Talking the talk before we walk the walk
Last night was our first session of tablework for Picasso. For this show it’s important not just from a character perspective, but to chew over the ideas and philosophies at play in the script. And it was a great discussion, ranging from physics and dreams and the nature of genius to the relationship between drawing [...]
Settling my tab
Just finished my taxes. Found this on the IRS website: How long should I keep records? Condition number three is absolutely adorable: 3. You file a fraudulent return; keep records indefinitely. I wonder if anyone has ever fallen for that.
Easy answer: Work harder
My weight has been effectively stable since about August. At the peak of performing in Odd Couple and Dracula, the sweat-off had me down a pound or two. During the holidays, the gorging and travel had me up a pound or two. But I keep landing back at almost exactly 30 pounds off last year’s [...]
Tinkering
Well, I’ve installed a widget in order to make a basic gallery for my headshots. This might be a nice way to collect some of my hobby pictures – we’ll see. This has led to some long-mulled tweaks to the site layout and a few changes to the static pages. I get a little bolder [...]
Booked
“I know that there are two subjects in paintings that no one will buy. One is Jesus, and the other is sheep.“ I have been cast in an upcoming production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, playing Picasso’s art dealer Sagot. The company is Stages Theatre in Fullerton – Fullerton is a college [...]
My first-ever professional headshots arrived today. Got them done while I was in Chicago and do I ever give all the credit to Amanda Clifford for finding some handsome in me. The soft early winter morning light didn’t hurt either. I’ve pulled about nine that I may conceivably use, but these two were the first [...]
The Book of Your Life, Faced
Last week I decided to jump the gun and enable Facebook’s “Timeline” upgrade – which, just FYI, is rolling out starting this week whether you like it or not. Facebook users who go into nuclear freakout mode over every minor tweak are really going to have to eat their Wheaties for this one, so I [...]
Good thing he’s here to tell me these things
Someone in a writer’s community who doesn’t know me reviewed the script for the short film I am going to make, and called it “something that completely ignores the primary principles of good film making.” He added that “it feels like you are totally missing the point of what the “medium of film” is all [...]
Strange Associations
This torturous video (really, click only if your love of music is strong enough to survive this assault) illustrates a point I often try to make about screenwriting books (really, bear with me). While there is great insight and clarity offered by many books out there, it is entirely possible, and in fact incredibly common, [...]