Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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3:48 pm - i cry, because i will laugh if i don't.
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
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1:52 am - how should i complete the wall?
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What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across this sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
Contract disease?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
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1:52 pm - like your blood knows the way from your heart to your brain..
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ok. lots of news:
i got pulled onto a project last-minute: ghost light projects' double bill production of Debbie Does Dallas:The Musical / Hedwig and the Angry Inch. i jumped in to be asm cause there was a role shift in stage management. we open tonight, and last night's preview went very well. come see it.
more on ghost light when i have the energy.
so since the tuesday after thanksgiving, i've been pulling 12-14 hour days, nonstop. we would rehearse hedwig 11-4, i'd have an hour to haul ass to the next rehearsal and maybe eat, then rehearse debbie 5-11.
then tech week has been all kinds of messy. but here i am and there we are. it's funny how theatre is almost always a challenge and a struggle. sometimes, those challenges and struggles are more significant. this is one of those times.
either way. the work that's visible and onstage is terrific. if you like porn and drag, you'll love this.
last weekend i got stood up for an interview with click klak. a second interview. for a retail store. stood up.
blacklisted.
and then i found out that i got the job at stratford. finally, some good news. so i'll be there end of february til mid june. awe. some. i don't even know..why or how. but i'm in.
also, i've been invited to do a potential cross-canada fringe tour of See Bob Run, which i did last summer in london. it would be all kinds of fun, and i loved working with lydia, so i really hope that materializes. and my stratford contract would likely finish in time to do coordinate that (tightly). we'll see.
despite sleeping in for the first time in ages, i'm still pooped. but i have to get my ass to the theatre for an early soundcheck. fun.
we're going out tonight after the show. i pray for messiness.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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1:39 am
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i want to write all about things lately, good and bad
but i can't even form a thought anymore.
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
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12:13 am - the art of suicide.
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dear emilie autumn:
thanks for the worst show ever.
i paid $30 for losing-your-voice karaoke and bad burlesque choreo? really?!
remember how you're a musician? how about playing some music. no? okay.
partway through the "show", she said "wow i'm exhausted" or something to that effect. i wondered how, since she hadn't fucking DONE anything yet.
itemized list of shit:
-1.5 hours late opening the doors (in pouring rain)
-1.5 hour wait to start the show (no opening act)
-overdressed campy set
-shitty amateur choreo
-unwitty banter
-retarded-expensive merch
-"singing" to your cd being played back
-britney mic
-faking playing harpsichord (and violin too i think)
-one of the lame burlesque girls talked more than you AT YOUR OWN SHOW
-getting drunk didn't make it better.
i was so very disheartened.
and we weren't the only ones to leave before she was done.
/bitch
anyway, happy thanksgiving!
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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11:27 am - keep calm and carry on.
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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1:44 pm
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stratford asked for references and i'm meeting with canstage's artistic director on friday.
hells yes.
also, yesterday i went to silver snail and i think the owner was helping me out. he didn't have any of the titles i was looking for, so he apologized and offered me two passes to a screening of zombieland last night.
first of all, how much do i love silver snail?
secondly, see zombieland. jesus christ see zombieland.
it's a movie theatre kind of movie too. so so so awesome.
dear woody harrelson. i've loved you since nbk (wierd?) and i love you even more now.
awesome.
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
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12:47 pm
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so both big interviews are done. and now the waiting.
i don't really know how i feel about either of them. i'm scared and stressed because i have no other options at this point.
ugh. it'll be a long week.
i just want to sleep for days.
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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1:24 am - with the wrong tune playing til it sounded right..
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dm, you have officially amazed me:
not only is the song catchy as shit, but the video is all kinds of disturbing.
speaking of disturbing, saw my first naked sketchy homeless man wanking in the bushes tonight. hurrah toronto!
having a 24-hour sobeys around the corner makes me feel like it's okay to want to eat this late. bad idea. bad.
i love this whole not having school thing. it's kind of awesome. and i'm okay with being a bum for a bit too.
i really feel like shoe shopping. like, so badly. mhmm.
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
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3:15 pm - de-gassing beans has little or nothing to do with treating hives.
