Off the Cyber Shelf

Last evening, I embarked on a trip one neighborhood over with LK to Sun Set Park for a little Oscar party. It was a tough year for my pickings, seeing very few of the movies this year. For the first time in I don't remember how long, I bombed for both the Sound Editing and Sound Mixing award, which I usually prided myself in choosing--though I had only seen one of the movies.

Fortunately, most of the films are still showing on the big screen here in the City. departed is definitely on my list. It's been on my list since it came out last fall. But I still haven't gotten to it. Hopefully on Wednesday night.

Part of me could argue that I haven't seen too many films as I've been falling into more traditional forms of entertainment; ie, the stage over the screen. However, that would be a lie. I did, though, jump back into the world of sound designing this past month, after a friend needed help with an Off Off Off Off Broadway play called Coming or Going. It was the first play by a new company in town called Pretty Little Heads. It turned out to be an excellent play, LK continually saying, "Wow, this is actually pretty good."

For those in the city, it shows through the rest of this week at the Manhattan source Theatre in the Village. Tickets are only $18, which LK said was much better than the $45 she spent at TKTS for the musical Company last week, which wasn't nearly as good, according to LK.

Now that my stage fame has quietly fallen back beneath the tides, I'm off to finish writing more query letters to agents, hoping to get twenty out this week.