Showing posts with label AHA. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AHA. Show all posts

Collegiate Experiences

There are nights when college really feels like college. Last night, playing video games, having a drink to Pearl Harbor's b'day (Pearl Harbor being both a man and an event), and discussing life, love, and family with Anna...that's college.

I didn't do a whole lot today. I feel like I've frozen some people out of my life lately because I simply can't deal with them right now. I'm not sure if they blame me or if they even notice. I'm not sure that I care, regardless.

I'm going to be doing a coincidental theatre version of Frozen in January. My cast will be Hannah Jacobs (Agnetha), Charlie Wright (Ralph), and Kathy Newman (Nancy). They've all agreed to go on with the show and with my new concept of "Coincidental Theatre." Because there have been a large number of problems with the second stage, student run productions of AHA, I have decided to do something more in line with my ideals. I will reserve a room on campus for a private function, and I will show up there. And if some of my friends show up, that'd be cool. We'd just hang out. And if they showed up with scripts, then maybe we'd work on a show. And if that happened a few times, wouldn't that be a coincidence? And if a bunch of our friends showed up a few weeks later and we did a show for them, wouldn't that just blow your mind? And if they tried to stop the show, I could honestly respond, "What show? I'm just hanging out with my friends. Is hanging out with my friends now against the rules?"

Oh, there are some hilarious videos on Prop 8 on funnyordie.com. Check my favorite out here.

A Few of My Daily Things

A few things from today:

First off, this morning, the radio in my head was playing extra loud. First up on the radio? "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid. It was a weird mix of the movie and the Broadway version. I know. Then, because this guy in my grammar class has a National Guard backpack, that song that they play before movies, "Citizen Soldier," got stuck in my head. Classy.

I just finished the fourth draft of my play "Love's Call." It is also fully blocked now! The actor's, without any rehearsal of merit (we've been strictly blocking...I hate mixing up different parts of the process all together), have already shown me a great deal of growth. I am very pleased. Plus, everyone loves Daniel's diabetes monologue in Act II. One of my actors (who has diabetes) leaned down to me after it was done and asked me if I secretly had it. That's always what you want to hear. I consider that a slam dunk. Anyway, taking the next few days off because they are all going to be at GTC.

I've been reading the Watchmen. Not really in preparation for the movie (because things will be different and that's always disappointing). Rather, it's just one of those things that I feel like I should have read. And a lot of people have been raving about it to me. So, I borrowed K'Fain's copy. I don't know yet. I'm about five volumes in (12 volume set)...maybe it's just that the graphic novel form doesn't really appeal to me. I don't read a lot (meaning, I don't read any) of them. And it's distracting. But maybe, by the end, it will prove me a liar. Besides, it's a departure from The Night Trilogy which I read last weekend (you know, because it was Fall Break...).

Anything else...? I don't think so right now. So I leave you with a hilarious video that I was thinking about earlier today. Click here.

Sorry for the Downtime

I put this blog on private for a while for a few reasons:

A. I wasn't writing. But I wanted it to look like I was. (by the way, one of those sentences is a lie.)

B. I was using a few of the posts for another project. But I'm done with that.

C. I was lazy and busy with other projects and I forgot to do so.

But, this is back open to the general world. So, an update in the life of me.

My play, Love's Call, is in AHA production right now with the following cast:

Martin--Jamel Booth
Leslie--Mareal Villareal
Daniel--Nick Mason
Glendon--Greige Lott
Travis--Michael Lindsey
Andrea--Elizabeth MacDonell
Nurse--Kathleen Hoyt

I am directing and the performance is Monday, November 3rd, time TBA. I wish I could invite all of you to come, but AHA is closed to the department. Like, my mother isn't even able to come. Sucktastic. However, I did get a rewrite done in the last hour on the play...some scenes were playing way too serious so I lightened them a little bit. That's the joy of directing your own work: if something isn't working, you can change it, no problem.

In other news, I may have found a dude. And by that, I mean I found him, but I don't know if we are to the point where I can blog about him. So stay tuned. Or call me if you want more info.

I was without a phone all of last week because I lost it Applebee's. But I have it back. But I have very few people's phone numbers. So, that's probably where I'm going after this: to plug everyone's number back into my phone.

I'll try to think of something witty to write later, but until then, be safe.