collisionwork | Oct. 15th, 2010

Well, missed a weekly checkin last Friday . . . Berit and I were away in Maine still, but with so little happening, except for us vegetating and considering the past and future while letting the present amble by for a bit, there seemed to be less cause than usual to check in. Also, while we had two computers with us on the road, Berit had commandeered the better one (which is the one I kinda need to do the Random Ten properly) last Friday, and I was happy to skip the week.

More and more there may be less cause for this blog, especially during the downtime from our own season. When I started it, it seemed needed because all the theatre blogs were very theoretical and high-minded, and I wanted a journal of the practical day-to-day aspects of making theatre, including accounts/thoughts on the things in my life that feed me and make me able to do the work. Now, those theatre blogs that are still around are pretty much just as informal and informational, so I have less to say.

Of course, what I'd like to say most of the time now is more theoretical and high-minded. Ha ha.

But I will keep it all going, as I like the weekly checkin, the Random Ten, the place to post cat pictures, and a place to set some of my thoughts on what I do in public.

I still have thoughts to process on my work this year and put out, both regarding my three pieces, and how they worked and didn't, and my continuing improvisation work with David Finkelstein, which wound up, as I hoped and expected, affecting my acting in my own pieces, and for the better (when I remembered to use the process, and didn't get distracted into my worst actorial habits). I still have to find the right way to put these thoughts in order before I share them. But I will share them.

We also started work on the UTC#61 production of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? last night, which Berit's stage managing/prop designing and I'm acting in. Just a first reading and some text work on two of my scenes -- I'm not in it much, but the part is good, and the show looks to be good too. It will be great to work at 3LD, with all their advanced video projection technology (which is a major part of this show).

In the meantime, here's a Random Ten for this week, from among the 2,688 tracks in the iPod from favorite artists that haven't been played yet . . .

1. "I Just Want To Have Something To Do" - The Ramones - Road To Ruin
2. "Hey Now" - Talking Heads - True Stories
3. "Cannon Song" - Raul Julia & David Sabin - The Threepenny Opera
4. "You Tripped At Every Step" - Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
5. "Betrayal Takes Two (1977 demo)" - Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Time
6. "Reaching into In" - Ken Nordine - The Best of Word Jazz Vol.1
7. "My Kind of Woman" - Edwin Starr - Northern Soul: The Cream of 60's Soul
8. "Greenwood, Mississippi" - Little Richard - Get Back Up Again 5
9. "He's the One" - Ike & Tina Turner - MOJO: Raw Soul
10. "Making Flippy Floppy" - Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues [Remastered]