Whew! What a month. Doing a show every weekend and participating in February Album Writing Month… it was pretty hectic.
You can listen to my FAWM output here: http://www.fawm.org/fawmers/zornog/ I think I did really well this year. My songs are starting to find their niche — mostly pop/folk stuff, with some straight up rock thrown in there for good measure.
In a couple of days I will update the FAWM tab above to include an annotation of the songs, how I wrote them, what they’re about, etc. Stay tuned for that.
Now, as for the show … I had mentioned in various cryptic Twitter messages that the show was getting kind of crazy. I said I was going to blog about it, but after thinking about it for a while, I’ve decided that I won’t talk about what happened. I owe everyone in that show a huge debt of gratitude for ushering me into the Portland theatre scene, and while not everything worked out perfectly, it was still a great experience and I appreciate everyone who I worked with. Plus it’s just unprofessional and childish to write about things like that. It wasn’t even anything serious, really. No murders or extravagant gossip. Sorry to burst your bubble.
So: what now? Good question! I plan on spending some time building up my monologue collection for future auditions. Tangential sidenote: I went to Powell’s on Sunday for the sole purpose of purchasing a book of monologues1 and ended up buying The Confusing, System of the World, and Cryptonomicon, all in trade paperback, for $8 bucks each, thus completing my Baroque Cycle collection. My reading year is complete! Anyway, the point of this sidenote is that monologue books suck. I’ll have to make a second trip but really the whole ordeal made my brain hurt. There’s a lot of new plays out there that I have yet to read, and having to choose one or two is difficult. I wanted to just grab Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and be done with it, but I knew I should be more discerning with my play choices2.
NEXT ITEM!
My hair is currently dark brownish because of Perfection. I have the option of dyeing it again, or letting it grow out to it’s natural color. Which do you prefer?
This:
Original color.
Or this:
nnndarkdarkdark
Please note that that is not the greatest picture of me (the second one, I mean). I do look a bit “cadaverous” as my friend Emily put it. It’s just the glare from the computer screen, though. I think it looks pretty good myself.
I’m a big fan of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. And your red hair.
Well since you asked, the dark hair does look distinguished and sober, no doubt about it. I can see why you like it, especially if the wry-and-ginger look gets you typecast as a clown. But at least in that photo, it doesn’t really look natural on you.
Now, will that survey wait while you actually squirrel away the music and listen to it? Not much good to render an opinion on a thing you haven’t heard yet, tho I suppose people do it all the time.
Oh and I meant to add .. Talking Heads by Alan Bennett for intelligent monologues.
Well, I meant, just don’t forget about the survey, heh.
And yes, my hair looks more natural right now.
IRL your dark hair looked really nice, I’m not going to lie. But either way, you’ll always be a pan-faced ginger to me. <3
I heard Kraftwerk fired one of their founder members recently in an “acrimonious split” (free song title?) so if you’re ever stuck for work…