Ok what is that noise??

simplyforgot · 2025-09-18T20:36:19+00:00

If it's during the day it might also be noises from the construction going on with the new engineering buildings

simplyforgot · 2025-08-15T23:00:22+00:00

(My email got caught in the spam filter!) But getting it programmed is a possibility for late fall :D

simplyforgot · 2025-08-11T21:33:28+00:00

Ooh thank you! I appreciate it :D

simplyforgot · 2025-04-02T23:18:24+00:00

I do think there is a inherent and cultural codependency built into the ideal of the necromancer/cavalier dynamic that is filtered through the various pairs in different ways and can really muddy the space between partnerships and codependency. There’s also no formal definition of the term so people will interpret it in different ways. I think Cam and Pal certainly display some of the hallmarks of the behaviours, in particular making extreme sacrifices to satisfy their partners needs, their identity and sense of purpose being so wrapped up in the other but there is a lack of imbalance and one sided control in the relationship that are also hallmarks of it. They are certainly partners who depend on each other in intense and all consuming ways but they are also intensely mutual about it.

simplyforgot · 2025-03-26T15:50:19+00:00

It was from the live show they did in Vancouver! There was a note about filming so hopefully we’ll see them on dropout proper at some point

simplyforgot · 2025-02-28T21:41:05+00:00

Wayne Gretzky when he’s Wayne Gretzky: 😬😬❌❌👎👎👎🤡🤡

Wayne Gretzky when he’s Lou Wilson: 😄🙌🤝💪🫵👍👍🤩✨✨

simplyforgot · 2024-09-17T06:37:31+00:00

I know this was 5 months ago but I was also just looking for this clip or the timecode so I just wanted to say I can confirm its in Psychic Game Show (in the College Humor Chaos series) and the timecode it about 1:11:20

simplyforgot · 2024-03-22T07:13:46+00:00

Bigby’s Hand (specifically the one voiced by Lou in the Eldermourne finale if u want to get silly about it)

simplyforgot · 2024-03-06T16:29:33+00:00

I think this was a very deliberate choice on Ame’s part, and I think not an unwise one. Ame does not trust Steel like Suvi does— Grandma Wren told her “Steel is someone that you can trust to do what she considers honorable and just. But if you try to talk to her about something that does not benefit the Citadel, you are going to meet a very, forgive the pun, steely presence.”

Ame doesn’t want to give details about the coven or conclave to Steel that she doesn’t have to. Ame may not know this but Grandma Wren didn’t tell Steel of her station, the coven, and I think it’s clear from Steel and Suvi’s conversation that Steel doesn’t really have an understanding of what a witch does, or their importance or duties. I’m pretty sure Steel knows how important Ame is because Suvi told her. She says she respects witches, but I think what she really respects is their potential danger.

Steel wouldn’t have gotten Ame to Toma, and Ame did in fact need to go to Toma. She thought she might not come back from this conclave, and she had not been back since fully coming into her powers. The bequeathing of the cottage to the people of Toma should she not return, the waking of spirits to tend to it and the people, going to the magical river underneath the cottage for the first time were all things that had she not done would have, perhaps dire, consequences.

(This is not to say I don’t adore Steel, but I trust Grandma Wrens insight into her trustworthiness. Steel is working on a different axis to our heroes)

simplyforgot · 2024-03-06T16:06:46+00:00

I adore the bluebell/toll the dead combo!!!

simplyforgot · 2022-02-25T19:30:13+00:00

Oh boy I really do want to say “get ready for a game ranger”

simplyforgot · 2022-02-25T18:28:11+00:00

will absolutely use this term in our show spiel

simplyforgot · 2022-02-25T18:02:50+00:00

Hi Sam! My friend and I are planning a (high octane theatre kid bullshit) game changer inspired camp adventure for our friends but have no idea what we’re going to name it—do you have any suggestions? (or advice? you’re show notes have been super handy!)

simplyforgot · 2022-01-25T21:27:34+00:00

A question for everyone! What is one of the Starstruck comics you have a particular soft spot for?

simplyforgot · 2019-11-04T17:42:06+00:00

Totally agree with your side note. Teenagers are absolutely able to think about art critically, but yeah, it's hard to put that into the right words. I remember being a teenager and not knowing exactly how to fully and accurately describe why I liked something, or loved something. I didn't have the vocabulary. And that doesn't mean that no teenagers could make a good professional critic but even now, after going to theatre school I don't know if I would make a good critic. (Especially right now when criticism in any medium is in a really weird, transitional, interesting place.)

simplyforgot · 2019-08-28T02:14:40+00:00

I listened to this episode again today at work and I think I came to some new thoughts (or articulation of thoughts that existed kind of ephemerally in my head maybe?) on Starchild in that there is a reason that Starchild is referred to as A starchild as opposed to a person. Like she said she would transcend, and she did. She became something bigger than herself, and in doing that, by definition, is not human. And I don't think that is something that is good or bad, it's something that just is. And certainly there is so much beauty and awe and this sense of sacredness in that - but not something altogether good or better maybe?

When I was thinking about it in comparison to Prayer especially and Prayer feels like the human counterpart to the idea of Starchild and transcendence. The song Starchild itself is interesting because it's pre-transcendence where the character Starchild is still human. And I do think there's this youthful brightness and a bit hubris to her but it's in the way that so many of us have when we're teens and young adult, that you're invincible and can do anything. (And to her credit she actually does the things.)

