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Goo goo goo joob! Matt In Brief:
- Maybe considering buying and learning to play sitar. Looked into Los Angeles teachers, Ali Khan Music College up in San Rafael (30 minutes outta' San Fran), and self-teaching. The instrument scares, confuses, and entices me.
- Pleased to see contribution to the Help Matt Get A Really Expensive Camera Fund, though I'm frankly a little tentative because Greg told me Reesa doesn't think "Rent" is gonna' happen. But it is. And if it isn't, I'm gonna' be: 1. Pissed 2. In posession of a lot of cash, which will quickly be transformed into a sitar or guitar and a Line 6 TonePort instead of a camera 3. Disappointed.
- I scrapped my idea for my one-act play for Parkin's class. He really likes it, and may have even done it had I written it well enough, but I conceived it for the wrong reasons and I've fell out of love with the idea of it. The lack of overall conflict and the likelihood of subordinating my writing to cliches in order to concentrate on the pirate musical is disconcerting. Instead, I'll be writing a much shorter play about Life and Death playing a game of chess for a man's life.
- Pirate musical is moving along, and I've written/adapted some more music for it. I wrote a sappy ballad called "When A Pirate Cries", and adapted two earlier works of mine, "Hey! Pow! Wow!" and "Aboard the Drunken Pirate Ship" for musical usage. I really hope Sherman Oaks will do it. If they don't, I'll talk to Parkin, Pyles, and Art about using the Lab Theater. At least then I'd be able to have Magnum performed. Ah, well. I'd much rather my friends do it all.
- I loved Rocky Horror. I think I've said that.
- I'm becoming less nocturnal again. Speaking of Nocturne, I'm still yet to perform it a second time for Acting.
- I'm glad Margarita and I are becoming closer. It's spiffy. Plus, she likes my music. *Artistically flattered*
- I'm working on developing more for that alternate tuning, and I think I'll start recording once I've got some ragas layed out and melody lines more defined.
- I think I'm going to watch "Rent" again tomorrow. I'll see what my mood is like, especially after the old age makeup lab for Stage Makeup. I think I'm going to do Oedipuis circa Oedipus at Colonus. Now, to figure out how to do blind eyes...
- I love you all, even the two boys and the girl, all of whom I'm a little fed up with.