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It's In All The Ways He Devastates Me.
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[Jun. 24th, 2006|12:31 pm] |
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Well, since I haven't updated my Myspace in about a month or so and my LJ in even longer...I decided that now might be the time to do so.
So, summer. It's been hot for about a month or so and I've already had enough of it, but fortunately I haven't had too much time to focus on the heat because I've somehow managed the task of keeping myself busy with work and plays and camps and such.
Yes, I've already had and quit my first summer job...I worked at a daycare that Mrs. Agee (woman from my church) runs from her home. I have to say that any nice feelings I had toward children have been completely obliterated. Oh, especially those that were reserved for little girls and 4-6-year-old boys.
To the Shakespeare, the reason why I was forced to quit my job, I love it! It's absolutely amazing and the techniques they teach us and that we've worked within the first week are just so amazingly benefit that it is just unbelievable. But for those of you who don't know, because SEW many people read this now-a-days, Shakespeare is short for "Shakespeare in the Park." It's just this amazing summer camp that you can take in Kansas City that teaches you to dissect Shakespearean literature and build on your acting "skillz" and at the end of it all we get to put on a show.
To continue on with my whole theme of summer business Willa and I decided to tryout for "The Wizard of Oz" in Gardner. I about crapped myself! Ugh, not only was it my first outside of school audition, but it was an audition for a MUSICAL! Yeah...I felt so unprepared, but fortunately I ended up making it in. I'm the "commander of the flying monkeys (a.k.a--Nikko)." I'm happy about this because I didn't expect to make it in at all seeing as I sang "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and completely f-ed up the cold read. But it's fun, I get to work on singing and dancing in a non-threatening situation.
This reminds me, I’m also taking voice lessons this summer! They're cool...I guess. I hate singing in public, but the teacher says I have a good voice so fuck it. I'm paying for them with my money so I might as well just sing the goddamn songs. But she's cool and I think that this is going to be a lot of fun over the summer.
So all of this is a lot to do in the first place, but I'm also going to be moving on top of all that. Yes, my house will finally be completed! I am ecstatic. I'm going to be living in "The Estates of Prairie Haven" which is just a completely gay community name, but somehow still a few steps up from "Ravencrest" or "Windsor Trace." Whatever, I'm happy. My room is jade green and I might possibly get new furniture, which would be nice.
Well, that is pretty much my summer line-up thus far...I do plan to tryout for a couple shows/do more camps and workshops after Shakespeare is over and stuff because growing as an actor is my main focus this summer...that and learning to paint just cause.
(Haha--the artistic star has a rainbow behind it...I couldn't resist) |
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[Mar. 30th, 2006|08:22 pm] |
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One-Act tryouts were today and yesterday. They were okay. I got the chance to be on both sides because i made the terrible mistake of directing AND trying out. Well at least i got to know my casting results instantly while everyone else is forced to wait an entire night. Oh, how will they ever survive?
I think i'm going to do Theater in the Park this summer in Kansas City. I was going to try out at the Coterie, but auditions are Monday, you need a resume and photo of yourself, and it's not worth it since i wouldn't want to be in any of their shows...i only wanted to because you get to shadow an actor then perform with them.
After this summer and school year...i think that i will be sick of acting and never want to do it again. Not true, but that is what i think i'll choose to believe for now. Oh well, with luck it'll lose some of its appeal to me; meaning that i'll be able to focus on photography and my endorsement for once. School activities and their need for excessive envolvement suck and time.
[God] |
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[Mar. 21st, 2006|10:28 pm] |
This was, by far the best Spring Break i have ever had. I used every single day of freedom up to the very last minute(seeing as i just got home ten minutes ago).
It was so amazing. It started with Ashley and Stephanie's birthday party which was pretty fun. I had to bake three cakes in a cup, one extra because i forgot to make Kristina one for her birthday, and Stephanie freaking thought that it was the coolest thing in the world. She was so obsessed that she took PICTURES of them!
But Saturday/Sunday was spent camping in Lawerence with Danielle, Casey, and Alex L. It wasn't the smartest of things for us to go the weekend of tornados and thunderstorms, but we still had fun. One of the storms that hit Lawerence completely devastated North and South park and knocked down two stepples from a church on Vermont. Danielle and i ended up stealing a couple bricks. So besides hiding in Weavers the first twenty minutes of being there, it was pretty cool. But that twenty minutes did give Alex enough time to come up with the phrase 'i'll slash your prices' which was amazing in context and still is out.