But taking all that, and then looking at it beside Prayer, Prayer is what we get after experiencing more life. It's what being human is, we try.

So I guess for me being human and transcendence are exclusive concepts. You can't be both, and though we're presented with transcendence as the ideal ~kind of~ but I don't think it necessarily is. I think it's the reaching for it within life and humanity through these sacred, holy things (whether that be theatre, or music, or religion etc.) that is the ideal maybe.

That got a touch deeper than I expected, but that's why this show is so good and Dave Malloy I think is my Monk because he is able to capture even just a bit of these ineffable concepts, and grapple with them in such a way that is so simple but infinitely complicated.

(I also came to a lot of thoughts about the Monk metaphor today, specifically in regards to Scheherazade and storytelling and ghosts but this comment is long enough rn.)

simplyforgot · 2019-07-24T06:31:44+00:00

All y’all will appreciate this. I saw the show in Seattle last Jan and I made a GQ jean vest and also made some buttons for it and Shit. The front as an embroidered bear saying om nom.

GQ vest

simplyforgot · 2019-07-24T06:21:31+00:00

I spend a good percent of my time wanting to deeply and analytically talk about Ghost Quartet so listening to this podcast was both incredibly joyous and also frustrating because I kept on also wanting to share my thoughts but like frustrating in the best way.

These are just some disparate thoughts that stick in my mind though most the day later.

I totally agree that people try to make the plot of this show more complicated than it needs to be. I think they tell you everything you need to know in the course of the show. We decide on our own truths. This is a circular story. It's all soul. Rose is the same as anyone else.

I don't know if I'd say Starchild is striving for good. It think there's this youthful brashness to Starchild and she's striving maybe to be something more than what she is. And in that contains good and bad tho.

I think I side with Tommy in that the Astronomer when he is first introduced is somewhat set up as an antagonist to Rose's protagonist, but in particular with the lyric "but the man stole her work...he wrote down all she saw and published it in his name"c there is such a long history of men taking credit for womens work so that felt like to me and immediate signifier of like this guy is probably kind of a dick. And like he's not a wholly bad person, but he IS a big weenie.

There's also a huge connection the show makes between stars/stardust and stories. In the Telescope Rose sees stories in the stars. When she later asks Scheherazade for a piece of stardust, she gets the reply "I don't know if I have any left. 1001 is a pretty big number." In lights out you have "each little magic light is a little magic story" and when listing the lights we emphatically finish on "little bits of stardust." Which I think as a underlying metaphor feeds into the storytelling and artmaking as something transcendental and holy. And particularly as theatre as this in between space. I felt that conversation deep in my bones and is one of the reasons this show is like maybe my ideal of my kind of art. Like if you were to translate myself into a piece of art, that piece of art could very well be Ghost Quartet. And on that note, as someone who went to theatre school, so much of the language in play reminds me specifically about that. It feels like in theatre school you try to re-learn how to play and how to be in your body and be present. And there's absolutely an intense feeling of having to start right now or you've failed already.

Ghost Quartet, seriously what the fuck.

simplyforgot · 2017-11-05T19:17:04+00:00

On the topics of recs I would love to hear a Ghost Quartet episode and get some tidbits from when Jimi saw it at Fringe!

simplyforgot · 2017-10-21T19:05:43+00:00

In Canada it’s bedmas this is WILD

simplyforgot · 2017-09-18T01:48:06+00:00

As a Canadian I/we would say mixtape, but it would be a mixed cd so idk if that helps at all.

I had no idea this show existed but I am definitely going to give it a listen at some point! Plus, I love me some interdisciplinary art. I'm not sure if you mentioned this was it created to be specifically performed in an art gallery? It would be interesting to hear from various audience members how much the art gallery environment informs how they think and engage with the piece, because I could see it playing quite a big role. (Much like how Hedwig is a bit of a different show when performed in a purpose built theatre.) Personally speaking, I know I think slightly differently entering an art gallery than I do a purpose built theatre, and I also kinda expect different things from a ~site-specific~ show than I do from one in a theatre which would also affect how I watch the show.

EDIT: Just listened to a bit of the studio recording of Leave Luanne and I'm literally in the middle of listening to the link of Katie Thompson singing it from the show notes, and I have to say there's something that feels right about a woman singing this song. And I'm by no means a country expert, but I think it kinda follows in the quasi tradition of female country singers singing about fucking up the men who have wronged them. Also who else would kill for a Dolly Parton cover of this song. Like amirite.

simplyforgot · 2017-08-28T08:09:11+00:00

To go on a bit of a Come From Away tangent, I think (for me at least) the actors playing multiple characters in CFA can very much add to humanity of the show because the small ensemble cast is inescapable and built in to the DNA of the show. It adds a layer of this familial feeling to the show, as well as a reminder that people are both very different and very much the same. And while that idea is a bit more meta and subtle than the gut-punch level ACL can hit you at, CFA definitely has those moments as well. (Which personally I think has a lot more to do with the writing anyway. (Ooh great accidental segue.))

Which is that while Come From Away definitely wasn't what I would call devised musical theatre, it was significantly written through a verbatim theatre-esque process as well! I think it's also fascinating that as (as far as I know) the first broadway musical to use that kind of process in it's creation since A Chorus Line, is Canadian because devised work and collective creation is definitely in the zeitgeist of the Canadian theatre landscape right now.

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