[Misc] Champions on Ices

Continental Airline Arena
Cast:
Michelle Kwan
Irina Slutskaya
Sasha Cohen
Kimmie Meisner
Evgeni Plushenko
Jonny Weir
Stephane Lambiel
Evan Lysacek
Surya Bonaly
Victor Petrenko
Rudy Galindo
Dan Hollander
Irina Grigorian
Vladimir Besedin, Oleksiy Polishchuk
Tatiana Totmianina, Maxim Marinin
Tanith Belbin, Ben Agosto
Marina Anissina, Gwendal Peizerat

[Baseball] Toronto Blue Jays

2nd time in the history that Yanks score each and every inning

.......................1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.....R .H. E
Toronto............. 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 ....6 ..6 ..2
NY Yankees......... 4 1 2 2 3 1 3 1 X ....17 .15..1

[Baseball] Toronto Blue Jays

7-2, Blue Jays

[Baseball] Baltimore Orioles

Matsui called strike.....
6-5, Orioles.....

[Gig] Elbow

Webster Hall
w/ The Cloud Room

Inside Man (2006)

Director: Spike Lee
Producer: Brian Grazer
Screenwriter: Russell Gewirtz
Players: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Judie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe

千禧曼波 (2001)

Millennium Mambo
Taiwan / France
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Screenwriter: 朱天文
Cinematographer: 李屏賓
Cast: 舒淇，段鈞豪

Km.0 (2000)

Sapin
Director / Screenwriter: Juan Luis Iborra, Yolanda Garcia Serrano

[Baseball] Kansas City Royals

Home Opener

JETER I LOVE YOU!!!

[Broadway] Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

April 7 (Happy Birthday!!!), Imperial Theatre
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Norbert Leo Butz

The Pryce and Butz duo is the only thing worth to watch. But in some way, this is enough to give me a good night.

[Broadway] Wicked

March 31, 2006
Gershwin Theater

童話故事的糖衣下包裝著令人不寒而慄的情節。除了羊教授和飛天猴子之外，每個人都是「Wicked」。出乎意料的複雜與深度，現場的小孩們可能完全不知道裝進他們腦袋的竟是一幕幕關於低劣人性的無盡悲劇。

V for Vendetta (2006)

US, Warner Bros. and others
Director: Fames Mcteigue (first work)
Screenwriter: Andy and Larry (Lana?)Wachowski
Cast: Natalie Portman (Evey), Hugo Weaving (William Rookwood, V), Stephen Rea (Finch), John Hurt (Adam Sutler), Rupert Graves (Dominic)

清楚的呈現 V is everyone. V 是 Evey, 是每個帶著 V 面具走上街頭大大小小男男女女。但是在倫敦街頭行進的整群 V, 跟持槍的警察們是否又有不同？如同戴著面具搶劫的男子，面具帶來的匿名性是否也意味著這群看似覺醒的群眾，也有可能化成不用負行為責任的暴民？
漫畫中傳統的善惡二元對立仍是基本的論調。一方面可以說 V 是群眾的代言人，但也可以說在整個敘事底下，群眾只是沒有聲音傀儡罷了。

[Gig] Coldplay

March 27, 2006
Nassau Coliseum, Long Island
Opened up by Richard Ashcraft

A History of Violence (2005)

Canada / UK
Director: David Cronenberg
Book Author: Vince Locke, John Wagner
Screenwriter: josh Olson
Cast: Viggo Mortensen (Tom Stall), Maria Bello (Edie Stall), Ashton Holmes (Jack Stall), Willian Hurt (Richie Cusack), Ed Harris (Carl Fogarty)

A Room With a View (1986)

UK
Director: James Ivory
Book Author: E.M. Foster
Screenwriter: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Cast: Helena BonhamCarter (Lucy Honeychurch),Maggie Smith (Charlotte Bartlet), Julian Sands (George Emerson), Denholm Elliot (Mr. Emerson), Daniel Day-Lewis (Cecl Vyse), Simon Callow (Mr. Beebe), Rupert Graves (Freddy Honeychurch)

Vera Drake (2004)

UK
Director / Screenwriter: Mike Leigh
Cast: Imelda Staunton (Vera), Philip Davis (Stan), Peter Wight (Detective Inspector), Adrian Scarborough (Frank), Daniel Mays (Sid), Alex Kelly (Ethel)

In the last two scenes, Vera talks to two women who was in jail second time for performing abortion; and the last scene is the Drakes sitting quietly around the dinner table, and cinematagraphically speaking, they all helplessly restrained in the door frame. This two scene help to put a personal tale to a representative case.

[Gig] Stereolab

March 18, 2006
Town Hall,
Opened up by Sam Prekop and Archer Prewitt

Amazing experience. With a 7 people band, with up to four keyboards, up to three guitars, drum, trumpet, and other instruments I don't know the name of,it is quite a concert.

Setlist:
Come and Play in the Milky Night
Eye of the Volcano
Vonal Declosion
Visionary Road Maps
Need to Be
Interlock
Pack Yr Romantic Mind
Excursions Into "oh, a-oh"
I Feel the Air (of Another Planet)
Mountain
Miss Modular
Whisper Pitch
"...sudden stars"
Widow Wierdo
Vodiak
Cybele's Reverie
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U.H.F. - MFP
The Noise of Carpet

[Broadway] The Light in the Piazza

March 17, 2006
Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theater

Tragedy disguises under the warm lighting and costumes in this beautiful musical. At the end the wedding takes place behind the fences of the church. Like all the relationships states in The Light in the Piazza, they all ends up behind the bar, in the prison; there is no future, only dead ends.
It is amazingly suitable for this musical to play in Vivian Beaumont Theater. The 270 degree stage, with a tragedy take place in Italy. I think it is more than a coincident.

Solaris (1972)

USSR, AKA Solyaris
Director / Screen writer: Andrei Tarkovsky
Screen Writer: Fridrikh Gorenshtein
Book Author: Stanislaw Lew
Cast: Nayalya Bondarchuk (Khari), Jüri Järvet (Snauth), Donatas Banionis (Kris Kelvin), Anatoli Solonitsin (Sartorius), Vladislav Dvorzhetsky (Burton)

Mamma Roma (1962)

Italy
Director / Screenwriter: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Anna Magnani (Mamma Roma), Ettore Garofalo (Ettore), Franco Citti (Carmine), Silvana Corsini (Bruna), Luisa Loiano (Biancofiore)