back in the pool [15 Sep 2009|09:50pm] [ mood | excited ] [ music | XTC- "Dear God" ] Theatre! So I'd been saying that I was only waiting for school to end before I dove back into theatre feet first. And that turned out to be true, mostly. Only one audition, but got a callback (rare for me- normally if I'm cast it's without a callback), and then it was straight into work for Bard Fiction. Hardly any acting work (I had my lines memorized before I was given my part), but plenty of writing and producing stuff. And that show turned into a big hit, which is still weird for me. But because my acting role was basically a cameo, with a little bit of stage combat and some background acting but nothing really mentally difficult or meaty, my Inner Critic keeps yelling "Lazy! Failure!" at full volume. It's weird. I've had most of the work I'm doing this year lined up for MONTHS- BF, playwriting for Quickies (shoot, need to get on that), Klingon Xmas again, then another playwriting gig. I mean, it's all stuff I WANT to do- fun, or challenging, or both. And it's all good for my career (need to start thinking of it as this). But because it isn't all acting, especially the kind of acting you have to fight for, with the auditioning and that magical phone call offering you a part, it doesn't have the same real feel. Which is stupid. It's going WELL. I was worried that a year and a half away for school would torpedo what I'd built up; no one would remember me, I'd have to start over, blah blah. Didn't happen. People remembered. I'm a company member of Upright Egg- how would they forget I existed? And hell, three playwriting projects in a year? That's awesome! I'm actually WRITING again! Not enough, but ideas are coming and then words get written down and then actors learn them and say them to an audience. That's pretty good, really. More to do. Need headshots: long hair version. Need to finally set up website, or at least buy domain. Get audition habit rolling, now that stuff is auditioning that's after my current commitments. Find time to get in Cynthia's class again. Improve stock of monologues. Lots to do. But I'm in a good place. Iveys next week! Theatre prom! Have friend dates, just bought tickets, going out tomorrow to rent tux! ( Home Improvement To Do List ) 2 comments|post comment

Resettling, and plans [11 Sep 2009|10:09pm] [ mood | calm ] [ music | Wine and Alchemy- "Misirlou" ] Home from Burning Man. I'm still processing, but it was a good experience, and I'm very glad I went. May even go again someday. I promise a fuller journal entry at some point this week- I'm still recording stuff in the physical book I was writing in, and I don't want to split creative attention, but I want to get this lj up and running again as well. Livejournal's gotten really bare lately- my friends' entries for the last couple weeks is about a quarter of what it was. No point, just an observation. One of the things that I really want to get going in the wake of Burn is finally cleaning this damn apartment. I've lived here for over two years, after all, it could use a tidyin'. And cleaning has the added advantage of Not Being On The Computer (another goal). So I'm making my checklist and putting it up here, in the theory that imagining other people holding me accountable will actually make me do stuff. Do stuff! To do: Unpack Clean fridge Dishes Clean oven Clean window blinds Clean toilet Clean bathroom sink Clean shower Clean/dust bathroom walls/shelves Vaccuum Dust Laundry Resort movies Resort books Start moving "get rid of" pile out of my life Reorganize storage space I have the day off tomorrow. Who wants to wager whether I'll actually hit the list at all? 3 comments|post comment

edge of a cliff [30 Aug 2009|02:00am] [ mood | excited ] [ music | a tv rattling on... sounds like a rerun of Ted Kennedy eulogies ] I'm standing in the lobby of a La Quinta hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm going to go shower, sleep, enjoy the complimentary breakfast, find the nearest Target and do one final run, then drive to Burning Man. Probably some stops along the way, for gas and sightseeing. Then I vanish for a week into I don't know what yet. It's pretty damn exciting. Later, y'all. post comment

Fringe 2009: Wrapup [10 Aug 2009|02:39am] [ mood | tired ] [ music | Bobby Darin- "Mack the Knife" ] My show: Performances- 6/6 (encored!) Audience count- approximately 1134 (final numbers pending) Audience reviews- 87 (most reviewed this year!) Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 11/11 Shows seen- 30 (one twice, so 31 performances) "A" list seen- 7/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 12/12 (*Companion Pass Unlocked!*) Strongbows consumed: 11.5 (plus a Summit EPA, plus two Ace Pear Ciders, plus several swigs of Jameson from my flask) New Facebook Friendships: 6 New Livejournal Friendships: 2 Laundry: successfully done this morning Personal achievement not related to theatre: Asking out the girl with whom I had a couple of really good conversations. I mean, she said no, she's in a relationship as it turns out. But I asked. Using the actual words "go out", not the vague half-measure "hang out some time". I call that progress. So no Fringe Fling then? Nope. Well, there's a maybe. We'll see on that front. Left brain achievement: Learning some basic html. Had to in order to do the show/bio page on the Fringe site. Notice how there's bolding and underlining in this entry? Yeah. I could even put in renamed hyperlinks or embed images if I wanted to. Go me. So what's left? Getting the check in the mail from the Fringe. Posting the scripts to the wiki. Producer's meeting to figure out the future of Tedious Brief. Shaving this mustache off. For now, friggin' bed. 4 comments|post comment

