Nocturnal Ejournalations

Time:	10:43 pm.
Music:	AFI Kiss and Control.

So, I didn't get into Millie.

I am really surprised and angry. I believe that there were lots of politics involved and am somewhat distraught over the fact that this was the first musical I haven't gotten into since... umm, ever.

What is really annoying is that Ryan casted all of his Nipomo HS kids... I feel old and useless.

The only thing that made the least good was that I was asked to do another show in the same time frame. It is a best of Hollywood review with the same lady that did Razzle Dazzle last year. She was asked at the last minute and I guess there is very little time to rehearse, but she just did a similar show so it's gonna be pretty much the same. I just don't want to be in a show that ends up sucking or having empty audiences or being no fun.

Oh, and some songs on AFI's December Underground just get better every month. I don't understand why, but the album kicks ass, and two years after its release I still find myself enjoying it more than ever. Especially this spoken passage in Kiss and Control:

"We all want to die like movie stars" you said, as you jumped from the height of our cutting room floor.
While above us glowing, exploding, our dreams burst forth in light in death.
Hold me and tell me,
"We'll burn like stars. We'll burn as we fall. Watch as the city lights DANCE FOR US!"

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Time:

8:32 pm.

Exciting News!

So, ABC is putting together a reality TV series called "High School Musical: Summer Session" and they called the director of my high school musical (i think they sent scouts up to our show) and asked if they could come up and film us doing parts of the show and interview us.

I've been told they wanted to follow Ally (Sharpay) and Joe (Ryan) around with cameras specifically, but Joe is just shy of 16 and might miss his chance at stardom because of a few lousy months.

We're filming saturday night, we have two days and one rehearsal to put the show back together and find a stage.

Oh my figgen god

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Subject:	stupid stupid
Time:	10:24 pm.

Last week my boss was let go.

Today I was let go.

What the fuck?

Apparently retail is a tough business, cause I was told my performance was fine, but they just aren't profiting enough. And, of course, the two ladies in charge of retail STILL HAVE THEIR JOBS.

In immediate retrospect, however, this will help motivate me to find a job which pays in the double digits.

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Subject:	It's Business time
Time:	12:00 pm.

makin love. makin love for two.

achem.

And so I am understudying the part of Ryan in High School Musical, I am also a jock, a brainiac, and an auditioner for the play within the play. Fun time costume changes.

Valentines came, and then it went. Celebrated singles awareness day with my friends Ben and Nicole who are getting married (awesome). Nicole drew a sign that said Happy S.A.D. and had stick figures eating candlelit dinners all by their lonesomes. Ben and I traded some music and we watched the office and had ribs; a perfect distraction from V.D.

makin love for twooo minutes.

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Subject:	Fun news!
Time:	9:19 pm.

Today I went out and got my Drivers License. It was quick and painless and I should have done it oh so much sooner. But, now I can live in the ranks of the status quo.

Now onto the next step. Getting a car.

Speaking of status quo, I am thinking about auditioning for High School Musical. You may laugh, but I think it might actually be fun.

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Time:

10:45 pm.

I am in a much better mood now that tumbleweed is in full swing, and yet with the looming backwards arch I fear a sickening lonely whiplash approaching.

Anyway there are videos online of tumbleweed connection!

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/videos/102507tumbleweed/index.htm

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=7248380 with video

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=7120423 now without video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rVKQ2LrPsk

SO much goodness.
Im going to watch pushing daisies while I do this thing

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it makes you look.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Betrayed - The Producers (original cast)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
The Watcher - Dr. Dre

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Way Down the Line - The Offspring

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Love Song - Pippin (original cast)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Undone (The Sweater Song) - Weezer

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine

WHAT DO YOU OFTEN THINK ABOUT?
On the Passing of Fairy Tale Heroes - Halfwayhome

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Poison - Alkaline Trio

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Certain Tragedy - Saves the Day

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Inside of You - Hoobastank

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Something Just Broke - Assassins (revival cast)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - The Beatles

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Flowin' Prose - Beastie Boys

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Intermission - Panic! at the disco.

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Pretty Girl - Sugarcult

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Problem Solving Skillz - Harry and the Potters

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Time:

9:34 pm.

The worst thing about this time of year is that the days keep getting shorter, and I hate midget jokes.

