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thirsty I was reading a friend Courtney's blog the other day (on blogspot) and kinda liked a format bit she used, so I'm stealing it... She's in Japan, what's she going to do about it? :)
reading: Harry Potter VI, up to chapter 7 so far, but I didn't get to read much of it last night, so I'm behind schedule.
watched: 14-minute video on pysanky (Ukrainian easter eggs) which didn't shirk the importance of non-Christian tradition in the origin of said art form.
quitting: temp job at the medical center. Gave them two weeks because...
cast in: Mrs. Warren's Profession by some Shaw guy at Actor's Repertory in Spokane. Weeeeehaa! but also
pissed off: Brett and Cat. in my fervor to tell people about the show, I called them after they'd gone to bed... Sorry, guys! I promise I'll never do it again until there's an emergency. And by never, I mean love. And by love I do mean pizza.
and p.s. LJ's spellcheck thought perhaps when I typed "Weeeehaa" I intended to comment on the Dutch master... Vermeer. Go know.
August 11 2005, 21:02:39 UTC 6 years ago
August 12 2005, 15:51:26 UTC 6 years ago
Thanks!
Thanks, Dave! I don't know the play, but it's a PLAY (read "not a musical")!August 13 2005, 02:05:32 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Thanks!
plays are just as good as musicals...no need to laugh and point.August 15 2005, 00:51:34 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Thanks!
Ha! Hopefully, right?Anonymous
August 11 2005, 22:52:06 UTC 6 years ago
Aaron
August 12 2005, 15:54:48 UTC 6 years ago
August 12 2005, 04:30:08 UTC 6 years ago
Congratulations!
What's Miss Warren's Profession about?What are you playing?
R
August 12 2005, 15:56:56 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Congratulations!
what what? I think it's about a lady named Mrs. Warren and the audience watches her at work... Kinda like a reality show, but on stage. And without those confessional rooms.I'll be playing -- drum roll please... (as if you can't already feel what's coming) -- all this buildup is ruining the concise comedy of the joke in the first place... The Profession! Da-da! I'm... done with that joke now. But for anyone else reading this (because I've already spoken to ranispins on the phone) I'll be playing Frank, the dashing one.
August 13 2005, 03:13:56 UTC 6 years ago
August 16 2005, 15:32:48 UTC 6 years ago
August 12 2005, 12:58:28 UTC 6 years ago
What I *really* want to comment on is:
You *schedule* your HP reading? I mean, like and agenda and everything.
Harry Potter Action Items
Day One: Acquire book and place cover sleeve in safe location. Read pages 1-79.
Day Two: Review page 79, read pages 80-100.
Day Three: Review page 100, make up for lost time by reading pages 101-243.
ETC...
Where did you fall behind? What happens if you don't make your deadline?
August 12 2005, 16:03:47 UTC 6 years ago
August 12 2005, 16:07:37 UTC 6 years ago
Jon, only you could be so BOLD!
August 12 2005, 16:48:53 UTC 6 years ago
August 12 2005, 16:56:04 UTC 6 years ago
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August 12 2005, 16:06:00 UTC 6 years ago
I LOVED the 6th Harry Potter book! I'm glad you finally came around to reading them, even if it took you a couple of years.
*note: you probably don't remember the conversation the two of us had years ago when I urged you to read Harry Potter cause I thought you would really enjoy it and you said, more or less, "Meh. So-and-so told me to read it, but it's a kid's book." or something. And I told you you would like it because the main character had to wear glasses. And then you told me that Matthew Broderick was going to be in the new Music Man, which aired like a year and a half later.
August 12 2005, 16:51:53 UTC 6 years ago
Response to note: You're right, I don't remember it, but it made me laugh. And well... As good as MB was in MM. . . book six is proving to be more interesting. (Although I was listening to the TV soundtrack -- and aptly called so -- for that version and realizing that vocally Mr. Broderick was actually kinda cool, but physically lacked all interest.)
