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I am officially in love with Tina Majorino, star of HBO's Big Love. She needs to have an episode built directly around her.Current Mood:  bitchy |
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If I were a month, I'd be: I'd be September
If I were a day of the week: Thursday
If I were a time of day, I'd be: 3 AM
If I were a planet, I'd be: Venus
If I were a sea animal, I'd be: A manatee
If I were a direction, I'd be: West
If I were a piece of furniture, I'd be: A four-poster
If I were a sin, I'd be: Jealousy
If I were a historical figure, I'd be: Christopher Marlowe
If I were a liquid, I'd be: Vodka
If I were a tree, I'd be: Weeping willow
If I were a bird, I'd be: Flamingo
If I were a tool, I'd be: Phillips head screwdriver
If I were a flower/plant, I'd be: an American beauty rose
If I were a kind of weather, I'd be: Typhoon
If I were a mythical creature, I'd be: Griffin
If I were a musical instrument, I'd be: Clarinet
If I were an animal, I'd be: I'm not sure. A butterfly
If I were a color, I'd be: Fire engine red
If I were an emotion, I'd be: Angst
If I were a vegetable, I'd be: A shallot
If I were a sound, I'd be: A woman having her first orgasm
If I were an element, I'd be: Fire
If I were a car, I'd be: A Dusenberg
If I were a song, I'd be: "Our Love Is Here to Stay," as sung by Nat King Cole
If I were a movie, I'd be: Woody Allen's Interiors or The Ice Storm
If I were a book, I'd be: Song of Solomon
If I were a food, I'd be: Steak frites
If I were a place, I'd be: West 45th Street
If I were a material, I'd be: Brocade and crewel
If I were a taste, I'd be: Salty
If I were a scent, I'd be: Cinnamon
If I were a religion, I'd be: A Jain
If I were a word, I'd be: Perfidious
If I were an object, I'd be: A footlight
If I were a body part, I'd be: Hypothalamus
If I were a facial expression, I'd be: A smile tinged with melancholy
If I were a subject in school, I'd be: Theatre
If I were a cartoon character, I'd be: Probably Buster from Tiny Toons
If I were a shape, I'd be a: A figure-eight
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While I'm not quite ready to make a top 10 list just yet (as there are several films I still need to see), I am going to make some choices in some other categories for what stood out most for me in the year of films. I reserve the right to revise this.
Best Performance by a Leading Actor:
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
1st Runner-Up:
Cillian Murphy, Breakfast on Pluto
2nd Runner-Up:
Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
Best Performance by a Leading Actress:
Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale
Runner-Up: Naomi Watts, King Kong
Best Performance by a Supporting Actor:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Best Performance by a Supporting Actress:
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain
1st Runner-Up: Tilda Swinton, Broken Flowers
2nd Runner-Up: Anne Hathaway, Brokeback Mountain
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
1st Runner-Up: Neil Jordan, Breakfast on Pluto
2nd Runner-Up: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
1st Runner-Up: A History of Violence
2nd Runner-Up: Neil Jordan & Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto
Best Original Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Runner-Up: Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers
Tell me your thoughts, kids!
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Dec. 31st, 2005 @ 05:27 pm
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Stolen from Maya:
What a surprise, though I DID expect that Brooklyn would come in third after Queens, but it was instead the last of the boroughs for me.
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Oct. 28th, 2005 @ 12:26 am
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So...I've been trying to take advantage of more acting opportunities on campus and attend more auditions. I did recently get cast in a student film, which shoots on November 5th. I'll be playing a character which is something of a stretch for me, a criminal who has to physically attack someone during the course of the scene. I was very surprised that I got cast in the role, but also gratified that they thought I could do it. I know I have that part of myself, I just don't let it out very often. So it will be a matter of being able to access that. If this goes well, maybe I'll try for more student films in the future.
Also, I had actor placement auditions (for which acting classes I'll take next semester), and I feel they went reasonably well. I did a terrific monologue from The Warm Peninsula by Joe Masteroff. I felt more confident this time than in previous actor placement auditions, however I still felt myself lapsing into some of my habits (like underlining phrases with thrusts of my chin).
I'm starting to really key in on these things because we focus so much on them in voice class, and Susan, my voice teacher, is a real stickler and bars no holds in terms of telling us what our problems are and what we need to work on. At times, she can be a bit intimidating, because she comes across as a scolding mother. I also think that sometimes she places too much emphasis on transforming the self, rather than allowing one's personality to inform the character one creates. On the one hand, I agree with her that classical material should not be performed in a contemporary manner, and yet, I still think the actor's individual traits need to be considered when trying finding a way into characters and material that place different kinds of demands on the actor than contemporary plays do.
Susan doesn't mince her words. Today, a girl in our class was being somewhat hostile to Susan's attempts to get her to perform her piece (from "Waiting for Lefty") less like a 2005 woman and more like a woman of the 1940s. Susan told her that she would never be a stage actor if she wouldn't allow herself to be curious and open about creating and embodying people other than those like herself.
