Hey All
So my last post was on June 17th. I updated about Warped Tour. Wow. Where the fuck has time gone? It's the first of November. Well tomorrow is Kyle's and mine one year anniversary. I'm excited. I'm on duty so I can't leave the building, but we are going out Friday night. Oh, by the way I'm and RA this year. To back track a little bit I only spent half of the summer in Baltimore. Kyle came down for a week; some of you met him. If not then don't worry he'll be back during winter break. Anyway, so Kyle came down for a week then we went to O City. Then I spent five weeks in Montross, VA babysitting Mrs. Benzinger’s kids at her summer home. I spent the last week of the summer In Myrtle Beach with my familia. So if I didn't see you I apologize. I won't be here next summer either because Kyle and I are getting a place down here. I'll be home Thanksgiving through New Years though. This will probably be my last extended time in Baltimore so I would like to see everyone if at all possible.
Anyway, so I'm taking this Voice and Movement class (well now Voice for Performance) and we have an awesome final project. It’s a life study project; so basically all quarter I’ve been stalking my boss. In the end I am supposed to be able to completely imitate his movements down to the way he walks, gestures, and talks. One of the steps of this assignment was to video tape an interview with him and then study it. We also had to come up with a manuscript from the interview which eventually transformed into a monologue. He doesn’t really know why I interviewed him and has no clue that I’ve practically been stalking him and studying his movements. I’ve been having a lot of fun with this.
I’ve been thinking about writing a play/film this summer and I think I’m going to start recording people and listening to what they have to say and study their speech patterns. Natural dialogue is so interesting when it’s not rehearsed. I have this friend Brittany and she has the most fucked up family. I was talking to her and she was telling about some of the craziest shit about her family. I definitely want to interview her because I know that I could write a whole series of plays based off of her family alone. I’m really excited about doing this and I think it’s going to be a fun side project. Hopefully writing will help me get my foot in the business. I think I’m going to eventually write a show for myself because I’m having the worst time with being cast in the parts that I want because of my race. It sucks. I hate playing the stereotype. I absolutely detest the fucking fact that I was Rebah in You Can’t Take It With You. I would love to have been Penny. I hate knowing that throughout my career I’m going to be typed cast for those roles. It makes me sick. Lately I’ve been thinking about giving up the acting bit all together and just sticking to directing. Directing is more fun anyway, and at least I’ll be able to direct the type of plays that I want. I would really love being a casting director too.
We’re doing Pterodactyls this year, if you haven’t read it you need to, it’s by Nicky Silver. I would LOVE to be in this play but I know there isn’t a part for me. This year SCAD is doing, All My Sons, Holy Ghost, Pterodactyls, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Story Theater (freshman show), and Guys and Dolls. If you’ve read these shows you know there isn’t a part for me. Guys and Dolls is out because I can’t sing. I ended up auditioning for a graduate student’s show (Fences) and now I will be assistant directing that in the winter. I think this is really what’s been motivating me to start writing. This is also forcing me to do film. I hate film; at least acting in it. It’s so boring and tedious. I’m going to have to suck it up if I want to leave here with a reel. Sometimes I think that’s why they put performing art students here… so they can act in the films. Film is either the second or third largest major at my school. The film festival is going on right now. Tommy Lee Jones came down this year. Actually I went to this thing with Liev Schreiber and he’s pretty cool.