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A long week

I want to say a lot about what is going on right now, I have a lot going on.

But its so scattered between, Weathervane, who just had their auditions for 2006, and Theatre Garden, a New TYA company I am working with, and the possibilty of working on another Twinsun Music project this month.  I don't know where to begin. 

I will say this I have now been back from Ohio for over two weeks, and I still haven't gotten paid from them.  I really need that money too.  But luckily I have income starting now so, I can start to catch up with life some.

Anyway, I want to do some fiction writing so I am going to switch over to the other blog ( yeah that serial I started, haven't gotten to far on it I know)  look for something on monday or tuesday this week.

Oh yeah duh,  Baseball is back, the yanks start strong, then slump, 1-3 in the young season.  Well  its a 162 game season.  I am sure things will pick up.

APATHY

I have been stuck in the most apathetic of moods lately.  I was thinking I had just been procrastinating a lot lately. But its been harder and harder a to just get out of bed lately. When I first got back to NYC in September I was excited and raring to go, but now I just feel so wore down.

It has been affecting my work.  I am just getting by on the bare minimums of what is expected of me. I want to start this New Year with a positive outlook, but I just feel so drained.

I have been seriously considering leaving stage management but not the theatre.  I want to write and produce more. 

Yesterday I woke up from the most vivid and realistic dream I have had in years.   It was like being in a movie, the details that were there, the smells the sounds. It was one part LAW AND ORDER, one part reality TV and one part true crime novel and put in a blender

The story centered on a series of murders, all actresses (no one I really know) in NYC and a young writer who gets caught up in the investigation.  It got weird in a very real way, and even a little exciting (at one point I was hanging off the back of a fire truck as it raced uptown, another thing I remember is being in a subway tunnel.

What does this dream say about me?

Anyway when I woke up I wrote down details, and now I am trying to piece together the story, and figure out how I can tell it?  Is it book?  A film?  A musical? (!) a graphic novel?

But even after getting excited about this I begin to loose focus…

Ok I am off for now

Sorry for the interuption of service

My apologizes to my regular readers for not blogging in a while  (sorry Lynne)

and i just wrote a wonderful blog about my thoughts about the abuse of the SHOWCASE contract by companies in NYC. And it was something I really hoping would spark some kind of discussion and then i screwed up my publishing and then I lost it.

So I am not going to re write it now.  Its late (early actually) but it will be the very next blog i write.  So stayed tuned, and have your opinions ready.

So instead I am going to regale you with a quite update of what I am up to

STUMPS is still running (til Nov 13 at the Pelican Studio Theatre 750 8th Ave  Suite 601, right above McHales @ 46th St)

It is a very ambitious piece of work.  If you can come by, see it.  Say hello when you see me too.

I haven't called Danielle (the old classmate I ran into a few weeks ago) yet, for that drink.  I just haven't felt in the zone for calling her.  I am never good at calling up a woman for a date.  I am rubish on the phone,  I ramble (as those of you I have been on the phone with will gladly attest to I am sure)

But I am going to do it.  Soon.  This week.

I finally joined SMA  so I hope i can come across some sort of Holiday work with that.

and um  that is it i need to get a few hours of rest. lots to do later.

Thanks for stopping by

Jennie, Donna, Dan, KEEP BLOGGING,   i always try to read though i don't always get to post comments

alright

Signing off for now

Edwardian Aventurer

             One of the best things about my job is the travel; I travel all over the country, to where my particular skills are needed. I am the Stageboard Samurai. The Headset wearing Hired Hand. The Lone Stopwatch that comes drifting into town. 

  One my favorite ways of traveling is by train. Anywhere you can go in on day by car, is so much nicer to go by train. I know it takes a little longer, but here I am, chugging my way through Massachusetts and I can type on my laptop (which is running off a AC and not battery power) I can get up and walk around, visit the club car, get a beer. The seats are roomy I can watch the world go by out my window, enjoying all the scenery (in a few weeks this particular run will be beautiful with all the fall colors. 

I often wonder what it would be like if someone tried a “land cruise”. The hardest thing to recreate would be the evening entertainment, maybe they could put stand up comics, live acoustic acts, a small dance club. It could be the weekend getaway that doesn’t go anywhere. Oh and a real airship, you know? That would be keen to travel by airship a weekend spent in the air!

