Haven't updated since I saw Wall-E? Mon dieu!

Currently working on a stage adaptation of Night of the Living Dead which will open at the end of October.

Was broke for a little while, back on my feet. At least I never had to choose between gasoline and food.

On repeat, all day, every day:

(Listen to Meet Me Here Later. And then Oceanwalk, which is from the last album.)

One of the most challenging, exciting albums I've ever heard. Listening to it the first times was like my first times listening to Odelay or The Carnival or Small Change. I mean... You and Yer Good Ideas was fantastic, but this is just such a ridiculously amazing step forward.

Going to see Wall-E tonite with my roommates and assorted other friends. Going to ask a girl I met at CPT to come along. Nice Jewish girl from Beachwood, goes to NYU for theatre ed., apparently has a thing for me.

Been hearing great things about Wall-E. And Dark Knight.

Time to get back to work.

Apparently all I ever blog about is returning to the site after an absence.

The story up to this point:
CSU Summer Stages is in full swing. It's a bitch and I love it and some people are really making my life miserable and some people are really making my life fantastic. It's terrifying and exhilirating.


I'm publicity assistant, sound designer, and I'm the Production Manager for our late-nite cabaret series that will perform after the shows. Oy.

I'm moving this weekend. Ohio City/Near West Side/Detroit Shoreway represent.

I have a meeting Wednesday with the assistant to the Executive Artistic Director of my favorite theatre in Cleveland to discuss "opportunities for next season". I hope it means I'm being offered a directing gig.

A friend and I went to the CloudWater Zendo for introduction to Zen Meditation last week. This week I think we're going to go to the Tao Te Ching class, and then maybe the open meditation ceremony that weekend.

I'm going to see Anna Deavere Smith speak at CSU on Tuesday.

It's a really exciting week.

I have returned.

Bitches.

SuicideGirls: Smug and deliberately offensive since 2001.

I spent the night in jail.

Two jails, actually.

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Went to New York this weekend. I saw the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and Times Square and the Natural History Museum and Strawberry Fields etc. etc. etc.

I went to see this and it was awesome:


Go see it. Foreman is fucking brilliant.

Also saw this:

starring


It was pretty good. He's also co-artistic director of the theatre that produced it.

And I bought (Recyclopadia Britannica by People Like Us)
It's pretty awesome, too.

And

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So what a day yesterday.

Night before last, my friend and I went to Gil Mantera's Party Dream at the Grog Shop. I guess it was a promotional concert for Hungarian liquor manufacturer Zwack ("Zwack is most good!")

So I'm up front watching the Dream and this girl next to me starts eyeing me. So I dance with her and she's pretty drunk and it gets to the point where she's slipping ice cubes into my mouth... via her mouth. And then her friends tell me she's engaged. So I dance with her the rest of the show, but it was rather odd. She was cute, too.

And Gil wore my friends clothes. My friend put her hoodie (one of those t-shirty hoodies, with guitars on the sleeves) on the stage cause she was too warm. So Gil picks it up and puts it on over his silver lamé catsuit. It was pretty hot.

All in all an interesting night.

So we left after midnight, and then the fun began. I had to get up at four that morning to help my dad out on a case (he's a headlighting expert who testifies in court cases, usually dealing with night time traffic accidents).

So I got to reenact the woman who got hit by the car. Same old story, dark clothing, walking on the street (leave it to Mahoning/Trumbull counties to not put sidewalks in), early morning before twilight. I can guarantee you, I will never be hit by a car while outside of my vehicle. I've heard too many horror stories to take chances. Got road flares in my trunk, got orange reflective tape, the works.

I can't seem to be attracted to an attainable woman. I met a girl this weekend, J. Our department chairman brought her in to do a movement workshop (Suzuki, Bogart, etc.) and had a get together at his house the night before. I talked to her for a while and she's smart, talented, successful, ambitious, beautiful, etc. etc. etc. But she lives in Manhattan. And I live in Cleveland. And I'm a lazy, apathetic, unmotivated sixth year junior. The women at work are all have boyfriends or are married (one to one of my professors). If I had taken command of my life years ago, I might not be at Cleveland State now. I might be at Yale or Purdue or CalArts. With tons of smart, talented, ambitious women. So it's all my fault.

I've really been into Plastikman's Artifakts [BC] lately.

And I've decided A Doll's House is a really good play.

I'm directing a short play this week called "Wish Fulfillment" by David Simpatico. It's basically thirteen variations on a young man telling his father he's gay; it's all the things flashing thru a young man's mind as he prepares to come out. Next week is "Twenty Dollar Drinks" and selections from Talking With. After that it's "A Bone Close to My Brain" and "The Grand Design". At least I'm making myself do something proactive.

I'm disappointed with Laramie Project. I think I'm just apathetic towards that play.

I'm also in the midst of organizing my All Time Favorite Songs playlist. I went thru my whole collection and wound up with 443 songs. I'll probably add some more, take some out. Now I'm ranking them. The way it works is that whenever a song I haven't ranked comes on and I'm paying attention, I stick it in the hierarchy. What I have so far:

1. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
2. They Might Be Giants - First Kiss
3. They Might Be Giants - New York City (cover of Cub) (what can I say? I love upbeat pop songs)
4. Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
5. Gil Mantera's Party Dream - Blats from the Pabzt
6. Neko Case - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis (cover of Tom Waits)
7. At the Drive-In - Invalid Litter Dept.
8. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
8.5.Wyclef Jean feat. John Forte and Pras - We Trying to Stay Alive (it came on after I'd gotten past 8)
9. Afrikaa Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
10. Joe Jackson - Real Men
11. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
12. Marcy Playground - Sex & Candy
13. The Fugees - Killing Me Softly
14. The Box Tops - The Letter
15. David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In
16. The Fleetwoods - Come Softly

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