I ordered a computer of my own last night. Hopefully I'll be able to update this thing as much as I'd like. I feel like there are just sooooooo many thoughts running through my head that simply deserve to be immortalized in blog form for your viewing pleasure. It's a strange thing, thoughts grow stale when they go unwritten and they don't seem worthy of the keystrokes needed to put them to the virtual page.
I go to school with some pretty amazing and inspiring people. I thought tonight might be a good opportunity to introduce you to some of the characters that will more than likely be reoccurring herein. I mentioned in one of my first posts that the bromance that has developed within The Fourteen is a beautiful thing. Sleep soundly knowing that it only continues to grow in new and amazing ways.
I'm working on a scene from "True West" right now with Mr. Andy Talen. He's from Wisconsin, which seems to produce some of my favorite actor-people (Zack Kraus, anyone). We've started off with a little Sam Shepard intensive for Andrei Serban's class, and I wanted to tackle this for a few reasons:
1) It's an exploration in brotherhood. Being an only child, I don't have much experience with actual brothers.
2) And this is why I love grad school, I get to go against type and not play the dweeby writer, but the older, drunker, larcenous bully-brother. Fun times.
But back to Andy, I like this dude a lot... I may even love him (and as they say here on the East Coast, "No homo.") Not only is the dude tremendously genuine, but incredibly generous as well. I had harbored some fears that coming and working with people in an environment with a bunch of over-achieving twenty-something actors might lead to some problems of ego... and it still might, just not here. I left our rehearsal tonight feeling pumped on just doing the work. For the first time in a long time, I really remembered why I fell in love with this particular craft in the first place. There's really nothing like getting together with another artist, particularly one who holds some great talent and an open mind and a willingness to open up and experience and collaborate, and dive head first into a great scene. Every time we finished a section we hopped right back into it, sometimes after a few words of concepts; thoughts; or ideas, but, still, hopped right back into it... enthused. It all just clicked. There's still plenty of work to be done, but I don't think that I could possibly feel any more confident going into Andrei's class tomorrow, and couldn't have drawn a better first partner to kick things off with. So thank you, sir.
I am going to decompress by watching some Netflix for about a half an hour before tackling some last-minute revisions to a one page scene for Kristin and heading to bed. I hope you are enjoying the blog. If you have any questions, or anything you'd like to hear about, please leave them in the comments section below, or on my Facebook page.
-Nix
I go to school with some pretty amazing and inspiring people. I thought tonight might be a good opportunity to introduce you to some of the characters that will more than likely be reoccurring herein. I mentioned in one of my first posts that the bromance that has developed within The Fourteen is a beautiful thing. Sleep soundly knowing that it only continues to grow in new and amazing ways.
I'm working on a scene from "True West" right now with Mr. Andy Talen. He's from Wisconsin, which seems to produce some of my favorite actor-people (Zack Kraus, anyone). We've started off with a little Sam Shepard intensive for Andrei Serban's class, and I wanted to tackle this for a few reasons:
1) It's an exploration in brotherhood. Being an only child, I don't have much experience with actual brothers.
2) And this is why I love grad school, I get to go against type and not play the dweeby writer, but the older, drunker, larcenous bully-brother. Fun times.
But back to Andy, I like this dude a lot... I may even love him (and as they say here on the East Coast, "No homo.") Not only is the dude tremendously genuine, but incredibly generous as well. I had harbored some fears that coming and working with people in an environment with a bunch of over-achieving twenty-something actors might lead to some problems of ego... and it still might, just not here. I left our rehearsal tonight feeling pumped on just doing the work. For the first time in a long time, I really remembered why I fell in love with this particular craft in the first place. There's really nothing like getting together with another artist, particularly one who holds some great talent and an open mind and a willingness to open up and experience and collaborate, and dive head first into a great scene. Every time we finished a section we hopped right back into it, sometimes after a few words of concepts; thoughts; or ideas, but, still, hopped right back into it... enthused. It all just clicked. There's still plenty of work to be done, but I don't think that I could possibly feel any more confident going into Andrei's class tomorrow, and couldn't have drawn a better first partner to kick things off with. So thank you, sir.
I am going to decompress by watching some Netflix for about a half an hour before tackling some last-minute revisions to a one page scene for Kristin and heading to bed. I hope you are enjoying the blog. If you have any questions, or anything you'd like to hear about, please leave them in the comments section below, or on my Facebook page.
-Nix
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