I know most of you think of me as a sci-fi techie geek loving all things future, but I also love old things, The Art Deco designs, the fashion, the mannerism even, there is a certain social formality that is so elegant, that we lack today. The 20’s are particularly intriguing period for me. Of course I wouldn’t want to live in Prohibition, so I think if I could live anywhere, anywhen, it would be London, 1925. All Edwardian finery, but with the beginnings of the Jazz age to keep things exciting. The world was still so big then, it was before TV, and cinema was still in its infancy as a consumer media. If you wanted to see something, you had to go there. Life could be such an adventure! (Who knew there was a romantic under all this black clothing)?

So as soon as I finish building my time machine, I will be visiting 1925, anyone want to join me for the trip?

Not What You'd Think

OK I am sure that some of you are expecting some rumination on the end of my current gig at the Weathervane. 

There are somethings I would like to say about this summer's experiences

but not yet.

First I need to get this off my chest

HAIL TO THE VICTORS VALIANT
HAIL TO THE CONQUERING HEROES
HAIL HAIL TO MICHIGAN

THE LEADERS AND BEST!

WITH PRIDE WE HAIL!

OK that felt good,  for those of you who do not know,  College football begins today (its very early Saturday morning)  And Michigan begins its season against Northern Illinois University.  Not exactly a big game,  but it is the start of the season, and it gives us a warm up match before the real kick off against NOTRE DAME on the 10th

so  GO BLUE!

OK  that ends my Alumni Bragging moment...

So, where do begin about the end of my summer in NH?  To be honest, I really don't know, I have had a good summer,  not great, but good.  I enjoyed working with just about everybody here this summer, and I think we did some very exceptional work this summer, so why do I feel like I am going away a little bit empty?

OK, I really have a favor to ask you all, if you can. 

Think of me, and then what ever the first word that comes to your mind, post it as a comment.  I want your honesty,  and I think you all respect me enough to give it to me.  I really need the perspective.

Is this too Narcissistic of me?

Does Everyone stare the way I do?

No,  I am not actually staring at anyone right now,   its just the song currently playing on my Ipod

The Police, off of Regatta De Blanc?  Maybe you know it?

Anyway, my mind is in full receptor mode,  just sucking up every bit of energy around me.  It happens,  I am mildly empathic.   There is a great relief here at the house,  all the shows are up, running,  hell, three of them have already closed.  So as much as everyone here hates to admit it, we are in the home stretch. 

But there is a lot still here to do,  as they say in Monty Python and the Holy Grail,  "I'm not dead yet!"

9 days in Weathervane time is like a month anywhere else in the universe, seriously,  I  just started two new books, the first is the "Quantum and the Lotus, linking the world of Science and Bhuddism",  the second is "Relativity,  The Special and General Theory" (yes by Einstein)

I hope to use these two text to explain the nature of Time at WV, and who knows I may write the first treatise on the spiritual nature of time and how it relates to the Theatre.

Anyway,  for those of you not here with us at WV let me fill u in on what's up.  West Side Story, the final show of the 40th anniversary RAZZLE DAZZLE season is open.  The opening performance was good,  considering the hoops we jumped through to get there it was a very enjoyable performance.  Tony and Maria, wow, these two actors who carry so much of the show (hell they are the show) got so little time with the director, because of the large group number needs, and they did so much on their own.  I thank them for all they did.

Also its Christmas time at the Weathervane!  Yes  the annual Secret Santa is in full swing,   This year I decided to go with only one person. LOL.  Today is the traditional THANKSGIVING dinner.

As well as everything is going,  there is some drama here.  A couple of actors got calls for auditions in NYC, 1 was an early call this morning, and she had the day off yesterday,  She is probably already in route back here,  but the other did not leave til the end of the show last night,  got to NYC  around 4 or 5 I am sure, slept for 3-4 hours,  Is probably auditioning right now as I type this, and then has two turn around and drive here for an 8 O'clock current.   The Producer is understandable nervous that he won't make it back in time, And I am worried about how far he has pushed himself.   

Let see what else can I tell you

hmmm   in trying to keep this in the context of theatre, specifically This summer at the Weathervane,  I will end it here.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL

oh just heard a rumor that the traditional WV halloween party may not be happening, but a Holiday Party is in the works...  will keep you in the know

Knave