Comments on: Hip Shot: ‘Yearning to Itch…’

By: Pat's hubbie

Pat's hubbie — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:13:12 +0000

it was a perfert guy’s dream – Stupid

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:10:46 +0000

The audience would have been better served by the actors distributing Twinkies as a meager compensation for starving the audience of a performance and plot worth the investment of 45 minutes out of their lives (which those of us who suffered through the rambling, unintelligent, musings are still irritated and annoyed when reflecting on what the hell that was all about).

By: Glitter

Glitter — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:35:13 +0000

HELLZ YEAH! “Paul” was hot, too! Call me, hon… if you’re into that sort o’ thing…

By: Brian Reed

Brian Reed — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:11:29 +0000

Ah, I see…I thought you were referring to the real Paul Giamatti in that instance.

By: david

david — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:50:17 +0000

“Paul,” too–”i found myself strangely attracted to him” (or whatever it was)

By: Brian Reed

Brian Reed — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:07:57 +0000

I like that–”a poor man’s Paul Giamatti”–even if it is a little bit redundant.

David, you seemed to really think these ladies were hot, huh?

By: david

david — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:52:09 +0000

Most poets get
some poems come alive aloud
and some only on paper.

The medium of the written play is no different, but this page-v-performance dichotomy seems lost on the producers who extract little from this short masturbatiry piece on (if you can say on) the broken creative process and all the douchebaguery that comes through when frustrated–the sexual, the self critical, the random. Think of the first? season of Project Runway when dude drew on a T-shirt with marker & was like “fuck you, i’m an artist!” For who?
The performance: four hot actresses and a poor man’s Paul Giamatti. One actor had some presence, but most were still struggling to find center or pace. The casting was likely deliberate as the dreamer/writer has hotties and creative blunders on the mind.

If you like watching hot people (even Paul) rehearse, maybe you’ll be amused… or you could just pay for one to take a first violin lesson–equally as grating, but somehow awesome. Yearning = not awesome.