exactly, they have to come to America to get work.

but that is what I am saying - there is a chronic issue in England where they believe that “British” means old white guys, ESPECIALLY when it comes to period film work. Downton Abbey attempted this.

I also think his aesthetic has become decidedly English lately. he likes to cast English actors in all his films now. from what I can tell there is a certain aesthetic to this like English white Victorianism he’s been going for lately.

I knooooow it kills me it didn’t last because there are just so many people I would want to share that experience with. feel lucky and glad I went twice!

I was lucky enough to do their immersive show in London, which is sadly now closed. I think it was just so huge it couldn’t keep itself going. which is SUCH a shame. I have done sleep no more twice and loved it. but imagine sleep no more in a building that used to be an old hospital. it was so big they had two stories…

I once was getting into a healthy but interesting argument on facebook with someone, and it was fine - and then suddenly some guy decided he needed to needlessly insert himself into the conversation and say vaguely disparaging remarks as a way to goad me into arguing with him. but he was boring. I told him - you’re…

from my own experiences - watching this tonight - I was thrilled. I mean, this is actually exactly what you are supposed to do when dealing with a bully. I swear I bet she studied how to deal with bullies, because - this is it. she didn’t talk at him, she didn’t take his bait - she talked THROUGH him and just…

I think that the quality of tv just went down for quite awhile in that time, it was all about game shows and reality tv. it was awful, I remember it being awful. then things started to pick up again with the office, and 30 rock - predominately white shows, but they changed how we viewed comedy. I remember they kept…

not to mention that shows featuring white people being successful in ratings - shouldn’t mean the end of diverse programming. I don’t think I can blame Seinfeld’s success for the end of diverse programming of tv. since Seinfeld came out in the 90s. I blame the success of Survivor and Do You Want to Be a Millionaire.…

uhhh, Trump?

me too! I felt so alone. it was fun, it was very european disco crazy bubble gum dance music.

in a way I don’t blame gaga, I look at all these producers.. and THIS is what you came up with? nah.

I study film and theatre history.

I can’t get over the fact that her character never SPEAKS? what the hell. that almost, more than anything, makes me deeply uncomfortable. it is one thing for this rape to occur in the film, but then to literally render that character completely voiceless. maybe it was supposed to be some metaphor - but you know what?…

usually that’s when I ask how many black people have they actually met? how many people different from them have they actually spent TIME with? how many gay people do they know? have they ever traveled? gone out of the country? ignorance is bliss. but it is like someone who is vaguely homophobic then finds out their…

I was in an argument with someone and it was actually something that I felt was interesting so I was willing to stay in it for awhile, until we reached an impasse. and then that’s what I said - we have reached an impasse.

I wish I could say the same for the audience. I enjoyed Beyonce but damn those audience member who were right next to her on the walkways made me uncomfortable. at one point some woman was ON the walkway and they had to pull her off? where are the security guards? it was so freaking uncomfortable to watch her work her…

to give Chaplin some credit, he never married anyone he was related to (by blood or not). he liked young women, but I think given the time period and his Victorian upbringing he still manages to strike me as less creepy as Allen, and more of a product of his time. and he lost his mother at a very young age. it is much…

I generally am able to separate the art from the artist when it was made in a time when the treatment of women, and minorities and people of color was incredibly different from now. when the standards were different. when the conversations we are able to have today, would not even remotely register in the minds of…

the evergreens is beautiful! and so creepy. but in a beautiful time capsule kind of way. I love that they have kept it just as it was. I hope it remains that way.