Annual New Years Thoughts
HEY, LIVEJOURNAL!
It's the New Year. You know what that means! I come in and post one of my two updates for the year and wax philosophic about all the amazing things I'm going to accomplish this year.
GET READY. (I'll be back in about six months bitching about how I did none of them).
That's depressing, actually. So maybe I'll just highlight some awesomeness?
I directed 101 DALMATIANS in December, starring some super awesome kids (and my bad-ass self as Cruella DeVil). Pics are at www.courtneyboches.com.
Was foiled in my other directorial attempt - but, never fear, I applied to direct my show at a local community theatre (and wrote a 3 page essay about my "vision" - yikes!)
Also made all the "ethnic puppy" costumes for DALMATIANS on my new sewing machine and they turned out riduclously awesome.
Set up my Sewing Station and bought a book with funky retro-inspired patterns.
Learned how to bake something other than chocolate chip cookies.
Realized that I am 70 years old.
Seriously. Banana muffins from Big D's ancient Gilligan's Island Cookbook are super ridiculously amazing. I died. And then I ate three muffins in one day. And then I died again.
I have the worst urge to decorate something. ANYTHING! Someone give me some money and a blank room! NOW!
Saw the movie How Do You Know, which I was an extra in. SO BAD. DO NOT SEE THIS. Holy cow, James L. Brooks... No plot, the dialogue didn't make sense, and it was neither romantic, nor a comedy. Let's just say that the GI Musical answered the question in question in 3 and a half minutes... This movie never did.
On the other hand, I just finished reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. RUN, DON'T WALK. If you're an amateur writer/artist/philosopher, go read this book. You'll laugh and then your heart will break - these are the best pieces of Art (another subject the novel touches on).
I want this car: 1964 Ford Galaxie. It's adorable and I can afford it. Let's go.
I should also get a time machine and go back to 1950 and just start life over from there. I'd be super happy about that.
I discovered a lot of amazing music this year. I know I was late to the party on some of them, but better late than never. Props to Mumford & Sons, Noah and the Whale, The Black Keys, and others.
Mother wants me to get married. Someone go to Fleet Week and bring me back a nerdy, hilarious sailor. I'm too busy for this business - I trust you guys.
Dad and I outlined the Syfy Original Movie they need to film in "the resi" near the house in White Haven. It's called BEAR-CROC and will star Randolph Mantooth, Denny Miller, and, as the sheriff, that guy from "Dukes of Hazzard" who was in LAKE PLACID 2 as, obviously, the sheriff. Logline: Government secret weapon, Bear-Croc, went terribly awry and has risen from "the resi" when it dried up to terrorize the locals. Special appearances by Postman Steve, the Little Thinkers preschool class, Cranky Margie, the guy who owns the Pleasure Dome, Paulette's crack team of P.I.S. (Paulette's Investigative Services) agents, and various dogs and locals with guns. Oscar buzz.
We only get about 10 TV channels in the Poconos, but they have this amazing thing called Retro TV. We watched Magnum P.I. every night (Higgins's hair is to die for), and died laughing at Emergency!. Crankiest. Paramedics. Ever!
My mother is on Facebook. She's spent the last two days reading my wall and yelling at me for quoting her on Facebook. Which brins us to a segment I like to call AWESOME PAULETTE QUOTES!
AWESOME PAULETTE QUOTES!
Re: joining the neighborhood patrol in the Poconos:
"Do I get a badge?"
Dad: "You get a magnetic sign for your car."
"That's it? I want a badge. And a club so I can beat people."
Re: Denny Miller as Duke Williams the surfer on Gilligan:
(Duke shows off the guns and then turns around; Mom looks up from her computer)
"Ooh! Look at that heiny!"
Later:
"I wonder what Denny's been up to since he lost his Gorton's Fisherman gig. Who knows where that heiny is now!"
The next day, watching Magnum P.I. in the Poconos - Denny happens to be guest starring:
"LOOK! IT'S THE HEINY!"
This concludes today's edition of AWESOME PAULETTE QUOTES!
This year I aspire to be the following: a more prolific writer, a good cook/baker, a seamstress, a photographer, player of guitar, more imaginative and carefree, owner of a sweet ride from the 1960's, better dressed, independently wealthy, on my way to being a TV sitcom showrunner (hello, NUNCOM, haven't seen you in a while!)
I aspire to be more artistic, more kitschy, and more imaginative in general. I want to live somewhere warm where I can lay out and look at the stars, go to flea markets, run around in a corn field, and explore a forest. I want to sit in a tree and read Faulkner and Shakespeare and Plutarch and childrens' books. I want a miniature farm and a horse and fresh eggs and MAGIC! But I also want my career in "the business of show" and to do theatre and have glamorous trips to award shows and my very own Emmy for writing.
(I think I want to be Ginger and Mary Ann at the same time. This poses a sociological, logistical, and moral dilemma... Hmm).
I anticipate Real Life getting in the way of the life I want to lead.
It's the New Year. You know what that means! I come in and post one of my two updates for the year and wax philosophic about all the amazing things I'm going to accomplish this year.
GET READY. (I'll be back in about six months bitching about how I did none of them).
That's depressing, actually. So maybe I'll just highlight some awesomeness?
AWESOME PAULETTE QUOTES!
Re: joining the neighborhood patrol in the Poconos:
"Do I get a badge?"
Dad: "You get a magnetic sign for your car."
"That's it? I want a badge. And a club so I can beat people."
Re: Denny Miller as Duke Williams the surfer on Gilligan:
(Duke shows off the guns and then turns around; Mom looks up from her computer)
"Ooh! Look at that heiny!"
Later:
"I wonder what Denny's been up to since he lost his Gorton's Fisherman gig. Who knows where that heiny is now!"
The next day, watching Magnum P.I. in the Poconos - Denny happens to be guest starring:
"LOOK! IT'S THE HEINY!"
This concludes today's edition of AWESOME PAULETTE QUOTES!
This year I aspire to be the following: a more prolific writer, a good cook/baker, a seamstress, a photographer, player of guitar, more imaginative and carefree, owner of a sweet ride from the 1960's, better dressed, independently wealthy, on my way to being a TV sitcom showrunner (hello, NUNCOM, haven't seen you in a while!)
I aspire to be more artistic, more kitschy, and more imaginative in general. I want to live somewhere warm where I can lay out and look at the stars, go to flea markets, run around in a corn field, and explore a forest. I want to sit in a tree and read Faulkner and Shakespeare and Plutarch and childrens' books. I want a miniature farm and a horse and fresh eggs and MAGIC! But I also want my career in "the business of show" and to do theatre and have glamorous trips to award shows and my very own Emmy for writing.
(I think I want to be Ginger and Mary Ann at the same time. This poses a sociological, logistical, and moral dilemma... Hmm).
I anticipate Real Life getting in the way of the life I want to lead.