Earlier today, China's renown pianist Lang Lang gave a free concert at Town Hall. I missed it but it would've been nice to go. He is SO WEIRD. I feel you can already hear the music just by watching his body expressions. He'll be back playing with the New York Philharmonic in a few weeks. Rehearsal tickets are already sold out. Let's just hope Carnegie Hall gives out student rush tickets when he plays in February.
Look! Adidas.
Tomorrow I'll be catching an early screening of the much anticipated film Synechdoche, New York. It is a new film written AND directed by Charlie Kaufman. His stories are beautiful, brilliant, and mindf-cking. I'm also excited about the cast ensemble. Anyway, Spike Jonze was originally set to direct this film but then backed out to direct Where the Wild Things Are (which Catherine Keener also stars in). WTWTA, the adaptation of our favorite Maurice Sendak's classic, will be coming out in almost exactly a year from today.
A test footage.
Magically disturbing, no? Post-production is actually taking a bit longer than expected because of negative critiques given during test screenings. Children cried and parents complained of the film being too dark. They feel WTWTA should be fun, cute and light-hearted. Personally, I think Spike Jonze should be able to do whatever he wants because that's why we love him. Also the children of this generation are surrounded by such unhealthy materialism anyway, it'll be good to feed them something different! We should stuff their mouths with hairy monsters.
P.S.- I was scared sh-tless when I first saw Alice in Wonderland as a child. Look how great I'm doing now!
