i never do this...
Mar. 30th, 2007 | 03:49 pm
mood: 
groggy
I find that i rarely use this journal. Yet i don't know why i don't just make an entry and say "this is the last entry", i know that a few of my friends have and mantain live journals, but i rarely get comments, in fact i can't even make comments these days; i get a "invalid form submission" message and i give up. so on the whole i'd say i don't feel very connected to this little network anyway.
I have been told a myspace is better for me, these people i trust have said the facilities of myspace are better for someone of my interests and personality. If i do end up creating one, i will certainly let you all know, for any of you who also use a myspace.
So, here's the main events going on.
I have finished half of this spring semester.
I have been excepted into the London study abroad program.
I am continuing to work at The Irish Repertory Theatre.
I need a summer job.
my grades are being mantained, sort of.
I am stage managing my mothers new show, premiering at Theatre For The New City.
I'm joining a band
I have finished half of this spring semester.
my spring break starts tomorrow and the semester is have over. All in all i'd say i'm ready for a break, i need to relax the brain a bit and un-wind. The break is only a week long, but it'll be just enough time. I will be mostly looking for a job, hopefully in either brooklyn or manhattan. I hope to save up some london spending money, more on london later.
I have been excepted into the London study abroad program.
I will be spending the next fall semester abroad in England, in an intensive theatre study in The London Dramatic Academy. Where i will be studying Shakespear and other cool stuff, i most look forward to studying shakespear.
But i have some fears to. This will be my second time in europe, but my first time travelling alone. well, i won't really be ALONE, i'll be in a program which will look after me to some degree. But a lot can happen in a semester, i'll be in an unknown area, in an unknown culture.
But i look forward to experiancing the new stuff. I wanna go to the british countryside and see if i can catch a hobbit or something!
I am continuing to work at The Irish Repertory Theatre.
Twelve hours a day! i don't get paid, but i work a lot. i file, run errands, look up coprate sponsors and even do a mailing or two! i like the people i work with and the artistic director, Charlot, is a really nice lady. funny to.
umm... and i occasionaly see famous people, not to often. but i see dudes i kinda half recognize.
I need a summer job.
pretty self explainitory. i wanna make some molah for the london trip, i get a room and board, but i gotta buy my own food and shit. probably books as well, and spending money in general. I want to wokr to get money to suppliment money from parents and reletives.
on a side note, anyone here know a place that's hiring? or any openings where they work? i'm going to do some searching on craigslist buit i hope i can get some help from you guys to.
my grades are being mantained, sort of.
I kinda got my grades under controll. but i find my study habbits suck, and i coast but never fly in school. I get B's and C's in classes i know i should be and can be doing better in. I do minimal work and waity till the last minute to do it and i do a shitty job, and i know i could have done it better if i had just done it but i don't care enough to do it. i make stupid mistakes and challenge my teachers to. gotta stop that.
I am stage managing my mothers new show, premiering at Theatre For The New City
My mom is turning the very first play she wrote and had produced "Basket ball Lessons" turned into a musical "In the Schoolyard". premiering at Theatre for the New City, next month!
It'a a show about a group of friends who played basketball together since elementry school and continued to do so after college, even years into their careers they get together once a year to play and hang out. but things are changing for them, some are getting ready to slow down, some a sre still trying to speed up, and some are running out of time.
It's got all origional music by Margret Heatherman, and book and lyrics by Paulanne Simmons (my mom). I'm stage managing and Assistant directing, so you got two good reasons to see it! plus i can get you a reduced price to, or outright comp you... who knows?
I'm joining a band
yeah! me and three other adelphi students are starting a band, we took a while to get started. wee needed a drum set and so i (being a cool dude) brought one drum from my drumset over at a time, in the course of a week, we hade the whole thing there. in individual bags and split between two rooms, we also got permition to use the acting room or one of the music rooms to have jam sessions over the spring break and durring the rest of the semester.
the lineup;
Me-Playing guitar and vocals. but adding weird intruments like kazoos or cowbell
John Andrew Freeman: Drums
Tegan Sjailo: Bass Guitar
Kevin Russo: Clarinet & Saxiphone
Were going to rock, especialy since we all know a little music theory. and kevin has been playing since he was in fourth grade, so we'll really be able to creat some music, not senseless noise. Were going to aim for a rock n roll sound, a little grund and ska, with a pinch of metal, and a johny cash kind of storytelling jam.