Back to auditions. Next week I'm going to audition for Pride and Prejudice for the University's season, and I need to find a classical monologue (anyone have any suggestions for me). The week after that, I plan to audition for a community theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (the same company where I did St. Joan last year). On the one hand, I don't feel I'm completely right for Nick, but it certainly never hurts to gain audition experience. Besides, I do feel that I might be able to bring something interesting and unusual to Nick that would be valuable to the production. Besides, they don't get a lot of younger men who audition for this company, so I have a decent shot.
That's all for now. I plan on attending a haunted house this weekend, dressing up as a Dalmation and running down State Street with 100 others like me, and then getting properly trashed!Current Mood:  hungry Current Music: "14th Street," Rufus Wainwright |
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Betsy Joslyn is really an amazing performer, one of the most spontaneous and brilliant talents around. Yes, I know about the "Joslyn curse," but when she's on, there's really no one like her. Her version of the Witch's "Lament" is a master class in vocal acting.
Oct. 22nd, 2005 @ 01:58 am
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Okay, so realistically this probably won't help bring back the late and lamented The Comeback. But it certainly can't hurt. So please sign this and maybe there's a chance Valerie Cherish can come back on HBO. We DO need to see that!
http://www.petitiononline.com/valerie/petition.html
Oct. 1st, 2005 @ 09:54 pm
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Someone on ATC has posted that The Light in the Piazza may be extending beyond January 1st! I'm so excited that the show seems to have caught on and about possibly having the chance to see replacements in some of the major roles. And check out the kick-ass icon that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bwaybabie made. I WILL play Lily Garland one day.
Aug. 9th, 2005 @ 05:41 pm
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To those of you not watching The Comeback, expect to feel the wrath of my condemnation. That is all.
Aug. 6th, 2005 @ 06:45 pm
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Well, I'm back from the latest New York trip. I mostly had a very good time seeing friends, shows, and belting my lungs out with Maya at Marie's. And I can't thank the darling Tesse enough for her kind hospitality and being so understand with Maya and me.
I am, however, rather depressed in the general. I have been experiencing a profound sense of ennui for the last couple of months, and I don't know what to do to snap out of it.
For one thing, I just found that my scholarship wasn't renewed for this coming semester (I'm even more upset because the reasoning is nonsensical), and I have no idea how I'm going to pay for school this year. Lovely.
At this point, I don't even feel like I have the energy and determination to finish school. A big part of me wants to just quit and move to New York right now, though I know that's far from the wisest move right now. But I just feel so restless and lonely at school. This year should be better since I'll be living with other people and hopefully doing more theatre. Still, considering my finances are so up-in-the-air right now, dropping out seems like the easiest option. Of course, I just spent $300 I don't have on a New York trip. And getting a job right now is difficult since I don't have any transportation.
Right now, I just want to soak myself in gin, crawl into bed, and disappear for the next week.
Jul. 11th, 2005 @ 10:52 pm
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So, something quite amusing happened to Maya tonight. She was trying to view a VHS tape of Kiss Me, Kate. She kept pushing play, but instead of the video playing, her TV shut off when she did this. After I kept trying to convince her she was crazy, she showed me on her web-cam. Well, she was right. However, what she didn't tell me was that she didn't check the tape itself. The VCR had eaten the tape. Then I had to explain how to re-thread the tape so she could try it in the living room. But that wasn't possible either, because her roommate (whose TV and VCR normally occupy the living room ) were unplugged. So she couldn't even watch the video, and she ended up watching Patti in the Sydmonton Sunset Boulevard instead.
I was secretly quite amused, even though I'm sure it wasn't quite so funny to her at the time!
Apr. 27th, 2005 @ 02:21 am
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That sums up my feelings right now. I feel like everything I want is so near, yet so far away from me. I'm intelligent and talented, but somehow I always seem to end up with the short end of the stick. It doesn't help that lately I just haven't felt driven to do anything. I'm just stagnant. *end emo rant*
Apr. 20th, 2005 @ 04:49 am
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Apr. 20th, 2005 @ 12:40 am
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I FINALLY got Whoop-Up, and all I can say is, WOW. I LOVE it. It's so deliciously campy, and yet really wonderful in its way. Susan Johnson does not disappoint. Her diatribe against men IS my theme song. And "The Best of What This Country's Got" just makes me deliriously, giddily happy. That is all. This is going to the top of the list of my favorite flops.
Mar. 21st, 2005 @ 04:22 am
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Okay, so Maya and I had an extremely odd conversation. This will probably make NO sense to anyone else, but basically it involves Maria de Medeiros, blueberry pie, and a sentient, God-like being called The Cheese Danish Man. The lunacy follows.
