February 2012
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Gave up swearing for Lent.
No swearing plus I gave up coffee and smoking cigarettes for the semester.
The real question is: will I actually be a New Yorker when I return back home?
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Blah!
Every morning, its 11:30. Regardless of what hour I went to bed, I wake up at 11:30. It kills me because I never slept this late in NY or RI. It was always a very rare occasion to sleep so late. Last night I went to bed at midnight. Still 11:30.
I’m just in a strange mood. Coming here has offered much more self reflection than I thought (and that’s a good thing!), but I just feel like...
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Just busted out this Close Reading of Twelfth...
Including analyzing every passage of dialogue of vi.ii, talking about its context in the play, questioning if the scene fits as part of a “happy comedy,” answered the question by paralleling it to Midsummer Night Dream’s iii.ii and (although its written after Twelfth Night) Moliere’s Scapino’s torture scene (to help prove my point), put it in historical context, and...
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Late night contemplations:
I’m imagining the conversation I am going to have with my children when they get around 16. It is going to be very similar to a talk that Christine Kavanagh gave to us at rehearsal one day.. “Just remember, no matter what you do, I have partied harder than you ever will.”
I thought about how funny/ridiculous/great a “#noregrets” tattoo would be. Then I thought about...
“But success SHALL crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone,...”
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
I was never really a big house music fan,
But Goddamn that Skrillex concert was amazing last night.
Best Weekend Update EVER →
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Next week is insane.
Tuesday- Mardi Gras! Wednesday- Juno and the Paycock at THE NATIONAL THEATRE Thursday- Tales of Hoffman at THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Saturday- Trip to Stratford-upon-Avon for the day including a matinee performance of Cheek by Jowel’s Measure for Measure.
“I don’t feel comfortable with the way that my clothes fit;
I can’t...”
– Brett Dennen- There Is So Much More
NYC, take a rest!
I did light design for a show in Playwright’s Horizon’s White Box Theatre last year. The space was awful but it was amazing to design in it. Well because of that show, I just got offered to do another show but in the Robert Moss Theatre (the big and nice one) in April. But no. I will not be here. And its a cult fiction (it was described to me as Doctor Who meets Buffy the Vampire...
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Things that rock:
Late-night solo walks on the Thames. As much as I love NY, we don’t have a Waterloo Bridge and that is something I’ll miss from this place.
“Hey, I love you.
Yes, I love you.
Set those sails!
A good man never fails....”
– William Finn- I’d Rather Be Sailing/ Set Those Sails
I slept for 12 hours.
Think I’m getting sick. My roommate has spent 40 minutes in the bathroom, most likely washing his ponytail. I need to shower so I can slob myself over and down my feelings in Indian food. COME ON PONYTAIL BOY.
“No one has sex with her. They do other things with her. They even force her to...”
– Clive Bloom on Justine
“And there are times, I know, when I will have to chase you;
The further from my...”
– James Vincent McMorrow- And If My Heart Should Somehow Stop
I really need to start reading these Gothic Lit...
Even my Edith Piaf Pandora station is not getting me through this book.
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What the fuck are you eating and why the fuck does...
Its 2am. If the blaring lights that you love so much weren’t hindering my ability to sleep, the stinky food you just made as you make the most grotesque noises I have ever heard while eating, certainly are. Combine this with me finding you lounging your bare feet on my bed as you played World of Warcraft (there’s a fucking surprise) are officially my last straw. Never mind finding your...
London has made me an old, old man.
Went to the Royal Music House to see Beethoven’s 6th Symphony last night. Spent four hours in the National Gallery today looking at Van Gogh, Monet, DaVinci. And am now enjoying reading Plato and am looking forward to reading Othello. What is happening to me!?
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That awkward moment when peanut butter became my...
“Johnny Depp standing on a sinking ship looking, essentially, like a hippy on...”
– Clive Bloom on The Pirates of the Caribbean.
“Twilight is rubbish. I mean, you get a dark kid who stares in the corner. But...”
– Clive Bloom, Gothic Lit professor, on Twilight.
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Becoming a Shakespeare nerd.
Being able to spot the rhyming couplets in Richard II 5.3 and relating to the allegiance of hierarchy and paralleling it with historical facts about the politics of the time between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Essex. As well, taking that scene and deconstructing it to relay madness and putting the Porter in Macbeths 2.3 and the Duke and Duchess of York alongside each other to prove Shakespeare’s...
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How you know you're in theatre:
There are more statuses on your newsfeed that read “Giants in the Sky,” “Into the Woods Act II,” “Madonna was a sexy sight,” or “I watched the puppy bowl” than actual sports related news. Bahahaha. I love my Giants. I love my theatre friends. This is a good night.
There is a fairly good chance the presentation of...
I miss New York. And I’m so upset I can’t be in the city for this right now. The city must be beautiful right now.
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Oh my God.
Crumpets are so much better than English muffins.
Eating carbs and taking a nap so I can get up and...
#UKproblems.
Bobby is coming this weekend, I'm so excited.
Bobby: I need to make a list of London goals. One of them is Chipotle. Another is get my hair cut.
Luke: YES. I've been dying for Chipotle. P.S. I'm drinking straight vodka right now... It's just that kind of night.
Bobby: Oh my God nooooo. That was me last night... I just woke up to find vomit on my carpet, my clothes on backwards, and 3 stuffed animals in my bed. no clue where the hell they came from.... Oh my. London is going to kill my liver.
Luke: That's the plan.
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Never have I been so inspired by a single actor.
Eddie Redmayne. Holy shit.
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Its beautiful out.
I’ve been up since 8:30. Out and about, enjoying this fantastic day. And all my roommate does is draw the blinds a tight as possible, sleep, and play World of Warcraft. I literally don’t understand this.
Corinne Bailey Rae covers Bob Marley’s Is...
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It was so trend(i)y and arts(i)y.
Tonight I went into an abandoned tunnel underneath Waterloo Train Station and saw Sea Plays produced by the Old Vic. Sea Plays was three one acts of Eugene O’Neil’s plays that are set at sea. First of all, I was in a abandoned brick tunnel. A lot of it was lit by tall candles that have been there for a while and had tons of wax all over the bar/floor/tables. Then it was great...
is it weird that i get really defensive when i'm...
danwalsh:
i mean, i don’t think of myself as gay.
i am gay, but it isn’t a huge part of who i am. it’s actually kinda a really minor detail in my mind.
i don’t get why it’s such a big thing.
We just talked about this in my Shakespeare class. When people say “homosexuality wasn’t created till the last 100 years,” what they actually mean to say is that people weren’t...
WAIT WAIT WAIT.
They are turning Normal Heart into a film. Mark Ruffalo as Ned, Alec Baldwin as Ben, Julia Roberts as Emma. What?!!
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Oh boy guys, the crazy gears in me are going...
I just googled “meditation retreats in India” and there is a fairly good chance I will take a 15 day silent meditation retreat over winter break next year.
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Finally tired at a normal human hour.
But now I have homework.