I'm not quite dead yet.

Last night I drove up to New York to go see Spamalot. I probably should have gone a few years ago when it starred Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, and Hank Azaria. Instead I got to see Clay Aiken. His bad acting aside, the show was actually pretty good. While not entirely true to Holy Grail most of the key scenes where there. If you like Monty Python then it probably goes without saying that you should check it out.

I guess the real reason I wanted to write this post was because the 60 year old lady who sat next to us was totally crazy. She said that she lives in Austin Texas but flew up to New York exclusively to see the show. She has seen it two time in as many days, and she plans to see it for a third time tonight. Heres the catch, she hates Monty Python and was there solely to see Clay Aiken. I think i ended up watching her reaction to the show more then the actual show itself. Throughout most of it she looked pretty angry. She didn't seem to see the humor in taunts of french castle guard or misfortunes of the Black Knight, but when Clay Aiken soiled himself and waddled off stage, now that was funny. After the show was over she milled around and collected all of the crinkled playbills that people had dropped on the floor. I can only assume that she was doing this in an effort to increase the amount of documents in her possession that had Clay Aiken's face on them. I sort of felt bad for her. If she had a loving family who cared for her, none of this would have ever happened. A real family would have never let her watch dumb shows like American Idol. There is definitely better television out there and the people who watch American Idol are just part of the problem.