Tidbits

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was working on a stage show for King Richard's Faire.  I didn't get what I had in mind finished in time, and so I basically winged a "professor Vince" show instead, as suggested by Moira (pictsy ).  It went fantastically!  I had a lot of fun, the audience was into it, and I didn't need to be nearly as gimmicky as I'd feared to hold attention to acoustic instrumental music.  There are still a few segments of what I'd been working on that I want to keep (the grand finale idea will be amazing, I just have to compose the bugger), but overall it seemed to really work just...being Vince.  That was intensely gratifying.

I saw Hamlet 2 yesterday, and don't bother.  I expected stupid, but craptacular was a bit too much.  Amy Poehler was a riot, as featured in the trailers, and if she'd had more than four minutes of screen time it would have been a much better movie.  I'm not a big Steve Coogan fan, but after the overall genius of Tropic Thunder decided to give him the benefit of the doubt, which was a bit unwarranted.  It wasn't unpleasant to sit through, but had I been at home I wouldn't have made it through twenty minutes before finding something else to do.