The Week in Entertainment

Live: Rock of Ages (at the Hippodrome). Loud, almost excessive, but enormously fun. Good singing, good dancing, engaging story, and funny meta-commentary, especially from "the narrator: dramatic conjurer". I particularly laughed when he, accused of causing Drew to lose the girl, responded with: "man - we put you on the hillside with a sunset, a blanket, and a fourpack of wine coolers. Take some responsibility!"

DVD: A couple of made for tv things with Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Patric McNee as Watson (!). I could have done without the Irene Adler plot and the Freudian interview (literally, Sigmund Freud). Not to mention that Morgan Fairchild was way the hell too young to play Adler to Lee's Holmes!

TV: Grrr. Again The Mentalist didn't record. I've had to manually code it in. And since it's CBS it's not on On Demand! Argh - must wait for the reruns... Psych: probably would have been very funny if I'd been a Twin Peaks fan, but it was plenty funny with my only having seen a couple of episodes.

Read: Brought too much work home after the holidays to read much, but did read Ordinary People (which is excellent and heart-rending) and started Brian Switek's Written in Stone which is so far very engagingly written.