If I move to New York, they'll pay me to pin a feather boa to my ass, is what you're saying?
And what a wonderful bourgeoise you are!
1: No, the point is that they won't pay you. They might drop a dollar in the hat, but not a salary.
But they can't take away your dignity.
You're a serious person, meaning to be a professional and an artist,
I'm not a real actor at all, but I've both known a few really amazing theater actors and dabbled in the acting half of dance a fair bit. There's not necessarily a dichotomy between serious and pasting a feather boa to your ass and pretending to be a duck. Being able to lose yourself in silliness or craziness is what makes you serious. It's certainly not the end goal, but I think a good actor would find a lot of good stuff in Peter and the Wolf.
I had an acting teacher tell my class once that if we could do anything else, could imagine ourselves being anything else, to do that. (I'm now directing.)
And what Ile said. Feather boas are fun! Comedy is underrated as a serious art form!
Feather boas are fun!
Lots of things are fun, just not necessarily as a way to barely scratch out a living.
tell me more about this dollar in the hat business.
I'll give you a dollar if you do your business in a hat.
Text'll do it, you know. He's crazy.
What Ile said. Incidentally, I read the post just as my daughters started listening to the All Things Considered version of Peter and the Wolf. That's not really the coincidence it might seem; since they were introduced to it last week, they've listened to this version and Bernstein's, seen Disney's animated adaptation and read two storybook versions, all multiple times.
11, 12 they don't call it a poo pie hat because it's made of poo, dammit.
I'll wear a hat to work tomorrow. You can deposit the dollar in my paypal account, or send a check.
The Wendy Carlos/Weird Al Yankovic rendition of Peter and the Wolf will probably be pretty annoying if you aren't a Carlos completist. Looking at you, w-lfs-n.
Yeah, but only in America are feather boas not a viable way of life. In other industrialized countries, they're government supported.
For most actors and dancers (and directors, frankly), the opportunity to be...um, in the moment...is a high and a kind of focused intensity that is extraordinarily hard to forget if you've ever experienced it. And also, many performers have been told over and over again that the only way to make a living in the arts to buckle down and focus on that and that alone--which sort of cuts down on the opportunities to make a living doing anything other than waitressing and temping.
Indeed: I am not a Carlos completist and would probably find that pretty annoying.
You aren't? Well, that's a lonely incorrect guess I made.
The TRON soundtrack, though, is objectively awesome.
Things could be worse. I know a New Yorker in the finance industry who says that the only person he knows he can discuss "The Coast of Utopia" with is his personal trainer.
"Bum-bum-ba-ba-ba-bum" beats "Up on a five-count... 1... 2... 3... 4... 5..."
You know what the weather's like at the Unfogged Commune?
Unfoggy.
I hear you LB. There are many days I have trouble taking my craft seriously.
I find it helpful to have grown up in the suburbs, where life is so surreal that it competes with fiction.
Many actors come from some background where the boa on one's ass would be the least of it.
My sister in law had a job for a couple years after acting school touring around North America in a little pickup truck with costumes and knock-down sets in the back, putting on children's theater stuff. She had a blast.
"But how do I know that the expression '"fog", where "fog" means fog' means '"fog", where "fog" means fog'"?
You pretend to be crazier things than a duck in acting class. The ability to cheerfully pin a feather to your ass and then pass the hat for donations is one of the things that distinguishes born actors from the rest of us.
They really did seem to be enjoying themselves.
28 would be more readable if you'd escape internal quotation marks like the rest of us, John: "But how do I know that the expression \"\"fog\", where \"fog\" means fog\" means \"\"fog\", where \"fog\" means fog\""?
Come on, "transgressive"! Baby needs a new pair of Crispis!
What the hell is wrong -- or undignified -- about acting like a duck? What's more special -- acting like a duck or doing Hamlet? What's the bigger stretch? A pox on this anti-duckism.
Google Argentine + duck + penis and then tell me that there's nothing wrong with being a duck.
Is that the pic of a duck with a corkscrew-like dick hanging down a couple of feet? If it is, I'm not clicking on it. It's a real horrorshow, it haunts me still. Ugh, double ugh. Makes one want to leap out one's male gender into ... what?
I don't know, I loved acting in high school, fooled around a bit in college, but the rest of the drama nerds didn't like having a jock dilletante in the mix, so I gave it up. Others I know with a similar story became litigators. I find myself acting everyday, just different roles: father, businessman, Republican, jerk, you name it.
I just found out that my significant other got picked up for a DWI last night.
I used to act in high school as well for a fairly high-profile amateur theatre company. Gave it up for playing in bands, which I also gave up for ... well, nothing.
http://www.trysttheatre.co.uk/photos/Pleasure.jpg
I found this recently, an old cast photo from 1987. I am in there. A couple of people who were in the cast that year are now quite successful TV actors.
Can't say I really enjoyed it, though. Making music is/was much more fun.
Yeah...and they charge you $58 to set up an account on your phone so that you can recieve collect calls. So I haven't actually talked to him/her, but I forked over $58.
I don't think presidential pseudonym understands how the presidential pseudonyms are supposed to work.
I think pp does understand and is playing with the convention.
Well yes, SB, either that or wanting to hide his/her sex/sexual orientation (hence the "him/her" in 40), or both. But conventions are not to be played with. We as a nation are doing enough violence to the rule of law as it is.
31, what John said was actually perfectly unambiguous; a single-quotation mark on the outside, and double on the inside, and there was no nesting.
My issue was with readability, not ambiguity.
I've seen no evidence of that.
Aren't you supposed to be feeling sorry for me?
$58 to receive collect calls? Is this some new method of price gouging that the phone company came up with?
I second 52. I thought maybe pp lived in some non-US location where one could not easily, by default, receive collect calls; but then why the US$ pricing, and "DUI" is a US term for the offense right? Maybe pp has only a cellular phone, no land line; I know nothing of the mechanics of receiving collect calls on a cell phone.
You have to prepay, if the inmate wants to call a cell phone. Which is all I have. The minimum amount is $50 with an $8 transaction fee. It's a total racket. I'll have $48 in credit if any of you all go to jail in my state, though. You can call on me.
Woo hoo! Next round of jail calls is on pp!
*makes finger guns*
p-khew! p-khew!
Woo-hoo! I figured it out! Seems very weird to me but what do I know.
*explosion noise*
I'm making broccoli motions with my hands.
Are we feeling sorry for you about the $58 gouging or the significant other's DUI? The lesser seems to be getting more attention than the greater, it seems.
mmf.
mmf!'s less demonstrative sister.
Having not talked to the sig other yet, I don't know how distressed s/he is. So I might feel more compassion in the future, but at the moment I'm like, "Well, you're NOT SUPPOSED TO DRIVE DRUNK, sweetie."
The $58 stings, however.
I'm going to just pretend that someone unjinxed me, as I fear my "mmf" was too subtle.
I can scarcely imagine how terrible my teenage years would have been had I lived in a place where and time when laws against drunken driving were actually enforced.
RFTS, Clownae can't jinx you -- he said it after you. (As the timestamps prove.) Jinxing requires simultanaity.
63 -- Sorry dear, I would have done so but was called away to try and figure out why my sockets are misbehaving.
Excellent point. You are a fine parliamentarian, sir.
31/45: I was citing Frayn's Wittgenstein parody, possibly the best parody ever. I did not put my citation in my own quotes, I just cut and pasted it.
"... I respect people who want to be actors that badly, but I don't think I could hack it."
Is that actually a reasonable path to becoming an actor or is the world's way of telling you that you have no shot and should try something else?
