good bye, so long 2005
the end is near.one day left after today, and i gotta say good riddance.
this year has been... well kinda shitty.
sure there were a few fabulous things that happened: joel and dee getting married was swell.
i got cast in a hell of alot of shows, which was cool.
but alot of stuff sucked this year too.
i'm not going to catalogue them all because quite frankly it's depressing and it's time to move forward.
but i can still be pissed about it all for one more day.
the experiences of the past year were growing experiences, to be sure.
but man, still good to be done with it.
time for a breath.
time for a breather.
i'm not making any new years resolutions.
new years resolutions are bullshit.
if they were things i really intended to do, then why wait till new years?
all in all, it's ridiculous for most people to make such well intentioned posturing for thier betterment.
as they have neither the means nor the sincere want to successfully do it.
it isn't everybody of course, there are those individuals who may very well be able to hold themselves to it.
but in my experience, they are few and far between.
what do i expect from 2006?
i expect to live life for the enjoyment of living it.
nothing more.
nothing less.
and i'll be damned if anybody is going to disallow me that.
and i'll be damned if i'm not going to spread that sheer joy, angry as it is, to other people.
so, in other words:
be happy goddamn it! or i'll kick your ass.
as for you 2005... see ya.
and the rest of you bitchcakers and others.... i'll catch you on the other side.
posted by F.G. Shaw @ 12:40 PM
1 Comments:
Frank:
The 24-hour PlaySlam happens in mid-May at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City. They get about 8 playwrights together, 8 directors and gather about 25 or 30 actors. If they do 10 ten-minute plays then they use 30 actors. On a Friday night at 8 pm they gather the playwrights and the headshots and resumes of the actors. They throw the headshots in the air and the closest three are a cast. Then the producers hand the gathered casts to each playwright, give them a title like 'It Keeps Stickin' To Ya' and tells the playwrights to come back with a 10-minute play at 8 am the next morning.
The actors and directos show up at 9 am on Saturday. Each director is given a play with a cast and has the day to rehearse and the actors have the day to rehearse and memorize. At 8 o'clock that night, on Saturday, all 10 plays perform to a, usually sold-out house. Lots of fun. All done in 24-hours.
Anybody can go but, like I said, it sells out. I'll let all bitchcakers know when tickets go on sale.
Happy New Year
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