Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
Blah!
I am in California at the moment. Tonight was 1st preview for Bleacher Bums. The show has been going well so far. We will start tech-ing The Weir on Monday. I will catch a plane Wednesday and finally head home.
As always seems to happen when I go out of town for extended periods of time, life has thrown me a few curve balls*. One of my mother's two surviving brothers had been sick and went to the hospital to discover that his whole body is riddled with cancer. The doctors have estimated one to six months left for him.
I received an email last week that a friend from college (the first time) died after a long illness last Sunday. Steve was truly one of the good guys. Despite the pressure of a very intensive program, he was always able to maintain a view of the larger picture. He was a dedicated family man and managed to find a balance between life and work that has so far eluded me. I wish I was a better writer so I could really express what a loss to the world Steve's passing is.
I won't go into details other than to say there is no bad guy in the situation, but I am single again.
I will pause here to say Happy Birthday to S, who is 28 today.
Peace in your crease, folks.
As always seems to happen when I go out of town for extended periods of time, life has thrown me a few curve balls*. One of my mother's two surviving brothers had been sick and went to the hospital to discover that his whole body is riddled with cancer. The doctors have estimated one to six months left for him.
I received an email last week that a friend from college (the first time) died after a long illness last Sunday. Steve was truly one of the good guys. Despite the pressure of a very intensive program, he was always able to maintain a view of the larger picture. He was a dedicated family man and managed to find a balance between life and work that has so far eluded me. I wish I was a better writer so I could really express what a loss to the world Steve's passing is.
I won't go into details other than to say there is no bad guy in the situation, but I am single again.
I will pause here to say Happy Birthday to S, who is 28 today.
Peace in your crease, folks.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
And There Was Much Rejoicing
Let all of the gods in heaven be praised.
I have working AC in my apartment!
I have working AC in my apartment!
Wouldn't It Be Great...
...if there was a magic ring we could drop into a volcano, and George Bush and all his cronies would just go away?
Saturday, July 21, 2007
What I Am Doing Right Now...
...is drinking Jack Daniel's from the bottle and listening to Folsom Prison Blues.
It's been a grumpy two days.
It's been a grumpy two days.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
If Nothing Else....
A meme. Citymouse tagged me with this some time ago.
Bloggers must post these rules and provide eight random facts about themselves. In the post, the tagged blogger tags eight other bloggers and notify them they have been tagged.
1) I can juggle. At an earlier time in my life, I lived with professional clowns. I could not stand to be the only person in the house who could not juggle, so I learned. I can only do balls though, not clubs. My attempts to juggle clubs ended when I actually knocked myself unconscious with one.
2) I have three tattoos. I want more. The last one I got was with S, a few days before she moved to New Orleans and I moved back to DC. It is a symbol that means truth, a promise between us that there we will always be honest with one another, whether we want to hear it or not.
3) When I was a small child, I had surgery to correct a chest and rib deformity and for some time had a metal plate in my chest. I have a wicked scar as a reminder. I usually win the "Best Scar" contest unless someone has had open heart surgery.
4) I have lived in my current apartment longer than I have lived any one place in my adult life.
5) My 40th birthday is on a Tuesday. How much does that suck?
6) I spent about a year managing a fast food restaurant when I was 18/19.
7) I am allergic to most fruits and vegetables raw.
8) I hate the taste of licorice.
I don't have anyone to tag because most of my friends have stopped blogging. So it's a free for all.
Bloggers must post these rules and provide eight random facts about themselves. In the post, the tagged blogger tags eight other bloggers and notify them they have been tagged.
1) I can juggle. At an earlier time in my life, I lived with professional clowns. I could not stand to be the only person in the house who could not juggle, so I learned. I can only do balls though, not clubs. My attempts to juggle clubs ended when I actually knocked myself unconscious with one.
2) I have three tattoos. I want more. The last one I got was with S, a few days before she moved to New Orleans and I moved back to DC. It is a symbol that means truth, a promise between us that there we will always be honest with one another, whether we want to hear it or not.
3) When I was a small child, I had surgery to correct a chest and rib deformity and for some time had a metal plate in my chest. I have a wicked scar as a reminder. I usually win the "Best Scar" contest unless someone has had open heart surgery.
4) I have lived in my current apartment longer than I have lived any one place in my adult life.
