Late-Night Randomness
It's late and I can't sleep; not because I'm worried about anything. I just have way too much going through my head right now. I'm thinking if I write some of it down, I can let it all go for the night.
My show has now been on for a week and I feel better and better about it everyday. Not only did I get a nice review, but in Saturday's paper, we were chosen as the critic's show to see for the week. Speaking of Saturday, two dear actor friends of mine drove up from Kingston to see the show and then drove back that very same night. I was ecstatic to see them. And the fact that they enjoyed themselves made it all the better. While I am always happy if people I know enjoy my work, I have to say that it feels ten times better to have that honestly expressed by my peers. I'm going to be very sad when this show is over in two weeks.
OMG! The show is ove rin two weeks! That means the Fringe starts in two weeks! Eeek
I'm just exagerating there. Things are actually coming along quite nicely for that show too. I really like working with Chris (Linda stop reading now :p) As a director, he knows what he wants, he knows how to clearly and comfortably express that to his actors, and he injects the work with a level of realism that I find very refreshing. When I first read the script, I thought it was going to be a simple comedy. I hadn't realized the layers that could be found the deeper we got into it. Plus, I came up with a wicked publicity idea that he called "genius" and I definately can't find any fault in that.
Speaking of the Fringe, I picked up a program and I've already started outlining shows that I want to go see. Basically, if your name is in my blog list and you are putting up a show at the Fringe, chances are fairly high that I'm going to go see it. While I don't know much about any of the shows themselves, I do know that I am definately looking forward to The Man Who Went to Work One Day and Got Eaten by a Bear. First of all, there's a bear standing in a cemetary! How can you NOT love that?!? Secondly, bonus points for a really long, yet funny title. Finally, did I mention there was a bear?
I have an intensive acting workshop that starts in a week. We've been assigned partners and specific scenes that we will be working on. Mine is from Proof (the play, not the movie, but this was the first thing that came up in google search). I am very excited about this class, although I'm not looking forward to memorizing another piece. You see, I'm starting to think that my brain is kind of like a computer hardrive nearing it's limit. And if I want to add more information to my hardrive, I have to erase some old files. Hopefully I'll still be able to remember where I live.
When I audited the class that this professor thaught in January, she mentioned this book. I've been reading it lately and I have to say that I highly recommend it for any artist or entrepreneur or anyone who is trying to stick to some sort of diet/workout routine. I've learned alot about resistance in this book and how we self-sabotage ourselves from achieving our lifelong ambitions. One chapter in particular has caught my attention. You see, when you work at a regular job, you have a boss who assigns you the work you should be doing throughout the day/week/month. As an artist, I don't realy have boss who sets deadlines and does all those other bossy things that bosses do. That's why I think it's time that I got my act together and started thinking of myself a bit more like a corporation, a sort of ME INC (that's the chapter title, btw), because whether I like it or not, this is a business. And it's about time I started treating myself like one. So, starting every Monday, I will outline a list of tasks that I will need to accomplish by the end of the week to help advance my career. To make things simpler, I will post them here as a reminder to myself.
Stay tuned.
My show has now been on for a week and I feel better and better about it everyday. Not only did I get a nice review, but in Saturday's paper, we were chosen as the critic's show to see for the week. Speaking of Saturday, two dear actor friends of mine drove up from Kingston to see the show and then drove back that very same night. I was ecstatic to see them. And the fact that they enjoyed themselves made it all the better. While I am always happy if people I know enjoy my work, I have to say that it feels ten times better to have that honestly expressed by my peers. I'm going to be very sad when this show is over in two weeks.
OMG! The show is ove rin two weeks! That means the Fringe starts in two weeks! Eeek
I'm just exagerating there. Things are actually coming along quite nicely for that show too. I really like working with Chris (Linda stop reading now :p) As a director, he knows what he wants, he knows how to clearly and comfortably express that to his actors, and he injects the work with a level of realism that I find very refreshing. When I first read the script, I thought it was going to be a simple comedy. I hadn't realized the layers that could be found the deeper we got into it. Plus, I came up with a wicked publicity idea that he called "genius" and I definately can't find any fault in that.
Speaking of the Fringe, I picked up a program and I've already started outlining shows that I want to go see. Basically, if your name is in my blog list and you are putting up a show at the Fringe, chances are fairly high that I'm going to go see it. While I don't know much about any of the shows themselves, I do know that I am definately looking forward to The Man Who Went to Work One Day and Got Eaten by a Bear. First of all, there's a bear standing in a cemetary! How can you NOT love that?!? Secondly, bonus points for a really long, yet funny title. Finally, did I mention there was a bear?
I have an intensive acting workshop that starts in a week. We've been assigned partners and specific scenes that we will be working on. Mine is from Proof (the play, not the movie, but this was the first thing that came up in google search). I am very excited about this class, although I'm not looking forward to memorizing another piece. You see, I'm starting to think that my brain is kind of like a computer hardrive nearing it's limit. And if I want to add more information to my hardrive, I have to erase some old files. Hopefully I'll still be able to remember where I live.
When I audited the class that this professor thaught in January, she mentioned this book. I've been reading it lately and I have to say that I highly recommend it for any artist or entrepreneur or anyone who is trying to stick to some sort of diet/workout routine. I've learned alot about resistance in this book and how we self-sabotage ourselves from achieving our lifelong ambitions. One chapter in particular has caught my attention. You see, when you work at a regular job, you have a boss who assigns you the work you should be doing throughout the day/week/month. As an artist, I don't realy have boss who sets deadlines and does all those other bossy things that bosses do. That's why I think it's time that I got my act together and started thinking of myself a bit more like a corporation, a sort of ME INC (that's the chapter title, btw), because whether I like it or not, this is a business. And it's about time I started treating myself like one. So, starting every Monday, I will outline a list of tasks that I will need to accomplish by the end of the week to help advance my career. To make things simpler, I will post them here as a reminder to myself.
Stay tuned.
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