Hi

I have a meeting with the director for the film I am doing tonight and meeting the other actor and crew for the first time. It's right at dinnertime! Is it unprofessional to bring my own dinner? Le sigh.

I'm looking forward to getting started on that. It should be really interesting visually and I got a chance to look at and try on my costumes and they look really awesome.

I know that by this point everyone has seen the Where the Wild Things Are trailer, but can we reiterate how amazing it looks? Maybe it's just because all of my friends are actors and artists but everyone I know has a link or posted some kind of comment about it because it looks so incredibly beautiful! I really can't wait And the soundtrack is gonna be freaking amazing. Let's all drown in hipster awesomeness thanks to Arcade Fire. I would embed the video on here but I just don't know how to do that. I don't have those skillzzzz. If anyone would like to take some time to tell me how to do that it would be much appreciated. Internets is hard.

I Smell Like Coppertone.

Thank god it is hot out again. I am obsessive about sunscreen and wear it every day but when the sun gets really strong again in the spring and summer, I bust out the Coppertone. No UV rays will get me. I may be the palest girl in California now, but I'll have less wrinkles and sunspots later!

I am always beyond pale at my auditions in comparison with other girls. Especially when I go to the "Latina" calls. I don't really fit in when I go to those. But even standard auditions I am one of the few who is not tan or orange. It is just so unappealing. I don't understand when orange became acceptable.

My imagination has been in overdrive lately, I'm not quite sure why, but I find myself more distracted and daydreaming than usual. But in a strange way it helps to keep me focused and keeps my brain on a creative track. I work with babies and yesterday when one of the kids fell asleep while I was holding her, I literally disappeared into my mind for a good half hour or maybe more, just letting my thoughts follow each other, and see where they went. Like an imaginative stream of consciousness I suppose. I like hearing music, then transporting myself to being present when the music being played, then I start to think about all the different ways that music can be showcased. Then I usually try to develop some kind of movement based stage piece that would somehow go with whatever I am listening to. It rarely works.

Yesterday I was having my kids listen to Irish music for obvious reasons and my brain just floated around for a while trying to creatively connect certain songs or sounds with physical movement or with light.

I do this alot when I listen to Muse. I used them in the one person show I wrote a few years ago because I really find the epic and theatrical quality lends well to theatre. That band in particular really motivates me to daydream about the possibilities of different performance ideas. I really like the idea of taking really theatrical music, and putting it with amazing graphics, dancers, actors, lighting, and seeing what kind of strange piece would come of it. Like a contemporary ballet or something. Set to Queen. That would be awesome and weird.

I think about that stuff sometimes. It is good for my brain I think.

Oh and how amazing does this movie look? I hope it blows away my imagination and mind.



I hope it is everything I want it to be. More thinking outside the box, please.