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Well here it is folks! Welcome to the brand new mandelweb.com. It's pretty much the same site I used to have in college and on XOOM/nbci.com, but we've got a new look and some new features including this...my weblog.
For those of you that haven't seen one of these online on other people's, this is basically a journal where I'll be recording my random thoughts and putting in little updates as to what I'm doing...I'll let the rest of the site speak for itself So what have I been up to this weekend? Two big highlights: "Monsters, Inc." and "Xanadu Live!"
Saturday night, I checked out "Monsters, Inc." with Ted and Larry at the digital theater at the AMC Burbank. It was a great and the little short before it was very funny. There were some big previews including the "E.T.", "Peter Pan 2," and "Star Wars: Episode II." Unsurprisingly, the trailer for the "Star Wars II" really didn't live up to the hype...Strike two so far...I'm still wincing over the title "Attack of the Clones." They might as well call it "Star Wars II: Watch Out for the Evil Boogedy-Emperor!" Oh well..at least the movie's got Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor...
But that wasn't the end of fun...Tonight, I went with Ted, Larry, Adam, David S., James, and Scott to the Gascon Theater to see "Xanadu Live!" You read it right..."Xanadu LIVE," a live stage adaption of the 1980 Olivia Newton John-Gene Kelly movie musical about a muse helping a guy who looks like a poor man's Andy Gibb open up a roller disco-rink while boogie-ing to Olivia's singing and some tunes by ELO.
I thought, "What the hell? I'll give it a shot." I mean it could be really fun or so bad that it's fun and that we could say ten years from now..."We saw Xanadu Live." And whaddaya know, it was a really fun show. It basically was a tongue-in-cheek, word-for-word rendition of the movie..complete with LOTS of roller-skating and nifty dance numbers!! The only gripe I had was that the actors didn't sing the songs. They all lip-synched to the original movie soundtrack. Nevertheless, it was a hoot. This was definitely NOT a show to be taken seriously and this pretty was the right way to go given the small venue and apparently low budget. It's worth giving a look at before it closes next weekend.
There was a somewhat-celeb presence at the show. Amy Pietz of "Caroline in the City" was the producer of the show and was at the bar in the lobby dressed up in a banana-colored rollerdisco get-up. There was also an actor who's name escapes me (it wasn't Malcolm Getz) from "Caroline in the City" in the audience. Amie from CBS's reality show "The Amazing Race" was in the cast and we saw Paul, her boyfriend and teammate from the show in the lobby. The biggest celebrity presence there was RuPaul sans drag. We almost didn't recognize him until Adam picked out his unmistakable laugh.
Well here it is folks! Welcome to the brand new mandelweb.com. It's pretty much the same site I used to have in college and on XOOM/nbci.com, but we've got a new look and some new features including this...my weblog.
For those of you that haven't seen one of these online on other people's, this is basically a journal where I'll be recording my random thoughts and putting in little updates as to what I'm doing...I'll let the rest of the site speak for itself So what have I been up to this weekend? Two big highlights: "Monsters, Inc." and "Xanadu Live!"
Saturday night, I checked out "Monsters, Inc." with Ted and Larry at the digital theater at the AMC Burbank. It was a great and the little short before it was very funny. There were some big previews including the "E.T.", "Peter Pan 2," and "Star Wars: Episode II." Unsurprisingly, the trailer for the "Star Wars II" really didn't live up to the hype...Strike two so far...I'm still wincing over the title "Attack of the Clones." They might as well call it "Star Wars II: Watch Out for the Evil Boogedy-Emperor!" Oh well..at least the movie's got Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor...
But that wasn't the end of fun...Tonight, I went with Ted, Larry, Adam, David S., James, and Scott to the Gascon Theater to see "Xanadu Live!" You read it right..."Xanadu LIVE," a live stage adaption of the 1980 Olivia Newton John-Gene Kelly movie musical about a muse helping a guy who looks like a poor man's Andy Gibb open up a roller disco-rink while boogie-ing to Olivia's singing and some tunes by ELO.
I thought, "What the hell? I'll give it a shot." I mean it could be really fun or so bad that it's fun and that we could say ten years from now..."We saw Xanadu Live." And whaddaya know, it was a really fun show. It basically was a tongue-in-cheek, word-for-word rendition of the movie..complete with LOTS of roller-skating and nifty dance numbers!! The only gripe I had was that the actors didn't sing the songs. They all lip-synched to the original movie soundtrack. Nevertheless, it was a hoot. This was definitely NOT a show to be taken seriously and this pretty was the right way to go given the small venue and apparently low budget. It's worth giving a look at before it closes next weekend.
There was a somewhat-celeb presence at the show. Amy Pietz of "Caroline in the City" was the producer of the show and was at the bar in the lobby dressed up in a banana-colored rollerdisco get-up. There was also an actor who's name escapes me (it wasn't Malcolm Getz) from "Caroline in the City" in the audience. Amie from CBS's reality show "The Amazing Race" was in the cast and we saw Paul, her boyfriend and teammate from the show in the lobby. The biggest celebrity presence there was RuPaul sans drag. We almost didn't recognize him until Adam picked out his unmistakable laugh.
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