4/30/10

Jawa on the left,
Boba Fett rocks the middle,
Star Wars playing cards.




I have been really jonesing to watch some Star Wars lately. I really want to have a marathon. But mostly I have been wanting to watch IV-VI with Sky. I know it would be loads of fun.

I cannot get the end of the semester out of my head! We sent in our scene rankings for THAR13 yesterday... well according to LDL only 10 of us did. I'm very much excited for the showcase, but I know I wont get what I want to be in it, but I am excited nonetheless. And you know what end of the semester means: summer, Fall semester, and auditions for next season! Agh! I really want to do a show this summer, but I know I should find a job and start working. Also, it will be a good cool down for me from theatre (not that I need one, or want one for that matter). Breaks every now and then are a good thing I suppose.

Regie P.

4/29/10

Do I look legal?
Well, what about illegal?
What does that look like...




I get touchy on the subject of my color. Especially moving from San Francisco to Petaluma and growing up in Sonoma County in general. I am proud of who I am and what I look like. Out of all the things in my image that I am insecure about I am glad to say that the color of my skin hasn't been one of those. I've done an entry a while back about me being concerned for my (hopefully) future career in acting and being an "actor of color". I have always seen myself as just an actor, but that's because I have been lucky to have experienced color blind casting. But I am an actor of color, I am. I never really notice how different I am from the other actors I am in a show with, but looking back on it... Jekyll&Hyde for instance, my character was originally a white British servant, and when we did the 40s re-write of it we wrote her as an immigrant daughter. The Good Doctor, I was playing a Russian dental student! I don't really know what I am trying to say right now... I'm really excited to begin a professional career in theatre, but at the same time I am so scared, not because of my acting ability, not because of the business and the fact that I am not going to be making that much money... but because of the color of my skin. But hey, some people attribute it to type casting and just casting in general. The Good Doctor for instance, I probably wouldn't be cast in that in a professional production because I do not look Russian. But where is the line drawn on that sort of thing... I'm probably not really making any sense to anyone not in my head. I really want to be the best actor I can be and stay truthful to myself and who I am.

-Regie P.

4/28/10

No haiku needed.
This picture is a poem
in itself. So there.




Sky, Dana and I ventured on over the Scream'n Yogurt to meet up with Lacie. Skylar and I had a fun little word play that turned into a pretty neat poem type deal.

I FINALLY watched (most of) In Bruges today. It was kind of inevitable, seeing as me and Sky are doing a scene from it. The read through for the class went very well. I'm pretty excited for the scene.

My thoughts aren't very clear at the moment. Honestly, I have nothing to talk about right now. So I think I'm going to turn it in for the night.

-Regie P.

4/27/10

Click click needles click.
Click away the yarn beneath
my fingers for him.




Today was a good day. Jimmy and I did our final performance for the Actors with Disabilities unit. I was extremely nervous all the way up to our performance. I think this is the longest we've ever had to rehearse a scene in THAR13. I'm very happy with the way it turned out, and hopefully it gets into the showcase. I purposely didn't finish Sky's scarf (pictured above) this weekend because I needed the knitting for the scene, but by the time showcase rolls around (if the scene gets in *fingers crossed*) I'll have started on another project.

This semester is rapidly coming to a close. My 4th semester at the JC... I don't know how to feel about that... Ok, I lie, I do know how I feel about that. And I tell ya, it's not what people have been telling me to feel. I remember my Senior year of high school when everyone said that being there for more than 4 semesters is a "bad" thing. It's not what you're "supposed" to do with the JC. Fuck that. I still don't know where I am transferring to and I couldn't think of a better school to be at while I figure it out. People who rag on the JC really bother me, but mostly the people* (*person) I hear it from goes to an expensive UC all on his rich grandmother's money. And this person looks down their nose at me. That really urks me. I have finally become comfortable with liking being at the JC. I'd rather be here and pay a good amount for a great education than waste tons of money at a school that I'm not sure I want to be at, or Gods forbid a school I was pressured into going to.

Anyways, I think I have worn out my first Blog365 entry. Goodnight all.

-Regie P.

Eureka!

I am choosing to rectify my "upset only" blogging problem by creating a 365 Photo Project combined with a blog-a-day sort of thing. So this is my plan...

1) Take one photo everyday
2) Create a haiku to describe or explain aforementioned photograph
and
3) Blog about it/my thoughts for the day

I really think the photo and the poem will help induce my creative thoughts so I can better articulate them in writing. : )

Wish me luck,
Regie P.