No call from the vet yet. I'm not too worried, I figure he's just swamped, given what I saw last night. He's called late before.

Thanks for the good wishes.

I could give you violin lessons! Or viola!

IMHO, though, a super cheap violin is probably less useful than an electric one. Much easier to sound good on the electric. Of course, my most prized possession is my real violin, but I kinda want an electric one too. Lots.

ETA: much -ma for MK, Sara.

Are historically accurate costumes more important in movies than in theatre? Because we almost never do historically accurate costumes-- we just did You Can't Take It With You as vintagesque modern and I like it-- I am usually willing to give costumes some historical leeway if they hang together--- but then movies/tv are so much more realistic, so....

Sending out healthy kitty vibes, sara.

much ~ma for Mr. Kitty. I'm sorry about all this, sarameg.

I worry less tonight with him at the vets than if he were home, honestly. I miss him, but... They are equipped there to keep him happier and less miserable. I'm just skirting bad thoughts about what the xrays and tests showed and want to know, you know.

Speaking of historically dubious, I was at a thingy for the Joffrey Ballet the other night, with a guy who's just created a new ballet for them based loosely on Jane Austen. Loosely as in it's sort of inspired by that milieu, rather than taking any of the story elements. But anyway, he had the costume designer with him, and they were talking about how they had conceived and researched the general set and costume look to reflect that inspiration. Quite fascinating, but I snorted when the designer kept going on about Renaissance fashions. Um.

And then afterwards I got a look at the marketing materials which again talked about Jane Austen and the Victorian era. Double um.

Much amounts of ~ma for Mr. Kitty, sarameg, and for you.

I'm a lot like you Sophia, with ideals on costumes. Right now my fall production, Fools, is a lose interp of 1890's Ukraine with a heavy influence of farce and fairy tale.

I hope the vet calls with good news soon, sarameg.

Gaming peoplr--do you have any recs for Nintendo DS games that would be good for 9 year old girls?

Are historically accurate costumes more important in movies than in theatre?

To me, yes. Theater isn't trying to present itself as the final say on the subject, where - just by the static nature of the medium - film often does. I'm not saying filmmakers have that goal, it's just that - with how real moves look and act and all of that, I expect costumes/props/locations to be accurate, as well. Unless, of course, the filmmaker is going for an anachronistic effect (see Coppola's Marie Antoinette).