As an intrepid and inspired Martin Lawrence once said, “This shit just got real.”

It is February (or Febyewary for those of you too lazy to pronounce things correctly), and I am swamped.  The show that I’ve been rehearsing since January has finally opened.  I think this Twitter post sums up the night:

First show done! The audience was drunk and I finally realized how much of a villain I am! Eeeexcellent

Our opening night house¹ was bought by some special interest group called Just Portland.  They imbibed copious amounts of wine and had what I can only imagine was the worst/most awkward talkback ever (talkbacks are usually held after the show, to talk about the show — this one was before the show, and lord knows what they talked about.  The weather?).  They were nice and sauced when we came on stage.  Regarding the “villain” part … well I could clearly tell within the first couple of scenes that no one was buying my shit whatsoever.  It threw me for a second — I started to wonder, “Are they laughing at my acting or because I’m such a bastard?”  This was around scene 3; by the second act I knew they were laughing because they were drunk and weren’t putting up with my nonsense.  I realized, then, that I was the villain in this play.

I should state, too, that they weren’t laughing all of the time — it’s just the laughter that threw me off at first.  There are some genuinely funny parts in the play, but most of the laughter was the snide kind that you hear from someone who thinks you’re a total asshole.

It’s great cause it means I can let go –I have my own feelings about my character, about how I’m “misguided” but a good person inherently, but you know what?  People aren’t going to see that.  I’m doing my best to keep as far away from melodrama as possible, but the truth is that I’m a villain and a hypocrit.  And that’s that.

So that’s what I’m doing with my weekend.  Besides tweeting about random stuff I do during the day, of course.  Oh, and I guess my picture was in the Oregonian’s lifestyle section on Thursday, which would mark the first time my face has ever been in a major newspaper, unless you count that time I raped those kids.  But that was the front page, baby.

As for FAWM, I’m still working on it.  I plan on recording stuff on the days (nights, really) when I’m not doing the show.  And on the weekend.  My other projects are still very active — Test Comic will come back this Monday, FAWM is still a go (I just restrung my guitars!).  Umm … if I get a chance I will play my FAWM songs at an open mic somewhere.  You know, cool stuff like that.  Oh, and the website work is still in progress.  joshuabelville.com is pretty much done except for small pages.  Now I just have to redesign zornog.net… it’ll take time.

So that’s that!  I will try to update this more often now, but I suggest that you follow me on Twitter if you haven’t already, because I update a lot more there (especially if I’m out and about).  This is primarily because I have no friends and am a la-hoo-se-herr.