5) My 40th birthday is on a Tuesday. How much does that suck?
6) I spent about a year managing a fast food restaurant when I was 18/19.
7) I am allergic to most fruits and vegetables raw.
8) I hate the taste of licorice.
I don't have anyone to tag because most of my friends have stopped blogging. So it's a free for all.
Monday, July 02, 2007
What I Am Doing Right Now....
... is procrastinating.
I have much to do in these next couple of days before I head to Hartford for a week (I did mention Hartford, right?) to assist D on a show at Hartford Stage. I am designing scenery for Songs For A New World with Open Circle Theatre, then is scenery and lighting for Bleacher Bums and The Weir, which are being done in rotating rep. And I have been having meetings about African Continuum's first show of the season.
So a lot of scenery to draft.
Other stuff that has been going on.
S finally got a new phone, so I have been able to chat with her again, which has been good, especially because I have been able to get updates on a mutual friend who was in the hospital.
I am, as I write this, waiting on the AC guy to come look at my unit. With any luck the AC will be repaired in my apartment when I get back from Hartford.
I am trying to find time to go look at studio space so I can finally stop working from home.
I have been spending much of my free time with the GF. That has been nice.
Not much else going on. I know I have been really bad with the whole staying in touch thing of late. Sorry about that folks. Check back soon, because I actually have some thoughts on the news to share, and I have a meme from City Mouse I still need to do. So there should be something to read up here soon.
Peace in yer crease.
I have much to do in these next couple of days before I head to Hartford for a week (I did mention Hartford, right?) to assist D on a show at Hartford Stage. I am designing scenery for Songs For A New World with Open Circle Theatre, then is scenery and lighting for Bleacher Bums and The Weir, which are being done in rotating rep. And I have been having meetings about African Continuum's first show of the season.
So a lot of scenery to draft.
Other stuff that has been going on.
S finally got a new phone, so I have been able to chat with her again, which has been good, especially because I have been able to get updates on a mutual friend who was in the hospital.
I am, as I write this, waiting on the AC guy to come look at my unit. With any luck the AC will be repaired in my apartment when I get back from Hartford.
I am trying to find time to go look at studio space so I can finally stop working from home.
I have been spending much of my free time with the GF. That has been nice.
Not much else going on. I know I have been really bad with the whole staying in touch thing of late. Sorry about that folks. Check back soon, because I actually have some thoughts on the news to share, and I have a meme from City Mouse I still need to do. So there should be something to read up here soon.
Peace in yer crease.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Show Me The Money
So you would think this is simple, right? A fee was agreed on, we signed a contract, I did the work. Yet the contract has been violated because the producer did not have my check for me on the day of the show. It has now been four days and I have yet to see the check.
Just effing pay me what was agreed to!
This is my single biggest complaint about being a freelance artist. Why do some people feel it is OK to pay people when they get around to it? I doubt very much the people responsible would accept the same behavior from their employer.
Here is a little clue, folks. This is not a hobby. This is how I make my living. I have bills to pay just like you. So fucking pay me on time!
One of the things that sucks about this situation, other than not having the money, is I now have to be an asshole to people I will (hopefully) be working with again. In a discussion with fellow designers recently, the subject of having an agent came up. While many were skeptical about the benefits of employing someone in that role, the mutual agreement was there was certainly value in having someone else who engaged in the fights with management so that one could go into the working situation without having to be the bad guy.
The other thing that sucks is I have very little real recourse. Both shows for which I am currently owed money have closed, so I can't threaten a cease and desist. Do I have to be that guy? You know the one who takes the show disc out of the console and won't restore the show until they have been given a check. Talk about a way to sour a relationship.
What do my readers think?
Just effing pay me what was agreed to!
This is my single biggest complaint about being a freelance artist. Why do some people feel it is OK to pay people when they get around to it? I doubt very much the people responsible would accept the same behavior from their employer.
Here is a little clue, folks. This is not a hobby. This is how I make my living. I have bills to pay just like you. So fucking pay me on time!
One of the things that sucks about this situation, other than not having the money, is I now have to be an asshole to people I will (hopefully) be working with again. In a discussion with fellow designers recently, the subject of having an agent came up. While many were skeptical about the benefits of employing someone in that role, the mutual agreement was there was certainly value in having someone else who engaged in the fights with management so that one could go into the working situation without having to be the bad guy.
