Overheard at Jerry Springer – the Opera, Carnegie Hall, 1/29/08
During intermission, row T, center section:
I’m on the fence. I don’t hate it, and I like it better than Grey Gardens.
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
Today is Frankie’s first birthday (not that we have cake or anything).
This video was taken last March, a week after bringing two-month-old Frankie into the house and clearly shows Charlie’s apprehension. Later, that orange squishy toy would become the “toy of truce”, forging a brief but playful friendship between Frankie and Charlie.
Front Row had decided to show me Germany’s “Top-Titel” and “Top Musikvideos” under the Music menu. Somehow the Front Row preferences stopped matching the iTunes Music Store country settings. Deleting Front Row’s preferences and caches didn’t do the trick, it only started a roulette game in which Front Row randomly sent me to another country. I got Japan next. Fun, but what if you want to fix it?
The solution is to edit Front Row’s preferences. Open this file in Property List Editor:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.frontrow.plist
Expand “Root” and edit the MusicStoreFrontID value to 143441 for US. Save and close, and Front Row will see the change on the next launch.
Naturally, it doesn’t have to be the US. Maybe you’re bored with the domestic Top 40? For other country values, visit the country selector page in iTunes. Ctrl-click on a country, choose “Copy iTunes Store URL”, and paste that into a text editor. Find the “storeFrontId” value at the end of the URL and use that as your MusicStoreFrontID.
We sadly had to say goodbye to one of our labs this week. Charlie died Thursday night after a sudden onset of restlessness and frequent small seizures, likely caused by a brain tumor. She was 10 years 9 months.
As we sifted through the hundreds of pictures we have of her, we found a few short video clips taken on our digital camera. We’ll be sharing a few of them here on the blog as a tribute to her healthier days. Mike and I — and Roscoe and Frankie — miss her very much.
Here’s a quick overview of some things coming up for us in 2008.
- February – “A Good Boy“, a dance play I did sound design for last December, will have its score by composer/Broadway conductor Sam Davis played by a 25 piece orchestra. The play is by Brian Spitulnik and directed by Linda Goodrich, one of the choreographers I worked with on “Platforms“. An NYC workshop is anticipated this spring.
- March 29-30 – Mike’s “Through A Glass, Darkly” premieres in Minneapolis. (ticket info)
- June 4-22 – “Go-Go Beach” opens at the Showboat Majestic in Cincinnati.
- July 15-16 – “Through A Glass, Darkly” performances at the international GALA Choruses Festival in Miami.
Other plates are spinning. We’ll post updates here as they come.
I’m trying out a new plugin/Facebook app combo called Wordbook to cross-post from this blog to Facebook.
So far so good!