Fringe 2009: Day 10 [09 Aug 2009|02:24am] [ mood | tired ] [ music | "Weird" Al Yankovic- "CNR" ] So apparently LJ was down last night while I was up. Oh well. Big news! We won the Encore! Friggin' A! That means an additional performance tonight at 8:30- if you're in MN and haven't see the show yet, come on down! My show: Performances- 5/6 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Super Awesome, Smart, and Hooting Audience reviews- 80 (most reviewed at the moment!) Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 10/11 Shows seen- 28 (one twice, so 29 performances) "A" list seen- 7/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 12/12 (*Companion Pass Unlocked!*) Strongbows consumed: 11.5 (plus a Summit EPA, plus two Ace Pear Ciders) New Facebook Friendships: 5 New Livejournal Friendships: 2 Laundry: hopefully tomorrow morning 1 comment|post comment

Fringe 2009: Day 8 [07 Aug 2009|02:47am] [ mood | tired ] [ music | The Decemberists- "O Valencia!" ] My show: Performances- 3/5 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Super Awesome Audience reviews- 69 (most reviewed at the moment!) Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 8/11 Shows seen- 24 "A" list seen- 7/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 8/12 Strongbows consumed at Bedlam: 10.5 (they ran out twice thus far, so add a Summit EPA too) New Facebook Friendships: 4 New Livejournal Friendships: 2 Ready for Fringe to end: Yeah, just about. Ready to go back to work: Oh hell no post comment

Fringe 2009: Day 7 [06 Aug 2009|02:58am] [ mood | tired ] My show: Performances- 3/5 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Super Awesome Audience reviews- 67 (most reviewed at the moment!) Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 7/11 Shows seen- 20 "A" list seen- 6/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 7/12 Strongbows consumed at Bedlam: 8.5 (they ran out twice thus far, so add a Summit EPA too) New Facebook Friendships: 4 New Livejournal Friendships: 2 Possibility that posting this list every day will get me in the habit of posting to LJ again: Mild post comment

Fringe 2009: Day 6 [05 Aug 2009|03:28am] [ mood | tired ] My show: Performances- 3/5 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Super Awesome Audience reviews- 63 (most reviewed at the moment!) Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 6/11 Shows seen- 19 "A" list seen- 6/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 7/12 Strongbows consumed at Bedlam: 6.5 (they ran out twice thus far, so add a Summit EPA too) New Facebook Friendships: 3 Tonight's trivia contest: p0wned by the Blasted Oedipi (making me the owner of a Raymond Burr biography) 4 comments|post comment

Fringe 2009: Day 5 [04 Aug 2009|03:50am] [ mood | tired ] I've realized that the audience numbers aren't, nor should be, public knowledge. Nor is what I have the final numbers. So I'll be holding off on those until I get the official count from the Fringe. Suffice it to say, they started good, and each show has been bigger than the one before. Oh yeah. My show: Performances- 3/5 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Super Awesome Audience reviews- 52 (most reviewed at the moment!) Average Rating- 4/5 My festival experience: Days- 5/11 Shows seen- 15 "A" list seen- 6/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 7/12 Strongbows consumed at Bedlam: 4.5 (they ran out twice thus far, so add a Summit EPA too) New Facebook Friendships: 2 My contact lenses: Need to come out NOW 1 comment|post comment

Fringe 2009: Day 4 [03 Aug 2009|02:59am] My show: Performances- 2/5 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Awesome Audience reviews- 36 Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 4/11 Shows seen- 13 "A" list seen- 6/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 5/12 Strongbows consumed at Bedlam: 4.5 New Facebook Friendships: 1 post comment

Fringe 2009: Day 3 [02 Aug 2009|03:13am] My show: Performances- 2/5 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Awesome Audience reviews- 27 (most rated show thus far!) Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 3/11 Shows seen- 8 "A" list seen- 4/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 4/11ish Strongbows consumed at Bedlam: 3 Tired: Yes post comment

