Measured bravery is the prime gateway to technical expertise.

Robert Faludi

I found a blog just now called He Said/She Said Critiques. It’s a blog by two young theater professionals featuring critiques of Denver-area community and professional productions. They also have local theater information and audition notices.

I’ve read a couple of their reviews and I like their format. However I feel the Denver blogosphere needs the voice of a semiprofessional musician. Every time I see a review of a musical the first thing I look for is a critical analysis of the music. Unfortunately to get good at music you have to study it. For a long time. In fact, for your entire life. I’ve been playing piano for 21+ years now and I’m still not half as good as I want to be. I’ve music directed shows around town and I’ve played in pits. So I’d like to post some blogs/reviews here of the aspects of musical productions to which I am uniquely qualified to speak: the music, sound, direction, and performance. I hold an MFA from USC in film production where I specialized in rerecording mixing and production and postproduction sound. I also have a BA from UNC in Musical Theater. So I am uniquely qualified to offer my unique perspective on how I think musicals should be done at this level.

What’s the acronym? SMH? For this one I’ll let you enjoy discovering the numerous errors for yourself. Didn’t these people even take English in High School? And where the hell is the editor? Even a basic stupid computerized grammar checker would have caught these errors.

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I just finished Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. Had I not capitalized and italicized the words “eating animals,” you may have interpreted that previous sentence differently. His book largely confirms what I had known prior: factory farms are no good for anyone but the owners, and especially no good for the animals they produce.

I won’t launch into a tirade on the evils of factory farming here. Foer does enough proselytizing in his book. Much as I critique local theatrical productions, I shall comment briefly on the form and the quality of his writing, for one can have the most righteous cause but without eloquence be heard by no one. Or the complete opposite, such as Hitler (who was a vegetarian, by the way).

The last liftoff of the Space Shuttle program was just now, a program that is almost as old as I. I cannot remember a time in my life there was not another STS mission on the horizon. The US government will no longer have any ships to take us into space. What will be our next vehicle? When will we return to the Moon or beyond, perhaps to Mars? How shall we inspire our dreams?

It was an awful story anyway, but paragraph four begins with the following sentence:

It was not immediately clearly when Anthony could be released.

Immediately clearly … what?! WHAT?! I NEED TO KNOW! Two adverbs after each other, but what do they modify? AARGH!

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via Casey Anthony Sentenced To 4 Years - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver.

The Internet is full of everything you could imagine.

Museum of Food Anomalies | Hanttula.

I especially like this one: check out the trees on either side.

Dear Photograph.