Next Gig...
I can't wait to get off this awful show... Its like being trapped in a department store window 40 hours a week as a cheap tired Automated Christmas display plays on around you incessantly. The people outside the window, as they go about their consumer duties of buying " The Best of Celine Dion" Cd's for relatives they really can't stand. Smile and laugh at the display with all it's cheap fake chinz and 40 feet away pagentry.. while you inside, sweat and fight little sparks and fires.
We had our Company Photo today, and I could tell how there wasn't a lingering wish to stay on stage as a group. A feeling that makes me feel I'm not alone in my detesti-ness of this show.
Outside of the relationship I have ( or have lost with management and Equity Sm's ) over this show, due to the stress of pushing for an extra guy out of concerns of safety ( It's sucks to be the whistle blower... but , I never want anyone to get so injured by working there that they can never work in this industry again. - I made that my mantra before this show started. NOBODY GETS HURT. )
I said what needed to be said and acted before it got stupid. And, if the SM-ers want to play prissy passive aggressive with us and mostly me.. well, fuck them. I don't watch out for them... just their people - Which is what they should be doing... so they're in the wrong.
Seriously... right now... I just want to let the year die. Sure, summer and fall was amazing... Sleeping with by far the most beautiful woman I've ever had the grace to touch. Meeting and finally getting to be with my friend in Boston and feeling that connection for real. ( and letting go of that stupid angst I've developed over air travel which I need to do if I'm to ever meet my nephew in Berlin, see my Brother). U2...and how that's this high water mark for production in this town and I was near the summit of all the dealings of it. And then fun with the hot sexy Suicide type girl till it stopped working for me... and we're still friends. All of this year outside of this... ( and then again I finally stood up and pushed were I held back with this theatre company before ) It's all a major, personal achievement
In Comparison to all that great action above... The lingering angst of "White Christmas" and seeing that beautiful girl in the orchestra every day ( the one I don't sleep with anymore ) - all is like a bad pimple., when I think of the better parts of the year. I just have to pop it , and let it heal away.
Sadly, all the current offers except one for Olympic work is really underpaying. The one that's being the most cagey is the Opening /Closing Ceremonies production. I won't work for that low of pay... below what I'm working for now. That's insulting... and I said so... and left it at that... I expect them to get desperate soon... and if so I'll have what I asked for... If not, I'll go in E. I. volunteer and spend my Olympic days chatting up cute Volly girls.
Lets make 2010 fun! Since 2009 seems to be ending on such a sour note....
I can't wait to get off this awful show... Its like being trapped in a department store window 40 hours a week as a cheap tired Automated Christmas display plays on around you incessantly. The people outside the window, as they go about their consumer duties of buying " The Best of Celine Dion" Cd's for relatives they really can't stand. Smile and laugh at the display with all it's cheap fake chinz and 40 feet away pagentry.. while you inside, sweat and fight little sparks and fires.
We had our Company Photo today, and I could tell how there wasn't a lingering wish to stay on stage as a group. A feeling that makes me feel I'm not alone in my detesti-ness of this show.
Outside of the relationship I have ( or have lost with management and Equity Sm's ) over this show, due to the stress of pushing for an extra guy out of concerns of safety ( It's sucks to be the whistle blower... but , I never want anyone to get so injured by working there that they can never work in this industry again. - I made that my mantra before this show started. NOBODY GETS HURT. )
I said what needed to be said and acted before it got stupid. And, if the SM-ers want to play prissy passive aggressive with us and mostly me.. well, fuck them. I don't watch out for them... just their people - Which is what they should be doing... so they're in the wrong.
Seriously... right now... I just want to let the year die. Sure, summer and fall was amazing... Sleeping with by far the most beautiful woman I've ever had the grace to touch. Meeting and finally getting to be with my friend in Boston and feeling that connection for real. ( and letting go of that stupid angst I've developed over air travel which I need to do if I'm to ever meet my nephew in Berlin, see my Brother). U2...and how that's this high water mark for production in this town and I was near the summit of all the dealings of it. And then fun with the hot sexy Suicide type girl till it stopped working for me... and we're still friends. All of this year outside of this... ( and then again I finally stood up and pushed were I held back with this theatre company before ) It's all a major, personal achievement
In Comparison to all that great action above... The lingering angst of "White Christmas" and seeing that beautiful girl in the orchestra every day ( the one I don't sleep with anymore ) - all is like a bad pimple., when I think of the better parts of the year. I just have to pop it , and let it heal away.
Sadly, all the current offers except one for Olympic work is really underpaying. The one that's being the most cagey is the Opening /Closing Ceremonies production. I won't work for that low of pay... below what I'm working for now. That's insulting... and I said so... and left it at that... I expect them to get desperate soon... and if so I'll have what I asked for... If not, I'll go in E. I. volunteer and spend my Olympic days chatting up cute Volly girls.
Lets make 2010 fun! Since 2009 seems to be ending on such a sour note....
sonja:
you know what, i actually wouldnt mind going to an airport right now and yelling at jets or airplanes. sounds really relieving! i know what you mean though.the blogs on here are the only thing im really interested in.
zenfish:
2009 has seem (to me atleast) ended crappy, or been a crappy year for everyone.