Fringe thus far [01 Aug 2009|04:45am] [ mood | tired ] Fringe thus far, in bullet points because it's almost 5 in the Oedipal morning... My show: Performances- 1/5 Audience count- (confidential) Audience quality- Awesome Audience reviews- 17 Average Rating- 4.5/5 My festival experience: Days- 2/11 Shows seen- 4 "A" list seen- 2/7 Rockstar Storyteller Trading Cards Collected- 3/11ish And now: It's bloody goddamn bedtime. 2 comments|post comment

Fringe is enough to break the silence [24 Jul 2009|12:41am] [ mood | pleased ] [ music | Stone Temple Pilots- "Lady Picture Show" ] Yeah, gonna give this another try. We'll see if it sticks this time. Don't bet money on it. Got a Fringe show coming up! Gonna be great! Gonna be huge! Come and see! http://www.fringefestival.org/2009/show/?id=1038 Go to the Fringey website, watch the trailer! Vote on it for your favorite! Three votes per e-mail address, be sure to clickthrough the confirmation e-mail! http://www.fringeyawards.com/view-trailer/?v_id=27 Also, this show got a podcast! Listen to me and the other three producers talk about our experience, online! http://www.tctheaterconnection.com/?p=1176 So many places to go! So that's what's eating my life right now. I'll try to post a big update, but smart odds are against it actually happening. Anyone have any specific questions, assuming we don't keep up on Facebook or in person or anything? --BWJ post comment

vanishing point [31 Jan 2009|10:52pm] [ mood | centered ] [ music | echoes ] This story has three prologues. Prologue One: I drove to the library last week sometime, to return a book. After I left, I noticed a whole bunch of lined up crates along the parkway nearby- identical, two lines, one on each side of the walkway along the center island between the two directions of traffic. A minor mystery. Prologue Two: It was spring today. Probably just for today, but it was warm enough that I drove home from morning massage clinic with no gloves and the windows open. Prologue Three: I walked to the library this afternoon, to pick up the book that replaced the one from prologue one. I could hear a loudspeaker from my back door, three blocks away, that turned out to belong to a tent that was in the library's parking lot. It was the celebration tent for the Twin Cities Loppet, which I don't know what that is but everyone was carrying skis. Story. I've felt scattered the last few days. I get out of the strictly regimented activity I have scheduled, like work or class, and everything falls apart. Homework doesn't get done, laundry doesn't get done. Today I watched a movie, then couldn't decide what to do, whether to watch the special features from the movie or do that homework or read or do dishes or what and it's only 9:30 so really I COULD do anything. So I decide to take a walk. Every now and again, I walk around Lake Calhoun, cuz it's nearby and a good long walk and usually head-clearing. Normally I don't in winter, cuz it's bloody cold. But as I said, today was warm. So I left everything at home- phone, wallet, even took the keys off the ring that weren't required to reenter the building, and I walked. Head-clearing was hard. Got about 3/4 of the way around, and I was less scattered, but no epiphanies or direction. One cool thing- I took my hand out of my pocket to wipe a runny nose, and the back of my hand BURNED. Freaky- at first I though that I'd breathed on it just right, but the angle didn't make sense, and the heat wasn't dissipating. I turn my hand, and the burning moves to my pinky side. And I realize- the breeze is blowing on the opposite side. It's blowing the heat off my palm and concentrating it in the wind shadow. Neat. Just as I'm on the last stretch, I pass the turnoff for the Tunnel. The Tunnel is one my holy places here; if you've called my cell in the last eight months or so and gone to voicemail, the Tunnel is the echo you're hearing. I turn, and head down it, mildly annoyed at the noisy family walking along the ice stream and making a lot of racket about the ice they're on. I feel like they're profaning a church. Then I spot some lights on the tip of Lake of the Isles at the end of the Tunnel. I get closer, and realize they're candles. In big candleholders. Candleholders that are carved, hollowed-out ice. They're absolutely bloody gorgeous, and there for no reason. They're ringed around the edge of the lake, and on an island of snow piled up in the center, and they lead out I don't know how far. Flash. Epiphanies. First up- why do I think that people laughing and having fun and admiring the beauty of bubbles frozen in ice is profaning my church? That's HOW you worship in my church! Second- the glove thing. Life metaphor. When harshness comes, and it seems to destroy your energy, it's actually just moving it. Into the wind shadow. These are churning as I turn towards home. This is, coincidentally, up the parkway listed in prologue one. And I slowly realize that I'm not crossing any roads. The roads are closed, and there's a steady path of snow across them. I'm following this like it's a white carpet laid out for me. And there's ski grooves worn into it. And then I pass where the crates were- they're snow sculptures. Forts, and an owl, and a penguin with a hatchling. And then I hit the Loppet finish line. And as I'm walking from the ice candles up the white carpet, I realize that all of this is why I left the house tonight. There's not a coincidence in the bunch. My path was preset. Any other day, I would have missed it all. I'd seen just enough hints in the past week to tie it all together, but not enough to expect it. All the threads and tangents and parallel lines met. The end. 1 comment|post comment