Not that we want to sound like those genera's and people, but we have our influences like any other band. we want to play some ol' fashioned rock n roll too. know jailhouse rock kinda stuff, and have some fun to.
So that's what i'm doing, just chillin and getting shit done. still need a girl, but i can't let that get me down. still need cool factor, but what the hell, i work with what i got.
i need a break from all the repitition though, a good week break will be nice.
I have been told a myspace is better for me, these people i trust have said the facilities of myspace are better for someone of my interests and personality. If i do end up creating one, i will certainly let you all know, for any of you who also use a myspace.
So, here's the main events going on.
I have finished half of this spring semester.
I have been excepted into the London study abroad program.
I am continuing to work at The Irish Repertory Theatre.
I need a summer job.
my grades are being mantained, sort of.
I am stage managing my mothers new show, premiering at Theatre For The New City.
I'm joining a band
I have finished half of this spring semester.
my spring break starts tomorrow and the semester is have over. All in all i'd say i'm ready for a break, i need to relax the brain a bit and un-wind. The break is only a week long, but it'll be just enough time. I will be mostly looking for a job, hopefully in either brooklyn or manhattan. I hope to save up some london spending money, more on london later.
I have been excepted into the London study abroad program.
I will be spending the next fall semester abroad in England, in an intensive theatre study in The London Dramatic Academy. Where i will be studying Shakespear and other cool stuff, i most look forward to studying shakespear.
But i have some fears to. This will be my second time in europe, but my first time travelling alone. well, i won't really be ALONE, i'll be in a program which will look after me to some degree. But a lot can happen in a semester, i'll be in an unknown area, in an unknown culture.
But i look forward to experiancing the new stuff. I wanna go to the british countryside and see if i can catch a hobbit or something!
I am continuing to work at The Irish Repertory Theatre.
Twelve hours a day! i don't get paid, but i work a lot. i file, run errands, look up coprate sponsors and even do a mailing or two! i like the people i work with and the artistic director, Charlot, is a really nice lady. funny to.
umm... and i occasionaly see famous people, not to often. but i see dudes i kinda half recognize.
I need a summer job.
pretty self explainitory. i wanna make some molah for the london trip, i get a room and board, but i gotta buy my own food and shit. probably books as well, and spending money in general. I want to wokr to get money to suppliment money from parents and reletives.
on a side note, anyone here know a place that's hiring? or any openings where they work? i'm going to do some searching on craigslist buit i hope i can get some help from you guys to.
my grades are being mantained, sort of.
I kinda got my grades under controll. but i find my study habbits suck, and i coast but never fly in school. I get B's and C's in classes i know i should be and can be doing better in. I do minimal work and waity till the last minute to do it and i do a shitty job, and i know i could have done it better if i had just done it but i don't care enough to do it. i make stupid mistakes and challenge my teachers to. gotta stop that.
I am stage managing my mothers new show, premiering at Theatre For The New City
My mom is turning the very first play she wrote and had produced "Basket ball Lessons" turned into a musical "In the Schoolyard". premiering at Theatre for the New City, next month!
It'a a show about a group of friends who played basketball together since elementry school and continued to do so after college, even years into their careers they get together once a year to play and hang out. but things are changing for them, some are getting ready to slow down, some a sre still trying to speed up, and some are running out of time.
It's got all origional music by Margret Heatherman, and book and lyrics by Paulanne Simmons (my mom). I'm stage managing and Assistant directing, so you got two good reasons to see it! plus i can get you a reduced price to, or outright comp you... who knows?
I'm joining a band
yeah! me and three other adelphi students are starting a band, we took a while to get started. wee needed a drum set and so i (being a cool dude) brought one drum from my drumset over at a time, in the course of a week, we hade the whole thing there. in individual bags and split between two rooms, we also got permition to use the acting room or one of the music rooms to have jam sessions over the spring break and durring the rest of the semester.
the lineup;
Me-Playing guitar and vocals. but adding weird intruments like kazoos or cowbell
John Andrew Freeman: Drums
Tegan Sjailo: Bass Guitar
Kevin Russo: Clarinet & Saxiphone
Were going to rock, especialy since we all know a little music theory. and kevin has been playing since he was in fourth grade, so we'll really be able to creat some music, not senseless noise. Were going to aim for a rock n roll sound, a little grund and ska, with a pinch of metal, and a johny cash kind of storytelling jam.
Not that we want to sound like those genera's and people, but we have our influences like any other band. we want to play some ol' fashioned rock n roll too. know jailhouse rock kinda stuff, and have some fun to.