The other thing that sucks is I have very little real recourse. Both shows for which I am currently owed money have closed, so I can't threaten a cease and desist. Do I have to be that guy? You know the one who takes the show disc out of the console and won't restore the show until they have been given a check. Talk about a way to sour a relationship.
What do my readers think?
A Few Thoughts On The Upcoming Presidential Elections, And Other Political Ramblings
First off, the first Presidential Primary is not until my birthday next year*, yet media outlets of all kinds are focused on presidential candidates. I think this is a little nuts, but there are probably a number of reasons for this. The Democrats** certainly smell the blood in the water, believing they are a shoe-in for the White House, so it is just a matter of choosing who. The Republicans are trying to simultaneously appear to believe we are pursuing the right course in Iraq whilst distancing themselves from the President. I have not had the leisure to really examine the front runners closely, but I have not heard a great deal on either side that has inspired much hope. The political system is broken methinks, though I have a few thoughts on steps to get it back on the right direction.
According to Project Vote Smart's website, as of yesterday there were 28 Democrats, 37 Republicans, and 49 from various other political parties. Lets just do the math shall we? 28+37+49= 114 people running for President! 114. And if we are lucky we will have three of those people to choose from come next November. Three out of 114. Now I am all for a little sifting of the political field, separating the wheat from the chaff. But it seems that every election I have voted in since I was eligible to do so has been a choice between two or three bits of chaff. Where the hell is the wheat? Perhaps the current threshing machine is not as effective as we would like to think, so here is another idea:
Do away with the Primary system. Everyone runs. Let those who have extreme agendas syphon off the fringes of the political spectrum, so that those of us who are more moderate and more capable of compromise might be able to find a candidate who exhibits those same qualities. Perhaps then we could have actual discourse on those things that really matter to most people, the economy, health care, education, retirement security, public safety, the enviroment. Perhaps then we would not have the President of the United States suggesting to us that we should waste time, money and energy to amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage in an attempt to arouse the most rabid and radical fringe of his party.
And speaking of Constitutional amendments, isn't it strange that the only amendment to that document in the last thirty- six years has been one to keep Representatives from voting themselves a pay raise that will take effect while they are in their present term. Here is one I would like to suggest: term limits for Senators and members of the House. We have imposed those limits on the Executive branch, yet a Congressmen or Senator can be re-elected to that position until they die, or at least until they send suggestive emails to high school pages. If you want to begin to break the stranglehold that big business and their various lobbies hold over government, take away the incentive for our elective officials to pander to them. If they can only serve two terms in the House and two terms in the Senate, they won't be so worried about securing campaign contributions so they can get re-elected ad-infinitum.
While we are on the subject of election campaign financing, let's amend the Public Campaign Financing laws to stop making it a choice whether or not to accept public funding. Every candidate gets the same amount of money. Period. And no individual or organization may spend money on a candidate's election campaign, or take out ads on their behalf. Theodore Roosevelt suggested this in his State of the Union address in 1907. That's one hundred years ago, BTW, and let me tell you that is one "old fashioned value" I could get behind.
Another thing I would like to see shifted is the Electoral College system. I know many liberals who would like to see the system go away entirely, and become a popular vote, but I disagree. To go to a popular vote would mean a candidate would really only have to campaign in California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania to obtain the majority of the popular vote. That leaves most states with no say in the head of the Executive branch of the government. Instead I would propose a change so that carrying the majority in a state does not garner a candidate that entire state's Electoral College voted, but instead the percentage of the popular vote he or she carried.
A few other thoughts at random.
Hillary Clinton cannot win. Why has no one told her this. Why is the Democratic leadership so blind on this issue? As much as the Republicans hated Bill, they despise her even more. I know women who refer to her as "That stuck up bitch who doesn't know her place." The conservatives will come out of the woodwork to bring her down. Hillary on the ticket puts a Republican in the White House for four more years.
Barak Obama cannot win either. I may be called a racist, but I don't believe we will see a black President in my lifetime. I also think that is sad.
We need to stop trying to force "Democracy" down everyone's throats. It is not a system of government handed down by the gods and just because it seems to work for us does not mean it is right for all countries.
We need to stop fighting the "War on Terror". No government in the history of the world has ever defeated terrorism. They have all eventually negotiated peace and given concessions to those they labeled "terrorists". The people who are targeting our country are doing so because of a half a century of US interference in their countries. Don't believe me, look at what a Republican candidate for President had to say.
