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Apr. 5th, 2003 11:35 pmWell, I definitely did my one scary thing today. BitPlayers was daunting. Huge amounts of fun, but wow, it was a lot -- in three hours we basically used one sentence from the monologue I thought I was going to use, scripted a whole thing, shot five short scenes in two locations, and made a little movie. I should note the movie involved a college kid freaking out to her gay best friend who has encouraged her to cook dinner for the cool, older, sophisiticated, political activist grad student she's trying to seduce. And as such, we shot in in a grocery store, amongst cranky shoppers and at a bodega that threw us out when the director tried to get a shot of all the condoms.
Some of it's awful, some of it's funny, and there are a couple of moments where in viewing it later and seeing people react to it I was like "oh! people like watching me." So that was a revolution, especially considering I had a 4am spaz attack about my hair.
So that was my scary thing for the day, and by God, yes, I am a stronger person for it. I think tomorrow's scary thing might be climbing the scary scaffolding on our set.
My hair, for the record, is the bane of my existence. It's naturally curly bordering on bushy, and I despise it. Because of my long face, it has to be short, and looks good very short. More recently, it's at the length you see in my use photo (to be replaced by proper headshot at the end of the month), and when it looks good, it looks great, and when it looks bad, which is most of the time, it's awful. Having been inspired, in ways too silly to mention, late into the night, I decided I was going to cut it off today. Of course, when I got up and realized I had to do this movie thing and run the show, and that I've voice and a matinee tomorrow, that got put off until Monday. And in doing my hair and makeup for the film, I wound up being quite satisfied with it.
I think the trick is using product every day, and viewing the hair as an endeavor, because we all know it's not going to take care of itself. So, I'm giving it a few days, and then if it's still not cooperating I'll cut it to the one look I know always works (although I find it limiting) before my headshots.
Kat and a friend of hers, as well as my parents, came to the show tonight, and everyone seemed deeply enthused. So I was thrilled.
Will cook dinner in a bit and try to do something about this tickle in my throat. Ugh.
Also, remember those pistachio marzipan things I got last night -- they're actually something else entirely -- it's a thick, ground almond paste (almost entirely almonds without additives for texture) wrapped in said marzipan and dipped in chocolate -- in other words, more obscure and decadent (the packaging was in Russian) than I could have imagined. It's very much one of those things that's an acquired taste, as I find people who haven't grown up eating things like this can't stand it, but I'm thrilled.
Some of it's awful, some of it's funny, and there are a couple of moments where in viewing it later and seeing people react to it I was like "oh! people like watching me." So that was a revolution, especially considering I had a 4am spaz attack about my hair.
So that was my scary thing for the day, and by God, yes, I am a stronger person for it. I think tomorrow's scary thing might be climbing the scary scaffolding on our set.
My hair, for the record, is the bane of my existence. It's naturally curly bordering on bushy, and I despise it. Because of my long face, it has to be short, and looks good very short. More recently, it's at the length you see in my use photo (to be replaced by proper headshot at the end of the month), and when it looks good, it looks great, and when it looks bad, which is most of the time, it's awful. Having been inspired, in ways too silly to mention, late into the night, I decided I was going to cut it off today. Of course, when I got up and realized I had to do this movie thing and run the show, and that I've voice and a matinee tomorrow, that got put off until Monday. And in doing my hair and makeup for the film, I wound up being quite satisfied with it.
I think the trick is using product every day, and viewing the hair as an endeavor, because we all know it's not going to take care of itself. So, I'm giving it a few days, and then if it's still not cooperating I'll cut it to the one look I know always works (although I find it limiting) before my headshots.
Kat and a friend of hers, as well as my parents, came to the show tonight, and everyone seemed deeply enthused. So I was thrilled.
Will cook dinner in a bit and try to do something about this tickle in my throat. Ugh.
Also, remember those pistachio marzipan things I got last night -- they're actually something else entirely -- it's a thick, ground almond paste (almost entirely almonds without additives for texture) wrapped in said marzipan and dipped in chocolate -- in other words, more obscure and decadent (the packaging was in Russian) than I could have imagined. It's very much one of those things that's an acquired taste, as I find people who haven't grown up eating things like this can't stand it, but I'm thrilled.
