Archive for January 2009

good or not to be a famous?

Saturday, January 31, 2009

I do wonder. Someone once found this blog by plugging that question into a search engine. Yesterday I added “cult failure” to the running list I keep of the more intriguing terms that land people at Kill Fee. Here’s the rest of the current inventory:
cult failure
emily post on burping
was ist kill fee für eine band
disgruntled [...]

“Patti Lupone, she gonna beat you”

Thursday, January 22, 2009

I’ve been meaning to write about the incredible experience of being in the audience at the performance of Gypsy in which Patti Lupone battered the fourth wall into tiny, tiny, tiny pieces, but I haven’t had the time to collect my thoughts—or really, to recover. I do hope to detail the extraordinary command performance, but [...]

The old school and the new school are on the dance floor

Monday, January 19, 2009

Wyclef Jean and the cast of The Electric Company sing “Electric City.”

The Los Angeles Times reports that “beat-boxing, it turns out, is a surprisingly effective tool for repeating consonant and vowel sounds.” There’s much more at the new school Electric Company headquarters and here’s an old school lesson from Easy Reader.