well hi [25 Jan 2009|12:09am] [ mood | drunk ] [ music | none ] Haven't updated in over a year, eh? How about that. How completely like me. I'm quite drunk now. Attended a party this evening, which was broken up by neighbors calling the police on a noise complaint. Many maintained that we weren't that loud, and it was 10:30 pm on a Saturday, what did they expect, deyah deyah deyah. I keep getting stuck on the fact that they called the police FIRST. Didn't talk to US, didn't talk to building management, no. Too loud, call cops. Fits perfectly with the Janumas tradition of passive aggressiveness, otherwise, they are being twits. Useless bloody twits. It is taking me very long to type this, because I am drunk, but still feel the need for good spelling. If you don't know me, that sums me up in a nutshell. So, it has been a very long time since I caught people up on my life. I am still in school, theoretically graduate in three months. I dated a girl named Marie for almost a year in there- she is awesome, you would like her. We broke up just under a month ago. First grownup breakup- no fight, no angry, no stimulating event. Just not enough future. A year passed, still no "I love you", she wants kids and I might not. So it ends. Strange. A mature decision, which does not make it suck any less. I hope we will find a friendship in the debris. I'm good at that, if nothing else. Jack Daniels clouds my mind. I will attempt a better blog update later, but this breaks the fast, at least. --BWJ "I just don't know what to do with myself I don't know what to do with myself planning everything for two doing everything with you and now that we're through I just don't know what to do" 1 comment|post comment

in case anyone doubted [06 Jan 2008|11:21pm] 91% Chris Dodd 89% John Edwards 89% Barack Obama 88% Dennis Kucinich 88% Mike Gravel 86% Hillary Clinton 83% Joe Biden 80% Bill Richardson 37% Rudy Giuliani 24% John McCain 22% Tom Tancredo 19% Mike Huckabee 19% Ron Paul 18% Mitt Romney 10% Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz I could almost have predicted that entire ranking, so it must be accurate. I like how there's FORTY-THREE percentage points between the lowest Democrat and highest Republican. No wonder I don't try to call myself an Independent. Now, who the hell is Chris Dodd? post comment

Eggy goodness- Sample Night Live tomorrow! [01 Jan 2008|11:15pm] [ mood | excited ] Ah, there's nothing like the break between school terms. A time to relax, set aside the reading, work like a maniac on a theatrical project before homework takes away your evenings again... So come one, come all, tomorrow night to the Bryant-Lake Bowl, for the premiere evening of Sample Night Live! What is this, you ask? Read, or skim, the press release! " Experience a dozen arts organizations in one night! www.SampleNightLive.com Sample Night Live is a monthly evening of performances offering a preview of upcoming Twin Cities arts events. Sample Night Live provides a venue for emerging artists to showcase their material, a place for existing companies to market themselves to new audiences, and an inexpensive way for people to get a taste of what is in the Twin Cities. As the old Vaudeville saying goes, "If you don't like what you see, wait five minutes and it will change." Performances are at 7pm the first Wednesday of every month at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. Each evening will consist of: Act I – 7:00 p.m. Rated G for kids of all ages 1. Classical music 2. Dance Performance 3. Novelty Act – Sword Swallower, Contortionist, Regurgitator, Fire Eater, Juggler, Animal Act, Something unusual and a little gross, etc. 4. Singing 5. Puppetry Performance 6. Wonder Kid Act – Anything from an amazing kid with a special talent, to a group of really good amateur kids who have an upcoming concert (dance, vocal, music, theatre, Circus, etc.) Intermission Act II – 8:15 p.m. Unrated & Uncensored 7. Mid-Sized to Large Established Arts Organization 8. Stand Up Comedian or Improv Group 9. Independent Film Short 10. And now for something completely different -- Independent Artist or performance art group – spoken word, poetry slammer, etc. Something that challenges the boundaries of performance. 11. Small arts organization 12. Local band Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.BryantLakeBowl.com (fee free) by calling the Tiketline at 612.825.8949. Full price tickets are $15. Students and Seniors are $10. Children under 10 are $5. Preschoolers who sit on laps are free with purchase of adult ticket. " And tomorrow night, #7, the "Mid-Sized to Large Established Arts Organization", will be the Upright Egg Theatre Company, presenting a short piece entitled "The Hope Moment". Based upon the story of Pinocchio, we will ask ourselves if it is possible to have despair without hope... or hope without despair. Come, join us, grab a black bean burger and a beer, and we'll do a little exploring, then find out what the other acts are together. I know I keep saying this, and it keeps not being true, but this may be my last theatrical venture for a while. Plus, I get to play Harlequin. What a way to start a new year. And this piece has some pretty awesome moments with puppets, and some frankly extremely adult situations. How can you miss it?! Tomorrow, January 2nd, Bryant-Lake Bowl. Show starts 7:00, we'll be on at approximately 8:15. Be there. 3 comments|post comment