So that's what i'm doing, just chillin and getting shit done. still need a girl, but i can't let that get me down. still need cool factor, but what the hell, i work with what i got.
i need a break from all the repitition though, a good week break will be nice.
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Mar. 17th, 2007 | 08:14 pm
Sitting home because i have a fever and it hurts to swallow. Reading plays that i can't understand for theatre history, and wishing to all hell i had not smoked yesterday, knowing full well it was supposed to last me the weekend.
jeez, i feel like shit. why am i getting sick all of the sudden?
Happy fucking Saint Pats.
jeez, i feel like shit. why am i getting sick all of the sudden?
Happy fucking Saint Pats.
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Feb. 27th, 2007 | 08:29 pm
music: Harry Hood--8.26.89
Hey, funny fact. Gabriel Byrne walked into the Irish Rep today. I didn't act weird, but i did do a double take.
I fucking love The Usual Suspects though, freaking awsome movie. Bryan Singer knows his craft, to bad he didn't do X-3 though, would have made it better. Superhero movies in general suck though, there have only been really good ones in the binge of re-made better special effects ones
Spiderman
X-men
Punisher
Superman Returns
But enough about that. I'm done with my show, and we did the Stienway Hall performance, i'm just kicking it now. I'm spending the remainder of this semester focusing on school, and my internship at the Irish rep.
i feel good now. in control of my life and yadda yadda.
Anyone wanna see Spiderman 3?
I fucking love The Usual Suspects though, freaking awsome movie. Bryan Singer knows his craft, to bad he didn't do X-3 though, would have made it better. Superhero movies in general suck though, there have only been really good ones in the binge of re-made better special effects ones
Spiderman
X-men
Punisher
Superman Returns
But enough about that. I'm done with my show, and we did the Stienway Hall performance, i'm just kicking it now. I'm spending the remainder of this semester focusing on school, and my internship at the Irish rep.
i feel good now. in control of my life and yadda yadda.
Anyone wanna see Spiderman 3?
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I wanna reality change...
Feb. 13th, 2007 | 10:22 pm
If you have someone to snuggle with on Valintines day i applaud you. However you are also a new addition to my list of reasons i want to smack my head against the wall.
I never thought i'd be one of those people, who hate valintines day because they don't have someone to spend it with, but now i am. Great.
Perhaps this is just a lapse of strength. I shall re-double my efforts to be a cold un-feeling bastard.
it's not working... Shit.
I never thought i'd be one of those people, who hate valintines day because they don't have someone to spend it with, but now i am. Great.
Perhaps this is just a lapse of strength. I shall re-double my efforts to be a cold un-feeling bastard.
it's not working... Shit.
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Dark have my freams been of late...
Feb. 9th, 2007 | 11:26 am
Damn, i almost forgot this thing existed! I've been so freaking busy i honnestly haven't used my computer for days.
Lets see, first a quick +/- listing...
Positive:
I've raised my GPA from 1.9 to 2.7, i'm officially in "good academic standing".
I'm cast in a show at school. Once Around The Block, a show about Brooklyn jews in 1938.
I've started an internship at the Irish Repertuary Theatre.
Thus far, i have not been absent/late to a class for four weeks now.
Negative:
The fucking work i'm doing hasen't gotten any easier.
I'm still commuting to school.
I need a girlfriend.
I'm cast in a show at school. Once Around The Block, a show about Brooklyn jews in 1938.
it's a great show, an origonal musical. which means it's new work that my school is breaking in. however there are only two and a half jews actually in the cast, and yours truely being the only one from Brooklyn. I've kinda taken up the position of "Goyim Educator" for the show. explaining things that a non-jew woulden't understand. I have a small part, but i don't mind, i woulden't trust myself after the shit i pulled last year. I have this opportunity to show them i'm responsible.
I've started an internship at the Irish Repertuary Theatre.
I'ts mostly office work; fileing and shredding. with the occaisional research project to do. I'm learning a lot about how a professional theatre company is managed and the inner working of it and such. it's ton's O' fun.
Thus far, i have not been absent/late to a class for four weeks now.
I was late sooooooo many times last year and last semester. my grades suffered because of this. But i haven't been late/absent at all this semester. It's a great feeling.
