It is inconceivable how ridiculously hilarious "Airplane!" is. I was watching it with my sister... the whole thing is such an absurd combination of slapstick and verbal faux pas; stupid wit; absolutely hysterical. I watch it over and over and it never gets less funny.
"All right fellas, let's take some pictures!"
(begin taking photos off the walls)
Rehearsals for Julius Caesar are going good-- "WELL," I meant "well"-- sorry, everyone. Up until today, I was pretty bored by the prospect of going through tedious rehearsals until my one monologue at the end of Act 5, my suicide, and exeunt ('pursued by bear'... I WISH). This is bizarre, because today I spent all of rehearsal on stage and had only one line: "Sirrah, give place," or something... yet I wholesomely enjoyed it. I guess being crammed onstage for 2 hours with some of your favorite people isn't all that bad.
Our acting lab today was AMAZING! My partner and I had to sort of improvise a scene in which my goal was to put all my focus on a single dire task, and her goal was to get something from me, which would involve me taking focus off of my task. You see where the conflict arises? Anyway, it felt really cool. It was organic. My "roommate" was bugging me and it grew and grew until we were ready to kill each other. She tried to stop me from what I was doing, and my instinct was to threaten her with scissors... so I did. And so she stole the card I was making and tore it. I sat there for a moment, then pounced on her and tried to pin her to the ground... we stopped there at the instructor's orders because it was clear that if we continued, somebody was going to come out of it with a fistful of the other's hair. It was very passionate and scattered and I don't remember all of it, just a certain feeling of wanting to choke a bitch. And even though we're good friends in real life, I'm sure the feeling was mutual in that moment. Exhilarating! Love it! LEGGO! (<-- means "play well" in... Swedish?)
Geez... I am sitting here typing in my underwear and I'm still fairly warm. This doesn't make sense because it's pretty cold outside right now-- even for Summer-- and since my room is made out of metal, it usually only exemplifies the outside weather to uncomfortable extremities. Whatever. I'm stoked because I made my bed last night for the first time in MONTHS! And it no longer feels like I'm sleeping in a cocoon of mangled, dirty laundry. Fancy that.
Whoo! I'm getting my tattoo this weekend, if everything goes according to plan. I'm excited. It's going to hurt like a bitch on my spine, but I'm excited. I've wanted this thing for about FOUR YEARS; the time has finally come! The opportunity is here! Do work son! Etc.
Ahhh... going back to Actor's Academy: today I imitated the feeling of tenderness, and it was fantastic. I know, I'm so colorful with my adjectives. It felt really good though; tough to explain. I was looking into my partner's eyes and he was looking into mine, and we both looked at one another so serenely and tenderly. It was relaxing, and I remembered what it felt like to be so enamored of someone that their mere presence melts you into the ground. We had to touch the others' face, too. My hand was shaky and that was a little embarrassing, but can you blame me?! I learned today that I can just imitate the physical behavior that comes with an emotion, and just STEP INTO that emotion. Cool, huh?
It was a good day. All this Academy talk reminds me that I should be writing this all in my AA journal, not on Blogger.com.
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