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so project nudity-in-public might have to be revived.

.. the vote is still out on what i'll be wearing in the previously complained about bedroom scene, but whatever it is, i have to be comfortable in it.

this mission started last year, when coco and i were told we'd have to change clothes onstage and we had custum...

uh...

undergarments designed for us (they were bikinis...

but carefully selected...

?). so i started wearing less and less in public.

tech week we learned that it would take too long (duh) to change onstage, and the bit was nixed. but damn, i was in good shape that month.

the getting in good shape thing is part of my life again.

.. and it's (so far) effective.

but i think i need project naked back in my life. anyone want to join me at le beach this week in a teeny weeny bikini and six jars of sunscreen? or, you can wear a turtleneck, i don't care, as long as you're supportive of MY teeny bikini.

so i think i flirted with david hasselhoff at the coffee bean the other day. it might not have been him. but it probably was.

i didn't realize it til after...

and either way, it's a better story if i say it was him. so dude..

. i flirted with david hasselhoff at the coffee bean the other day. it made my week.

ICH LIEBE DER HASSELHOFF...

dave, you went to high school with jordan delp?!

we discovered that tonight.

laughs all around :)



dude. love type scenes are HARD. i need to drop my inhibitions.

they make me horrible and awkward. and yet..

. i'm horrible and awkward at love type scenes in real life, too..

. so why should it be any easier on stage? NO THAT'S CRAP.

IT SHOULD BE EASIER.




whoa..

. parker posey and jimmy fallon in a totally bizarre pepsi commercial? i might have to start drinkin pepsi.

by popular demand, here is our cast list:

evelyn: me
adam: jordan delp
phillip: blake hogue
jenny: tawny mertes

director: jacob harvey
producer: me and my father
show monkey: cezie :)

we are beautiful.

THE SHAPE OF THINGS is fully cast.

we're still looking for a free-ish rehearsal space that is NOT in glendale or somewhere equally bad.

we're coming from studio city and the west side...

any suggestions?

starting to get thrilled!

thank you, to those of you who auditioned.

auditions were a HUGE success, we had around 150 people try out. callbacks were really difficult, we had a lot of serious talent. and now we've got a cast that's going to rock los angeles!

let this serve as the first time i beg you to come see it.
opens august 10 at the complex.

i've been noticing lately that i don't like telling people what i do. i mean, i don't mind telling them that i'm an actor, but i get uncomfortable talking about what i do for day to day money type stuff.

and i was wondering why.

.. this is what i came up with:
talking about it REALLY brings to my attention that it's NOT that impressive.

and then i feel bad. and not so much that it's not impressive to other people, which it's not, obviously, but it's unimpressive to me. like i've let myself down.

my car was broken into AGAIN in my gated parking lot. i'm just sort of feeling insecure about everything. not to mention a little furious that the manager's going to spin it so it sounds like it's MY fault that i happen to have a car that's easy to break into (it's a 1979 car), that it's my fault my clicker is gone (as the most valuable thing in the car, besides the car itself, since i don't keep shit in there because it's so easy to break into).

.. i've been avoiding calling him because i'm trying to come up with the most a)victim-y or b)angry (in a taking-legal-action way) version of the story.

and while i dilly-dally, someone has an anytime entry into our building, opening the residents up to any number of dangerous things. although i think it might be someone IN the building who did it, since the robbery was identical to the previous time (about 6 months ago).

i'm frustrated.

and i feel unsafe.

the end.

callbacks are fun.

i totally get off on that nervous hallway audition energy. LOVE IT.

so tired.

so wow. reading a play with a part in mind is SUCH a different experience than reading it to read it.

i don't know how i never realized that before.

.. probably because i was always either doing one or the other, never one after the other.

but seriously, re-reading hamlet with ophelia in mind (which i had never before considered as an option for me) made it a totally different play. i guess i'd always tried to identify with hamlet, since he's the main dude and since i played him in high school. this is amazing though--it seriously was like a brand new play.

and that's awesome.

i talked to the director of comedy of errors yesterday, and he told me that he's calling me back for adriana, luciana, and the courtesan--which is fantastic. i had had one of those you-hear-about-it-but-think-it's-urban-legend experiences where i did my monologue (which was a cymbelline-imogen really short REALLY one minute like they asked languagey piece), and they enthusiastically asked if i had anything else:

"yeah, i've got TONS of stuff"
"like what?

