i had the best fucking weekend, on the heels of a lovely, loungey thursday night (trivia, entertainment, blah blah blahing with matt). friday brought me to the buddies in bad times theatre (my first but very definitely not last time there) to see snowman, which i really really liked. most of all, i loved the playwright's style (he being Greg MacArthur) - i could recognize his accent you might say. mmm, nice brain yum.
saturday afternoon i went to see another play with a colleague. in addition to it being the first time i saw a soulpepper production, it was - i realized with a laugh - also my first time seeing hamlet live. although i know snippets of the play by heart, i'd only ever known it from books and movies! well, it was every bit as spectacular as it should be. although Albert Schulz's hamlet was a little more passionate than i might have wanted (or as lisa said "oh, he was a mel-gibson-hamlet" as opposed, i guess, to the melancholy-ethan-hawke-hamlet i seem to prefer), it was still amazing - quite the actor that one. and i appreciated some of the clever ways of delivering lines - always impressive when something that you've seen countless times can be fresh. although i hate using the word fresh when talking about theatre, it sounds flaky in a snooty way. and speaking of snooty, after the play my colleague and i sat on a chi-chi patio on the waterfront talking about decidedly unsnooty stuff - really interesting stuff actually. gawd i love when that shit happens. truly interesting stuff... yea!
saturday night i went to lisa and mark's for games and more interesting words, thoughts, ideas. it wasn't all great though: i got my ass kicked at scrabble. : ( but oh the interesting words tossed about in that lazily-lit living room... after the games and brain massaging, i moseyed a few blocks over to lee's palace/dance cave, but never actually made it in. just stood around outside smoking and talking with strangers. i'm tempted to think it's weird, going to a bar but never making it in, but ... meh. (shrug)
and then sunday! did i mention it was beautiful this weekend? oh, well it was. anyway, started the day off in queen's park for a little word on the street (although i guess technically it's word in the park now. again, i am left shrugging...) saw a couple of amusing readings, subscribed to an indie mag - nice. then rolled over to the distillery to sit and catch up with alana while jason and Tabarruk filled our eardrums and souls with their stylish vibes. mmm. in the sun with a good friend, great music: an exceptional way to spend an afternoon.
and then last night, i huffed and puffed up an endless slope, all the way up to the yellow griffin (a pub from my old 'hood) for a free comedy night in which lisa was performing. she's so fucking hilarious, i'm glad i finally got to see her perform. i usually laugh when she just speaks and she always hesitates.. "why are you laughing?" "i don't know lisa, you're just fucking hilarious!" the gto's (hope i'm remembering that right) were great too. so was lisa's friend, what was his name? he was hot...
and now it's monday - a whole new week of adventures and discoveries awaits...
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