My first day of work today. My first day of work as a professional actor, not just getting a stipend, or a dividing-up of whatever profits we may-or-may-not-make, but an actor getting paid a weekly wage, to act.

"That is the basic need for art in life . . . a saying and doing of things we cannot completely say and do in life but which have to be said and done."

I just booked my first professional gig. I'm going on tour, around the US, for four months. I'm getting paid to act!

One of the things that I've been doing since graduation is (gloriously indulgently) catching up on all of the television that I missed while I was at Circle, and at UBC, and in high school, and during that random year after UBC and before Circle. I've watched all of True Blood (minus the last three episodes, which I keep forgetting to catch up on ( Read more... )

ACTIVITIES
* Wander through the 91st Street Garden in Riverside Park, as seen in You've Got Mail (Riverside Dr and 91st St)
* Visit The High Line park.
* Head down to the Jersey Shore.
* Go to a candlelight class at Yoga For The People.
* Spend a night at The Poetry Brothel* Watch the sunset from Astoria Park ( Read more... )

O you delicate ones, step occasionally ( Read more... )

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with ( Read more... )

They're turning the Sondheim musical Follies into a movie! Directed by Sam Mendes, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin! Intriguing ... very intriguing indeed ...

As quoted in my acting class today:

I will take my rightful place on the stage ( Read more... )

Harold Pinter.
Died December 24th, 2008.

(pause)

May he rest in peace.