09/19/2005: "Catch up,"

music: KAAZAA mix and match...
mood: Sunny with a chance of rain

Long time no write my people. I’ve been thrust into bursts of activity (House manage, tickets for the pear, work, etc etc) laced with deliberate spells of total, ridiculous, retarded inactivity. It’s all extremes for the redheaded one. Par for the course really I suppose. After a mini meltdown no doubt stemming from a usually empty house, and a recent low level of social life, I auditioned on a whim for a show in Santa Clara, and left with the lead, despite a MAJOR conflict (Erin’s wedding in Dallas, from which I don’t return from until the Monday before we open). I will be playing Marsha in a very VERY silly comedy entitled Let’s Murder Marsha. There is laughing, and new people, and stimulation of the creative kind. Time suck, but hey, clearly I wasn’t doing enough anyway.

The perfect red dress is still illusive. Marty still hangs in there for INXS rockstar. Fingers are crossed. They got rid of Suzie finally, and with any justice in the world JD will be eliminated. I’d be okay with Mig, happier with Marty. Tuesday is the Finale, and THURSDAY marks the beginning of the season of Trump with the new Apprentice. I will NOT be watching Martha Stewart Apprentice…

Winner of the week: The hedge trimmer. Once I found an extension chord and a working outlet this contraption was more fun than…well... it was really fun. I can see why chainsaw murders get their kick. I don’t even mind that 2 hours in the sun holding this 20 pound device made my arms ultra sore in places I forgot I had muscles. Yeah power. Yeah gardening. I could shape hedges and trees all day (you with the mind in the gutter, OUT). And to think I tried to use various clippers to do the same thing last month. Ahhh progress.

Honorable mention also goes to fishnet stockings (make a girl feel hot, even when she has no place to go) and to SOUTH FM’s song Blue and Gray. GORGEOUS! Love it. Gotten caught twice singing it loudly in the jeep by people stopped at the stop lights…and you know what..I don’t care…it’s that great of a song.

Honorable 2nd mention, Vanilla Cognac. This stuff will mess you up. Who knew I even liked Cognac?

And finally, here are the diluted versions of my movie reviews from the last weeks of sloth downtime…

Overall winner, a must see, very enjoyable from beginning to end is Stage Beauty. Billy Crudup and Claire Danes rock. Hits a chord with the theatrical, drama inclined, anyone who likes a nice period piece and has a GREAT subplot on gender. Beautiful to watch.

Sahara- Mathew Mcounahay and Steve Zhan, great, Penelope Cruz, whatever. A movie with sweat, dirt, explosions, and humor can’t be bad. All in all some nice homage’s to Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone. Lame title though. I would have Mathews children, and a movie with William H. Macy is rarely a disappointment, and thus 3 ½ Rockwells/Rutgers

Alexander- Oliver Stone. Three words. Off the Crack. Or actually I think he was recently arrested for pot, though I hardly think ol’ marijane can be blamed for this trip of a movie. You took a great story, and great actors and beautiful shots, and then you put them all out of order and made it ever so complex, and then tried some funky modern film effects and ruined everything. Edit the scenes in chronological order, and get everyone’s accents in sync (pick one) and I would watch Colin Farrell and Jared Leto again. Until such time, I will not highly recommend your film. I did have to laugh though, I had a “boobs” moment while watching a scene. You know the look a guy gets when boobs come on the screen/in the room. Cleavage tends to have this hypnotizing effect. At one point in the movie I realized I had NO idea what Colin and Jared had said, just too pretty to look at I guess. You would have had 4 out of 5 Rockwells/Rutger, but I penalize you 1 full R/R for your pretentious messing with the chronology to further complicate things. 3 out of 5 Rockwells/Rutgers.

Story of Weeping Camel- Very slow moving, but beautiful shots and you gotta love camels. Not a Friday night decompress kind of films but, worth it if you feel artsy and if you like the desert. 3 out of 5 Rockwells/Rutgers.

Oceans 12: A sense of fun while making the movie, and an all star cast does not a great movie make, but kudos for a 15 minute section of the film that was SO CLEVER and unique, I am still laughing. No spoilers, worth a rent if you have drinks while watching and you split the rental fee with someone. I admit I really didn’t questions what was in fact possible, I have a feeling it was a bit improbably like speed, but I really didn’t care, I knew they would pull it all off, otherwise…why make the movie. The sad thing is in the original rat pack version of Oceans 11, they DIDN’T get away with it…ah well. That’s Hollywood. 2 ½ Rockwells/Rutgers.

American Wedding: I saw this on Cable. I’m glad I paid no money for this. I’ve not been a huge fan of this franchise of humor. It is in the same category as Meet the Fockers I guess as far as, I don’t want to see people in such uncomfortable positions that I can see coming for a mile. My heart just can’t take it. Eating poo, NOT funny, just gross. To be fair, I did watch the full movie, and having just been to a wedding, there was a bit of humor there, but honestly. Stop making these movies. I may in fact have LST brain cells watching this. Except for Stifler’s mom, wholly retarded. 4 our out of 5 Keanu’s.

Between my own rehearsals and house managing at the Pear I did get to see some theatre this weekend. I saw the first act of Night of the Iguana at the Pear. Beautiful set, a very off night I assume for the actors. Kind of embarrassing. A few solid performances overshone the rest and I didn't mind at all leaving after intermission. Also got to see a little show called Skyscraper directed by Chris Tann. A challenging show and space and dealt with creatively by the man at the helm. I of course had critiques, but so far I think that is mandatory for me and they weren't totally major, nor things that could have been solved most likely with the $400 budget they had. I think maybe only Rent on Broadway escaped any sort of critique so a little feedback is not bad. A very decent production, and a interesting well written play. Enjoyable in many parts. Gold star for the scene change which as it should be kept the fourth wall up. See it by all means.

Oh an now for the exciting news...bat sighting at the lounge@377 last night!!! While watching the latest Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (yeah Zaphod) with the Crisi, something much to large to be a moth flew into the room and commenced to silently fly about in circles. Around. Around. Around. I of course went into hypersonics over how cute it was, which probably confused the poor little guys sonar. Cuan, the breadler (named so for his stealthy filching of not 1 but 2 entire loaves of fresh made breadmaker bread) on the other hand who could have seen this as a tasty air born morsel, had no idea what to do. No instinct kicked in what so ever. He just watched us watch the bat. And then after about 45seconds, bat was either done eating or didn’t like the movie, and was gone. It took me just as long to recover from the excitement. I shall call him Pip.

And on that note (hypersonic) I shall leave you…Tickets, meetings, rehearsals, work, reading and so on call…that and I really have to pee. You know you love me for saying so. Be excellent to each other.