Can someone explain to me the strange inner workings of my brain?

[brak666]

So, this guy I sort of used to go out with (and who I may still be just a little bit hung up on) and I are Facebook friends. I also never took him off my AIM buddy list after we stopped sort of going out. Anyway, I thought he'd get a kick out of the new Jonothan Coulton song. I'm trying to figure out why exactly I felt comfortable messaging him on Facebook with the link, but not IM'ing it to him.

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[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

When you say messaging on Facebook do you mean facebook's version of email or of IM.

Either way, I'd say there's probably something subconcious about the fact that for Facebook you know there's still an extant mutual connection (you can't be a one-way friend on Facebook), whereas with AIM you don't know whether he's taken you off his buddy list or not. If it's Facebook email, there's also less of an expectation of immediate response (and potential hurt feelings from the lack thereof).

Or was this a rhetorical question? ;-)

[brak666.livejournal.com]

Not a rhetorical question. And yes, I used the Facebook email, and you're probably right.

On another subject, you never told me what you thought of The Little Mermaid. How was Heidi?

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I kept meaning to post about that weekend and then ended up getting caught up in prep for Miami and never posting it.

Basically, I loved Heidi in it, thought she was fabulous. Otherwise I thought the show was utter, utter drek. The sets literally looked like a larger version of a playset you'd buy at the Disney Store. There were a few interesting set pieces and effects (i.e. the ship, and Eric's falling overboard), but aside from that I just gaped at the tackiness/boringness of it all (the boringness stemmed from the things like "Oh we need to do a quick reprise of X song because the tacky set is taking it's own sweet time collapsing and getting off stage"). The costumes were likewise up and down. Up: Ursula, the Mer-people. Down: The surface servants who looked like chickens, Flounder, the eels.

Almost all of the non-Ursula added numbers were incredibly bad or boring. Bad: the added numbers for the bird whose name I'm forgetting. Boring: the ballads added in the second act.

Seriously, had I not had my niece with me I'd have bolted at intermission since the second act was nothing but reprises. And, since they obviously couldn't do the film's ending with the giant Ursula, they went with the "dying through the trapdoor" method, and managed to fail at making that anything at all. I mean seriously, Bernadette and Co. did a better version of it in Into the Woods decades ago.

FYI, Signature Theatre here in Arlington, VA will be mounting a production of [title of show] next season in the Spring. I'm assuming it's not with the creators in the roles since a non-Michael Beresse director is listed.