The second weekend of All-State is over, and I am in awe of how damn soon all this is going to happen. Everything is moving so quickly. I love everyone in our company, even the ones I hate, because we simply would not be our company without one of us. (All the auxiliary Deerfield student staff aides could sure as fuck leave, though.) Les Mis is a ( Read more... )

I don't think there is anything that puts me on emotional overload like Holst's "The Planets," especially when it is being played at excessively high volumes ( Read more... )

( Writing it out makes it seem a little weaker. )

I feel like I have been in school for the last six months. This is probably because I am working on a show already. Next Wednesday and Thursday we are putting on Flowers For Algernon, which is James' fall studio. I am actually getting sick. That is disgusting. Every time I work on a show at school, I end up sick. My body must have some kind of anti ( Read more... )

I miss All-State already. I may just cry. I'm not even kidding. 20 days until I see my costume girls and then the company. I can't make it that long ( Read more... )

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This was interesting. I was doing a little research on Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie because I am a huge nerd and would like to supplement the novel with facts about post-colonial India. I found an interview with him that had this quote I liked. This is in reference to the symbolism of names in the novel ( Read more... )

Damn. It is 4:30 in the morning. My father is going to be awake in half an hour. Matt Brown will be at work in a half hour. Birds are already awake. I saw a man jogging as I drove home at 4 ( Read more... )

Discussion topic: The movie World Trade CenterMy initial reaction to the trailers and the concept was mixed. I suppose the movie had to come eventually, so it wasn't too surprising. However, I really was not comfortable with the idea on a number of levels ( Read more... )

I have dehinged, defused, refused, and so on.

So I guess I'm back.

Gains:
-Patchy, painful sunburn.
-Sick feeling in stomach.
-Deep, deep appreciation for Sleater-Kinney.
-Glockenspiel.

Losses:
-Determination.
-Sleep.
-Cleanliness.

Read:
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
-Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
-American ( Read more... )