Tom & Alissa

I got an email from BAM this morning saying that they’d just released a handful of tickets for the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Macbeth, which had frothing-at-the-mouthingly ecstatic reviews when it was in London. Oh, and it stars Patrick Stewart. So I very quickly bought two tickets at the cheapest price they had available (ouch) and we’re going tomorrow night.

Good thing, too, because it sold out in a couple hours.

This is embarrassing, but I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a production (film or stage) of Macbeth. I’ve certainly read it. I’ve seen Hamlet (plus Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead) too many times, but somehow never Macbeth.

(Mwahahaha, something wicked this way comes.)

Also, we exchanged presents this morning. Tom got me an amazing T-shirt from Threadless with ink blots and musical notes that I can’t find on the website, and a DVD of Sweet Land, and My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by the amazing Jeffrey Eugenides and possibly the neatest book ever. Short stories from every writer worth his salt, including guys/girls like Chekhov and Milan Kundera and Lorrie Moore and Nabokov and a host of others, and it ends with “The Bear Went Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro, which is the basis for last year’s movie Away From Her. I am dying to get home and read some of it. I got him a very nice manly khaki apron from Williams-Sonoma (because he is a good cook and has nice clothes and sometimes those don’t go together) and the book Killer Chili which he has been periodically mentioning since we saw it when we were in Albany for Christmas.

Tonight, because we are kind of lame and also kind of busy, we are staying in and ordering dinner and relaxing. Our Valentine’s Days are always a bit harried (two years ago we celebrated days later because Tom was catering on the day, and last year we ate late and it was snowing and Tom had been shooting in the cold all day). So this will be nice.