speaking of The Da Vinci Code

"we live in a beautiful world, yeah we do, yeah we do"

 

I came across some articles regarding the movie, and how the Catholic Church wants us to boycott it.  Things like this really make me cringe.  And laugh.  And cringe.

-Exhibit A.  “We must not sleep as the Apostles did while Our Lord suffered in the Garden.” Yes, I'm seeing the comparison.  Good one!

-Exhibit B.

-Exhibit C.

-Exhibit D.  "Cardinal Arinze said The Da Vinci Code was loaded with mistakes that orient people against the church and that "any film produced on the basis of the book is already in error from the word go." "Christians must not just sit back and say it is enough for us to forgive and forget. ... Sometimes it is our duty to do something practical," the cardinal said." And then we learned how to define fiction!  And forgot how to be Christian.  All in one go.

Okay, I'm bored with this now.  I was procrastinating getting in the shower because Careers USA said they were going to call me as soon as Cindy got back from her lunch break, but I've been waiting an hour now and I need to be clean.

I forgot to vote today.  And I wouldn't know what I was voting for anyway, without spending time researching.  Bah, I suck at life.

stuff

As I mentioned, I read Angels & Demons when I got home.  Like The Da Vinci Code (yes, I'm looking forward to the movie), I really enjoyed reading the book, but at the same time didn't have tooooo high an opinion of it.  The ideas all seem stolen (play Gabriel Knight 3 instead of reading The Da Vinci Code...seriously...), and the writing is NOT outstanding.  So, anyway, I found this blog entry on Dan Brown's writing kinda fitting.

Episodes of Firefly are now available on ITunes.  You should watch it, then go watch Serenity.  Seriously.  Let's raise them some money so they can resurrect these characters again in a new TV show.  Please?

Technology is wierding me out lately.  I love my Nano, but I can download Podcasts and all sorts of stuff to it and I find that wierd.  I embrace it, but it's spooky.  And on the turnpike now in some states, they have new EZPass/I-Pass stations where you don't have to slow down AT ALL.  You have your own special lane to drive in and there's just this thing hanging 20 feet in the air over the lane that collects your information as you continue driving.  No tollbooth, no slowing down, no green light telling you they got your information. 

Yes, this is what I spend my time thinking about.

Tonight I'm going to watch Shop Girl.  I had a free Blockbuster rental.  Yay free movie.  Yesterday when I walked into the video store I was actually stressed out by the number of movies I want/need to watch this summer.  Stressed out in a good way, but still!

"Well, I'm back." - Samwise Gamgee, Return of the King

Home again, home again, la la la.

In true "the grass is always greener" form, I miss Milwaukee.  Home will be great and by the end of the summer I'll be sad to leave again, but right now I'm going through a bit of withdrawal.  For instance, last night after Lost was over, I just thought, "in about an hour I SHOULD be going to kareoke.." 

I know I'll be going back, and SOON, and that I will see many/most of the same people again in life, if not soon.  There was something about saying goodbye to this intern group that was as upsetting as graduating, though.  When you go to college, you know that you'll be there for four years and then you'll have to say goodbye.  But most people try to find a job after graduating that they can stick with for a while, climb the ladder, etc.  In my life, though, I'm going to be saying goodbye to people every season, if not every few months.  Realizing that next year when I come back I won't have my intern group there, and that that same group of people will never be working at the same place at the same time again was saddening in a way that even graduating was not.  So, while I can't wait to go back next season with Briana and Whitney and Amanda and Becky, etc., and make new friends among the interns, I will miss Lauren and Jordan and Jeanine and Rachel and Mike and Matt and George and Venessa and etc.

Now, good news.  I just got the phonecall that I officially have an apartment to move into on July 30th or whenever I go back.  Yay!  It's in a building called Lakeside Apartments, which is owned by the same people as the Plaza.  It's a cheap efficiency apartment (aka teeeeeeeeeny tiny), but it's fine for just me.  I'll need to find some furniture to put in aforementioned apartment, though.  Also some money to buy the furniture with.  As much as I told people like Jordan and Matt that they're welcome to crash at my place until they find somewhere to live in the Fall (they'll both be back in Milwaukee working on shows for a few months), I'm seriously wondering whether I'll have any space for them to crash in...  Ah well, we can worry about that later.

Home is nice.  I read Angels & Demons - an enjoyable read.  I'm gonna call Careers USA tomorrow and get a temp job, and mom is gonna find us a puppy soon.  Tonight I'm going out with Jason - first time I've seen him since last September.  Wierd.

I lost 7 pounds since last I was home.  I would think an intern's income could do even better than that!  I'll blame it on the food stamps.

best day ever!

Reasons today is the best day ever (but in no particular order..):

-Went out for lunch and coffee with Kelly and her baby, Annie down by the lake

-Going on my first motorcycle ride with Sahba later today

-It's over 70 degrees for once

-New LOST tonight!

