2006 In Review Meme
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thehefnerBecause the first lines in LJ entries aren't usually golden, I defy the rules of this meme and do it my OWN way! The long-winded way!
January:
-I started seriously writing HEFNER MONOLOGUES, starting with the Wedding Dance story, followed soon thereafter by "Drunk in Bath," and the Hugh Hefner story.
-I was still mightily angsty over Misty. And... other stuff.
February:
-My best friend Dave finally fessed up about screwing Misty, and he and I... is there a better way to say it than "we broke up?"
-I also played Slender in the Rudes' "Merry Wives," which I'd based upon Misty's mannerisms. I guess badly impersonating my ex-girlfriend was one way of coping.
-I also wrote the epic Tammy Hefner Monologue, and the reaction to even that mucked-up first draft pleased me greatly.
-JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED aired its final episode ever, thus ending one of the greatest TV shows I've ever, ever seen in my entire life.
-For the first time in a month or two, I start chatting with the cool Jewish girl in Pittsburgh I met via the Onion Personals.
March:
-I came up with the absolutely brilliant idea to write an epic fanfiction of Harvey Dent/Mary Walker/Two-Face/Typhoid Mary, which still has yet to actually be finished thanks to the even MORE epic Two-Face origin story I'm doing.
-I drive up to Pittsburgh to meet Bloo. I'm unfortunately sick as a dog, so there's no flirting, but there are Looney Tunes and burritos, so it's not all bad. Although it was rough to meet her mother with her JUDGMENTAL EYES!!!
April:
-I come up with one of my best ideas ever, the Pirate Theatre Troupe. One day, Val, if you're still serious about it... oh yes, I think we'll hafta.
-I get cast in my first ever professional show. Unfortunately, said show is THE DAVID DANCE.
-I have floating crap in my eyes which my doctor tells me will never go away. It has!
May:
-I run afoul of a Burt's Bees stand.
-I see Tammy for the first time in a year or so when she comes to see THE DAVID DANCE. We have a lovely dinner afterwards and I am mightily distracted by how huge her boobs have gotten. Wow.
-I see X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND. My soul dies a little bit more that day.
June:
-I am NAILED by both the Washington Post and the Potomac Stages reviews for THE DAVID DANCE. My first ever bad reviews. Damn director for not giving me jack for directions. I am seriously shaken and decide maybe it's best to focus on education, perhaps to go grad school.
-Bloo comes down to DC. Bad news: her one and only experience seeing me on stage is in THE DAVID DANCE. ARGH! I still long to prove to her that I really can frickin' do well! However, she doesn't really give a damn, and we have a fantastic time regardless. We spend the vast majority of our time together in bed, watching movies and... stuff. She's miffed when she finds out she could have been at museums for *free*... miffed, yes, but only slightly, I think.
-I see KISS KISS, BANG BANG. It's still my current favorite movie.
-I officially have a girlfriend. Honestly, my first ever real girlfriend! EEE!
July:
-I see SUPERMAN RETURNS. I am still frustrated and mixed over this bloody film. Man, I really hope they make the sequel. But that's a whole other rant.
-I see PIRATES 2: DEAD MAN'S CHEST with a bunch of girls dressed as pirates. I go dressed as Bill the Butcher, because hey, I'm like that. I really like the film, and actually really, really prefer it to the original. I'm still in the tiny minority there. Fuck it, the sequel actually has character development!
-I audition at Catholic University for grad school. It's still one of the most memorable and likely formative moments of my life.
August:
-Oral surgery to remove the cyst in my lower lip. The eight stitches result in swelling and discoloration that one customer at the comic store mistook for just a really nasty cold sore.
-MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE airs its final episode, and what an end note. What an underrated show.
-I met George Romero and showed him Bub and Johnny Go. What a fucking experience!
-I also met Bub himself, Sherman Howard. The experience was less fun, but very thoughtful. What a complex man.
-I also meet Tom Atkins. And yes, he is the fucking man.
-I write the final part of the first HEFNER MONOLOGUES book. I am satisfied. And that's fucking saying a lot. I'm still fucking editing, if you're still wondering.
September:
-Gary from Catholic U sends me the single greatest rejection letter I've ever gotten, and probably will ever get.
-Grad school doesn't happen, which is for the best, so I sign up for a class at Studio Theatre.
-I perform my first ever Hefner Monologue live at Speakeasy in DC. Amazing experience! The crowd and regulars alike love me and insist I come back.
-I go to London, see TITUS at the Globe and MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN with Kevin Spacey. Absolutely fucking amazing, even if Colm Meany is kind of a prick.
-With one crazy sexist hysterectomy gag, GILMORE GIRLS is ruined for me forever. Forever!
