We Saw "Wings of Desire" and it was...

um, hard to summarize. That's not terribly surprising, really. ART is known for avant-garde productions - and yes, I know that term is abused almost beyond meaning, but really when it was invented it was meant to apply to things like this. Wings of Desire is a Wim Wenders film, never a subject for straightforward reading. Find me a Wenders film with fewer than three layers of possible interpretation and I'll say you're missing something. So this is me trying to tell you about a play you really ought to go see for yourself.

( The best I can do is list bits I thought worked, almost worked, and didn't work. )

We Saw "Wings of Desire" and it was...

um, hard to summarize. That's not terribly surprising, really. ART is known for avant-garde productions - and yes, I know that term is abused almost beyond meaning, but really when it was invented it was meant to apply to things like this. Wings of Desire is a Wim Wenders film, never a subject for straightforward reading. Find me a Wenders film with fewer than three layers of possible interpretation and I'll say you're missing something. So this is me trying to tell you about a play you really ought to go see for yourself.

( The best I can do is list bits I thought worked, almost worked, and didn't work. )

Lighter links

In an effort to lighten my mood, and possibly yours, I present:

The Cook's Thesaurus. I'm not extremely happy with their search functionality, but Holy food geekery, Batman!

And something else to brighten your LJ reading: http://stateoftheworld.livejournal.com
This was put together in part by a cow orker of mine, along with a bunch of other geeks and hackers. Those of you who are as old as I am may recognize this as the distant great-grandchild of the old X windows application called "xearth". No RSS feed, but you can friend the account and get updates in your flist as they're posted.

I hereby disclaim all responsibility for any hours you choose to waste on these.

Lighter links

In an effort to lighten my mood, and possibly yours, I present:

The Cook's Thesaurus. I'm not extremely happy with their search functionality, but Holy food geekery, Batman!

And something else to brighten your LJ reading: http://stateoftheworld.livejournal.com
This was put together in part by a cow orker of mine, along with a bunch of other geeks and hackers. Those of you who are as old as I am may recognize this as the distant great-grandchild of the old X windows application called "xearth". No RSS feed, but you can friend the account and get updates in your flist as they're posted.

I hereby disclaim all responsibility for any hours you choose to waste on these.