The next couple days were spent bouncing from house to house. We did end up going ice skating, which i've been wanting to do for so long, and spent a night playing hide and seek in Walmart...Kristina, Willa, and i won. They didn't think to look in the patio section of the home and garden section back by the dog food stuffs.
But i think the best part of spring break was St. Louis and getting the chance to visit Webster(one of the best theatre schools in the NATION) WITHOUT parential supervision. I still can't believe my mother let me go to St. Louis with Casey and Kaytlin. But back to the school. It was absolutely AMAZING. Obviously they have a wonderful theatre program and the visual arts program is amazing as well and they have a newspaper that's published every week with GOOD stories and THREE literary magazines! All of this probably means nothing to you guys, but trust me, they are great things. And the students are amazing and seem to love the school. Brian White, amazing actor, showed us around and we got to meet so many people which was good because they ended up helping us find Rachel, the girl we were to spend the night with, and answer so many questions. We also got to go to a rehearsal for String of Pearls, this absolutely amazing show about a pearl necklace that a woman loses and what happens to them and how they finally end up with her again. But it was extremely amazing for me because it's the type of show i'd be doing if i were to go get into Webster, the whole 'regional theatre' thing. But after that we went to Rachel's, finally, and hung out with her friends for a while. We ended up going to Uncle Ben's Pancake house to experience the 'xcelerator.' It turns out to just be this awesomely high powered hand air dryer.
The next morning was great as well. We took the 'official' tour of Webster and got to see the entire campus. We ended up seeing a couple of the guys we met again and Karyn. She ended up giving us her e-mail so we could keep and touch and ask her stuff about the college later on. But in general Webster was just mindblowing and great. The people and the school and my biggest worry--the class size, an average of 15 people. Kick. Ass. I just really like the school and i hope that i get in. If not...there's always Emporia's art program which actually turns out to be one of the best or KU's journalism...but i'd like to avoid KU at all costs.
[God] |
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[Mar. 8th, 2006|07:24 pm] |
Well....SCAPINO WAS FREAKIN' AMAZING!!! My first lead role and i didn't fuck it up. I have to say that the best moment for me was when i exited after coming on as Sylvestro in his gangster get up and everyone clapped for me. I was so surprised that i didn't even know what to do. I'm just glad to know that everyone liked what i did with the character and that they enjoyed my whole 'gangster' bit.
BUT auditions for the night of one-acts are coming up! This makes me nervous and excited. I'm worried because of type casting, but excited because i'm ready to 'get back up there' even though Scapino's last night was Saturday. I hope i get put in a good one-act.
Anywho....
Bye |
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[Feb. 11th, 2006|12:57 am] |
After playing the sims for like three hours...i've decided that i have nothing better to do except update.
I guess i'll start with today, which was amazing.....
So today Jeff, Casey, Kelsey, Willa, and i pretty much spent the first
half of the day in Kansas City. This meant that we, of course, had to
get up at 9 and then meet at 10 to do so. But it was great fun. I
FINALLY got to go to the Nelson AND the art institute. They were both
amazing. Especially the Nelson, which i hadn't been in since sixth
grade.
After that we decided it was time for lunch and it being the type of
day it was...we just couldn't go to Mickey D's or something....we ended
up going to Jerusalem which is a middle eastern type restaurant. I had
Shawarma Chicken and it was SO good. I want to go back for more!
But anywho...the day pretty much ended with me seeing Little Shop of
Horrors AGAIN, two days in a row. Yes, South did that good of a job. I
hope they come see Scapino a couple times...although i doubt they will
because...well. Yeah.
But I guess that's pretty much been my...well, no it's only been one
day. Okay. But i've gotten to hear one particular story that interests
me in a 'haha, dumb bitch' way. And that was nice. WELL. Bye
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[Jan. 31st, 2006|06:27 pm] |
I'm in one of those ranty moods and it's way past annoying.
But it's made me decide that scene children never die...even if you
were to pray for them to, they'd just keep on living to spite you. It's
in their nature, you see? Of course you do!
AND i really hate their intense need to feel as if they're always
pulling the wool over "the man's", or in this case pop culture's, eyes!
Because, you know, being scene isn't more pop culture then pop culture
itself...with your converse and tight pants and layered clothing and
slicked hair. Oh, they upset me.
I'm not gonna lie when i say that the 'scene culture/indie thing'
should just pick up and die somewhere, far out of the memories of those
who took part in it because i most certainly do not want some hip,
retro comeback of it. Yeah...sometimes i just wish music could come
along without all the way of dress requirments because it is just
retarded.
AAAARRRGGGHHHH!
