Wednesday, February 9, 2005
"Words, when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music"
You'd think that theatre people would be more open to the idea of having a camera shoved in their face but no, they're not. The way some react it's like they're having one shoved somewhere else.
I'm gonna try my best to make this little UIL doc thing worth watching. I've done videos but this is a whole new thing. It's a documentary and I can't fall back on quickly edited montages. Anyone who has any ideas to make the doc interesting that aren't pornographic leave me a comment. If I get desperate I'll start taking the pornographic ones.
I had my first root beer today. Interesting taste. I thought it was better than the average coke. So, root beer's out of the way. What's left?
We've been studying Shakespeare and we've talked about how we wrote in a heightened language. Like, people didn't really talk like that in the time in which he lived but it still retained at least some believability as dialogue. So I was racking my brain trying to think of some modern-day equivalents to Shakespeare in that sense. In the sense that it's a heightened language out of reality but not of the realm of possibility. I could only come up with Aaron Sorkin but that might just have been because of my undying love for his work.
I've started to realize the importance of words. There's nothing we do more than that. So putting the right ones in the right order is crucial in how you present yourself as you. Do you want to be the charming S.O.B. or the stubborn jackass. The difference between the two is only words away. Sometimes I don't exactly find the right ones or when I do they're not in the right order. From time to time, most of the time actually, I find myself ripping off a quote from a movie or TV show that I've heard before. I need to stop doing that. I could write a book on things I need to stop doing. Feel free to make a list for me.
I've been having a lot of trouble coming up with original jokes lately. I'm trying to figure out the secret formula. I need to read more books. Everyone does.
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