Ah, life in show biz...and sign biz...and general just biziness. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what today's topic header really means - I had some vague idea when I started writing - but it's funny if you read it as "Jenday licks forks". Hehe, yeah. Anyway...been a busy couple of weeks for me: working almost 8 hours a day and then shows and rehearsals and stuff...blah blah blah.
Actually, work has been somewhat slow. The summer is usually slow, but the recession has also affected things, so I've had to push my "look busy" skills to the limit. Even so, with this much down time, my boss can't help but notice me screwing around. Now, for me "screwing around" isn't trolling chat rooms or randomly searching the net for porn (cuz I know where to find it). No, screwing around for me is designing stuff...which is ironic, because that's what they hired me for. However, it seems that most employers will frown on people designing stuff that they weren't told to design. Like the Entropy Tower. An entropy tower is a device for rolling dice - basically, you drop the dice in the top and they come out the bottom...it's kinda pointless, actually, but it looks cool. It is, in essence, a way to overly complicate a very simple action. I got the idea from Scott Kurtz's webcomic- http://www.pvponline.com/2009/07/30/taking-a-crit/ You can also see what the hell I'm talking about here- http://www.flickr.com/photos/39578858@N07/3857141173/
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Then I get an email Thursday night from Yuri asking me if I'm available to show up on Saturday to shoot a scene for some new hush hush event thingy. It just so turns out that I have been planning on going camping for months this last weekend with the cast of 3 Musketeers. It was a hard decision to make, but I had to opt for the camping, especially since I had already dropped a couple hundred bucks getting new gear. Plus the fact between Thursday and Saturday I would have no time to pack my stuff, so my car was loaded and ready to roll Wednesday night. Hell, since then I haven't even had time to unpack so my car is still full of crap.
Only one more weekend of 3 Musketeers left. I'm pretty sad about that. I really love this show. It's a great cast, it's a fun show, and sword fighting - I can not iterate enough - is awesome. And we only got a 3 week-run. It's sad, really, especially since we set the theater's all-time record for audience attendance on Thursday. We beat the previous record by 12. The show that previously held the title? Taming of the Shrew - Pirate Style, starring and inspired by yours truly. Yes, I'm sounding my own horn a little bit, but hey, it's nice to be proud of something. There are four more shows, this next Thursday through Sunday at 7pm in Ives Park in Sebastopol. Thursday is pay-what-you-can night. Not that any of you would be able to go...
Speaking of which, I just wanted Yuri to know that I'm proud of him for sticking to his guns, and I'm grateful for the opportunities he has given me and still gives me, and it's nice to see that something is starting to happen with this little artistic endeavor of ours. Right on, man. See you guys soon.
Oh, and go see Inglorious Basterd. That movie is awesome.
Happy Jenday