May 25, 2003 12:09
I am really a nice guy. I just get confused. I do what i think i am supposed to do. Somehow its always the wrong thing.
The weekend thus far has bee pretty cool. Friday night we went to this new club "CNBC". Its really a pretty high class place. I think they are trying to compete with the more uppity places in downtown Scottsdale.
What I can recall of waking and not being convinced that i need to be awake: It is often a rude awakening. My body does not regularly wake on its own and then long to go back to bed. Its either the dog licking my face, or a roomate noise, a doorbell ringing, or something of that sort. I say rude awakening, but it is really more an uninvited awakening. I never really freak out though. Just kind of roll out of bed. That's important. I kinda of roll or pry my self out of bed, with some kind of necessity in mind that i am particularly unimpressed with. I am slumped, my eyes half shut, my walking is very direct. I am on a mission. I want to complete my task and go back to bed right away. I am arguing with myself internally about whether to stay up or go back to bed, and going back to bed always wins. I always stop at the refrigerator and look for something sweet.
This acting book makes a lot of sense. You have to know yourself very well in order to naturally react on stage or on film to what is essentially unnatural stimuli. You are not really there in the middle of the situation, but you have to believe you are. Even more, you have to make the audience believe you are.
Then the next step would naturally be to understand others, and how they react. In the most basic form all humans start the same. By a combination of stimuli and tendency people react in situations in a particluar way. An emapthetic approach to understanding the environments and make-up of people allows you to feel as they do to an extent. If you can harness this feeling, you can react as this person would react.
Mental note: You take everything quite seriously Billy. It makes you a good learner, but also easily manipulated.