I had so much fun reading the Casa Bonita comments from fellow Denverites and ex-Denverites that I wanted to continue the conversation. Consider this an open thread about Denver popular culture.
Suggested topics for starters: Jakes Jabbs, Starr Yelland, KWGN channel 2, Celebrity Sports Center, The... More.
Mike sez, "Bob Altemeyer's excellent book 'The Authoritarians' is online in full pdf format. It's a result of 30+ years of research into what he calls 'right-wing authoritarianism'- right in the sense of 'might makes' rather than 'opposite of left'. It's a fascinating explanation of how the minds ... More.
Northwestern economics professor Jeff Ely has a fun post on his blog about the economics of pinball:
In 1986, Williams High Speed changed the economics of pinball forever. Pinball developers began to see how they could take advantage of programmable software to monitor, incentivize, and ultima... More.
Chris Connors of MAKE has a post about "a new way of generating electricity with the slow moving currents found in most of the rivers and oceans of the world." (Video here.)
VIVACE is the first known device that could harness energy from most of the water currents around the globe because it works... More.
A jar containing two of Galileo's missing fingers has been located. The jar containing the digits has been missing for more than a century. An individual purchased them at auction and delivered them to the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy. The two fingers will join a third finger ... More.
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Domingo conducts? Oh man, I hope this comes to NY. I was just on the west coast for PAX, and I don't have the vacation days or money to go back for awhile.
And Dante Ferretti is the set designer. Amazing group of people.
Man, that looks awesome. I'd totally see that.
I thought Cronenberg's re-make of the 1958 Vincent Price vehicle was kind of lame. There was a time when Price's final line, "Help me! Help Meee..." (said in a tiny voice) was as recognizable a quote as, "I'm melting! I'm meltinng..."
When are they going to do a live version of Dr.Horrible's sing-along blog?
That was Kurt Neumann, 1958. Also, the line; "Help me! Please help me!", was uttered by the Andre/Fly who was played by David Hedison. It was not his last line. That line was; "No!".
I'm sorry to note that the NY Times, NY Post and CNN all pretty much hated the show. In fact, I've yet to find a good review. It's a shame- after reading the above article, I really got my hopes up. I don't think it'll ever open on Broadway with the reviews I've seen so far. I would have liked to have seen it, 'tho.
i saw it sunday afternoon. paled in comparison to il trittico (woody allen directed the third part) on friday night, which was great.
it was interesting as a modern opera, but basically kinda sucked.
I was able to catch "The Last Starfighter: The Musical" on off Broadways and was throughly delighted. This one looks even better. When can I see Andrew Lloyd Weber's version of "Tron" (made like "Starlight Express").
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I say The Fly opera in July in Paris and LOVED IT! There is nothing even remotely resembling an aria--or a melody. It's like gleefully discordant horror music. Watching an opera Diva in stirrups while her lover climbs on the ceiling overhead and begs her not to abort is not something you see in Verdi. Listening to her belt out with Wagnerian passion "The brundlefly is dead" is worth the price of admission alone.
I'm sad. For some reason I can never understand sung opera lyrics even when they're in English. :_(
Nathan Barley foreshadowed this with "Em@il - the musical"