October:
-I visit Bloo in Chicago. It's a multi-layered experience. Plus, real Mexican food! And she makes me buy a snazzy new hat, which I wear to this day. Yay, warm head!
-I see MONSTER SQUAD and wonder how I could have ever lived without it.
-Bloo comes down here for Halloween and we go to TWO parties as Cabaret-style Joker and Harley. We rock, m'dear. I am STILL trying to figure out an excuse for us to dress up like them again!
November:
-I see JACKASS NUMBER TWO and BORAT in the space of the same month, which results in the most painful laughs I've ever cackled in the same period of time in my life.
-Alan teaches me how to make a Manhattan. It's now my numbah one drink!
-I see THE FOUNTAIN, one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen in my life. Astounding.
-I finally finish Stephen King's DARK TOWER saga, with mixed feelings. I still adore it, ending be damned.
December:
-I finally find out what the three seashells are for, thus answering one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
January:
-I started seriously writing HEFNER MONOLOGUES, starting with the Wedding Dance story, followed soon thereafter by "Drunk in Bath," and the Hugh Hefner story.
-I was still mightily angsty over Misty. And... other stuff.
February:
-My best friend Dave finally fessed up about screwing Misty, and he and I... is there a better way to say it than "we broke up?"
-I also played Slender in the Rudes' "Merry Wives," which I'd based upon Misty's mannerisms. I guess badly impersonating my ex-girlfriend was one way of coping.
-I also wrote the epic Tammy Hefner Monologue, and the reaction to even that mucked-up first draft pleased me greatly.
-JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED aired its final episode ever, thus ending one of the greatest TV shows I've ever, ever seen in my entire life.
-For the first time in a month or two, I start chatting with the cool Jewish girl in Pittsburgh I met via the Onion Personals.
March:
-I came up with the absolutely brilliant idea to write an epic fanfiction of Harvey Dent/Mary Walker/Two-Face/Typhoid Mary, which still has yet to actually be finished thanks to the even MORE epic Two-Face origin story I'm doing.
-I drive up to Pittsburgh to meet Bloo. I'm unfortunately sick as a dog, so there's no flirting, but there are Looney Tunes and burritos, so it's not all bad. Although it was rough to meet her mother with her JUDGMENTAL EYES!!!
April:
-I come up with one of my best ideas ever, the Pirate Theatre Troupe. One day, Val, if you're still serious about it... oh yes, I think we'll hafta.
-I get cast in my first ever professional show. Unfortunately, said show is THE DAVID DANCE.
-I have floating crap in my eyes which my doctor tells me will never go away. It has!
May:
-I run afoul of a Burt's Bees stand.
-I see Tammy for the first time in a year or so when she comes to see THE DAVID DANCE. We have a lovely dinner afterwards and I am mightily distracted by how huge her boobs have gotten. Wow.
-I see X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND. My soul dies a little bit more that day.
June:
-I am NAILED by both the Washington Post and the Potomac Stages reviews for THE DAVID DANCE. My first ever bad reviews. Damn director for not giving me jack for directions. I am seriously shaken and decide maybe it's best to focus on education, perhaps to go grad school.
-Bloo comes down to DC. Bad news: her one and only experience seeing me on stage is in THE DAVID DANCE. ARGH! I still long to prove to her that I really can frickin' do well! However, she doesn't really give a damn, and we have a fantastic time regardless. We spend the vast majority of our time together in bed, watching movies and... stuff. She's miffed when she finds out she could have been at museums for *free*... miffed, yes, but only slightly, I think.
-I see KISS KISS, BANG BANG. It's still my current favorite movie.
-I officially have a girlfriend. Honestly, my first ever real girlfriend! EEE!
July:
-I see SUPERMAN RETURNS. I am still frustrated and mixed over this bloody film. Man, I really hope they make the sequel. But that's a whole other rant.
-I see PIRATES 2: DEAD MAN'S CHEST with a bunch of girls dressed as pirates. I go dressed as Bill the Butcher, because hey, I'm like that. I really like the film, and actually really, really prefer it to the original. I'm still in the tiny minority there. Fuck it, the sequel actually has character development!
-I audition at Catholic University for grad school. It's still one of the most memorable and likely formative moments of my life.
August:
-Oral surgery to remove the cyst in my lower lip. The eight stitches result in swelling and discoloration that one customer at the comic store mistook for just a really nasty cold sore.
-MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE airs its final episode, and what an end note. What an underrated show.
-I met George Romero and showed him Bub and Johnny Go. What a fucking experience!
-I also met Bub himself, Sherman Howard. The experience was less fun, but very thoughtful. What a complex man.
-I also meet Tom Atkins. And yes, he is the fucking man.
