4 August
Diet update: I kinda fell off the wagon this week, so I didn't lose anything, but I didn't gain either, so I'm still seven pounds down and I'll do better this week.
So, yesterday I had my first rehearsal for the play I'm directing.
What? You didn't know that I was directing a play? That's because I didn't want to direct it, so wasn't bothering to write about it!
At tech for Junction City, Le asked me if I would direct a show in the one act festival as he was in a bind, and I said yes and then I got the script and was highly annoyed to find that it was a six character piece (the more actors, the more people's stupid schedules there are to work around) with a simultaneous audio track running throughout the entire play that the actors would have to record!
So I just threw the script across the room and ignored it until Junction City was over.
And then I started calling actors, and their schedules were exactly as stupid as I thought they'd be, and I needed two replacements, and I was waiting for people to call me back and I was waiting for Le to give me my replacements so we had our first read-through with three out of the six actors yesterday.
O, did I mention that we're opening on the 15th? Of August?
Well, we are. And it won't be so bad, really, as all of the actor's roles are about equal, so no-one has to do a big lead in less than two weeks or anything, and everyone's real gung-ho and all, and I explained to them that it would be a good exercise to pull an acceptable show out of our collective asses in twelve days.
So I got an e-mail from my friend Michael telling me that my picture from the new show (which is called, it turns out, Lullaby for Murder) was in the New York Times! With my name! So, if anyone has the Sunday Times lying around your house, turn to page 32 of the Arts and Leisure section and look for my byline!
I don't understand how anyone can call Tommy Lee Jones "Tommy". What is the matter with these people? Billy Bob Thornton, Mart Stuart Masterson, Tommy Lee Jones, these are all Southern double-barreled names, and you NEVER only say the first one!
Would you like to spin, solve, or buy a fucking clue?
One year ago today:
Procrastination.
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