( Those who are obsessed with Maria de Medeiros truly hold the answer to the meaning of life )
Mar. 14th, 2005 @ 03:10 am
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Today was a day filled with literature. I read about 100 pages today of The Mill on the Floss, which is fast becoming one of my favorite books. Eliot's description of character is razor-sharp and insightful, the breadth of her psychological understanding really breath-taking. This book just feels so fresh and alive, despite the obscurity of things like gypsy-bands and the minutiae of English farm live in the 19th century. I also completely relate to Maggie Tulliver, unconventional, rebellious, unlucky in love, but obstinate as hell.
I also picked up The Vagabond by Colette at the library today. It gripped me so much that I read almost 50 pages at the library! Once again, its tale of a solitary music-hall dancer feels all too apt and familiar to me. How many nights have I sat in my humble room like Renee, at once cherishing and disdaining my solitude. I too have felt the need to disappear from society, to live my life as if nothing else exists around me. What a profound, sad little novel this is!
I also find myself reflecting on John Guare's great, great play Landscape of the Body, which I finally read last night. Rosalie's last speech, about how all humans are on fish hooks, spending our entire lives fighting to bite ourselves free of the hooks so that our spirits can be free to travel through space and time, strikes me as one of the most exhilarating and heart-rending things I've ever read. Why didn't I read this play sooner?!
In somewhat less melancholy news, my *cough* footwear *cough* collection is growing by leaps and bounds. Of course, this only increases my drive for more. With me, once I decide to take up a hobby or collection, I throw myself in headlong, as anyone who has seen my list of cast recordings can attest.
Ah well, off to work on my acting journal, followed by lots more reading. At least acting class should be fun tomorrow.
Feb. 22nd, 2005 @ 03:14 am
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If you read this, even if I don't speak to you often, you must post a memory of me. It can be anything you want, so long as it happened.
Then post this to your journal. See what people remember about you.
Feb. 8th, 2005 @ 08:58 pm
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Okay, at the urging of Maya, I have decided to make a list of all my cast recordings, as well as a few (though not all, since I haven't catalogued them yet) of my theatre-related CDs and audio bootleg. I realize that I didn't list the LPs alphabetically, but I'm too lazy to go back and change it. Deal! This is mostly for my own benefit, but maybe some of you will get a kick out of this list as well. Hope you enjoy!
( Cole's Extremely Long List of Cast Recordings )
Dec. 9th, 2004 @ 03:46 am
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You Are Cinderella!
 Dignified and hard working. With a gentle and soft-spoken manner you have something many people don't. Patience. Even through the moments of heartbreak you're still able to hold onto all of your hopes and dreams. Bide your time; you're dream will come true. Which Disney Princess Are You?
Dec. 6th, 2004 @ 02:11 am
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Well, there's not a great deal to report. Mostly, I'm glad that it's almost Thanksgiving break. I really need a break from school at this point. My energy level still isn't back to normal, and performing in Saint Joan has taken quite a bit out of me. So, I think a rest is in order.
I'm glad that Saint Joan is over, but a bit sad at the same time. When you're involved with a production, you form a family, albeit a forced one. I'll miss my fellow actors and the production crew, but I do hope to work with them again at some point. And I'm ready to move on to the next challenge. I don't yet know what I'll audition for next, but I do want to act again before the end of the school year.
On a somewhat more random note, can I just say what a trashy hoot the film of Top Banana is? Jokes like "An interracial sandwich is ham on a bagel" are just classics. Seriously, it does give one a pretty good impression of Phil Silvers' abilities, and he must have been a pretty thrilling comedian onstage. And the film, as poor as the production values are (they basically just aimed a camera at the stage at a Los Angeles theatre and filmed the show at the conclusion of the national tour), is a real throwback hoot. I highly recommend any film or musical theatre maven see it!
Finally, I am in love with Regina. Thanks to the generosity of Bobster, I was able to hear the NYCO recording with Brenda Lewis. Why hasn't this ever been issued on CD?!?! It's far superior to the other recording of the score (sadly out-of-print). Brenda Lewis is an extraordinary Regina, imperious, cunning, and resourceful, as well as being very persuasive as a Southern Belle. Her singing is nothing short terrific too. The great Carol Brice is an unsurpassable Addie, bringing her character vividly to life, especially in the prologue , "Want to Join the Angels" (one of my very favorite pieces of music). Elisabeth Carron makes a most touching Birdie, and her drunk scene is supremely moving.
In fact, the whole cast just sizzles. It turns out that Columbia was convinced the recording would be a loser, and didn't want to give them more than five hours in the recording studio for the album. So after a performance one night, the cast (still in makeup and costumes) got in taxis at City Center and were taken to the recording studio. The entire recording was made during that five hours with hardly any stops or retakes (I believe only Regina's high C was recorded separately). This gives the recording an immediacy and power that is quite unlike just about any other cast recording I've ever heard.
This recording confirms my belief that with Regina, Blitzstein crafted one of the finest scores ever for the American theatre. It makes me want to cry that this piece isn't better-known. Of course, Patti LuPone will be doing this in concert at the Kennedy Center, and though I can't imagine how she's going to pull it off, I hope it brings this exquisite piece some more recognition.
Nov. 23rd, 2004 @ 09:57 pm
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