*insert gasp here* [19 Dec 2007|01:18am] [ mood | tired ] [ music | The Band- "Forever Young" ] A Klingon Christmas Carol opened, and closed, and all the bits in between. I'm glad I did this one- it damaged my confidence a bit (I just could NOT memorize it all... try and try, and maybe half of it would stick at any time), negated a whole week of classwork, and my sleep is still trying to recover, but I'm glad I did it. It was a unique experience, for certain- the first time a play was ever performed in the Klingon language, and the first time I've ever had a full play, including fight scenes, where my first rehearsal was less than two weeks from curtain, with a tech week that was less than four hours. I went into it for the challenge, and got what I wanted. So, by the time we were at the Student Center unloading, I was glad it was finally happening. Maybe another week of rehearsal would have benefited us, who knows, but we felt ready and I was more than ready for it to be over. That's the weird thing about shows sometimes- even when you enjoy them, you reach a point where you're ready to move on. So, as the tech was being cleaned up and the foreheads being applied and costume pieces misplaced and found again, I was ready to just Get Through It and then Be Past It. Then, at places call, the show started. The Vulcan Narrator entered, and the words "Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology" were projected where the subtitles would be. And the crowd swelled and roared, and the love of the show kicked in. Every show I've ever done, every show worth doing at least, hasn't really started until we had an audience. It always surprises me, no matter how many times it happens. But normally you reach the point in rehearsal where you can say "We're ready. We're just missing the audience." But this rehearsal was so COMPRESSED, it totally snuck up on me. But then we heard 150 nerds roar and cry for us, and my ennui vanished. Awesome, truly awesome. Yeah. So that went well. Friends came and loved it, a couple reviewers (the only real review can be found here: http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2007/12/over_the_weeken.php ), I had to give back my forehead, and on go our lives. Got to work with some folks who I'd been wanting to spend time with, gained enough geek cred to last for YEARS, and back to the real world. Also, the rest of the videos from the Fox Morning News segments are online at last. Youtube links: http://www.cbtheatre.org/KCC-video.html They're all fun, especially watching reporters try to relate to us, but if only want to watch me do stuff other than stand around awkwardly, check out the middle two. Please note, the Phantom Bat'leth Punch looked better onstage. I hope. So the show ended, finally I get some free time again OH CRAP FINALS ARE NEXT WEEK AND I'M A WEEK BEHIND IN HOMEWORK. That's why I didn't post. Anyway, most of the way through finals now, only the Anatomy one left on Thursday. My two shiatsu (written and practical) went all right- I hit a low B in the written, which bugged me a little, and the practical... I don't know how I did there. I don't know the Anma sequence as well as the Namikoshi, and this practical was different from our others since the instructors gave feedback during the test (they say to prep us for when we do student clinic in term three). The mid-test feedback was helpful, and hopefully let us correct what we messed up, but it was also pretty nerve-wracking to get into the groove and then get interrupted by the person grading you who wants to point out what you're doing wrong. Nonetheless, I have the feeling I did as well on it as on the other practical exams, and the written exam is only 10% of our final grade, so I think I may get out of this with an A. Oh, and some knowledge. I also got my final grade back for the Traditional Chinese Medicine final- 119.5/120. WOO! No frigging clue how I pulled that one off! She must have curved it or something. I know I missed a half a point from a question I couldn't even guess on and so left blank, so either it's curved or else I got EVERY OTHER QUESTION RIGHT. Seems unlikely, and I'd question it, but I'm not an idiot. If I calculate right, I should end that class with something like a 98. Boom. So yeah. Only one final left, then a couple of weeks off and three party plans for the next two weeks so I should finally have a chance to recharge OH CRAP CHRISTMAS SHOPPING I'VE BARELY EVEN STARTED IT NEVER FREAKING ENDS. Still to come, when time allows: tales of Thanksgiving violence, thoughts about keys, and Egg news. Anticipate it! --BWJ "'oSwI' jIH tuqmaj!" 3 comments|post comment

