Damn Yankees, Ship of Magic, A day at the Beach, and that depressing stuff
So, Damn Yankees had it's closing performance on Saturday night followed by the cast party. It's always such a weird feeling when a show closes. Mixed emotions i guess, it's always bitter sweet. Sure it'll be great to have my time back now but it's weird because for the past two months every day but 6 We were together and like I said before we usually hung out after every show. We still have lots of plans though, Saturday we're all going out for Karaoke and they all went to the preview of the next Boal Barn Show tonight but I drove home to PGH today so I couldn't go. Sam drove up from New Jersey to see my show and it meant the WORLD to me that she did. I have 'friends' in state college that didn't even come and she drove all the way from New Jersey love her to death. And everytime I looked at her when she was in the audience she would mouth "I love you" I was so happy that she came. She brought some of her friends from home to drive up with her and see the show too :). I took Sam to the cast party with me and that was a good time. We played apples to Apples and one of the cards was "Tyra Banks" so then i said "smile wit yo eyez" so we started taking pictures of us smiling with our eyes which are obnoxious and hilarious. I'm waiting for sam to upload them on facebook. Micah and Matt were outside with their guitars improv singing and it was pretty funny. They sang a song about Barney and his brother Banry who was yellow with purple polka dots and they ran away. and a song about bop it, and they all progressed to bad places. fun times.
On Wednesday Tom Carolyn et al, were going to the Jersey shore and coming back on Monday but I couldn't go because of the show. But sam only lives like 45 minutes from where they were so i drove back with them on Sunday. I got to meet her Mom too which was cool. She's a beast, I wouldn't want to end up on her bad side. We got to the beach at 2:30 or so and laid out and swam around then we went to eat and the drinking commenced. This was the first time I was able to drink in a reallllllly long time. And it was Grain alcohol (190 proof). Ha. It was fun though we started at like 7 and went to the boardwalk around 9:30 all drunk but by the time we got back around 11:30-12 i was sobered up and went to bed. I woke up the next day finished my book (Ship of magic, i'll get to that) and decided to go to the beach by myself because everyone was still asleep and I only had a few hours before we left. I laid on my stomach too long because i was reading and now i have a crazy tan haha. But all in all it was a good time.
I finally finished Ship of Magic which is by Robin Hobb. I've had the book for a good two years maybe and I couldn't get into it before but I never really tried. I read it back stage on my down time and it was really good. It ties in with her other two series that I love (the farseer and the Tawny Man) but it's also independent of them. It was really good I forgot how much i missed her writing and I'm about 1/3-1/2 through the Second book, The Mad Ship. The best aspect of her books is by far the characters. Her characters are so well developed it's crazy. That's why the descriptions on the back of her books may not seem particularly amazing but I promise you, her characters make up for everything. Nikki and Sarah can attest :) She wrote this in a different style than i'm used to from her. Each chapter jumped to different characters POVs ala George RR Martin. I really like that style because it puts you in everyone's head and lets you really see that grey area between motives and reasons. Although she is amazing and having those characters that you love to hate and just can't wait to see them meet some sort of unfortunate End. (Regal, the Pale woman, and Kyle) I do have some favorite quotes but I left them at my apartment so I can't put them here. Anyway, after reading Robert Jordan's books, it's nice to get back to some actual GOOD stuff with author's who don't seemingly get paid by the word. (Honestly to go on for 2 pages about embroidery on someone's skirts is a little ridiculous and that's not including the material it was made of DONT EVER READ ROBERT JORDAN!!!! lol)
So a while back I posted about how I was in some sort of rut feeling kinda numb, depressed, etc. And my main reason for auditioning for the play was because I knew that i t was something that I loved and I hoped that it would make me feel better. It did, but not in the way I expected. While I was involved I was kind of living in a bubble, work and the show, that was all. So I had a lot of time to think and figure things out and find my center and all that good stuff. I've come to a lot of conclusions, realizations, and affirmations that I'm very thankful for. Some of which the show helped me with, others with things that I've figured out on my own. But i'm glad for that time feeling those things because from every struggle there is growth and I've learned. Not just about myself but others as well.
And I've got some job prospects in Philly. I don't really care for that city though, I don't think the people are very nice but we'll see. Everyone's gotta start somewhere right?
Mike
On Wednesday Tom Carolyn et al, were going to the Jersey shore and coming back on Monday but I couldn't go because of the show. But sam only lives like 45 minutes from where they were so i drove back with them on Sunday. I got to meet her Mom too which was cool. She's a beast, I wouldn't want to end up on her bad side. We got to the beach at 2:30 or so and laid out and swam around then we went to eat and the drinking commenced. This was the first time I was able to drink in a reallllllly long time. And it was Grain alcohol (190 proof). Ha. It was fun though we started at like 7 and went to the boardwalk around 9:30 all drunk but by the time we got back around 11:30-12 i was sobered up and went to bed. I woke up the next day finished my book (Ship of magic, i'll get to that) and decided to go to the beach by myself because everyone was still asleep and I only had a few hours before we left. I laid on my stomach too long because i was reading and now i have a crazy tan haha. But all in all it was a good time.
I finally finished Ship of Magic which is by Robin Hobb. I've had the book for a good two years maybe and I couldn't get into it before but I never really tried. I read it back stage on my down time and it was really good. It ties in with her other two series that I love (the farseer and the Tawny Man) but it's also independent of them. It was really good I forgot how much i missed her writing and I'm about 1/3-1/2 through the Second book, The Mad Ship. The best aspect of her books is by far the characters. Her characters are so well developed it's crazy. That's why the descriptions on the back of her books may not seem particularly amazing but I promise you, her characters make up for everything. Nikki and Sarah can attest :) She wrote this in a different style than i'm used to from her. Each chapter jumped to different characters POVs ala George RR Martin. I really like that style because it puts you in everyone's head and lets you really see that grey area between motives and reasons. Although she is amazing and having those characters that you love to hate and just can't wait to see them meet some sort of unfortunate End. (Regal, the Pale woman, and Kyle) I do have some favorite quotes but I left them at my apartment so I can't put them here. Anyway, after reading Robert Jordan's books, it's nice to get back to some actual GOOD stuff with author's who don't seemingly get paid by the word. (Honestly to go on for 2 pages about embroidery on someone's skirts is a little ridiculous and that's not including the material it was made of DONT EVER READ ROBERT JORDAN!!!! lol)
So a while back I posted about how I was in some sort of rut feeling kinda numb, depressed, etc. And my main reason for auditioning for the play was because I knew that i t was something that I loved and I hoped that it would make me feel better. It did, but not in the way I expected. While I was involved I was kind of living in a bubble, work and the show, that was all. So I had a lot of time to think and figure things out and find my center and all that good stuff. I've come to a lot of conclusions, realizations, and affirmations that I'm very thankful for. Some of which the show helped me with, others with things that I've figured out on my own. But i'm glad for that time feeling those things because from every struggle there is growth and I've learned. Not just about myself but others as well.
And I've got some job prospects in Philly. I don't really care for that city though, I don't think the people are very nice but we'll see. Everyone's gotta start somewhere right?
Mike