Quote of the Week

The bassoon is absurd. They should be banned for being horrible, unnecessary, and adenoidally grating.

It takes like an hour to assemble one. They're enormous and are made out of Lincoln Logs, aluminum twigs, and paper towel tubes. There are these tiny double wooden reeds that you have to soak and trim and tend to all the time. There's a strap that you actually have to sit on when you play so the whole thing doesn't fall onto the floor like a bundle of garbage. And, after all that folderol, it ends up sounding like an anemic donkey with laryngitis.
   —Rainn Wilson in The Bassoon King

Quote of the Week

And the reason that drama geeks are at the pinnacle of that food pyramid of geekdom? It's not the tragedy/comedy logo or Cats pins on the raincoats. It's not the black eyeliner on both the boys and the girls. Neither is it the ability to burst into song or a tap dance in the school hallway at the drop of a theater reference. No. The thing that separates theater dorks from the rest is one word...you guessed it...once again...girls. There were and always will be pretty girls who sing and dance and act and improvise and joke around and are willing to make fools of themselves. And--and this is the most important point of all--and they 're willing to hang out with geeky guys and even go to wrap parties and occasionally make out with them. This sets up drama geeks as the lions of the dork Serengeti.
   —Rainn Wilson in The Bassoon King