Posts by Jolisa
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
OK. I’ll sit in the front row at the Great Blend on Thursday and work through my call list while Emma’s doing her thing.
Good lord, man, don't give yourself a nose job just to spite your face. I assume that you'll be whooping and hollering with the rest of them, thus proving my point, that an engaging performance will engage the vast majority of the audience.
And the next person who really wants to bring up the norms of Tudor theatricals better be ready to tell Robyn Malcolm et. al. why they’re being replaced with teenage cross-dressers.
That would be this Robyn Malcolm, who says of live theatre:
"You have to get dressed, put your shoes on, get a babysitter, pay in advance, find a park, sit in a dark room with strangers, wait till interval to take a pee or have a drink. Theatre requires effort on behalf of an audience. Huge effort. I think you have to assume these days that most people don't want to make that kind of effort. The stakes are that much higher right from the get-go. And, as a performer, if you are sucking badly, you will know instantly. The audience will let you know. That way it is utterly a collective ritual."
Happily, she's on both of our sides.
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
God, movie-going used to be so civilised.
Sorry Craig, I'm with Gio on this one, and not just because I've watched Cinema Paradiso a few million times. If a film's good enough, it casts its own spell of engagement - sometimes a silent spell, and sometimes a noisy, reactive one. And if it's not good, then how much more fun it is to be part of an audience that registers its feelings. Random annoying people are annoying, to be sure, but random annoying people are just people.
You will find me amongst the groundlings.
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Sacha,
While standing up, natch.
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Brick and tile...
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Song of Solomon (the TOFO version).
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Perhaps it's because I'm in upstate New York at the moment, remembering the long grey winters here, but I love how even the grimmest, greyest winter vista is magically lightened and enhanced by a coating of snow.
Not that yours are grim vistas - what gorgeous lines your house and garden have. Glad you are able to immortalise them in these images. And that Bob has mastered the art of mushing.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to giovanni tiso,
“Blind spot” could be construed as ableist only by Peripheral Vision Man, surely. And owls.
Well, that's what I thought, too. But you try taking that one up with the owls. They are scary, man.
Meanwhile, am revising my noun-phobia to let "sexism" back in, because I have gotten a lot of mileage out of that one over the years. And I think I might adopt Deborah's use of "same" as a verb.
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I just got my copy of the SlutWalk Listener... and wanted to congratulate Emma for her excellent points, extremely well made. Anyone who picked up that issue just hoping for a quick "phwoar" or a giggle would have gotten an eyeful, all right -- of cogent, powerful argument. Nice one, well done.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Nice one! The human condition in a nutshell. Especially the online human condition, eh?
And while I'm here, can I applaud Islander's reclaiming of shortsightedness as a gift, a page or so back. Myopes of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your corrective lenses.... [scrabbles about]... I know I put them somewhere...
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Ugh. Just realised my whole comment above is probably a classic example of tonesplaining.
Which is why I lurk more than post, these days. The stakes are so high.