There is more, but it will have to wait.
* January 8, 2008
** ie. the pussies who have waited until they had a majority in Congress to even begin to confront the Presidential Imbecile about the debacle that is Iraq.
According to Project Vote Smart's website, as of yesterday there were 28 Democrats, 37 Republicans, and 49 from various other political parties. Lets just do the math shall we? 28+37+49= 114 people running for President! 114. And if we are lucky we will have three of those people to choose from come next November. Three out of 114. Now I am all for a little sifting of the political field, separating the wheat from the chaff. But it seems that every election I have voted in since I was eligible to do so has been a choice between two or three bits of chaff. Where the hell is the wheat? Perhaps the current threshing machine is not as effective as we would like to think, so here is another idea:
Do away with the Primary system. Everyone runs. Let those who have extreme agendas syphon off the fringes of the political spectrum, so that those of us who are more moderate and more capable of compromise might be able to find a candidate who exhibits those same qualities. Perhaps then we could have actual discourse on those things that really matter to most people, the economy, health care, education, retirement security, public safety, the enviroment. Perhaps then we would not have the President of the United States suggesting to us that we should waste time, money and energy to amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage in an attempt to arouse the most rabid and radical fringe of his party.
And speaking of Constitutional amendments, isn't it strange that the only amendment to that document in the last thirty- six years has been one to keep Representatives from voting themselves a pay raise that will take effect while they are in their present term. Here is one I would like to suggest: term limits for Senators and members of the House. We have imposed those limits on the Executive branch, yet a Congressmen or Senator can be re-elected to that position until they die, or at least until they send suggestive emails to high school pages. If you want to begin to break the stranglehold that big business and their various lobbies hold over government, take away the incentive for our elective officials to pander to them. If they can only serve two terms in the House and two terms in the Senate, they won't be so worried about securing campaign contributions so they can get re-elected ad-infinitum.
While we are on the subject of election campaign financing, let's amend the Public Campaign Financing laws to stop making it a choice whether or not to accept public funding. Every candidate gets the same amount of money. Period. And no individual or organization may spend money on a candidate's election campaign, or take out ads on their behalf. Theodore Roosevelt suggested this in his State of the Union address in 1907. That's one hundred years ago, BTW, and let me tell you that is one "old fashioned value" I could get behind.
Another thing I would like to see shifted is the Electoral College system. I know many liberals who would like to see the system go away entirely, and become a popular vote, but I disagree. To go to a popular vote would mean a candidate would really only have to campaign in California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania to obtain the majority of the popular vote. That leaves most states with no say in the head of the Executive branch of the government. Instead I would propose a change so that carrying the majority in a state does not garner a candidate that entire state's Electoral College voted, but instead the percentage of the popular vote he or she carried.
A few other thoughts at random.
Hillary Clinton cannot win. Why has no one told her this. Why is the Democratic leadership so blind on this issue? As much as the Republicans hated Bill, they despise her even more. I know women who refer to her as "That stuck up bitch who doesn't know her place." The conservatives will come out of the woodwork to bring her down. Hillary on the ticket puts a Republican in the White House for four more years.
Barak Obama cannot win either. I may be called a racist, but I don't believe we will see a black President in my lifetime. I also think that is sad.
We need to stop trying to force "Democracy" down everyone's throats. It is not a system of government handed down by the gods and just because it seems to work for us does not mean it is right for all countries.
We need to stop fighting the "War on Terror". No government in the history of the world has ever defeated terrorism. They have all eventually negotiated peace and given concessions to those they labeled "terrorists". The people who are targeting our country are doing so because of a half a century of US interference in their countries. Don't believe me, look at what a Republican candidate for President had to say.
There is more, but it will have to wait.
* January 8, 2008
** ie. the pussies who have waited until they had a majority in Congress to even begin to confront the Presidential Imbecile about the debacle that is Iraq.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Back To Work!
Except for returning a few emails, I took last week off. I sat in my apartment and read, watched movies, played video games. It was fabulous. I have designed or assisted on 21 shows so far this season in addition to work at the Atlas and working as Production Manager on a ballet production in November. I have been ready for a break.