"
"well, my favorite right now is a little adriana, but i didn't want to risk bringing that in here"
"no, NO, that's GREAT, let's hear that one!"

and of course, they cut me off before my favorite part of the monologue (it's on the longish side)..

. but they were grinning. not that i'm overanalyzing, just basking.

anyway, i'm glad i still got called back for that part even after i showed them a little of it.

and i'm excited and scared about ophelia.

director of c.

o.e: yeah, i know he's planning to call you back for ophelia, and possibly some other parts as well.

my head: there are no other parts.

..




and ps: all but one of you fail as friends.

i know my enormous ego may seem offputting...

but a) it's a mask and b) i actually wanted feedback.

whatev. :)

so the real question is this, in a baroque syllogism (is that the word?

):

when i go to auditions, i always get a callback.
when i go to auditions, i always wear audition makeup, which i've carefully mastered over the years so it's glamorous enough but doesn't look like i'm trying to hard.
if i wore my audition makeup every day, would i have more success in my life?

ha, jerad, who has only seen me act twice--once in 7th grade before i was anything and once in the serial killers play which, honestly, ruined lives...

so has never seen me act...

saw me last night in my audition makeup and literally told me i should wear it all the time because it's amazing. while still, of course, being subtle. i mean, he meant it in a good way, although written down it makes him sound like a bastard.

which leads me to my syllogism.

OR should i become a makeup artist? ha, THAT'd be a good way to get my fwickin vouchers.

ok, and here's another question, and this one's actually serious and i would love real feedback. i've been called back for hamlet and comedy of errors, which are in rep. now, i know i'm the right type to play any of the women in comedy of errors, so that comes as no great shock.

be he specifically told me i've also been called back for hamlet. which is AWESOME, because what actor DOESN'T want to be a part of hamlet?!

but i've been trying to think, and the only female parts in it are ophelia, gertrude, and the players, right? i mean, there aren't really any girl servants or anything..

. and i'm definitely too young to play gertrude, which is what my type is, i think. so my question is, would any of you believe me as ophelia?

i've just never even considered it as a role i could do, mostly because i've never thought a casting director would think so. then again, i'm coming from schools where i've only played old ladies, so that might be tainting my viewpoint. my audition monologues were really language-y, and i can't remember if the players are really language-y, but i don't think ophelia is.

i'll reread it today, but seriously, tell me what you guys think.

so i bought this pedometer. i think i read somewhere that 10,000 steps meant something really cool healthwise.

a mile (i think that's not right, though), or a buncha calories burned or something.

so after a day of kidrock concert going, i didn't have all that many steps logged. i decide to take a walk to the nearby ralph's.

.. and i didn't have a reason to go, so i decided to buy hangers (last time i cleaned my apartment, i noticed a lack of hangers (ha, i REALLY don't clean very often!

).

alas, i couldn't find hangers at ralph's. BUT i was already there.

and suddenly i got really paranoid about the employees thinking i had come for a late night munchie run (why the heck do i care? but still). so i proceeded to fill up my basket with a bunch of weird vegetables that i would normally NEVER buy.

sweet potatoes, butternut squash, a fwickin artichoke? i don't even know how to COOK AN ARTICHOKE. and yet now i have an artichoke.

i do know that the spanish word for artichoke is 'alcachofa', because i did a report in my spanish 4 class in high school a hundred years ago about a poem about an artichoke...

or alcachofa...

but that really still doesn't explain why i bought one tonight.

all that and i'm only at 6860 steps. oh, that's 2.

7 miles (when i switched the magic thing to 'mile' mode).



ps. so jacob had some free movie passes and we guiltily saw 'she's the man'.

.. i hoped it would be as good as 'ten things i hate about you'.

.. and really, i enjoyed it a LOT.

guiltily. i mean, come ON! two SEPARATE TIMES in the movie, someone has a tampon up their nose.

COMIC GOLD!