Its minty, said the make-up girl as she licked the blood off my gory forearm and then invited everyone else backstage to try it out
I keep trying to updateand I keep running out of time. So here are some highlights.
Halloween weekendI went to a great haunted housea giant skeleton chased us. That was Friday. Saturday I went up north, partied with friends at the bars and clubs. I was a pirate. Ill show some pictures soon. Sundays I saw The Fantastics and, it waswellIll avoid the clichd pun and say it was good. Then it was horror movies in Eureka (and Simpsons Halloween specials).
Monday I was able to finally resolve my financial aid situation here at the schoolapparently all I had to do was talk mean until I was given to someone with enough power to actually help me.
Tuesday was more money into the revenue collectors maws at Eurekas court house. On the upside, my hair got played with.
Playing Oedipus has been exciting and exhausting. The last few days have been a blur or play rehearsals and trying to cram a jillion lines in my head. It seems to be going well. The cast and director seem to think Im doing well. We had a reporter come in and question a few of us and take pictures. Apparently my mug and quotes made it into the paper. Every night, they add more and more blood for my final scene and I get stickier and stickier and the chorus gets more and more grossed outmind you I can't see thembut I can sense them squirming away. Apparently, Oedipus is mint flavored in this particular interpretation of the classic.
Tickets for the show are starting to sell. Info is HERE.
The teacher of a creative writing class I am in, Joanna (who was a student with me until she graduated) is taking a class from another school on some kind of workshop, watching Oedipus Rex here at UIS and then having some kind of talk. She wanted to bring two short stories Id written, using the Mofo. I just emailed them to here. Teddy Bear Rex was published in ELM last year and tells, in one page, the story of Oedipusif he was a Teddy Bear (heyit could happen). The other one The Complex mixes Oedipus Rex, Edgar Allan Poes The Conqueror Worm, and Jerry Springer and gets the award for strangest story Ive written (and maybe the darkest). Depending on when this workshop isI might make an appearance (attention whore that I am).
OKIm outIm one tired mother-fucker.