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so i'm moved in now. awesome. the new place is small and cozy and cute. with low ceilings. awesome. and i have my own internet connection, so i don't have to sacrifice chickens and do a rain dance to get the stupid pirated connection to go.
work's winding down, next week is my last. i'm looking forward to it. working out of town is cool, but the novelty wears off when commuting and shit. not so fun. and i need a break from people. living/working together is a recipe for disaster. or at least pointless boring drama.
the problem with work ending is that work will be done. i didn't get the tarragon job (shit) and i don't have anything else lined up. being an independent contractor sucks a bit, cause you're basically continually looking for work. brutal.
and no one's hiring apprentices. NO ONE. thanks economy.
so the fun in the last couple days has been a sudden and ridiculous outbreak of hives, not unlike the edmonton incident back in summer of aught five. and actually, nearly four years ago to the day. hum. i woke up riddled with them two days ago at the cottage in jackson's point, and so far have peaked every morning and night since. i haven't hit the er yet, but i'm now having abdominal pain, headache and maybe a fever so..maybe i should get on that. endless doses of benadryl and aerius can only do so much before corticosteroids are all that matters.
my guess is a combination of things. like edmonton, i've been exposed to a bunch of allergens over the last several weeks, so my immunity must have suddenly taken the hit and went into overdrive.
anyway, it's been balls and i feel ultimate shit today. i just took a baking soda/corn starch bath which seems to have helped, but my eyes are all dark and baggy. ugh.
( hilarious tangent time! )
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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2:04 am
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
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1:42 am
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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9:50 pm
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my new job makes me squeal and love life.
except i really hope to sign a contract and get paid at some point.
haha. ugh. the fun of theatre and being non-union. they don't absolutely positively need to get you a contract, cause no one's really got your back. awesome.
anyway, it's still lovely and great and perfect. my contract (assuming i'll sign one) has also been extended. yaaay keep me employed pleeeaaase!
in other news, i looked at a place tonight that was all kinds of perfect, but i'm trying not to get my hopes up about getting it. apparently lots of people are interested (bluff?) and it's not like i'm the best prospective tenant at this particular point. sigh.
we'll see.
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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11:13 am - and so. and so. and so.
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where the crap did the time go?
i spent most of last night dreaming about my new job that starts tomorrow. this is, at long last, my apprenticeship gig with red barn. incidentally, i've been asked to try to apprentice for the show that overlaps with this one, so i'll likely snag a second credit in less than two months. SWEET.
london fringe was awesome. i was crazy busy and loved it. it was weird being back in london and working with the same people in the same spaces. i feel like a different person now.
then yesterday i looked at two apartments. they were both totally weird little places. the first was the strangest layout, but somehow with roomy kitchen and bathroom. the second was a very slanted basement with a very unenthused and pushy landlord. back to the drawing board.
so now i pretty much have to squeeze in apartment hunting with work. good times.
also, i reinstalled the sims2 for the first time since january. hoooooly god.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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9:15 pm - frazzle dazzle!
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i can say i'm doing this for fun til i'm blue in the face. stage managing a show, any show, comes with its share of little stresses.
first of all, i got picked up by a second fringe show, so, just like old times, i've got a full charge for the next 10 days. yippee!
and the shows could not be..any more different one from the other. i feel like i'm going to end up slightly bipolar by the end of the month.
also, one show is disproportionately more technically complex than the other. which means i'll shit with that one and get lazy with the other. haha. awesome. come see them both and guess which one!
aaaanyway. gripe gripe. i'm really just excited for the atmosphere and people and fun. when i'm not shitting, that is.
shameless plug: but seriously, COME SEE THEM!
Trashcan Duet - Piecemeal Performance Company/three black ring
See Bob Run - Chesterfield Productions
if you're a super-duper pal, come and see the shows at the awkward times (matinees and late afternoons) if you can..bums in seats, people.
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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4:31 pm
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have i mentioned that i love nature?
just wanted to share.
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10:40 am - somewhere on the backstreet, night chose to become dawn..
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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1:13 pm - my hands are one giant callus.
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
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4:13 pm - who even cares that it's for perfume..?
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from siege:
please join me in a collective sigh.
last night i had a blast, and would like to relive it. i just don't want to relive today, hangover day. guh.
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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9:44 pm - what does it mean when my main complaint is that "he isn't dirty enough?"
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..trying to find good pictures of wolverine. i realized that he's too effing clean in origins; logan's supposed to look grimy, like he smells like beer and cigars. he's flipping pristine in the new movie.
which was garbage, by the way. such a disappointment after the amazing x-men franchise. but it did have jackman bum in it, so how much can i really complain..
anyway, the point of this entry was to say that I'M DONE..sort of. i need to build my corset and pants, but i have no more classes, and all, count it, all my other coursework is handed in. good flipping riddance.
i..don't know what to do with myself, so i'm erasing shitty wolverine from my memory by rewatching x3 and painting my nails.
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