Now I am trying to adjust to being in the working world again. I would love for the season to be over, but I have three more shows to finish up. Fortunately they are all small, but still I am feeling as if maybe the week was not enough.
Have to get back to work now.
Peace in yer crease!
Now I am trying to adjust to being in the working world again. I would love for the season to be over, but I have three more shows to finish up. Fortunately they are all small, but still I am feeling as if maybe the week was not enough.
Have to get back to work now.
Peace in yer crease!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
The End Of The NY Adventure, And Life In DC
The NY adventure went well.
Friday night, after the first preview and expected rounds of drinks at the bar just down the street, I went with the General Manager, the Sound Designer and others to a party being thrown in the Museum of Natural History. It was a blast, despite the odd "buy tickets to get drinks" system that did not seem to be working particularly well (we just slipped the guy at the table some cash). We went to the planetarium and watched the Cosmic Collisions show, narrated by Robert Redford. An interesting experience while somewhat less than sober.
Of course at all such events I feel fairly out of place. I kept waiting for one of the staff to come up and say, "Sorry sir, but you are not nearly hip enough to be in here."
Saturday morning was a bit murky. I woke up about an hour and a half before my alarm, probably because I was so excited that the GF was coming in that night. I packed up my stuff and left the keys for the whacko landlady, then headed to the theatre to go over focus with the person who will be responsible for maintaining the show through it's run.
After the matinee I checked into a hotel in midtown, and took a nap. Then was the evening performance, then back to the hotel for, you guessed it, another nap.
The GF was coming in on a bus at around 2:00 AM, so I left the hotel around 12:30 to get a bite to eat and meet her at Port Authority. While I was walking around the block, I had one of those quintessential NY experiences. A guy came up to me and tried to sell me Ex. I so love NY.
Her bus arrived in NY on time, but because the gate into the station was closed, they ended up circling the block for the better part of half an hour waiting for a guide to get them in a different route.
Sunday we saw a matinee of The Drowsy Chaperone which was fabulous. I cannot gush enough about this show. It is this sweet, mildly self deprecating ode to musical theatre and it's ability, when really good,I to transport us out of this at best tedious and at worst soul crushing experience that is daily life. I cried a little at the end.
Afterwords was dinner with D and R and a friend of theirs, then the evening performance of Beyond Glory. We finished the evening having cocktails with the other designers at the hotel, and saying farewell to the Sound Designer, who lives in Portland, and the Projection Designer who is from Chicago.
On Monday we checked out of the hotel, and then headed for Coney Island. A friend had tod me they were closing the attractions there to build condos or something, so I figured we should go see it before it was gone.
The place was delightfully tacky. We rode a roller coaster that actually aggravated an old back injury, took a turn on the Wonder Wheel Ferris wheel, rode some other ride the name of which
I can't recall (I think the name was shaken out of my head by all the twisting around), and even watched the Coney Island Side-Show. We finished up with hot dogs from Nathan's. Then was the long bus ride back home.
I am endeavoring to settle back into life in DC.
The past couple of days have been about trying to straighten up the cave and putting out a few fires in work life. I am trying to take it easy this week, as much of a vacation as I can manage. Next week the madness starts again as I finish up with my last three shows of the season and start prepping for the top of next season, which is much fuller than it has ever been.
Peace in yer crease.
Friday night, after the first preview and expected rounds of drinks at the bar just down the street, I went with the General Manager, the Sound Designer and others to a party being thrown in the Museum of Natural History. It was a blast, despite the odd "buy tickets to get drinks" system that did not seem to be working particularly well (we just slipped the guy at the table some cash). We went to the planetarium and watched the Cosmic Collisions show, narrated by Robert Redford. An interesting experience while somewhat less than sober.
Of course at all such events I feel fairly out of place. I kept waiting for one of the staff to come up and say, "Sorry sir, but you are not nearly hip enough to be in here."
Saturday morning was a bit murky. I woke up about an hour and a half before my alarm, probably because I was so excited that the GF was coming in that night. I packed up my stuff and left the keys for the whacko landlady, then headed to the theatre to go over focus with the person who will be responsible for maintaining the show through it's run.
After the matinee I checked into a hotel in midtown, and took a nap. Then was the evening performance, then back to the hotel for, you guessed it, another nap.