I need a girlfriend.
pretty self explainitory ain't it. I'm lonely, and i think i'm at the point where i can begin to make meaningful connections with people. plus i just get so pissed when relatives keep asking me "so you got a girlfriend yet?"
ever since i turned 19 it's all ANYONE asks me... what is it? some fucking neon sign gets turned on when i turn 19 saying "ASK THIS MAN ABOUT HIS LOVE LIFE!!!" Jesus H Christ on a motor scooter!
so... anyone out there know any nice single women into artistic eccentric guys? this is a retorhical question... kinda.
so in short a lot of developments are happening. I'm begining to take destiny into my hands and controll what happens to me. I don't think i am, i know i am.
Life isn't happening to me, I'm happening to life!
Peace
-Alex
Lets see, first a quick +/- listing...
Positive:
I've raised my GPA from 1.9 to 2.7, i'm officially in "good academic standing".
I'm cast in a show at school. Once Around The Block, a show about Brooklyn jews in 1938.
I've started an internship at the Irish Repertuary Theatre.
Thus far, i have not been absent/late to a class for four weeks now.
Negative:
The fucking work i'm doing hasen't gotten any easier.
I'm still commuting to school.
I need a girlfriend.
I'm cast in a show at school. Once Around The Block, a show about Brooklyn jews in 1938.
it's a great show, an origonal musical. which means it's new work that my school is breaking in. however there are only two and a half jews actually in the cast, and yours truely being the only one from Brooklyn. I've kinda taken up the position of "Goyim Educator" for the show. explaining things that a non-jew woulden't understand. I have a small part, but i don't mind, i woulden't trust myself after the shit i pulled last year. I have this opportunity to show them i'm responsible.
I've started an internship at the Irish Repertuary Theatre.
I'ts mostly office work; fileing and shredding. with the occaisional research project to do. I'm learning a lot about how a professional theatre company is managed and the inner working of it and such. it's ton's O' fun.
Thus far, i have not been absent/late to a class for four weeks now.
I was late sooooooo many times last year and last semester. my grades suffered because of this. But i haven't been late/absent at all this semester. It's a great feeling.
I need a girlfriend.
pretty self explainitory ain't it. I'm lonely, and i think i'm at the point where i can begin to make meaningful connections with people. plus i just get so pissed when relatives keep asking me "so you got a girlfriend yet?"
ever since i turned 19 it's all ANYONE asks me... what is it? some fucking neon sign gets turned on when i turn 19 saying "ASK THIS MAN ABOUT HIS LOVE LIFE!!!" Jesus H Christ on a motor scooter!
so... anyone out there know any nice single women into artistic eccentric guys? this is a retorhical question... kinda.
so in short a lot of developments are happening. I'm begining to take destiny into my hands and controll what happens to me. I don't think i am, i know i am.
Life isn't happening to me, I'm happening to life!
Peace
-Alex
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I got my shot head
Jan. 21st, 2007 | 07:01 pm
I went to the city today and got some headshots taken. The first headshots i've had done since i was six years old.
And ya know what? it aint that bad! the proccess i mean, i was a little tense at first, but i relaxed and the photographer we very helpfull.
other than that, i picked up some cookies in the city ::wink:: and i'm now going to enjoy a custom cooked dinner.
And ya know what? it aint that bad! the proccess i mean, i was a little tense at first, but i relaxed and the photographer we very helpfull.
other than that, i picked up some cookies in the city ::wink:: and i'm now going to enjoy a custom cooked dinner.
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anyone out there....
Jan. 20th, 2007 | 01:56 am
Anyone see Stephan Colbert interviewing Bill O' jackass... ahem, O'Rielly?
it was great, Colbert has got to be the smartest man in political show buisness.
it was great, Colbert has got to be the smartest man in political show buisness.
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I know what bush will do...
Jan. 12th, 2007 | 12:03 am
I think i know Bush's plan for the remainder of his term, aside from groveling at the feet of the democratic house and senate.
I think he's going to request more money and support for the war from congress, KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THEY WON'T GIVE IT TO HIM.
then all he has to do when denied the moeney, is make statements and speeches about how we could have won the war, if only congress would give him more money.
i got that asshole all figured out.
I think he's going to request more money and support for the war from congress, KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THEY WON'T GIVE IT TO HIM.
then all he has to do when denied the moeney, is make statements and speeches about how we could have won the war, if only congress would give him more money.
i got that asshole all figured out.
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Jan. 9th, 2007 | 06:30 pm
music: The Squirming Coil--Phish
I go to spend the day with dad. It was great, we saw an exhibit in the Jewsish Museame about comic book artist and how so many of them were jewish. The guys who made Batman, Superman, and Captin America were all jewish.
