there is a video for "Farewell Endless Summer"

i can't get the song out of my head ... for various reasons.

on Sunday, most of the cast of "Lost" came to a Q&A at school and it was quite inspiring. i took a photo with most of them, including the guy who was a hobbit in the "Lord of the Rings" movies ( Read more... )

i got home last night after watching Frank's wonderful production of "The Captive," & turned on HBO just to watch something while i ate my late dinner: a jack in the box bruschetta chicken ciabatta sandwich. "Man on Fire" had started 10 minutes earlier and it had Denzel and Marc Anthony and Dakota Fanning so i watched it ... all of it ... all 2 and ( Read more... )

i feel invisible.

so, it's really flattering to know that i was intended for the lead in "Wateva." Elizabeth came up to me during jingju class and said that she was surprised that i hadn't auditioned because Terence had argued for not having the Randai tour in april, because i wouldn't be available to do "Wateva" if we went on tour ( Read more... )

great movie, 4 oscars. if you haven't seen it, go!

the costume designer for "twelf nite o' Wateva" came up to me today asking if i'd auditioned for the pidgin adaptation of Shakespeare. i had not. i'm in Pandora, and i have to work the box office, and i just didn't feel like it. truthfully, i've been struggling with this decision since the director asked me to do it last May. what i didn't know for ( Read more... )

i think i did well on my mid-term yesterday, considering it was on puppetry forms from 8 different countries ( Read more... )

well, we're not going to Malaysia in April. something about beurocracy and money. Kirstin is still hoping for an August tour somewhere - we've been invited to Jakarta, Indonesia. but US citizens aren't allowed to travel there so i don't think that's going to happen. there's always the Assoc. for Asian Performance conference in San Francisco ( Read more... )

we have a short Randai demo today at City Hall that is part of "Story Tsunami" a storytelling-themed tsunami benefit. it's the only thing i have to do today, so far ... other than to continue studying for my SouthEast Asian theatre midterm on thursday. it has been several years since i've taken a test like this, and it's going to be a doozy.