-I'm 80% sure I found an aprtment for next year (I'll know for sure after the open house on Sunday)

-Kareoke tonight...always a good time, but tonight EVERYONE is coming, since it's both me and George's last one

-I'm about to go be productive for an hour before Sahba shows up

-Next week at this time I'll be HOME!

Yay, life.

9 days til home!

...and counting...

 

My Keanu is back!  :)

Boring review.  Yay, fun.

oh, yeah

I kinda forgot to mention this in the previous entries, but in case you haven't figured it out yet, I'll be back in Milwaukee for the Rep's '06-'07 Season.  It begins July 31st and my time here will be done mid-April of 2007.  I'm really excited about the tentative line-up, and now I must start apartment-hunting.  I'll make some actual money next year, with a 40-hour work week with TONS of overtime, and it looks like my title will be Stage Management Apprentice (not Assosciate like Amanda was this year...shrug..).  Basically, it's their way of keeping me around another season without me having to pay any Equity dues just yet ;)

"See you next Tuesday." - Mitch Albom

Mondays are so weird.  I mean, I'm better at relaxing than anyone on earth I think, but then when the day is over I feel like it disappeared so quickly.  Shouldn't I feel relaxed and well-rested?

I don't have much to say today... I'm gearing up mentally to leave, while meanwhile tons of people have already left Milwaukee.  Jeanine left today, and Amanda is the next to go.  BOO on that!  I'm so ready for summer, and so, it seems, is everyone else.  I think all we interns are done being interns mentally.  It's been a great ride, but a long one, and summer can't come quickly enough at this point.  Our last opening night party was on Friday (Sherlock Holmes opened that night), and this week marks our last two Understudy runs (Morrie's is tomorrow).  It's one of those weird months where everyone is very aware that it's their last few weeks here in this internship and things seem to be very condensed and happening much more quickly than they did before.  Last August, meeting these people for the first time, working on Flea, seems like a LONG time ago.

In the tradition of this entry from August 2004, I think I'll do a Intern Year Memories entry come May.  So look forward to that. ;)  In the meantime, many memories can be found on my picture site.

This week I've watched In Her Shoes (I liked), The Squid and the Whale (I liked), and Rent (I kinda liked).  I think I'm about to watch Syriana right now, too.

Almost done with A Feast for Crows!  Finally.  Next up: Shadow & Claw, by Gene Wolfe.

Happy Belated Easter. 

Review of Tuesdays can be found here.  I'll choose not to blame it on the author of the review that the title of the article not only has the play's name wrong (Tuesday with Morrie...only one?) but has misspelled Repertory Theater.  C U Next Tuesday!

a boring piece on Tuesdays with Morrie: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=414797

random

I'm about to go through a reading spurt again.  I can tell.  I have soooo much free time backstage during Morrie; all I'll ever do is read and knit.  So, I've got a pile of books ready to go, the one on top being, of course, A Feast for Crows, which I STILL haven't finished. 

This week (tech and first two previews) I read Lipstick Jungle, which Charlotte randomly gave me (along with the tequila, mozarella sticks, margherita mix, and single red envelope).  I thought, "ooh, fluff, that will get me through tech nicely", and it did, and it was indeed fluff, but it kinda pissed me off at the same time that I enjoyed reading it.  I mean, how does an author like her (of Sex and the City fame), become so highly regarded?  The characters were NOT very likeable, not believable, there was no plot, and in terms of a fluff book, the "romance" scenes weren't too interesting.  So why does she sell so many books?

Then I randomly got to thinking about GOOD books tonight, and thought of Robin Hobb, and how when I finished reading her final book in the Tawny Man trilogy I felt such a sense of loss that it was over.  I think I cried, not just because the end was touching and whatnot, but because I wasn't going to get to read any more about those characters or that world.  And she's such a good writer.  So I was depressed.  I need some more books like that to read.

Don Mackay has been lending out all his SAG "For Your Consideration" movies to us interns.  He's like a lending library.  I'm saving the really good stuff for later and am just trying to keep a steady stream going of movies that are worth watching just b/c they're free!  So far I've watched Proof (the play is better), Sexy Beast (disturbing), The Prize Winner of Definace, Ohio (random), and The Affair of the Necklace (not so great).  The ones I'm really looking forward to getting to are, of course, Munich, Syriana, and Squid and the Whale.  And Rent, I guess. 

Speaking of Don Mackay, it's a small world, because Jordan and I realized that he went to UCSD, which is where Devon and Jim went, so we asked him, and he knows Jim Peck AND Devon Allen AND Beth Schachter.  Welcome to the social circle of theatre, where anyone slightly successful must know all the other slightly successful people out there.

Anyway, got to take my sick body to bed.  Tomorrow's opening, and I'm looking forward to yet another opening night party.