Right Now I Am Obsessed With:

• my new game: trying to choose seven people from the people on the subway train that I'd want to be stuck with in a life-or-death situation, i.e. stranded with on a desert island.
• Conan's Freckles
  
• Michael Jordan's tweets.
  
• deciding on a grad school.
  
• checking astrology zone for advice with the above. Aware this is not a good sign.
  
• my neighborhood florist/skateshop/babyclothes purveyor. Yeah. All of that in one.

Today: Phantom of the Opera part 2: The Reckoning

Is Andrew Lloyd Weber feeling the pinch? Did he think making a sequel would bring in the big bucks? I don't know how I feel about this. I am ashamed to admit I like Phantom (my theater friends would scoff for it being too mainstream Broadway and all my other friends would sneer that I like musicals). But a Phantom sequel set in Coney Island? This might be good/bad for everyone! The new musical will be called Love Never Dies. It is due to open in London in March. It x will be staged also in New York beginning in November 2010 and will open in Australia in 2011.

from Crains

Art: Masstransiscope

On the Q train through Brooklyn by Bill Brand. I actually sort of loved the graffiti that covered this current (former) piece. There was an element of mystery to it; I always yearned to go behind the rail gates and see the full station space. The restored Masstransiscope is visually appealing as well but feels more...commercial and gratuitous.