Razzle Dazzle was such an amazing experience. I have never been in a cast so well bonded from top to bottom. It seems like it was done in a flash, and with the end of the show came a realization that I had not seen any of my other friends in a long time.

Then I hung out with them and things seemed terribly droll. They've had all summer to putz around, use up all their creative energy, and it feels like they're in a holding pattern until things gear up for school again. We sit and do nothing and it thhhhhucks the energy from me. It is such a sharp contrast from the Razzle cast, which partied like there was no tomorrow... for there wasn't one.

Being single has been hard. During Razzle I hardly noticed it. I wanted to come home to someone, sure, but I was too tired to really dwell. Then the show closed and I crashed. I am still crashing hard. A theatre person stands up to a lot of rejection, but the closing of a show is an emotional sky dive.

A parachute only slows you down...

...It seems I leapt without one

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Time:

11:58 pm.

Yesterday we worked our broken cast member back into a couple of numbers. She isn't 100%, but she can still do a couple of the dances.

...then Ryan broke. Towards the end of the show a guy hurt his knee pretty bad and couldn't walk afterwards. He left the theatre on prop crutches and we were all told to expect and early call so we can *for the third time* re-work spacing in dances which will be effected. Unlike the last girl, however, he has solos in the show, so things could get interesting.

In other news I don't think my tumbleweed audition went well. Will I get in? Sure. Will I get a part? uh... let me put it this way, the Assistant Director, the same Ryan as above, asked me if I would still do the show if I got ensemble.

...I said I don't know, and I meant it.

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Time:	11:25 pm.
Music:	My father's gun.

I auditioned for Tumbleweed Connection, and got a callback. Good news? yeah. There are three great guy parts, I don't think I am up for any of them, though, because I was asked to come prepared with one of the generic chorus songs from the show, and not a song specific to one of the main three.

Definitely didn't sing very well, which disappointed me greatly, but I danced with flying colors (a byproduct of dancing for two weeks straight at rehearsals maybe?). Should have had a vocal coach and been better prepared with my song.

Today was craptacular. I almost got hit by a car and fell over when I swerved on my bike (my roomates bike, actually. Mine was stolen). Some scrapes on my right arm and bruises on my left leg. Not hurt bad, but annoyed none the less. Now the shift on farley's bike is acting weird.

Then at work I realized I wasn't wearing my glasses. I thought I left them at home, but it turns out they fell off when I fell, and were crushed, probably many times, by cars. Fuck.

I'm going to read the script now and try to prepare for tomorrow's callback.

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Time:	10:49 am.
Mood:	ecstatic.
Music:	Razzle Dazzle.

Our last dress went very well. due to delays we didn't get to the bows till 11:15... Then a dancer fell over and twisted her ankle.
...We all stayed another hour re-spacing things where a missing body wasn't that big an issue and throwing tech girls into numbers where it was.

Lucky me I got permission to come in late today and I am going to milk it for all it is worth.

Set my alarm for 10:15 so that I could get a *drum roll* seven hour nap. It's most I've slept in a week.

This mornings plans, laundry, buying of some missing make-up items, a present or two, harry potter, has been condensed into half of laundry/rush off to work.

I should have taken the whole day off when it was offered.

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Subject:	an RD update
Time:	12:42 am.

Razzle Dazzle is coming along swimmingly thank you very much.

I've been put here, shoved there, thrusted, turned, tapped, and toppled into just about every orifice the show could offer. Tired? sure. Ive been complimented on how much I have picked up and how far I have come since day one. Which was... less than a month ago.

I thought we had 15 shows, making it the longest running show I have been in. Turns out we could have 24.
When are they?
July 26, 27, 28, 29,
August 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday* nights and Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

*sunday nights are not for certain yet.

My general spiel applies. My house, my couch, and my love are all yours if you come.

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Subject:	Valley time
Time:	10:39 am.

There is a YAC reunion coming up. I haven't seen or talked to many Yacers in so long, it should be terribly fun. If I can remember anyones name.
that is the night of the 22nd. I should be in town saturday as well, banging on your door.

Urinetown is getting more and more thrilling. We've been going for so many days straight and tuesday is our sold out preview night. It's ever so close. the show will be fantastically fun I wish we had more shows than just this weekend.

My cop costume is actually from the full monty, which means it was used for stripping, and I tears away at a moments notice. I would love to rip it off at some point, I think it would be hilarious.

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