it has been a day [06 Dec 2007|02:44am] [ mood | excited ] [ music | The Decemberists- "O Valencia!" ] So. Where to begin? I committed to a show a few weeks back. Yes, on top of work and full-time school. Addiction is hard. I gotta admit, it's been a lot easier stepping away from theatre than I had thought it would be; I blame the structured nature of going to school, and how busy it makes me, and how fulfilled it makes me feel (on good days). But I couldn't pass this one up, and I won't have to explain why. This Saturday, after an amazingly intense three-week rehearsal process (two weeks for me- details below), I shall be appearing in a one night only fundraiser performance of A Klingon Christmas Carol. You read that right! But here's the press release! "Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology. "The Dickens classic tale of ghosts and redemption adapted to reflect the Warrior Code of Honor and then translated into tlhIngan Hol (That's the Klingon Language). "A co-production of Commedia Beauregard and the IKV RakeHell of the Klingon Assault Group. Come see Michael Ooms as Scrooge, Christopher O. Kidder as Crachit, Scot Moore as Young Scrooge, Brian Watson-Jones as the Nephew Fred, Brian O'Neal as The Ghost of Christmas Past, Rob Withoff as The Ghost of Christmas Present, Erin Schroeder as Belle, Jen Rand as Mrs. Crachit, and a puppet Klingon as Tiny Tim! Also see the terrific performances of Bill Hedrick, Laura Thurston, Nathaniel Churchill, Jon Gregory, And Andrew Northrop. You've never seen Dickens like this! Now with 78% more fight scenes!" Full info, including link to ticket info and the where and when... http://www.cbtheatre.org/KCC2007.htm So yeah. I am performing in a play that is presented almost entirely IN THE KLINGON LANGUAGE. This is not an opportunity I expected to see again. I know it's fairly last minute, but I would love it if you can all come. It's this Saturday, the 8th, at 7:30 pm. ONE NIGHT ONLY. It's been a hell of a process. Due to a scheduling conflict, and Thanksgiving, I ended up not having an rehearsals the first week. So everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, has been in the last week and a half. I don't have a large part, but still; this is a part I have to learn basically phonetically. Sample line, off the top of my head... ram nI' tay ghoS, SoSwI' loDnI'. ta'mey Dun', bommey Dun'! This has not been an easy part to learn, and it has been kicking my ass pretty hard. The lines just won't stay in my head, y'know? But there's a backup plan worked out for those of us having trouble (and those of us who joined late, and those of us who have exponentially larger parts than little ole me), so I'm not feeling the panic right now. Now I'm feeling the excitement. In three days, we're performing a play that is unlike anything else in existence. With, I should add, a damn fine looking puppet, and some kickass bat'leth fight scenes (most of which I am in... oh yeah), and nerd points out the yinyang. Ah... but why the long day implied by the title? Because I woke up at 4:15 this morning... yesterday morning... 22 3/4 hours ago, to drive down to Eden Prairie and appear on the Fox 9 morning news show. They did a few short segments on the show, and I can finally cross "fight with bat'leths on a major network affiliate" off the life goals list. Sweeeet. Link, with video: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?contentId=5130861&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=5.2.1 (I'm in the background, with the medallion in ma belly... hopefully we'll be getting youtube links of all the segments, including the fighting and my monologue) (oh, and PS- "Sarah" Walloch is actually Sasha. We really appreciate the great publicity segment, news lady, but... her name is Sasha) So come one, come all, to the most interesting Christmas Carol ever staged! And arrive early- the show doesn't start until 7:30, but it's a fundraiser, so there's a reception and silent auction starting around 6:30. Booze! Bidding! Ramvam bom bommey Dun bIng Hovmey 'ang nIQuj! BE THERE! yours most affectionately, vreD 9 comments|post comment

spam [09 Nov 2007|04:49am] I am now officially getting more unsolicited spam about selecting the next president than about porn. The world, she is a strange place. post comment

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