The GF was coming in on a bus at around 2:00 AM, so I left the hotel around 12:30 to get a bite to eat and meet her at Port Authority. While I was walking around the block, I had one of those quintessential NY experiences. A guy came up to me and tried to sell me Ex. I so love NY.
Her bus arrived in NY on time, but because the gate into the station was closed, they ended up circling the block for the better part of half an hour waiting for a guide to get them in a different route.
Sunday we saw a matinee of The Drowsy Chaperone which was fabulous. I cannot gush enough about this show. It is this sweet, mildly self deprecating ode to musical theatre and it's ability, when really good,I to transport us out of this at best tedious and at worst soul crushing experience that is daily life. I cried a little at the end.
Afterwords was dinner with D and R and a friend of theirs, then the evening performance of Beyond Glory. We finished the evening having cocktails with the other designers at the hotel, and saying farewell to the Sound Designer, who lives in Portland, and the Projection Designer who is from Chicago.
On Monday we checked out of the hotel, and then headed for Coney Island. A friend had tod me they were closing the attractions there to build condos or something, so I figured we should go see it before it was gone.
The place was delightfully tacky. We rode a roller coaster that actually aggravated an old back injury, took a turn on the Wonder Wheel Ferris wheel, rode some other ride the name of which
I can't recall (I think the name was shaken out of my head by all the twisting around), and even watched the Coney Island Side-Show. We finished up with hot dogs from Nathan's. Then was the long bus ride back home.
I am endeavoring to settle back into life in DC.
The past couple of days have been about trying to straighten up the cave and putting out a few fires in work life. I am trying to take it easy this week, as much of a vacation as I can manage. Next week the madness starts again as I finish up with my last three shows of the season and start prepping for the top of next season, which is much fuller than it has ever been.
Peace in yer crease.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
The New York Adventure- Day ?
The show here has been going frighteningly well so far. We have invited dress this evening, and during yesterday afternoon's run I took not one single note. We are so far ahead of the game that I went with the design staff of our show last night to see Corum Boy. Despite some over the top moments, I really enjoyed the show. I was saddened (although not really surprised) to hear that it has already posted closing notices. If you get to NY before it closes it is certainly worth a look.
Not much else going on. I had thought I would be here for three weeks, but I will now be home Monday night. I will miss the great food to be had here in NY, but I am ready to be back home and perhaps spend some time quietly in my apartment for a few days.
The GF is coming to NY on Saturday night. Since the woman I am subletting a room from here is such a nutjob, we will be checking into a hotel. I am excited to see her.
Peace in yer crease!
Not much else going on. I had thought I would be here for three weeks, but I will now be home Monday night. I will miss the great food to be had here in NY, but I am ready to be back home and perhaps spend some time quietly in my apartment for a few days.
The GF is coming to NY on Saturday night. Since the woman I am subletting a room from here is such a nutjob, we will be checking into a hotel. I am excited to see her.
Peace in yer crease!
Friday, May 18, 2007
The New York Adventure- Day 1
We began focus around 9:00 AM this morning. We finished up about 4:20 PM. D and I went to have dinner and a cocktail with a friend of his and R's. A delightful day full of work done with enough people, all of whom were competent and eager to perform their duties.
How I wish every show could be that way.
On a side note:
It is often easy for those of us who do not live and work here to be cynical about it, but I have to say working every day in the theatre district in NY is pretty effing exciting.
There is an energy here that just infects you.
Peace in yer crease!
How I wish every show could be that way.
On a side note:
It is often easy for those of us who do not live and work here to be cynical about it, but I have to say working every day in the theatre district in NY is pretty effing exciting.
There is an energy here that just infects you.
Peace in yer crease!
In Case You Were Wondering
My landlady here in NY is an effing whacko!
Just thought you would like to know.
Just thought you would like to know.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
What A Difference A Year Makes
About a year ago, I wrote a post about how much I liked New York in the Spring.
It still holds true a year later.
But unlike this time last year, I am not here on my last gig of the season with no work to look forward to. Right now I am booked through October. And the work keeps rolling in.
Also unlike last year, I have someone in my life who puts a big smile on my face. For the first time in a long time I left town for work with a sense of regret. And that is a good thing. It makes me look forward to coming home.
So things are great. Something I sometimes have a hard time adjusting to. But I am beginning to get used to it.
Peace in yer crease.
It still holds true a year later.