August 12 2005, 16:59:57 UTC 6 years ago
Nope. Can't think of anybody looking to sublet right now, but if someone comes up, I'll let you know.
Oh, and...you DID hear about the Pope being against the reading of Harry Potter, didn't you? Or am I wrong? I know you're not a practicing Catholic anymore, but I thought it might concern you, nonetheless. Thoughts on the matter?
August 12 2005, 17:10:20 UTC 6 years ago
No, I didn't hear 'bout that, but it doesn't surprise me. He's kind of slanderably Catholic sometimes. I respect a stand being made on a issue that he sees as important, but it also hearkens back to many many parts of human history that we'd rather not remember.
August 12 2005, 17:22:16 UTC 6 years ago
Oh, and I look forward to seeing your performance. Someday when we live in the same city, we'll have popcorn night and watch a double feature of Forum or some other play you did recently and Music Man.
Well the thing the Pope, from what I remember, had a problem with was the use of 'magic' in the book...and the lack of teaching the importance of 'right and wrong'...which leads me to believe that A.) he hasn't actually READ the book, just listened to what someone else (who probably also hasn't actually read the book) told him about their own perceptions of the book; and B.) he obviously also hasn't read LotR, cause there's a whole heck-of-a-lot-of magic in that book too...though maybe it'll be determined wrong too in the end, which will be ironic if it happens, cause I believe Tolkien WAS himself a Catholic.
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Anonymous
August 17 2005, 15:43:47 UTC 6 years ago
hee hee! I are mimicked!
You're welcome, I suppose ;9The danger of this format is that if you're me, by the time you're finished writing the actual intro bit, you've already got an entry that is as long as many folkses' regular writings. My problem is that I tend to write a 'War and Peace' every time I publish a blog entry, which usually means that they are every couple weeks. Dangerous stuff!
And another Potterphile! weee! I fall into the obsessive compulsive category, I can't not read a book I like in record time.
August 17 2005, 16:02:33 UTC 6 years ago
Re: hee hee! I are mimicked!
That's true. The length of my postings can vary depending on how much I want to throw out there. I had a really nice post yesterday that got erased before it was posted... And I just didn't feel like rewriting the whole thing.I kinda like the intro format bit. I feel like I'm being profiled in Bop magazine or something. HA! (He was last seen with: Lindsay Lohan; Favorite food: spaghetti; Likes: making movies, spending time with his family and dirt bike racing) Unfortunately of course, mine isn't accompanied by a full-page color teen-glam shot.
I finished HPVI!
Anonymous
August 18 2005, 15:12:30 UTC 6 years ago
Re: hee hee! I are mimicked!
Lindsay Lohan... it is so late to speak of such deep, ancient evil inhabiting a formerly normal and occasionally cherubic face. Where did the former Parent Trap remake actress-lette go?And congratulations on finishing on Potter VI... welcome to two years of crackpotter theories on how everything will finally resolve.
My last blog entry was a really concise bit about a mountain I hiked and blogger hate it, and the bitterness was profound.
August 18 2005, 17:16:33 UTC 6 years ago
Re: hee hee! I are mimicked!
Indeed. When we saw that movie, we were the only three people in the theatre, so my sister and friend got up and were dancing to their little "handshake song". Oy!Thanks! I can give it back to Brett and Cat now. And I do have my own theories on things that dramatically need to happen, but that's neither here nor there because my initials ain't J.K.
Why did blogger hate the post? I like the phrase "Japanese mood lighting" It made me chuckle.
Anonymous
August 22 2005, 14:52:43 UTC 6 years ago
Re: hee hee! I are mimicked!
I don't know, but it made me bitter, because I had just spent the free time I'd gotten from cancelled lessons to write a really concise summary, and it all turned into so much smoke. But after doing all that work, I ought to know better than to hit 'post' without copying the work somewhere, just in case... with the bitterness! with the fist shaking!But only three weeks late, I wrote about my Nikko trip, although I was so dead tired writing it that I wonder if it turned out readable... perhaps I should check?
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