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goodbye february! (& other things)

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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.

Original color.

Or this:

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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.

  1. From actual plays, not those crap “written just for the book” monologues. ↩
  2. Even though I love Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ↩

an actual, honest to god update

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Oh, the things we do for our art.

Oh, the things we do for our art.

I have a new haircut.  And, um, a new color.  What lays upon my head is “Fall Chestnut,” a color that is largely dark brown but shines a little red under the light.  It is for the show that I’m performing in February.  It apparently will get lighter as the weeks progress.  Yes, my eyebrows were dyed as well, but they will fade quickly.  This happened last night, in a salon called Akeni or Akani, tucked away in a building on NE Williams St.  There was wine and fruit.  My beauty steward was named Denise, and when all was said and done, hair styled and makeup applied, I looked like this:

 

Me in twenty years (hopefully).

Me in twenty years (hopefully).

This post could quicky turn into how much I hate my facial features.  I will refrain from following that path.

So this is what my life has been for the past couple of weeks.  I get up, go to work for a stretch of time, then go to rehearsal until 9pm, then come home and talk to my girlfriend on the phone for an hour or so, then sleep.  Wake up and repeat.  A couple of months ago I had all the time in the world.  Now I have none.  I’m not complaining; I much prefer having things to do than not, but sometimes I wish those things were a little more exciting than doing data entry all day.  However!  Having a job is much more important these days than what kind of job it is, and my job is pretty awesome either way.

Okay, important stuff happening in March to my website!

My site will soon be split into two!  I am planning on purchasing a domain name for just my music/acting stuff (like joshbelville.com or something), and leaving this website as my personal one.  This is Good because I can put more fun stuff on this site and make it less “professional” (or something).  But I won’t have time to focus on that stuff until March, cause February is when my show goes up AND when FAWM is happening, and I’ll be busy like a mofo.  So I’m just telling you now to STAY TUNED, and be ready to bookmark a brand new site!

Now I really ought to go back to memorizing lines.  If you’re in the Portland area, come see my show!  KTHXBAI