— I got a new phone. Did you know that they make phones with CAMERAS IN THEM NOW???? hahaha I know I’m behind. I still listen to cassette tapes, for God’s sake. But I love my phone so much that I’ve been making out with it for 2 days non-stop. I take it out and just stare at it. I took a picture of my feet. Also of the corner of my desk. I take many pictures. I call no one. It’s awesome.
— Rehearsals start this week.
— Congratulations to my friend Guy Adkins for being nominated for a Jeff Award (in the Best Actor in a Principal Role in a Musical category) (They were just announced today). He was nominated for Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – which was playing while I was out there, but bummer – I didn’t get to see it. I love it when the Jeff awards come out … I always know SOMEbody.
— Comment that comes out of reading the shows being done: People still do productions of Closer than Ever?? It seems like such a late 80s, early 90s kind of show. It’s about the concerns of yuppies. The musical version of 30something. Funny, wistful, self-absorbed – I LOVE some of the music for that musical – damn. Good good stuff … but I thought that it had dated itself almost immediately upon its first production.
— I’m getting a massage next week. The last time I got a massage, the masseur (a guy I had never met before) asked me out WHILE he was giving me a massage. I’m not lying. This is so Sex and the City, I know, but it really happened. It seems vaguely inappropriate, doesn’t it?? However, the whole thing struck me as pretty damn funny at the time. I walked out of there thinking … Did that just happen? Did my masseur just ask me out? While I was lying on the table in a dim room, draped only in a sheet? He asked me to go on a canoe trip. In the middle of my massage. I don’t know. Maybe stuff like that happens to other women all the time, and I’m over-reacting. It’s not like he was creepy, or made me feel weird … It just was totally SURREAL. You’re supposed to zone out during a massage. You’re supposed to go into a deep relaxation. And so you fall into the moment. You breathe deeply. Your body relaxes. You slip off into a coma. This is what I was doing. I breathed. I zoned out. I lost myself in the relaxation. And then … softly … came the masseur’s voice: “I’d really like to take you out. Want to go canoeing next weekend?” Er … pardon?
— I watched 8 Mile again last night. Great flick. The bonus features were classic. Curtis Hanson – skinny white man – MC-ing a rap battle with all the black Detroit extras? It was awesome!! I need to write more about it. I’ll add it to my list of Things I Want to Write About.
— Nearly done with Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
— Heaven to Betsy, by Maud Hart Lovelace arrived today. My heart swelled up when I saw those illustrations. It’s the first of the onslaught of my childhood books. So exciting!
What is it with old productions? The Arkansas Rep is doing. . .brace yourself. . .Steel Magnolias. Can they not even do RENT before they dredge up plays from the 80s?
I think Steel Magnolias really needs to be retired. They just did a REVIVAL of it here in New York. I mean … a revival???
Rehearsals start this week
Once again.. Congratulations! :)
So if you’re the client, is it ok to ask out your masseuse while you’re being worked on? I’ve never actually done that, but I was tempted once.
…ask your masseuse if he’s Canadian. There are many Canucks that think the quintessential Canadian experience is to make whoopie in a canoe without it tipping…
…well, maybe you shouldn’t ask him…
…I mean it’s totally up to you of course…
It seems vaguely inappropriate, doesn’t it??
*shakes head*
Indeed it does.
Bryan Brown would not have countenanced such a proposal.. and neither would Mimi Rogers.. possibly.
Bryan – it’s vaguely inappropriate but I think it must be very very common. At least that way around. Clients getting crushes or falling in lust with their masseuse. I just don’t think it’s very common the other way around. My way, I mean.
But then again, what do I know.
Woah – ‘corner of the desk’ pictures. I haven’t seen those in ages! Please post – and also a pictorial evidence of your ‘green thunb’!
Oh God, Noggie – it’s going to take me another 2 months to figure out how to send them to myself. Once I do that – many many camera phone photos of my plants will then be posted on my blog.
GUY ADKINS!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rehearsals begin this week!!!! YAYYYYY!!!!!!
Rehearsals start this week
Did you tell us what it was and I just missed it? Or is it still bad ju-ju to say?
still bad ju-ju!
Sheila, Sean was also nominated–in the same category as Guy. What are the chances of that??
And once again, rehearsals for WHAT?!?!
kate – dude, he was?? that is so weird, so funny – somehow I missed his name.
Go, Guy and Sean!!!
Pastor Sean!!
C’mon….bad juju to tell the name of a show you’re already in? That’s a little toojuju…
I mean, I already admitted I’m doing “Annie”…you can admit anything…
barry – I’ll talk about the show when I’m ready to talk about it. Enough. Stop.
Sorry, I didn’t realize it was a sore spot..
It’s not a sore spot. It’s that: when I choose to talk about it, i will.
Fred and George are two of my favorite characters. i love them most of all in Order of the Phoenix (they’re great in Half-Blood Prince, too). and after re-reading Goblet of Fire and OOTP (i’m halfway through Half-Blood Prince again), i’ve decided that Order is my very favorite of all.
and i know what you mean, i get so sad when getting close to the end of the books! especially that one.