Late night thoughts.
I get more and more excited about Kagotsurube. When I read this I squealed to myself for quite a while.
And Yasu seems to be working very hard with finding his character and I'm very much looking forward to watching it as a play rather than a Johnny's performance. And he can act that boy! I was really impressed by his skills in 818, because he was playing all these characters and they were all very distinctively different, as the same time as they was all a part of him. And I'm looking forward to seeing act in a more serious role.
And I realized how much I miss acting. There is so much I want to do. I'd love to once in my life be a part of a production of Tjechov's The Seagull, and I want to do Shakespeare, and I want to try different ways of acting, since what I've been working with is all the Stanislavskij method, which I do believe is a great, but I'd like to know more of the differences between different schools.
I miss acting class so much. The days of improvisations with our wonderful Icelandic teacher, when the tension and concentration and presence of then and there was so evident you could feel it in the air. My class was so great and when we had worked with each other for a while we got into that mental state so fast. I especially remember this one time, when we had done a lot of concentration excersises and we all had a chair that we were sitting on in different parts of the huge room we were in, and we all ended up running and screaming and dancing with the chairs in a big pile in the middle of the hall.
Or when we had a guest teacher from Russia, the physical training she put us through every Wednesday for about a month was a pain, fun, but a pain. Muscles I didn't even knew existed before ached. This teacher we were acting like animals with, did some extracts from The Jungle Book (as in the book, not the movie), and spent a whole day being reindeer, another being sea creatures and a third being wolves. It's really interesting to try to move like an animal, find the characteristics of an animal. The funniest thing we did during this time though, was probably doing short sketches in groups of four or five, going from human to an animal and intertwine the animals characteristics into the human. I was an hyena.
Ah. That was such a great school! We did so many different things, like doing snippets from plays written by people taking a playwriting course and showing it to them. The plays was of various quality and to actually perform something in front of the person who has written it is really scary. There's always a difference between how the playwright imagines his/her work and how the director and actors interpret it. And to get the playwrights actual opinions right after acting is really not a thing I like, at least not if it's bad criticism.
And to work with a play, to find your character, the pain and the pleasure that follows with it. The play I did was with four other girls, a play written by a wonderful Swedish contemporary playwright. A play with four male roles and one female role. But we changed it into five females. The play is set somewhere in the future in a abandoned orphanage were four children still lives, in a world they created themselves to keep the real world out, and then this fifth kid appears and turns everything upside down. It's a interesting play, touching very interesting subjects like childrens way of handling being left alone without any grown-ups, longing for their parents, childrens sexuality, childrens violence. But it was one of the most painful experiences of my life, finding my role. As an actor, you do play a role of someone else, but you have to take it from yourself, or at least I think so, to make it authentic. And there are some things you do not want to find out about yourself. My character had a very violent side of her (she actually tries to strangle one of the other girls at one time) and to find it in me to make Malin (my character's name) feel like it was justified to attack this other girl.. Strange and scary. But great at the same time.
Oh god. I'm babbling. Hm. Sorry.. I just really really love and miss acting too much.
My dream is to be in an acting group of some sort with people from all around the world. Would be so interesting, since I do believe that the differences of acting styles, even if you use the same method, is huge between countries.
Well. There was something else I wanted to write about. . .
Ah! I might or might not have a ticket for the con at the 13th too. A guy at the guesthouse who are bidding at the yahoo auctions for me, has not mailed or called to tell me what happened to the auction that ended tonight. >_< I really hope I won it! Pleeeeeaaaaase!
Been watching PoT again today. Didn't have time for any yesterday due to having to stay in my room in case the computer doctor would come. I did get down to cleaning my room, which was well needed, but I realize how addicted I am to PoT now, when I can barely stand one day without it!
And rumour has it that Heroes will start again Monday. Am thrilled!
Still need to watch ep 2-4 of Voice. Me and luin_lote are planning to watch it together, but there are some Tennis princes interrupting that plan all the time.
Read lovely lovely Christmas-fic that alissa recommended yesterday! ♥ ♥ ♥ The cuteness of Akutsu/Dan! ♥
Oh! Now I remember!
Get your own valentinr
Send me a Valentine's wish? ♥
Finally I downloaded the latest Can!Jani ep and will watch after I finished writing this. ♥ Finally! Been craving that damn ep so much, since half of my flist has called it the best ep so far!
How did the clock end up being 4PM?
Need to take a shower before I go to sleep too, cause I'll never get up in time for that tomorrow. -sighs-
Ok. Shower then Can!Jani or Can!Jani then shower? Oh why do the showers have to be on the bottom floor? Such a hassle to walk all those stairs! >_< I am not being ridiculously whiny!
Anyways, now it's one week, or one week and a day, til I get to see Subaru again! ♥ Need to end with happy thought! ^___^v
EDIT: On a wim I started looking up acting schools and I found one that I find very very interesting, and if I understand everything right, there is still time to apply to the school. Oh my. Should I? Starting with acting again in August? If I'll get in of course. Not an audition either, just an interview. . . What to do? What the hell. I might as well apply and see if I get called to the interview.
EDIT2: I looked at my old schools homepage and realized there are pictures from our play! Ah! Nostalgic feeling!
