Many of my posts are spontaneous. I think of something I want to write about, I happen to have access to the tools I need and I write. I was planning on writing something else today about my disintegrated organization and priority system and the re-imagining of a new system, but that excitement will have to wait. I’ve written about my body image issues before. Links to those posts are here: Body Image, Eating and Creativity Perfection is Death This is another one of those, but different
Acting Concept: Acting is Doing This is the basic numero uno prime and ultimate concept to master. Acting is doing. What does that mean? In the most obvious sense it means when your character is onstage searching for his blue sock, you the actor will be onstage searching for your blue sock. You aren’t pretending to search. You are searching. You aren’t demonstrating to the audience that your character is searching and you aren’t emoting about how much you love the blue sock. You are truthfully searching for the blue sock
Change signals an opportunity to ask big questions, to re-vision and make yourself anew. That’s where my head was over the past two weeks and I found some nifty cool things I want to share with you: The first one is Living in a Human Suit created by Scott Brandon Hoffman aka @TheEntertainer. Scott leads with his sense of humor and has a refreshing way of making you laugh while making you think about the Big Picture. You know things like your life and your purpose and why you might be inhabiting this planet at this point in time
Instant Gratification: Buying Books Online I’m a book fiend. And I like immediate gratification. Which means I’m craving a Kindle, but that is the LAST investment I need to make right now. However, I can get immediate gratification from Audible.com. The only disappointment is that Audible doesn’t carry every book I want. And in order for the service to be worth its subscription, I really should be more consistent about loading my audio books onto my iPod and carrying the iPod with me
I was restless last night. I think my restlessness is related to the fast pace of my life right now. I am enjoying my life so much right now. I am involved in so many things that I am happy about and at the same time I am finding it hard to settle myself down at the end of the day. When I am restless I start browsing my bookshelves, perusing the titles and spines of my books looking for a sign. Books play a large role in my comfort and self-care. I found Michael Port’s Book Yourself Solid. Nice. But I knew as soon as I started leafing through it that it was going to stir me up rather than settle me down
Rehearsals have started in earnest for George F. Walker’s Adult Entertainment at Theatre NXS. Last night was the first rehearsal with the entire cast and tonight will be our first run-thru. The first run-thru is also lovingly known as a stumble-thru. There’s no telling what will or won’t happen tonight. But I forgot a little piece of news. While I was in Texas, I got a call from the director, LR Hults, asking me to play a different role. I was playing Pam – a newly single mother who is still tangled up with her ex-husband, Donny, who is a drunken loser of a cop. Now I’m playing Jayne – a public defender whose given up on herself and her clients
I watched this wonderful video on TED Talks this morning and it was music to my ears, a breath of fresh air, a bundle of lovely cliches that say, “I feel good.” Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat, Pray, Love and she talks about the frightening reactions she’s been getting from people since the “freakish success” of Eat, Pray, Love. I wrote yesterday about closing my last show and the end of my streak of acting gigs. It’s a bittersweet ending. And I do feel some fear or some apprehension when I think I might not get that energy back. Finding this video today was an encouraging bit of synchronicity
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