Well ya can't outsmart me, cuz imma mo-ron.

[thehefner]

Well, it seems I failed to neglect to mention that when I had written that last post, I already HAD replied to Gary saying "Yes! Yes! Yes! When's the best time for an audition for you?"

I'm on it. I ain't no chump.

Even if the whole prospect is huge and kinda scary at this point.

Now Gordon's talking about canceling our tickets for London if I get into Grad School. But look, I don't care how much everyone else might fucking do the same, I fucking wanna go to London. Damn it. Ah well, I shouldn't worry about it till I actually find out whether I get accepted or not. Still. I am fucking serious. It's bloody important to me.

Now I gotta speed memorize something from David Sedaris' SantaLand Diaries, but I've never even READ the bloody thing yet. Anyone got any ideas what sections might be best for me to audition with?

As I'm supposed to be doing more age-appropriate audition pieces, I'll also put the King Lear aside in favor of Hamlet's "Too, Too Solid/Sullied Flesh...", which has always been a favorite of mine.

I got till 4:30 Tuesday. So we will see.

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[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Ok, having read SantaLand Diaries, aye, I can definitely see the major differences in Sedaris and myself. I see much more similarities in my stuff to some combination of Christopher Titus and Garrison Keillor.

Oh, and I realized I hadn't actually responded to this part yet...

John, you can do highly neurotic, but you aren't highly neurotic yourself. You're actually a remarkably low-maintenence actor (at least from a stage-management point of view). Like Sedaris, you draw from your unusual life experiences to provide an unusual way for people to see the world. But those experiences are light-years apart from Sedaris's. (And he frankly can get kind of annoying and whiny: you may ramble, but you're always entertaining.)

Wow, you actually think I'm not neurotic? I think I'm crazy insecure and neurotic. But I've never heard myself described as "remarkably low-maintenence" as an actor before, that's fascinating. Thank you!

[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

Er, notice the qualifier I put out front: "highly." Oh yeah, you're definitely neurotic, but Sedaris is, literally, clinically so. When I say he's OCD, I mean he's one of those guys who had to touch the doorknob 30 times before leaving a room. You're wound pretty tight, but you're not that tight.

You're also cooperative, polite, and attentive to directions. This not only makes you low-maintenence to a stage manager; this makes you golden.

Standard disclaimer: not that pretty much all of the Rudes I've worked with aren't (at least the long standing ones *coughTheocough*). But I had to pretty seriously dress down an actor or two in New York. And I shut down the lights on a director once.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Missing that qualifier is probably one of the reasons I only got a 580 score on my GRE verbal section. Hooray for qualifiers!

Wow, glad to know I ain't that bad. If life kept crushing me down, though, I could see myself growing up to be Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, but no one wants that.

And thankya!

Standard disclaimer: not that pretty much all of the Rudes I've worked with aren't (at least the long standing ones *coughTheocough*). But I had to pretty seriously dress down an actor or two in New York. And I shut down the lights on a director once.

And I can so see you doing that too. 'S why I love ya and why you're the best stage manager I've worked with.