05.10.2002 /09:40
Cold is getting better. I'm just coughing and hacking and ridding my body of snot in anyway I can now, instead of lying on the sofa pissing and moaning about my sore joints.
I have a guilty pleasure... I, um, I like to watch "Inside the Actor's Studio" on Bravo... Eeep. What's worse is I've actually been watching it for a long time, but always furtively in secret.
The host (James Lipton) is just so, so... odd. He can fawn over actors more than a red-carpet interviewer on oscar night, but he adds this layer of ridiculous pretension that raises it to the absurd. He practically licks the toes of actors like Julia Roberts or Ben Affleck, and when he gets someone like Robert De Niro or Jack Lemmon on he spends the entire hour in a semi-orgasmic state. I thought he was going to actually faint when Stephen Sondheim was on.
It's funny to watch how the guests react to him too. Sometimes they join right in--like, "oh, yeah, you're right... that film really was a turning point in my oeuvre... Sometimes they seem like they're going to burst out laughing at any moment.
Sometimes the show is just neat. Like the Stephen Sondheim one--they had the students sing songs from his shows and then he'd talk about writing them. [sigh] I'm just a musical nerd at heart...
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+ listening to--Sweeney Todd, original cast recording
+ what I should be doing--cleaning this sty of an apartment
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