-I write the final part of the first HEFNER MONOLOGUES book. I am satisfied. And that's fucking saying a lot. I'm still fucking editing, if you're still wondering.
September:
-Gary from Catholic U sends me the single greatest rejection letter I've ever gotten, and probably will ever get.
-Grad school doesn't happen, which is for the best, so I sign up for a class at Studio Theatre.
-I perform my first ever Hefner Monologue live at Speakeasy in DC. Amazing experience! The crowd and regulars alike love me and insist I come back.
-I go to London, see TITUS at the Globe and MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN with Kevin Spacey. Absolutely fucking amazing, even if Colm Meany is kind of a prick.
-With one crazy sexist hysterectomy gag, GILMORE GIRLS is ruined for me forever. Forever!
October:
-I visit Bloo in Chicago. It's a multi-layered experience. Plus, real Mexican food! And she makes me buy a snazzy new hat, which I wear to this day. Yay, warm head!
-I see MONSTER SQUAD and wonder how I could have ever lived without it.
-Bloo comes down here for Halloween and we go to TWO parties as Cabaret-style Joker and Harley. We rock, m'dear. I am STILL trying to figure out an excuse for us to dress up like them again!
November:
-I see JACKASS NUMBER TWO and BORAT in the space of the same month, which results in the most painful laughs I've ever cackled in the same period of time in my life.
-Alan teaches me how to make a Manhattan. It's now my numbah one drink!
-I see THE FOUNTAIN, one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen in my life. Astounding.
-I finally finish Stephen King's DARK TOWER saga, with mixed feelings. I still adore it, ending be damned.
December:
-I finally find out what the three seashells are for, thus answering one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
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Date: 2006-12-08 06:33 pm (UTC)May:
-I run afoul of a Burt's Bees stand.
-I see Tammy for the first time in a year or so when she comes to see THE DAVID DANCE. We have a lovely dinner afterwards and I am mightily distracted by how huge her boobs have gotten. Wow.
-I see X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND. My soul dies a little bit more that day.
WHAT IS WITH THE THREE SEASHELLS?
And you met Colm Meany? What? SPILL.
And shouldn't I be in your list here SOMEWHERE?
Monster Squad?
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Date: 2006-12-08 06:39 pm (UTC)http://cats-n-crying.livejournal.com/370765.html?thread=2260301#t2260301
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Date: 2006-12-08 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-08 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 01:13 am (UTC)It says that Galactus IS going to be in the next FF film.
Oh, god.
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 04:47 pm (UTC)Uh, Alicia Masters is suddenly....black?
And Frankie Raye is in this, too? What?
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Date: 2006-12-09 05:09 pm (UTC)speaking of which.. i did a post about that this morning that i am eagerly awaiting your response to.
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Date: 2006-12-08 06:50 pm (UTC)I saw Colm Meany act alongside Kevin Spacey in MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN by Eugene O'Neill. Absolutely stunning play and production. God, I adore O'Neill. Meany and Spacey rocked every second. I went to the stage door afterwards to get autographs. Spacey was curt and not friendly, but still signed autographs for all, which was cool... the guy *did* just finish an incredibly taxing 3 and 1/2 hour long performance. Meany came out with a guy, took one look at the line, muttered "Oh bloody 'ell," and raced right past us.
My dear, you're not a one-note event. You're a spanning constant in my intranet life!
MONSTER SQUAD is a film I'd heard talked about a lot before I finally splurged and bought the bootleg DVD sight unseen. It's the lost brother of STAND BY ME, THE GOONIES, FRIGHT NIGHT, and THE LOST BOYS, if you know what I mean. It's directed by Fred Dekker of NIGHT OF THE CREEPS fame (*another* film of his that desperately needs to be on DVD stat!) and co-written by my favorite screenwriter, Shane Black (of LETHAL WEAPON and KISS KISS, BANG BANG fame). That sealed the deal.
While I'd prefer for you to see this movie yourself, I know that may never happen. God knows when it'll be released! So in the meantime, perhaps this will explain the wonder and joy this is... MONSTER SQUAD.
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/monster-squad/
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-08 06:38 pm (UTC)Superman Returns was in june, btw.. it was my birthday and we went to the imax. june 28th.
horrorfind.. we hung out with Tom Atkins, grabbed lunch, had a great time together. he is the man.
Monster Squad.. i was howling along with you. that movie is so good. it needs to come out on dvd. when i was a kid it was one of my favorites.
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:12 am (UTC)I STILL laugh at that post.
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:44 pm (UTC);)
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Date: 2006-12-08 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-08 09:29 pm (UTC)Well, I could get the name of the series right...
Date: 2006-12-09 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-08 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 01:30 am (UTC)So it all evens out. ;p
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Date: 2006-12-09 05:03 am (UTC)