I thought scheduling the ever-loving life out of the next two weeks would snap me out of this funk. It did well enough for the weekend but today is grey, blue, and various shades of ugh.

Friday-- Dinner at Pitfire and four one-act plays by Noel Coward: Well, dinner was kind of the highlight of the evening. The plays were alright, actually kind of reminded me of Roald Dahl's surprisingly dark short stories. Some humor in the dim bits of life, but mostly lots of unhappiness. Yay? The Unintentionally Hilarious award goes to the waltz sung in the last play. Anybody seen All That Jazz? Remember that awful sexy sex airplane sex musical number with the song "Take off with us/ Take off with us...?" The first two lines of the waltz had exactly that beat, tone, count, everything but the words. It was all I could do to not giggle.

Saturday-- SoCal Games Day! Arrived a bit late, but played lots of fun stuff and stuck to my no fried foods pledge despite the delicious onion rings at Everest. Met up with playmayt for the all-star cast of the year: Eddie Izzard, Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Emily Mortimer, Jane Leeves, Tracey Ullman, Jim Piddock, and Eric Idle in Idle's new play, "What About Dick?" How did all those names fit in one little paragraph, much less on the same stage? It was a staged reading of Idle's "film for radio," presented as a radio program with actors sitting at the back of the stage when quiet and sharing three microphones to speak their parts. It was funny, it was filthy, and Tim Curry's voice is the single most beautiful sound I have ever heard in my life, but the play itself wasn't that good. It felt very disconnected and patched together and the extended EM Forster/Howard's End/films of Emma Thompson & Anthony Hopkins parody just didn't work for me. The people watching was fun, though. Lots of Brits, movers & shakers and stars and such, and I'm pretty certain I saw Jeff Lynne striding up the aisle wearing sunglasses during intermission (really? 9.30pm inside the theatre and really? O... K...) Billy Connolly was the hit of the night with an incomprehensible Scottish detective, and Eddie Izzard was very cute while dropping things and being silly, and, well, everyone was excellent, but. It's no Spamalot.

Sunday-- Din Tai Fung! More Games! Agricola, which is unbelievably amazing. But I was hitting my MustHaveProtein wall so bailed, only to find that I'd left my lights on and my car was dead. Chris was very kind and as he put it, jumped me outside. Made it home safe, toasted up a little dinner and happily watched Torchwood.

Monday, today-- Awful migraine kept me home this morning and I've felt sick all day, but cannot stay home tonight as I have Spoon tickets. Any other band... any less money spent... and it would be me and my jammies and the Doctor Who S2 disc 6 of special features, fer sure. As it is, I will rally. I must. "Anything You Want" demands it.
( Rest of the schedule for this week and next back here: )

was a very up and down weekend. ( the up was really good, the down was really bad. )

hot Eddie pic in honor of Friday night til I figure how to post my picture with him so y'all can see how wunnerful he is! whee!

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margarita, with tax and tip: $3.44.
carnitas quesadilla, with tax and tip: $11.00.
parking for both the restaurant and the theatre: $5.00.

sitting in the middle of the front row less than four feet from Eddie Izzard and being a little scared that he was going to drop the mike stand on me a couple times and laughing for an hour and half solid and seeing him dressed straight and hot and love love loving the entire experience: priceless.

Eddie was glorious. trying out new stuff, so not everything was a "tea and cake or death?" hit, but still hilarious. lots with monkeys, NO JAMES MASON (which was my only complaint,) and angrier this time. no God/Jeezy Creezy dialogues cause questioning the very existence now. guess artists have to grow, but if this is a trend I hope Mason will pop up somewhere else cause otherwise I will really miss him. was wonderful. was delightful. was perfect.

sigh. playmayt, I am yours to command forever (or at least for the time being) for letting me know about the show and going with me. honore, you rawk hardcore for letting me be one of your invisible people and saving us spots at the front of the line. jdekay, I was beyond thrilled that you joined us and we got to catch up and yay for the fun! thanks to all for putting up with my bouncing very good-naturedly. don't worry, I'm paying for it now: the caffeine pills are playing havoc with my stomach this morning. when I woke up I was still so tired that I felt drunk and was a bit wobbly walking. things have gotten better, but it's going to be a very early night tonight. which is good, cause it's gonna be the only one this week!

EDDIE!