And yes, I will apply for the school. It sounds so interesting! ♥
And Yasu seems to be working very hard with finding his character and I'm very much looking forward to watching it as a play rather than a Johnny's performance. And he can act that boy! I was really impressed by his skills in 818, because he was playing all these characters and they were all very distinctively different, as the same time as they was all a part of him. And I'm looking forward to seeing act in a more serious role.
And I realized how much I miss acting. There is so much I want to do. I'd love to once in my life be a part of a production of Tjechov's The Seagull, and I want to do Shakespeare, and I want to try different ways of acting, since what I've been working with is all the Stanislavskij method, which I do believe is a great, but I'd like to know more of the differences between different schools.
I miss acting class so much. The days of improvisations with our wonderful Icelandic teacher, when the tension and concentration and presence of then and there was so evident you could feel it in the air. My class was so great and when we had worked with each other for a while we got into that mental state so fast. I especially remember this one time, when we had done a lot of concentration excersises and we all had a chair that we were sitting on in different parts of the huge room we were in, and we all ended up running and screaming and dancing with the chairs in a big pile in the middle of the hall.
Or when we had a guest teacher from Russia, the physical training she put us through every Wednesday for about a month was a pain, fun, but a pain. Muscles I didn't even knew existed before ached. This teacher we were acting like animals with, did some extracts from The Jungle Book (as in the book, not the movie), and spent a whole day being reindeer, another being sea creatures and a third being wolves. It's really interesting to try to move like an animal, find the characteristics of an animal. The funniest thing we did during this time though, was probably doing short sketches in groups of four or five, going from human to an animal and intertwine the animals characteristics into the human. I was an hyena.
Ah. That was such a great school! We did so many different things, like doing snippets from plays written by people taking a playwriting course and showing it to them. The plays was of various quality and to actually perform something in front of the person who has written it is really scary. There's always a difference between how the playwright imagines his/her work and how the director and actors interpret it. And to get the playwrights actual opinions right after acting is really not a thing I like, at least not if it's bad criticism.
And to work with a play, to find your character, the pain and the pleasure that follows with it. The play I did was with four other girls, a play written by a wonderful Swedish contemporary playwright. A play with four male roles and one female role. But we changed it into five females. The play is set somewhere in the future in a abandoned orphanage were four children still lives, in a world they created themselves to keep the real world out, and then this fifth kid appears and turns everything upside down. It's a interesting play, touching very interesting subjects like childrens way of handling being left alone without any grown-ups, longing for their parents, childrens sexuality, childrens violence. But it was one of the most painful experiences of my life, finding my role. As an actor, you do play a role of someone else, but you have to take it from yourself, or at least I think so, to make it authentic. And there are some things you do not want to find out about yourself. My character had a very violent side of her (she actually tries to strangle one of the other girls at one time) and to find it in me to make Malin (my character's name) feel like it was justified to attack this other girl.. Strange and scary. But great at the same time.
Oh god. I'm babbling. Hm. Sorry.. I just really really love and miss acting too much.
My dream is to be in an acting group of some sort with people from all around the world. Would be so interesting, since I do believe that the differences of acting styles, even if you use the same method, is huge between countries.
Well. There was something else I wanted to write about. . .
Ah! I might or might not have a ticket for the con at the 13th too. A guy at the guesthouse who are bidding at the yahoo auctions for me, has not mailed or called to tell me what happened to the auction that ended tonight. >_< I really hope I won it! Pleeeeeaaaaase!
Been watching PoT again today. Didn't have time for any yesterday due to having to stay in my room in case the computer doctor would come. I did get down to cleaning my room, which was well needed, but I realize how addicted I am to PoT now, when I can barely stand one day without it!
And rumour has it that Heroes will start again Monday. Am thrilled!
Still need to watch ep 2-4 of Voice. Me and luin_lote are planning to watch it together, but there are some Tennis princes interrupting that plan all the time.
Read lovely lovely Christmas-fic that alissa recommended yesterday! ♥ ♥ ♥ The cuteness of Akutsu/Dan! ♥
Oh! Now I remember!
Get your own valentinr
Send me a Valentine's wish? ♥
Finally I downloaded the latest Can!Jani ep and will watch after I finished writing this. ♥ Finally! Been craving that damn ep so much, since half of my flist has called it the best ep so far!
How did the clock end up being 4PM?
Need to take a shower before I go to sleep too, cause I'll never get up in time for that tomorrow. -sighs-
Ok. Shower then Can!Jani or Can!Jani then shower? Oh why do the showers have to be on the bottom floor? Such a hassle to walk all those stairs! >_< I am not being ridiculously whiny!
Anyways, now it's one week, or one week and a day, til I get to see Subaru again! ♥ Need to end with happy thought! ^___^v
EDIT: On a wim I started looking up acting schools and I found one that I find very very interesting, and if I understand everything right, there is still time to apply to the school. Oh my. Should I? Starting with acting again in August? If I'll get in of course. Not an audition either, just an interview. . . What to do? What the hell. I might as well apply and see if I get called to the interview.
EDIT2: I looked at my old schools homepage and realized there are pictures from our play! Ah! Nostalgic feeling!
And yes, I will apply for the school. It sounds so interesting! ♥