Avatar The Last Airbender is coming out this week.  I won't say much about it, needless to say I'm hesitant since seeing the trailers.  It's clearly going to be a different feel from the tv show I've come to know and love.  Watching the trailers though got me to thinking about other trailers I've seen in the past.  Sometimes a trailer ends up being ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaaand the doubts have already begun to set in :P.  THIS time I'm actually going to try and ignore them and just try and trust that at one point in the process I'll finally "get it" and pull something magical off, but until then, DOUBT ( Read more... )

Well, the new play is fully into rehearsals and it's got me all excited, nervous, and extremely sore most of the time.  Despite going to the gym regularily the last few months, I have discovered muscles that I never thought existed!  And they're all screaming at me!  Hooraaaay ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that I probably will get stressed out and feeling insecure later on, I feel the need to write down the awesomeness that is my play now ( Read more... )

Tonight turned into a walk through the first summer rain.  Rain is nice when it's summer, it cools off and is delightfully wet as opposed to freezingly miserably wet ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right.  I'm going to write about Legally Blond.  And I know what most of you are thinking "But Manda, isn't that fluffy piece of guilty pleasure crap you're watching?"  Well, yes, on the surface, it is.  And yes, I will fully admit I've probably seen the movie about 10-15 times now, mostly from running across it on TV from time to time ( Read more... )

Dear friends ( Read more... )

So I thankfully got a callback, and thank the theatre gods that my networking over the past couple of years has paid off as the director knows me and knows that I COULD be capable ( Read more... )

Oh muffins ( Read more... )

And so yet another show is done.  I will in fact miss this one.  A couple of friends came out to it, but once again I did a terrible job promoting it, letting my fear take over and giving things like disclaimers.  Ahh well.  It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.  It's very rare I get to do full on clown work and the friends who did come out ( Read more... )