Break a Leg

Not much to report this week.  I'm still in rehearsals for The Great Books (Abridged).  If you ever have a chance to see any of the works by the Abridged Company, I suggest you take it. When done wrong, they're still good.  When done right (as is what happens when I'm involved) it's awesome!

But that's not really exciting journalism: "Here's what I'm going to be awesome at that you won't go see."  See, for me, there is so much going on in the world that is being thrown at me all the time that I can't, surely, be expected to go see all of it and make a judgement on all of it, while maintaining a job which allows me to spend the money to exist and then go and experience all these things I should be experiencing.... Yes, the answer here is "Get a Better Job".  We've been over this.  Another solution might be: "just go see the parts that seem like you would enjoy".  And SOOO many factors exist there.  I.E.

1.) What do I enjoy?

2.) What is playing?

3.) What do the critics tell me I will enjoy?

4.) What do my friends tell me I will enjoy?

5.) What percentage of the shows I have seen that the critics told me I would enjoy, have I actually enjoyed?

6.) What percentage of the shows i have seen that my friends told me I would enjoy, have I actually enjoyed?

7.) What, despite what everybody else is saying, would I like to go see?

8.) How far do I have to go so see it?

9.) Who can I get to go with me?

10.) Will there be booze?

11.) Have I subjected my friend to film shoot after film shoot at terrible hours again and again without pay and should I do them the courtesy of going out of my way to go support them just this one time?

12.) How far is it again?

13.) Can we carpool?

14.) Can we get comps?

15.) Can we get a group discount?

16.) Can we get a place to stay?

17.) Will there be drinking afterwards?

Jimmy, you can pipe in anytime here.

And SO, back to my original point, in a quite round-about way: there's been a lot going on, and it's only exciting to me, because it's only been happening to me and/or a small group of specific people which you only be familiar with if you hung out in radio kol chat for an extended period of time.

I am not excluding you.  I am inviting you.  Anything further will just sound creepy.

Happy Jenday