I just watched The Longest Yard with e_nizzy. I have to write a special review on the dress Courteney was wearing. She only showed up in the first few minutes of the movie, but her dress played an important part to what I remember of the movie.

Plot: It was a red dress. Not only were the camera angels great, but she also bent over.

What I thought: The dress was great, but lets not beat around the bush. The dress was the supporting actor. The stars of this show were Cox's boobs. They were stunning, mesmerizing, hypnotizing, and just plain fun to watch. I think she was talking at one point in the scene, but I'm not sure. The only reason I think she was saying something was by the way her breasts were jiggling. This is what acting is all about. I give them at least two thumbs up!

Should you see them? Absolutely! They are a show unto themselves.

Last night , and I went to The Ram's Head in Annapolis to see the Derek Trucks Band.

This was my first time at the Ram's Head. We had dinner there, then went over to the other side and saw the show. It is a nice place to see talented musicians. Everyone has a seat at a table. You aren't allowed to move the seats or tables without permission. As a general rule of thumb, there are too many seats for each table, potentially making the place a little tight. I say potentially, because there were a few no shows at our table, which was really nice.

This was also my first time seeing the Derek Trucks Band live. showed me a clip of Derek playing a while ago, but that and a CD I borrowed was pretty much my DTB exposure.

The show was incredible. White boy got skilz. Crazy mad skilz. The music they played was more of a jazz feel than blues. At first I was a little disappointed about this, because I was in the mood for some good blues, which the band is qasi-famous for. They did a real good job with the jazz feel, and there was enough blues woven in to satiate me. I was really impressed with his slide guitar skilz (it reminded me of Steve Via, my favorite guitarist).

I'm not a big DTB fan, so I don't know a lot of their music. I've heard one song a few times, and I really like it. Some of the lyrics go something like, ""The world is crazy and so am I."" They played this in their first (of two plus encore) sets. They also had a guest sax player sit in on a few tunes. The best part of the evening was when the flutist, drummer and Derek (guitar) were trading licks on the last song of the encore. The drummer played the wall on one of his turns.

Should you see them: Yes. They are definitely worth it. I'm considering going to NC in April to see them with and ."

Tonight's play wasn't as charged as last night's performance. That is usually the case for the second performance, but usually it is because the performers are tired and don't give as good a show. I don't think that was the case tonight. The play opens up with a big dance number where everyone is on stage singing and, well, dancing. We nailed that perfectly tonight and started the first act as charged as last night. The audience practically ignored us. They didn't even clap at the end of the first act. Tools. Anyway, the performance NEEDS the audience. We thrive off what they do. We watch/listen to them closer than they watch/listen to us. When they sit in the chairs and zone out it saps our performance.

The second act was much better. The audience came alive and laughed at the funny parts, clapped at the good parts and refrained from booing at the bad parts (the theoretical bad parts). There were a bunch of children in the front row. We put them there so they can see the show. Most times the children behave. Last night the kids were fun to watch. There is one part in the play where the lead actor and actress kiss. One of the kids put her hands over her eyes when they kissed. Later the lead actress describes the kiss saying "it was marvelous". Right after she said that the kid said, "It was gross!" Yeah, those kids were fun. Tonight's were not. A few were too young to understand what was going on. One kept clicking her foot on the ground. Most of them kept squirming and distracting from the play.

I have one final gripe about tonight's audience. There were no hot chicks sitting in sight. Last night's crowd had the same problem. For the most part the crowd is either somewhat older than me or somewhat younger than me. A few years ago when I first started working with the group it wasn't so bad because I was young enough that the high school girls looked attractive to me. Now they just look like young girls (which is probably a good thing since they are significantly younger than me). So, this is a call to all the twenty something girls women who go see the play. Sit near the orchestra pit so I have something decent to watch during the play. Feel free to flirt with me during the performance. Ugly girls, engaged girls, married girls and girls going to the show with their boyfriends need not apply. Yeah, I'm not picky.

Tonight was opening night for St. Matthew's Musical Theatre Troupe's presentation of Redhead. This is a musical written by Albert Hague with Lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It won eight Tony awards (the professional version, not St. Matthew's rendition).

The setting is England at the turn of the century. There are some people that do stuff, then it ends. The acting was exceptional and tonight's performance was by far the best one to date (by St Matthew's group). I was lucky enough to be able to watch a few of the practices and I have to say that the group came a LONG way since last night. I plan to see every showing of this marvelous play!

I also want to say that the music was beyond expectation. There was a piano player and a keyboardist. I was totally amazed at what they were able to pull off between the two of them. I was also amazed at how few times they messed up. Tonight was truly a great night for the two of them. I think in all the performances I seen with this duo tonight's was the best. I also think that this play is my favorite of all the ones St Matthew's has done.

OK, some people might think I'm a little biased in this review. Yes, I am the keyboardist and yes, I am biased. However, tonight was really a great night. I usually am annoyed and depressed about the opening night's performance. Tonight was different. It rocked the hiso.

As is tradition, the director threw a party for the cast and crew after tonight's performance. I decided to skip out on that so I could come home and go to bed. On that note, I wish you all a good night.

Last weekend Olga convinced me to go see that exhibit of murdered homeless Chinese people. OK, I don't know if they were really murdered for the exhibit, but that's one of the rumors going around. But there's also a rumor going around that Tupak is still alive. I didn't see Tupak at the exhibit, so the jury's still out.

I'll be honest. Looking at dead people isn't usually how I want to spend the afternoon. Originally I told Olga to have fun, but don't take any pics because I wanted nothing to do with the exhibit. Then Eliot was talking about it on the radio and a lot of people were calling in saying that they were originally squeamish about seeing it, but they went and really like it. Thus, through the power of peer pressure and herd mentality, I was in.

The exhibit wasn't as disturbing as I thought it would be. It didn't smell like rotting flesh, there weren't any demons chewing on the bones of small children and Hitler didn't make a guest appearance. For the most part it looked like models of dead people. However, there were real people (or at least that's what we were told).

The first few parts of the exhibit were pretty interesting. The skeletons and some of the organs were kinda run of the mill. But I don't think I've ever seen the human nervous system or the muscles like that before. They also had a room of fetuses and babies which was really interesting. And the organs with diseases and trauma was another highlight.

It took us about 1.5 hours to take in the entire exhibit. It was really crowded, which probably made us stay longer. By the end, I was pretty bored. The models of the complete bodies were interesting at first, but after three or four you didn't learn anything new looking at them. At the end it was like the people who made the exhibit was just showing off what they could do with the bodies, which is kinda morbid.

There was only one place that kinda freaked us out. We were looking at one of the exhibit's feet and you could tell that it was a real foot and not a model. That was a little disturbing (still is as I think about it).

And no, I didn't walk around saying, “I see dead people.”