michellica

Go Met!

on my way to see "la clemenca di tito" at the met opera with tiffany, i pick up some provisions to sneak in.

you won't BELIEVE how ridonkulous Michele is!

late night. access to windows movie maker. silliness. they all add up to the following video...

you can play it here or to get the full view click here...

someday i'll act my age, not my show size.

peach out.

Shake Shack Sneaky Pete

Rachel and I in line at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. This is what happens when you just put out your arm and take random shots... you get stranger leer-y GOLD!

For a full photo review go here...long line story short: food was pretty good, park was lovely, fries and shake better than the chicken/apple sausage I got. It would be the best shake ever EXCEPT that I've tasted the Hill Top Drive-in's blackberry shake.

peach shake out.

the best bit o' my weekend

sun, bed, cello...three of my favorite things. one of which i'm borrowing from a friend for two weeks to see if i'm a prodigy...fingers crossed!

see other bits of my weekend here...

area woman fakes onion internship

me co-woman-ing the onion table with marianne at the found footage festival saturday night anthology film archives. a great night in a weekend full of great nights.

Memories... All alone in the spotlight...

above: Joey Slotnick and Mark Linn Baker (Cousin Larry!) in Almost an Evening

seen a lot of shows lately. what? you don't believe me? here's a list:

03.28.08- Caribou (band) at Bowery Ballroom

03.31.08- Bartok (Julliard Ensemble) at Lincoln Center

04.02.08- Ernani (Metropolitan Opera) at Lincoln Center

04.04.08- Passing Strange (Broadway show)

04.06.08- A Show for Dottie (Comedy fundraiser) at Comix

04.07.08- Mortified (was in it) at Comix

04.10.08- Tim Minchin (musical comedy) at New World Stages

04.15.08- Almost an Evening (Ethan Coen plays) at Atlantic Theater Company (ed. DELIGHTFUL!)

04.17.08- Northwest Christian School Musical (nieces!) at their school

and more to come:

04.25.08- Kissing Booth Show (comedy) at The Tank

04.26.08- Found Footage Festival (found footage!) at Anthology Film Archives

05.10.08- Saturday Night Live (some show on TV) at Rockefeller Center

05.15.08- La Clemeza di Tito (Metropolitan Opera) at Lincoln Center

peach out.

Minchin- See him tonight!

see this guy! you have a couple more chances to see him in new york at new world stages!

he is a musical and comedy force to be reckoned with...saw his show last night and was blown away. got to ride the subway with him afterwards and he is a pleasure offstage, as well as on.

get your tickets here...

check out his website here...

here's some lovely pics that marianne and anya told last night taking advantage of the cool stuff at new world stages...

peach out.

p.s. in my youtubing, i found another wonderful song by the Minchin... enjoy!

Consider yourself Mortified!

Me at Comix on Monday, subjecting the audience to the songs from my youth

Me glamour-shotting it up, Senior Year, 1993

peach out.

Michele at Mortified tonight!

i've been asked to do this amazing show again... apparently, the songs i wrote when i was 18 are hee-larious.

COME TONIGHT!

Mortified– The Most Painfully Honest Show Around!

Monday, April 7, 2008
8:00 PM
Comix
353 West 14th Street, New York, New York 10014

Ripped from the pages of real life, Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) as shared by their original authors before total strangers. Watch it live on the Comix stage on April 7.

Co-produced in New York by Brandy Barber & Anne Altman, Mortified has been hailed as a "cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek and celebrated by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, The Onion AV Club, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Jane, Daily Candy and more. The project collects childhood creations and uses them to reveal uniquely autobiographical tales. There are a million stories buried in the pages of ordinary people's lives. Their mission is to simply help find them. Where can you hear grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their... first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and everything in between? Only at Mortified and only at Comix!

MON, April 7 @ 8:00 PM

Comix

353 West 14th St.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day-of-show (plus a two item minimum in showroom)

Get tickets at www.comixny.com or by calling 212.524.2500.

i've been asked to do this amazing show again... apparently, the songs i wrote when i was 18 are hee-larious.

COME TONIGHT!

Mortified– The Most Painfully Honest Show Around!

Monday, April 7, 2008
8:00 PM
Comix
353 West 14th Street, New York, New York 10014

Ripped from the pages of real life, Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) as shared by their original authors before total strangers. Watch it live on the Comix stage on April 7.

Co-produced in New York by Brandy Barber & Anne Altman, Mortified has been hailed as a "cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek and celebrated by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, The Onion AV Club, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Jane, Daily Candy and more. The project collects childhood creations and uses them to reveal uniquely autobiographical tales. There are a million stories buried in the pages of ordinary people's lives. Their mission is to simply help find them. Where can you hear grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their... first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and everything in between? Only at Mortified and only at Comix!

MON, April 7 @ 8:00 PM

Comix

353 West 14th St.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day-of-show (plus a two item minimum in showroom)

Get tickets at www.comixny.com or by calling 212.524.2500.

the present is a gift... (see what i did there!)

lately, i've been trying to "be still" and stay in the moment.

yes, very '60s meditation of me.

it worked this morning though.

i was waiting at the bus stop waiting and waiting for my sporadic (i'm at the end of the B61 line) bus and i felt my mind start spinning. feeling a little sad about relationships that seem to be fading. feeling disappointed in potential relationships that don't seem to be in the cards. feeling anxious about my work future. feeling anxious about my family's future. feeling anxious about what my life will look like in the future.

then i realized (oh, my! self-realization! she has drunk the kool-aid!) what i was doing and tried to stop. i stop by taking myself to that very moment i was experiencing. i looked around for something from nature to focus on and saw that the tree across the street is finally in bloom. it was beautiful. then my favorite peepy birds in my neighborhood came hopping around to visit. out my head, into the moment.

then, because my neighborhood is a living metaphor, a truck with the word TIME in bold letters drove by. (TIME was followed by moving & storage) i giggled thinking, "oh, no! time is passing me by! i missed it while i was in the present!" then, of course, the TIME truck passed me again. apparently, there's always more TIME around the corner.

the bus finally came and i was on my way. unfortunately, so was most of brooklyn because we had some nice traffic congestion getting to atlantic ave. i felt myself getting impatient, so again, i just thought about that very moment. what could i do. the woman across the bus was making notes and sketching. so i took out my notebook for brooklyn jubilee and looked through my tasks and updating it with the ones i'd accomplished. so instead of impatience, i had a slight feeling of pride having being productive this week for this non-profit that i care so much about.

so this is my new strategy to stop my brain from spinning, which it has been for the  past 4-5 months, to (in the words of the hymn) "be still and know that I am God" and to try to stay (and enjoy) every moment i'm given. not resisting the things that ARE, how people ARE,  but just rolling with it and functioning at the fullest i can.

anywho,  this is what i'm attempting to do now. and now. and now. and now.

and all the people said, "amen."

peach out.