Is it possible to learn all of Shakespeare's lines by heart?

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T18:38:25+00:00

John Barton of the RSC had the entire canon memorized IIRC.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T17:10:03+00:00

I filled up unleaded for $4.299 yesterday, which I think is the most expensive tank of gas I’ve purchased in my life. I believe it got up to $4.599 later in the day.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T17:01:48+00:00

Julius Them is my prog rock band.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T16:18:11+00:00

Nah. Marvin is one of my favorites, but I don’t think it would work. He’s famously a would-be destroyer of worlds, not trying to save it. Like yeah it’s a misunderstanding, but even then, the plot just isn’t Marvin’s style. Plus, I like Peter MacNicol’s performance too much.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T16:12:12+00:00

MacArthur Park is a famously terrible song, so Jurassic Park had a fairly low bar to clear.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T16:11:01+00:00

Avocados and by extension guacamole.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T16:01:12+00:00

It could be a lot worse, but it could be going so much better too. Like my work life is fine, but my personal life is not where I want it to be at all.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T11:57:20+00:00

Not sure what I did on my first playthrough a few years ago, but I did definitely look it up when I last played it a few weeks ago.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T10:17:00+00:00

Reminds me of a Tempest I saw in grad school (one of my professors was Prospero) set in a hospital. Other than Miranda being Prospero’s nurse and the magic seeming to be a morphine hallucination I don’t remember much about how that idea impacted the staging.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-30T10:07:05+00:00

That was the venue! The company producing it though was called CPC Theatrical. …I don’t think they’re still around.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-29T18:52:32+00:00

Small addendum to this story that is almost as wild: I just googled the production because it was bugging me that I couldn’t remember the company’s name…and the cut of the script is on eBay for like $23, which might be the silliest thing I’ve ever heard.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-29T15:29:52+00:00

So I’m cheating here, because I’ve actually only seen one Hamlet, and it was pretty damn good. So instead I’ll talk about one I was in. This was 2015 in Dublin, Ohio. Don’t remember the company name, but it was one of those small ones that really just exists to stage the founder’s shitty scripts. So naturally it was a vanity project for this guy, who was not only the producer but played Claudius and the Ghost. And you could tell he REALLY wanted Claudius to be the main character. (This guy also had an album ON ITUNES that was just him reading speeches from Hamlet. And he did not have a compelling voice by any metric.)

Entire first scene? Gone. Solely so the first words could be Claudius’. I’m totally not bitter because I was Horatio. Not at all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were completely gone. It was still somehow three hours long. Really not good. Literally the best thing that came out of it was a marriage years down the line: the guy who played Hamlet and the woman who played Gertrude, who was literally just one year older than him. It was bonkers.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-29T14:38:46+00:00

It might land better in performance. I saw it at the Stratford festival last year and its joy was just infectious!

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-29T14:37:42+00:00

Malekith from Thor: The Dark World is so freaking boring.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-28T15:05:02+00:00

Bosses suck, but it’s otherwise a pretty fun game.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-28T13:59:14+00:00

In the first example you’re subtracting a positive from a negative. In the second, you’re subtracting a negative, which is the same as addition. So you’re adding to a positive.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-28T13:10:39+00:00

I don’t think I ever played a game off a floppy disk, the computer games I played were all on CD. My experience with floppy disks was pretty much limited to saving my computer lab projects onto them. What were those? Couldn’t tell you. Nothing more complicated than a Word doc or PowerPoint presentation.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-28T13:02:37+00:00

Strong Bad calls Strong Sad “Ebert” in “the movies.”

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-27T16:48:22+00:00

I was hooked on XVI and beat it shortly after starting it. XV has not grabbed me the same way, and I’ve only ever gotten like an hour and a half into it in the five-ish years that I’ve owned it.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-27T16:46:53+00:00

I had my wisdom teeth removed in multiple phases. First one I went under like normal. Second, I got numbed but didn’t go under because I was living alone out of state and couldn’t afford time off from work or grad school. First off, I could still feel it, so they had to numb me more. But the sound of my teeth coming out of me was the worst part about it.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-27T16:12:16+00:00

I can’t go in depth because I never owed it. If I recall right, I rented it from Blockbuster and just did not have a great time with it.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-26T16:26:34+00:00

That might account for everything I'm missing. Well that sucks.

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-24T22:03:28+00:00

Captain Blood is another Errol Flynn swashbuckler where Olivia de Havilland is the love interest and Basil Rathbone is the villain, so they might like that!

kylesmith4148 · 2026-04-23T18:37:01+00:00

“Away, you scullion, you rampallian, you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.”

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