You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

It was always going to be a good day, given that I had a theater ticket for the evening, but a couple of other things happened that kicked it up several notches.

First, there was this thing, on the new Nerdist YouTube channel. The older gentleman in the beginning is Jay Knowles, Harry's dad, and of course the jolly redhead is Harry Knowles himself. And that Kong Bomb? I was sitting like three feet from him when he received that as a gift at BNAT in 2003. From Peter Jackson, who had just shown us Return of the King. :D



This little show is full of all kinds of reasons why I love Knowles and why AICN is still my favorite site for movie news. Despite the tone of the TalkBacks, it's all about the geek joy and not the "fan-trums" (thank you, Drew McWeeny, for coining that useful term).

And THEN. There was THIS news - THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE IS COMING TO NYC! And, despite the earlier speculation that they were more likely to settle in Brooklyn somewhere because of the cost of real estate, THEY'RE GOING TO BE IN MANHATTAN! ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE! Just look at this beautiful building!



They're already accepting resumes for management and programmer positions, and even though I have zero qualifications for those jobs, I'm still strongly considering contacting them and saying basically "Look, here's the kind of experience I have. It may not be what you're looking for, but I love movies - of all stripes - and I love your theater and if you need someone to just get coffee and make copies you can count on me."

And then I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar, which was good but felt very much like a festival production that migrated to Broadway, which it was. The understudy for Judas was on tonight and was excellent and reminded me of Andy Serkis which can't be anything but awesome. Jesus was strangely deadpan until his big number, "Gethsemane," which he knocked out of the park. Maybe he was just saving up for that song. "Superstar" was pretty brilliant, and Herod's song was just about the gayest thing I've ever seen. The biggest downside for me was Mary Magdalene, a role which I felt was beefed up much more than I remembered from previous productions I'd seen. It was almost like she was Jesus's girlfriend or something, which was a little off-putting, to be honest. She was just always there, seemingly more prominent than any of the disciples, even Judas (and JCS is supposed to be *HIS* show). And the actress who played her reminded me too much of Claire from Slings and Arrows for me to take her seriously. Every time she was on stage, it was like "I Am Acting!" I'm probably harsher on her than she deserves, but this is a role I've sung in the Theater Of Me since I was a little girl, and I'm quite particular about it. :P

Greatest day in a while, and I can't wait to start stalking the Metro to glimpse the progress on NYC's Drafthouse.