Ugh, it's gotten all hot again after it being nice and cool in a rainy kind of way for the past few days. I suppose if I wanted to leave the house occasionally, this might bother me, but since I need to stay here with my TiVo, occasionally running out for a second for cat food or soda or live chickens to sacrifice over the screen.

TiVo needs blood.

Rehearsal yesterday, that I practically had to be dragged upstairs to participate in. You know, some days you just don't want to rehearse, and when you are watching the season finale of Angel and there is only ten minutes left, you really don't want to rehearse.

I blocked and directed the actresses, but really didn't say a word to the actor, mostly because he has yet to follow a single direction that I had given him. He seems to have only one way of performing, a very laid back, drawling, smooth style, that is so completely wrong for the role that I have no idea what to tell him.

Mostly, when directing, you take an actor that is more or less in the same shape as the character and knock off the corners that don't look like the character, like sculpting a bird, trim away everything that doesn't look like a bird. But if there is no bird in there, what do you do? It's not that he is a bad actor, it's that he's not in the shape of the character so much that I have no idea what to trim away to get the bird, that I might end up with a pile of rubble.

Next rehearsal, I need to start leaning on him and see what I can get. At the end of this one, he said that he didn't feel like he was doing anything, and I thought, "It's not my job to teach you how to act," but actually I suppose that it is, I just don't like that part of the job. It's less like trimming away everything that doesn't look like a bird than taking a bird-shaped cutout and stuffing the actor through it, forcing him into the bird shape as well as I can. It's not as fine a sculpture, but at least it's the right general shape.

I wrote a vacation entry! Well, not really a vacation entry, more of a day before vacation entry, but hey, it's new, right?

Can anyone tell me what this font is? The one with the pictures of the girls? I'm trying to find it on my computer, obviously I had it at one time, but now I can't find it.

Today's horoscope:
Success and winning feel vital today. Don't fight with the ones around you; set up other kinds of contests.

One year ago today:
At last! The movie that nobody at all has been waiting for!

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