Unattached

Tonight, sadly, is your last chance to catch a show so controversial it needs (wants?) bodyguards: The Pope and The Witch, a University of Minnesota production being directed by my former superior at TJL, Robert Rosen (a nice guy). Unfortunately, this means I’ll be missing the whole thing, since I’m taking the evening off to hang out with my friend Andrea Leap and perhaps watch the DVD of Kenneth Anger shorts Peter Schilling just passed my way. (I’m doubly interested because Schilling also passed me a copy of Anger’s classic dish Hollywood Babylon, in which he pooh-poohs all the rapes and suicides that plagued Hollywood’s early years. Anger is an utter asshole, man! He’s got the sharpest of pens, and so this book has been an absolute guilty pleasure–the perfect pairing for evenings on the sofa with boyfriend as he watches Entertainment Tonight.)

Other stuff: Saturday, last chance to see the David Rathman exhibit at Weinstein Gallery. There’s a Dylan tribute with Martin Devaney and the Rank Strangers at the Turf that same night. And finally, Badly Drawn Boy plays the Fine Line Sunday evening; this band is near ‘n dear to my heart, since my heroin-addicted college boyfriend once offered, with trembling, outstretched hands, an early BDB EP. This happened on the eve of our breakup, and so by then I wasn’t thinking much of the outgoing boyfriend. But I ended up liking the EP very much and have enjoyed the band ever since.