The end. You can bet i am turning this one in for a workshop piece in English.
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[Jan. 29th, 2006|01:13 pm] |
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So i pretty much think that Boondocks is the best show EVER. I recorded
last Sunday's epi and have watched it about twenty times since then.
Yay, i've started on another one of my addictions...hopefully it'll
slow down a bit after tonight's show.
Anyway, last night i went up to the Black Dog Coffee House with Michael
S., Rae, Danielle, and Casey. It was fun in the sense that i got to get
out of the house...but all in all the ride there and back was more of a
show then the actually show. I did, however, enjoy being surrounded by
20,000 copies of the same person. I always thought that after a while
people would get sick of slicked back hair and extremely tight
pants...but i guess i was wrong. Oh yeah, and the dark clothing...Casey
and i stood out because she was wearing purple and i was wearing green.
But i'm not gonna lie, being surrounded by copies in tight pants isn't
bad when all the copies are so very attractive.
But as for my weekend that has pretty much been it. I did see a
surprisingly good show up at the OCTA Friday night. Half way through it
the main character strips down and reveals his 'semi-boner' which just
happens to be covered by his smiling boxer shorts.
Oh and i got the first act of Scapino memorized! I am very proud of
myself, especially since we're dropping our scripts this coming
Wednesday.
So yeah, now i guess that's pretty much been my weekend. But now i have to
leave so i can get dressed and buy the damn camera i need for advanced
photography[a class i totally feel like i don't belong in]. I'm
considering doing what Chelsea did and just going to ebay...it'd save
me about $50 or $60.
[God]
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[Jan. 25th, 2006|05:50 pm] |
I love that in the minds of big corporations, that make potentially
poisonous materials, that they view children and food as being on the same level. It's wonderful.
So i've pretty much decided that Chicken Poop is amazing. Not the
actual object mind you, but the chapstick. It's a product of Kansas
which explains the name. I got it in Lawerence at Wild Man Vintage. I
really enjoy the feel of not being disappointed with my purchases.
I think i may be going to see some bizarre band this weekend headed by
an ubber attractive boy. This means that they'll most likely suck or be
underground good. I'll just have to get back to you on this. I just
really hope that i'm not disappointed.
Anyway, i'm pretty sure that i'm gonna go.
[God]
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[Jan. 19th, 2006|07:59 pm] |
I guess it's time for a play update.
Things are TERRIBLE...for me. It's SO hard to just read it and act when
you have to do both with like two other people on stage. And i'm having
some character development issues. Well, mostly i can't see to get over
my fears and just do Sylvestro to best of my capabilities right now. Oh
well. Hopefully after i learn the lines things will get easier. But to make things worse...forensics just started.
And my new english class is doing this writing workshop thing. It's
nice to start the semester with this because it's something i'm not too
bad at and like a lot. We have to write three prose pieces. So far i've
written a story. I think i'm gonna write an editorial or
something...because i can only think of another story that isn't even
good. I think i'm going to be 'unique' and write about awkward social
situations and why we let ourselves get into them...or something along
that basis. It's should be...disappointing.
Well i'm gonna go sleep. Luckily i didn't have any homework so i can just go straight to bed tonight.
[God] |
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[Jan. 17th, 2006|09:10 pm] |
So...I GOT FREAKIN' SYLVESTRO IN SCAPINO!
I am excited about this bunches. But Sylvestro is the best friend of Scapino(the main character).
I was so ecstatic when i found out. Kristina posted them and then
wouldn't tell me. The most i could get out of anyone over the weekend
was Katylin and all she said was that i'd 'be happy' with my role. Well
bet your shit i am! And Doughrity even said how 'amazing' my audition
was AGAIN when he was introducing everyone and their character. The
only downside is that i have to somehow create a character that's
enjoyable for more then just the first five minutes of the show....and
memorize all the lines(something i'm even more worried about).
But yeah, that was my day. We did start a writing workshop in my NEW
english class with Penner(No more Mr. Reeves!!!) and it's right up my
alley. Three prose pieces about whatever we want! I will admit that i
am a bit...nervous/scared about writing again because i feel like i
have to top my last story which was the best thing i've written so far.
Oh! And today Vanessa and Erin(Mindburst chiefs) were talking about my
'sex' poem i wrote last year. It was a little...embarrassing because
Vanessa was like 'ugh, i need a copy of it right now!' so she ran and
got a Mindburst from last year and read it. She said it was the
'sexiest poem' she'd ever read. Yeah...that makes me scared. Very, very
scared.
[God]
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