one of those nights
I am not able to fall asleep. This happens to me occasionally.
my job this summer
I'm assistant directing Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom. The playwright's summary is better than the one I had written:
Take a tour of this American suburb and you’ll find the usual: prescription drug abuse, video game addiction, cultish social programming. But beneath the surface lies something sinister. An unspeakable fear turning deadly. A game model in which only the bloodthirsty win. And a virtual neighborhood from which escape is an unreality.
playwright's rep
The show is going up as part of the professional summer theatre company at Brown, Brown/Trinity Playwright's Rep. All three shows are awesome. I have little cards I give out at parties with the schedule:
boom by Peter Nachtrieb:
July 11-14 and August 3 at 8p, August 4 at 1p
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley:
July 18-21 and August 2 at 8p, August 4 at 4p
Torah! Torah! Torah! A New Musical by Steven Levenson and Andrew Hertz
July 25-28, August 1 and 4 at 8p
addictions
Cigarettes. Not throughout the day yet, but I start chain smoking at night. Start carrying my iPod around in place of a pack, and listen to music when I feel like lighting up. Marlboro 27's if you're curious (love ya Mikey).
Rock climbing. Roughs up my hands something awful, but it's great to start again and stick with it. Lincoln Woods is awesome. A YouTube search for it yields some fun results.
Mint gum. Half a pack a day. No joke. Does the aspartame start to get dangerous at those levels?
living
The apartment is sweet. My room is sizable, on the corner with nice windows that bring in lots of light, a huge bed, and a sort of weird corner desk thing.
one sentence reviews of things
Everyone's favorite time!
Transformers: Although the marketing campaign made me physically ill, the robots were fucking awesome and the human stuff was campy at worst and hilarious at best.
Ramen: My favorite recipe.
Live Free or Die Hard: A great action movie but not a Die Hard script, it needed a Hans Guber and an understanding of the internet not from 10 years ago.
Faustus by David Mammet: This play reads like it was written in the 18th century, and aside from about 2 moments lacks the theatrical force that makes the Marlowe version so awesome.
Wagamama's in Faneuil Hall: Reasonably priced, delicious first US noodle bar of the renowned European franchise.
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami: The mundane becomes elevated, the noir one-man-forced-to-find-a-sheep-by-a-large-and-powerful-corporation-for-mysterious-reasons story carries through strongly all the way to end.
Coffee and Cigarettes: This hilarious movie probably didn't help my smoking habit.
28 Weeks Later: The zombie-dad plot was kind of (okay extremely) weird, and it wasn't as good as the original, but it got a lot of things that the former got right again, but differently.
Redbull: Still fucking awesome.
Rockstar: Way too sweet and at every AEPi party.
The Wedding Crashers: Select moments are brilliant, the rest is disappointingly predictable and borderline homophobic / chauvinist.
Feedback by Jurassic 5: Back to the sound of Quality Control, plus awesome live tracks equals you must listen to this album now.
Nick's on Broadway: This Federal Hill restaurant makes more amazing omelets than Brickway, but was closed for renovations when I tried to come back for dinner.
Siena Restaurant (on Federal Hill): Looks too trendy to be good, but then it is, making it both good and trendy.
my job this summer
I'm assistant directing Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom. The playwright's summary is better than the one I had written:
Take a tour of this American suburb and you’ll find the usual: prescription drug abuse, video game addiction, cultish social programming. But beneath the surface lies something sinister. An unspeakable fear turning deadly. A game model in which only the bloodthirsty win. And a virtual neighborhood from which escape is an unreality.
playwright's rep
The show is going up as part of the professional summer theatre company at Brown, Brown/Trinity Playwright's Rep. All three shows are awesome. I have little cards I give out at parties with the schedule:
boom by Peter Nachtrieb:
July 11-14 and August 3 at 8p, August 4 at 1p
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley:
July 18-21 and August 2 at 8p, August 4 at 4p
Torah! Torah! Torah! A New Musical by Steven Levenson and Andrew Hertz
July 25-28, August 1 and 4 at 8p
addictions
Cigarettes. Not throughout the day yet, but I start chain smoking at night. Start carrying my iPod around in place of a pack, and listen to music when I feel like lighting up. Marlboro 27's if you're curious (love ya Mikey).
Rock climbing. Roughs up my hands something awful, but it's great to start again and stick with it. Lincoln Woods is awesome. A YouTube search for it yields some fun results.
Mint gum. Half a pack a day. No joke. Does the aspartame start to get dangerous at those levels?
living
The apartment is sweet. My room is sizable, on the corner with nice windows that bring in lots of light, a huge bed, and a sort of weird corner desk thing.
one sentence reviews of things
Everyone's favorite time!
Transformers: Although the marketing campaign made me physically ill, the robots were fucking awesome and the human stuff was campy at worst and hilarious at best.
Ramen: My favorite recipe.
Live Free or Die Hard: A great action movie but not a Die Hard script, it needed a Hans Guber and an understanding of the internet not from 10 years ago.
Faustus by David Mammet: This play reads like it was written in the 18th century, and aside from about 2 moments lacks the theatrical force that makes the Marlowe version so awesome.
Wagamama's in Faneuil Hall: Reasonably priced, delicious first US noodle bar of the renowned European franchise.
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami: The mundane becomes elevated, the noir one-man-forced-to-find-a-sheep-by-a-large-and-powerful-corporation-for-mysterious-reasons story carries through strongly all the way to end.
Coffee and Cigarettes: This hilarious movie probably didn't help my smoking habit.
28 Weeks Later: The zombie-dad plot was kind of (okay extremely) weird, and it wasn't as good as the original, but it got a lot of things that the former got right again, but differently.
Redbull: Still fucking awesome.
Rockstar: Way too sweet and at every AEPi party.
The Wedding Crashers: Select moments are brilliant, the rest is disappointingly predictable and borderline homophobic / chauvinist.
Feedback by Jurassic 5: Back to the sound of Quality Control, plus awesome live tracks equals you must listen to this album now.
Nick's on Broadway: This Federal Hill restaurant makes more amazing omelets than Brickway, but was closed for renovations when I tried to come back for dinner.
Siena Restaurant (on Federal Hill): Looks too trendy to be good, but then it is, making it both good and trendy.