But unlike this time last year, I am not here on my last gig of the season with no work to look forward to. Right now I am booked through October. And the work keeps rolling in.
Also unlike last year, I have someone in my life who puts a big smile on my face. For the first time in a long time I left town for work with a sense of regret. And that is a good thing. It makes me look forward to coming home.
So things are great. Something I sometimes have a hard time adjusting to. But I am beginning to get used to it.
Peace in yer crease.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
What's New?
So where the heck have ya'll been?
Just kidding.
Clearly I have been less than diligent about writing here on the ol blog. In my defense, I have been a bit busy of late, so have not had a great deal of free time.
So what's been going on?
I have been in tech for about the past six weeks. The most recent show, The Oracle with African Continuum, was a wonderful experience from a creative standpoint, and is some of the best lighting I have ever done. Go see it, not for my lighting, but for the fabulous work done by the other designers as well as for the cast who are fantastic.
I am trying to get my ducks in a row so I am prepared to go to NY on Thursday. I will be there for about three weeks assisting D on Beyond Glory at Roundabout Theatre.
Those of you who have been reading this blog for awhile probably remember that last summer was a bit stressful because of a lack of work, among other things. No such worries this year. I am at the moment booked pretty solidly through early October. There are a few small gaps in there, but since i just opened my 20th show this season as a Designer or assistant, I will be trying to take it easy during those times.
What free time I have had has been spent with my girlfriend.
I will pause now whilst you pick yourselves up off the floor.
Yes, I used the words "my girlfriend" and I wasn't being ironic. I won't share details here, but if I am not posting a lot for the next while, I hope you will understand.
Peace in yer crease, folks. I love you all.
Just kidding.
Clearly I have been less than diligent about writing here on the ol blog. In my defense, I have been a bit busy of late, so have not had a great deal of free time.
So what's been going on?
I have been in tech for about the past six weeks. The most recent show, The Oracle with African Continuum, was a wonderful experience from a creative standpoint, and is some of the best lighting I have ever done. Go see it, not for my lighting, but for the fabulous work done by the other designers as well as for the cast who are fantastic.
I am trying to get my ducks in a row so I am prepared to go to NY on Thursday. I will be there for about three weeks assisting D on Beyond Glory at Roundabout Theatre.
Those of you who have been reading this blog for awhile probably remember that last summer was a bit stressful because of a lack of work, among other things. No such worries this year. I am at the moment booked pretty solidly through early October. There are a few small gaps in there, but since i just opened my 20th show this season as a Designer or assistant, I will be trying to take it easy during those times.
What free time I have had has been spent with my girlfriend.
I will pause now whilst you pick yourselves up off the floor.
Yes, I used the words "my girlfriend" and I wasn't being ironic. I won't share details here, but if I am not posting a lot for the next while, I hope you will understand.
Peace in yer crease, folks. I love you all.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Things To Look Forward To
On Friday I load in Sleeping and Waking for Charter Theatre. We tech over the weekend and have previews mid next week. I really like the script and am enjoying the challenge of making the show work in a small space with limited resources.
Next week load in begins for The Oracle with African Continuum. I am designing both Scenery and lighting, and although I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, I am really psyched about the chance to do a big show again.
I am looking forward to something else I won't share here, but it has put a smile on my face more than once during what has been a very stressful week.
Peace out, bitches!
Next week load in begins for The Oracle with African Continuum. I am designing both Scenery and lighting, and although I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, I am really psyched about the chance to do a big show again.
I am looking forward to something else I won't share here, but it has put a smile on my face more than once during what has been a very stressful week.
Peace out, bitches!
Things To Look Forward To
On Friday I load in Sleeping and Waking for Charter Theatre. We tech over the weekend and have previews mid next week. I really like the script and am enjoying the challenge of making the show work in a small space with limited resources.
Next week load in begins for The Oracle with African Continuum. I am designing both Scenery and Lighting, and although I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, I am really psyched about the chance to do a big show again.
I am looking forward to something else I won't share here, but it has put a smile on my face more than once during what has been a very stressful week.
Peace out, bitches!
Next week load in begins for The Oracle with African Continuum. I am designing both Scenery and Lighting, and although I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, I am really psyched about the chance to do a big show again.
I am looking forward to something else I won't share here, but it has put a smile on my face more than once during what has been a very stressful week.
Peace out, bitches!
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