Wicked was Wickedly Amazing!
OK, I'll admit it, I wasn't too psyched about going to see a Broadway show yesterday, but I went in with an open mind, and let me tell you, for a Broadway show, Wicked was amazing! Really, really good stuff, believe me. I shall get to some details in a second, but first, was dinner.
We went to this place called Carmine's, which is southern style Italian, family style. That basically means one dish serves about 2-3 people, and one order of pasta about 3-4, depending. The food was really good. I had some chicken parm and penne a la vodka. When it came time for dessert my eyes went right to the tiramisu on the dessert menu. One problem was I didn't look at the price. Dessert comes around and instead of an individual serving of tiramisu, they bring out a giant bowl to share with everyone. I was shocked, but then after looking at the menu, it was like $15, so that would explain it. It was damn good tiramisu too, although after passing it around the table it was only about half gone by the time we left. So good though.
OK, so onto the show. Wicked is basically like a prequel to the Wizard of Oz, but its all about the two witches involved, Glinda, the good witch (who was hilarious) and Elphaba, who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. It was really smart how they blended in all the things you know from the Wizard of Oz into it and interesting to see how the story is really turned around. For example, the Wicked Witch of the West, and her sister who gets the house dropped on her, weren't exactly evil. They were just made out to be like that by the Wizard, who I guess could be the ultimate bad guy of the show. They threw in occasional lines from the movie that got a laugh, like someone saying "There's no place like home," or someone rattling off a list of three things and then saying, "Oh my!" My little brother was cracking up through the whole thing, so it must've been funny. Its been forever since I've seen the Wizard of Oz, and honsetly, the last few times I did watch it, I played Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" over it to get the weird syncronicity (try it, start Dark Side during I believe the MGM lions third roar. You'll know if its right if you hear a dramatic change in the music when the producers name comes on screen.) Anywat, great show. If you're ever in NYC and want to go, I highly recommend it.
A very important thought hit me on the ride home last night pertaining to Elena. I think that now I can finally move on and put all that behind her. I know I said we're going to try to be friends, and thats still true, its just something thats kind of weird to explain, so I'll try. It came to me that the show and everything last night seemed like the last thing that Elena and I had planned together before we brokeup. Her birthday already passed three weeks after we brokeup and I sold her the tickets I got her and then went home and got drunk with Brett that night. We were supposed to go see U2 together, but I went with someone else. And she was supposed to come see Wicked with us last night. Now that I think about it, I don't think there were any other events that we planned together. Last night was the last one. Maybe in some way that can help my thought processes, you know? I don't know if I'm making any sense, but it made perfect sense to me last night.
Enough babbling. Plans for today consist of really nothing. Hopefully I'll go see Batman Begins as my brother's friend Jay wussed out on me Friday night. I'm hoping to go today as it looks good and I've heard nothing but positive stuff about it. Other than that I have a full day of lounging around to do. I plan on practicing some guitar. My teacher gave me some things to practice to help with moving my hand up and down the nexk, and other exercises to help moving my hand up and down the strings while in the same place (if that makes sense). The second part also happens to be the beginning to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", so thats kind of cool. I also brought Filter's "Take A Picture" and he worked out the chords, which were pretty much the ones I found on the Internet and the strumming pattern as well, so I'm going to work on that. He actually said its a good one to work on at this point in time. He said I'm getting better and in a few weeks time everything will start coming together nicely. I'm looking forward to that as I really enjoy playing.
Tomorrow I am taking a half day off from work and meeting Shari, and I think the other girls I'll be living with as we're going to look at another place. There's still some debate over the parking situation at the house we want, so they're showing us a house where parking won't be an issue as well as discussing options for parking at the place we already saw and liked. Its a little annoying, frustrating and stupid, but I'm hoping it'll all work out in the end as I really want this to happen. Keep your fingers crossed and curse those stupid town parking laws!
Alright, off to the shower for me. Enjoy your Sunday everyone!