Coyote Cinema: Cabin in the Woods

I'm gonna try to do this pretty spoiler free, but if you plan to see it soon then skip this for now. And I do recommend you see it before somebody spoils it for you.
Yes, you can tell by the cast alone that this is a Joss Whedon project, but the dialogue and the weird ass plot will also do it. It's kind of a horror movie, but it's really about the horrific things going on behind a horror movie. And I laughed a lot, although of the dozen or so people in the house I think I was the only one. There were a couple of male gaze moments that made me uncomfortable, although it's pretty much an omnipresent trope of american horror films.

This film has a great premise, and it went some places I really didn't expect. I remember at least once looking at the screen, deflating a little, and thinking "well hell, what now?" And then they said "THAT! THAT'S WHAT!" And I was wowed.

Four wags, I paid five bucks but would not have felt cheated at ten.

New show

I'm assistant stage manager for CVP's production of "Moon Over Buffalo", a farce about a performing company trying to keep things together enough to do one more show. It's going to be a lot of fun, and people should buy tickets fast because apparently they're nearly sold out.

But I didn't come here to tell you that story. I told you that story to tell you this story. I am over and over surprised at how hard it is to be behind the curtain--not because the work is grueling, unforgiving, and thankless, although I may tell you about that later, but because I keep wanting to be back out on stage. I'm going to be working very hard at not directing, and keeping my mouth shut, but it's becoming obvious to me that I'm going to have to try and find some balance between wanting to commit to projects like this and getting out of town to go other places.