The exhibit didn't just cover superhero's though, it also had stuff about newspaper comic writters too. Like one of my favorites, R. Crumb, who drew the sexiest comic women i've ever seen. Think about the cover to "Cheep Thrills" (Janice Joplin), he drew some voluptuous babes!
but enough about catroon chicks i can't possible bang. Except jessica rabbit, for her i'd become a toon, seriously i would.
I got an Internship with the Irish Repertuary Theatre! I handed in a Resume last week and they called me back and i just got me schedual today, it's kick-ass I tell ya!
I'm really looking forward to it, i start next wensday (spelling i know) and i can't wait. I've been seeing all thier shows since i saw "Mrs. Warrens Profession" last year and i really wanted to get the internship.
and now i got it. I'm happy now, or at least i'm happy currently, i'll bet any minute now somethings going to piss me off. like some SOB will make a insulting anonymous comment on this post, that would really cramp my style.
I went into a book store today, they had a dog there. The dog was standing behind a mop and bucket. The dog was so hairy i coulden't tell the dog from the mop, it was very funny.
I guess you had to be there.
Peace.
The exhibit didn't just cover superhero's though, it also had stuff about newspaper comic writters too. Like one of my favorites, R. Crumb, who drew the sexiest comic women i've ever seen. Think about the cover to "Cheep Thrills" (Janice Joplin), he drew some voluptuous babes!
but enough about catroon chicks i can't possible bang. Except jessica rabbit, for her i'd become a toon, seriously i would.
I got an Internship with the Irish Repertuary Theatre! I handed in a Resume last week and they called me back and i just got me schedual today, it's kick-ass I tell ya!
I'm really looking forward to it, i start next wensday (spelling i know) and i can't wait. I've been seeing all thier shows since i saw "Mrs. Warrens Profession" last year and i really wanted to get the internship.
and now i got it. I'm happy now, or at least i'm happy currently, i'll bet any minute now somethings going to piss me off. like some SOB will make a insulting anonymous comment on this post, that would really cramp my style.
I went into a book store today, they had a dog there. The dog was standing behind a mop and bucket. The dog was so hairy i coulden't tell the dog from the mop, it was very funny.
I guess you had to be there.
Peace.
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Jan. 4th, 2007 | 11:15 pm
I know it's easy to rag on Tom Cruise, but i think he did some great work in War Of The Worlds.
but this entry isn't about Tom Cruise, it's a bout i specific scene in War Of The Worlds. When he is in the van and encounters the mob of people who try to take the van frtom him and his children. This scene terrified me when i sawe it in the theatre, and it still terrifies me when i watch it at home, the mob behaives like a true mob should, and the way it's filmed is truly scary.
I could barely watch that scene in the movies, and i can hardly sit through it now. It gets me thinking about what i would do in that situation, if i were driving the car or trying to get into it.
actually scratch that, i woulden't be so stupid as to actually try to get into the car, i would be one of a mob of people, i'd have zero chance of actually getting it, i'm to smart to try. Even if i was wondering around america after tripods destroy my home months ago.
I dunno, i just wanted to post my thoughts on it. I guess the scene shows that while i guess person is smart, people are stupid. I mean come on, if a mob of people are trying to get a car, no ones going to actually succede in getting it, yet all the people in this scene in the movie keep trying, i think i agree with what this scene shows.
That's my thoughts, i'm done.
but this entry isn't about Tom Cruise, it's a bout i specific scene in War Of The Worlds. When he is in the van and encounters the mob of people who try to take the van frtom him and his children. This scene terrified me when i sawe it in the theatre, and it still terrifies me when i watch it at home, the mob behaives like a true mob should, and the way it's filmed is truly scary.
I could barely watch that scene in the movies, and i can hardly sit through it now. It gets me thinking about what i would do in that situation, if i were driving the car or trying to get into it.
actually scratch that, i woulden't be so stupid as to actually try to get into the car, i would be one of a mob of people, i'd have zero chance of actually getting it, i'm to smart to try. Even if i was wondering around america after tripods destroy my home months ago.
I dunno, i just wanted to post my thoughts on it. I guess the scene shows that while i guess person is smart, people are stupid. I mean come on, if a mob of people are trying to get a car, no ones going to actually succede in getting it, yet all the people in this scene in the movie keep trying, i think i agree with what this scene shows.
That's my thoughts, i'm done.