 3D. (I mean, come on.)
Sonny Rollins turning 80 in September.
Listen to This, Alex Ross
Boardwalk Empire.
More than anything: My Prizes, Thomas Bernhard.
Nothing with the Baldwin brothers?
Did we "forget" SPIDERMAN: THE MUSICAL?
No 'Mark Twain' autobiography?
I can't fucking wait.
The were filming The Town on the other side of my neighborhood for a few weeks, and if you think I wasn't creating reasons to amble by in the hopes that Blake Lively would catch a glimpse of me and profess her undying love, you're fooling yourself.
Arcade Fire!
THE TEMPEST IS GOING TO BE OFF THE CHAAAAAINN
actually pretty excited for this. russel brand is in it too, and helen mirren said he's genius in it! (maybe she's just being nice?)
I read his book! He's a smart dude! And she's going to be doing Prospero as a lady! And Julie Taymor who is an absolute dynamo is going to be directing! It's going to rule! IT HAS TOO
Sucker Punch? Really? From an interview with Mr. Snyder (who wrote the screenplay and deserves any scorn he receives):
"Zack Snyder: Baby [the main character] is committed to the insane asylum by her stepfather who wants her lobotomized so that she won't be able to testify or tell the police what he's done to her. He pays the evil orderly off and the guy's like, "No problem, but it's going to take me a little while because we don't have a doctor here that can do the lobotomy." So, in five days, the guy's coming to do it and so in those five days she comes up with a plan to escape because she wants to get out before that happens. That's really, sort of, the story of the movie. That she can help these girls and the other girls want to help her get out, because they want to get out. But then, somewhere along the way, she actually starts imagining that this insane asylum is a brothel, and that she is a virgin, and that-
Debbie Snyder: In five days, she's going to be deflowered.
Zack Snyder: This rich guy's coming to take her virginity."
The Debt is really good, though! I worked on the trailers for it.
C, Tom McCarthy
So 'Centurion' is a non dystopic-NYC version of 'The Warriors'?
Watch out for the Baseball Erinyes.
Very much yes on Mockingjay, but also, lest we forget, there are copies of Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail already extant in the wild. This idea excites me in my bathing suit area.
This should in no way be interpreted as a plea for some kind and morally flexible Awl reader working in publishing to email me said manuscript. That would be illegal.
Ooooh. Experimental Women is Flux may warrant a trip to NYC.
Checking to see if my new ultra cool awesome avatar shows up right (knowing this site, prolly not).
Seriously, pay the freaking extra $5 for less lag time already...
I bet they pay like retail anyway. Let me guess... Hmmm, $30/yr for the domain name mebbe...
Webhosting (not even so much as a VPS I would wager) probably around $29.95/month for what little bandwidth (who are we kidding about their bandwidth needs).
All the posts are donated by "friends" who feel sorry for them.
I think this new one if it shows up would more accurately portray my native NY attitude towards all these square state libs who've polluted NYC since the 90's. (If this site doesn't lag the change for 3 years again).
I'm not sure why I wasn't consulted but your readers should know that The Red Queen comes out on 19 August.
Centurion LIKE HELL YES. Why this extensive corner of the Roman Empire hasn't been magnified further with a darkened cinematic looking-glass, I really don't understand.