What Comic Books Taught Me About Politics and Human Nature

See this icon? It's the Green Lantern and Green Arrow. Not only superheroes, but best friends. Thing is, Hal (GL) and Ollie (GA) share radically different political views. And as such, every so often these colleagues and best friends are ready to tear each other's heads off.

( Soapbox: Superheroes and Politics )

All right, I'm off the soapbox. Carry on with HP slash and whining romantic problems. Oh wait, that last one's mine ;)

The age-old question: Am I insane because I'm a drama major, or is it the other way around?

So I've been asked to audition for four shows next year. Not counting Vigil and possibly The Hefner Monologues, and The Cherry Orchard which it seems I may be required to be in (it's directed by a faculty major, and performance thesis requires participation in a faculty-directed show). That last one'd be good for the ol' acting experience and look nice on a resume, but there's one slight flaw and that's that I fucking hate Chekhov and I fucking hate the Cherry motherfucking Orchard.

I've already got call-backs to one of these plays, Fall, directed by the same actress who played Nurse Ratched and the prostitute in Blue Surge. It looks like it'd be a fun play. The real trick'll be Spring, where the three shows I've been asked to do fall back-to-back, so I may skip out on the middle one, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, even though I hear it's really good. The last one'll be Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, which is a truly insane comedy, and I must see the film sometime.

But the real interesting one coming up is the Scottish Play itself, Macky-B, directed by Heather Martin. While not my favorite Shakespeare play, I have it on good account that there's a damn good chance that I could land the title role, or even MacDuff, and the prospect of playing either role (but especially Mac himself) has been growing on me. Hell, it'd be a nice consolation prize in case, for some bizarre reason I can't possibly imagine, I don't get cast as Hamlet.

The real tragedy is that this girl named Val is likely going abroad that semester, and she'd be the perfect Lady Mac. This girl is a Shakespeare geek like I'm a comic and movie geek. Hell, check out her website: http://albert.washcoll.edu/~vlarson2/
Her only flaw is that she strongly dislikes King Lear, and I've made it my mission to try convert her. Poor misguided soul. One can only hope.

Fall. Followed by Vigil. Followed by Cherry Orchard. Followed by Mac. Followed by Beyond Therapy. Followed by The Hefner Monologues. And that's if I get cast in every single thing. In the course of one senior year at college.

If I'm insane enough to do all of this, I think I'll deserve a fucking prize.