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Entry tags:
- carl,
- cmu alumni,
- gym,
- musicals,
- parties
Musicals and stuff
Thursday after work was pretty busy. First I went to the gym to lift weights with Megan. Then we headed up to Bothell to see Justin and Colleen's new house. They were having a party for Colleen's birthday. The new house is huge and pretty cool - they have a really great new movie room (which is a little small for groups, but it's neat), and a washer/dryer that I thought looked like a mainframe cabinet, and a workout room, and a huge backyard, and a ton of deck space, and a pool table, and a hot tub, and basically, it's a big yuppie house. I think they'll be happier there than in the old place, that's for sure. Josh and Megan and Tim and Katie and Jarrett and me and some of Colleen's family were all there, and we had grilled food and an ice cream cake for dessert. Good times.
After that I went down to Oren's house, since he had just gotten Carl from the airport, and I hung out there for a few hours. We watched an episode of Trick. It was very messed up. Nakama Yukie is apparently a lot more famous than I thought. I went home at like 1am. Oi.
Friday, after work, Carl and Oren and I went to Fuji Sushi for dinner, which was good. Afterwards, Carl and I went to see the musical Princesses at the 5th avenue theater. It's a show about these prep school girls who are putting on a play of The Little Princess. Overall it was entertaining, if a little vacant -- which is pretty much what you'd expect out of a plot that's just "spoiled prep school girls put on show". Some songs were pretty good, some songs were a little too teen-pop like. The parts where they made fun of teenage girls were really entertaining though, and the set was really good as well. The show has exactly two male characters, one of whom is there for most of the show, and one of whom comes in to sing a Backstreet-Boys-like song and then disappears again. It was kind of odd. I'm not sure how this will do on Broadway when it gets there. I think, though, the sorts of people who enjoyed Hairspray will enjoy this one as well, and it seems there were lots of the former. The show did get plenty of laughs, so there's plenty to work with there.
Afterwards everyone came back here, we listened to music and made Carl play Katamari. Whee.
Now I'm awake so I should go call them back.
After that I went down to Oren's house, since he had just gotten Carl from the airport, and I hung out there for a few hours. We watched an episode of Trick. It was very messed up. Nakama Yukie is apparently a lot more famous than I thought. I went home at like 1am. Oi.
Friday, after work, Carl and Oren and I went to Fuji Sushi for dinner, which was good. Afterwards, Carl and I went to see the musical Princesses at the 5th avenue theater. It's a show about these prep school girls who are putting on a play of The Little Princess. Overall it was entertaining, if a little vacant -- which is pretty much what you'd expect out of a plot that's just "spoiled prep school girls put on show". Some songs were pretty good, some songs were a little too teen-pop like. The parts where they made fun of teenage girls were really entertaining though, and the set was really good as well. The show has exactly two male characters, one of whom is there for most of the show, and one of whom comes in to sing a Backstreet-Boys-like song and then disappears again. It was kind of odd. I'm not sure how this will do on Broadway when it gets there. I think, though, the sorts of people who enjoyed Hairspray will enjoy this one as well, and it seems there were lots of the former. The show did get plenty of laughs, so there's plenty to work with there.
Afterwards everyone came back here, we listened to music and made Carl play Katamari. Whee.
Now I'm awake so I should go call them back.