WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT

After years of working in television I had come to the point of NEVER watching it when I was home. Now, after several years since I finished working in the media I have gone back to trying to entertain myself with some shows.

Last year I watched and stayed with UGLY BETTY on ABC. Have continued to watch it this Fall but am kinda having some trouble with it the last couple of episodes. I'll hang with it though for the foreseeable season.

I also started watching HEROS the 1st season after it came out on DVD and found it very entertaining but have not yet found the time to catch back up on it this season, I'll try to do that online at NBC.com.

New this season for me is PUSHING DAISES. Loved the first show , didn't care much for the second episode but it came right back in a magic way the last couple of shows.

During this past summer someone told me they though I might like the show Jericho so I watched the opening show online and was instantly hook. Off and on throughout the summer I finished the fist season and now am anticipating it's return in January of 2008.

I also watch PBS often but mostly no one show in particular
although I did catch most of Ken Burns World War II documentary which I thought was wonderful.














TURN OFF THE TV AND DO SOMETHING


And so we did. In Late early June we went to Charleston , SC for the Spoleto Festival. This year we attended the USA premier of THE BOOK OF LONGING by Philip Glass. Spoleto Festival USA presents the American premiere of Book of Longing, the long-awaited new concert work by Philip Glass, one of the most influential composers of our time, and based on legendary poet and singer Leonard Cohen's recently published poetry collection, his first in over 20 years. The culmination of years of admiration between two of the most celebrated musical artists of their generation, Glass sets Cohen's words – at once playful, erotic, meditative, and singuprovocative – to a new score performed by an ensemble of singers and musicians, drawn from indie rock, classical and new music circles. Glass himself plays keyboard.

What a great evening that was. The next afternoon while in town we met one of the singers on the street and enjoyed a nice conversation with him and his take on working with Glass.














Audio: Book of Longing, Prolouge

Audio: Book of Longing, Puppet Time

Audio: Book of Longing, I Am Now Able



After our nice conversation with the tenor from Book Of Longing we went on to hear the ever impressive Westminster Choir perform. Don't remember which church they sang in but they always blow everyone away each year at this festival.

One the third and final day of our Charleston visit we went to Dock Street Theatre and heard the chamber concert program. I highly recommend that if you ever get to Charleston in late May or early June you try and attend one of these great afternoon concerts. The St. Lawrence String Quartet usually perform the chamber concerts and the programs vary daily.



AND WHEN YOU GET TIRED OF THE PERFORMING ARTS WELL, HOW ABOUT SOME STREET PERFORMANCE !!!




Or, if it is early October in San Francisco then I might have seen you on Folsom Street.