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October 12, 2009
Something lovely...
... about sitting in a cue for hours, hoping to get tickets to go into a show in London.
I hate lines... won't stand in 'em... just nothing worth the wait. But somehow, the show you want to see... in a town where waiting usually leads to actually getting in... I don't know... I have only good memories of this choice.
On this case, I got a late bug in my bonnet about Enron: The Musical, which is known here just as "Enron.". But it is a musical... apparently bought by Sony for film... and ending a run in a small theater in a few weeks before a new year's transfer to the West End. Smells of the excitement around Frost/Nixon. The concierge at The Dorchester couldn't swing tickets, though he did think that for 350£ per ticket, we could get them for tomorrow night. Oy. Even the concierge at Thr Dorchester could barely say it without laughing. But who knows... I might e someone who would spend a grand on theater tickets. (I am... on 10 theater tickets, not 2.).
So I sit on an old wooden staircase, hoping for returns. If not, we may go see something else. Maybe not. Nothing else seems all that exciting. There is a show called Orphans... also sold out. And the two gay nights out - La Cage and Priscilla - well, I don't know. I have deja vu just writing about them now.
And so I sit... kinda happy... in that way that sitting in Telluride under a tent bulging with water and rain making it heavier and heavier is fun.
Posted by dpoland at October 12, 2009 09:17 AM
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I myself am very excited about Jez Butterworth's JERUSALEM (which premiered at Royal Court) that will open at Apollo on Janurary, with Mark Rylance once again starring in the lead. They say the show will be sold out, so I'm gonna try to get a ticket!
Why not go see ENDGAME at the Duchess (with Mark Rylance)? It was very good. If you like Beckett's plays, go see this one.
Posted by: DeafBrownTrashPunk ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 12, 2009 10:48 AM
'Queue'.
Posted by: jeffmcm at October 12, 2009 05:31 PM
"I hate lines... won't stand in 'em... just nothing worth the wait."
Do you realise how ridiculous that sounds?
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at October 12, 2009 10:08 PM
"cue" - too funny
(jeff, defending the queen's english since the naughts)
Posted by: leahnz at October 12, 2009 11:25 PM
I just figure, if a person is going to make their living as a writer...
Posted by: jeffmcm at October 12, 2009 11:46 PM
Fox takes you all the way to London and doesnt throw in 2 tickets to a show?! How rude! Haha
Posted by: indiemarketer at October 13, 2009 03:33 PM
I just figure, if a person is going to make their living as a writer...
...then of course, it must be your personal responsibility to criticize every mistake that person makes, be they obvious typos or spelling or grammatical glitches, or whatever, right? Because what on earth would the readers of the Hot Blog do without you playing Spelling and Grammar Monitor to point such things out to them? Heavens, the humanity!
I get being annoyed with stuff like that too. But don't you have better things to do, Jeff, than spend so much of your time obsessing over any error David makes, no matter how minute? Seriously, life is too short. You need a better hobby.
Posted by: Kim Voynar at October 14, 2009 04:55 PM
Yeah, Jeff! Where do you come off criticizing David? The nerve! Why, I ought to...
Wait, Kim! Put that baseball bat down! I was kidding! Wait! OWWWWW!
Posted by: Joe Leydon at October 14, 2009 05:50 PM
in the interest of full disclosure, i was going to post 'queue' but jeff beat me to it
Posted by: leahnz at October 14, 2009 06:08 PM
Sorry Kim, I wouldn't have bothered if something like that was a lone typo, or the second error, or the 10th, but IMHO David is pretty much the sloppiest film writer around.
Posted by: jeffmcm at October 14, 2009 06:35 PM
I was too, but then I figured Americans can choose what way to spell it (like how they put the letter Z in words a lot or erase the letter U).
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at October 14, 2009 10:39 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NOTHING funnier than watching McDouche get his ass handed to him by someone awesome, getting called out for being the petty, negative little hater (seriously, has Jeff McDOUCHE EVER LIKED ANYTHING, EEEEEEEEEVER??????) that he is.
McDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUCHE. Earning his nickname since 2006.
Posted by: LexG at October 15, 2009 01:35 AM
"(like how they put the letter z in words a lot or erase the letter U)"
So THAT'S why I keeping spelling it 'fzck'....
Posted by: Hallick at October 15, 2009 09:48 PM
indiemarketer - I'm not sure if you are trying to insult me or Fox. Either way, it's a rather bizarre twist on this entry...
Posted by: David Poland at October 15, 2009 11:09 PM
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