Frapto 365

I went to see The Toxic Avenger today at The Music Hall on the Danforth, just east of Broadview (Streetview).  I got free tickets from a friend (thanks, Old Man!) who got the tickets compliments of Ticketmaster.

I saw The Sound of Music on stage last Thursday, and I found that this was a more enjoyable experience overall.  The musical comedy is about a geek-turned-toxic superhero who tries to clean up New Jersey and  falling in love with a blind librarian on the way.  He has to fight the town’s evil, corrupt mayor (what, a corrupt politican in Jersey?!?) from dumping toxic waste in his town.  The musical numbers, while not extremely creative musically, were generally hilarious, although some lyrics were hard to pick out due to subpar audio engineering.  The live band rocked and so did the set design and  lighting (building many different scenes from piles of toxic waste barrels).

The main  character of Melvin Ferd III / Toxie was played solidly by understudy Peter Deiwick.  Brittany Gray played Sarah, Melvin’s blind love interest.  She was good, but a little annoying (but perhaps that is the nature of her character).  Jaime McKnight (the white dude) and Daren Herbert (the black dude) each played probably 5 different characters (a couple in drag) and were great in all their roles.  Louis Pitre gave a stunning performance as the Mayor, Ma Ferd and a nun.  Her most impressive scene was in the musical number “Bitch/Slut/Liar/Whore” where she changed costumes over 10 times (switching between the role of the Mayor and Ma Ferd) while continuing to sing in both her characters’ voices.

I did find that there were moments in the show where I was a little bored because they talked too much, but they would quickly blow that away with a funny musical number.  Overall, it was a great musical comedy and definitely worth looking at if you’re in town (there’s also a show in NYC).  The Toronto adaptation also makes a jab at Hamilton, our smelly neighbour down the lake (I don’t know Jaffer, so I’m allowed to make Hamilton jokes).

Currently listening to: Sufjan Stevens’s Illinois album.

and I BREAK it.  My son loves to cook and lately says this anytime he hears the word egg.  Here he is with his alphabet book in tow, making breakfast for Mommy.

I take a lot of pride in my work and like to consistently perform my work to the best of my abilities, even when that means nobody but me will know the difference between a job done right and a job done ‘well enough’.

So I get a bit frustrated and annoyed when I expect the same kind of ethic from other people and they do not come through. Towards the end of the lawn mowing season our lawn guy branched out into painting so we hired him to brush down and repaint the wrought iron railings on our front porch. I was quite upset to see that he was using interior latex paint to do the railings. I had to call him and ask him to stop and wait until I got the Rustoleum™. The part that annoyed me was that I asked him if he needed me to buy the paint before he even started the job.

You can see just how bad this plan of his was by looking at this bit of rail that he painted just a three weeks ago.

My little man justed turned 6, man how time flies. Here are the G.I. Joe plates and the awesome camouflage cake he had for his party.

We had friends over last night to play some board games.  After some beer and wine were consumed, Rock Band was apart of the evening.  This went on til AM so I was able to use this as my photo of the day.

Our friend, Mike, generally is a great drummer but he took a gander at singing last night which led to him dancing around the room.  It was hilarious and I tried to capture his energy here.

Captured with my iPhone