Philosophical at 3am

Why wouldn't I have these thought-provoking musings at 3am during Midterm week and the week I need to be memorizing my many many long monologues in Cloud Nine...

Do you ever just get the feeling that you want to be older, not like super old, but older? Just want to skip the bullshit and see what life looks like when you're settled and happy?

We did this exercise in rehearsal last evening where, since the characters progress 25 years, we all imagined what our lives would look like in 25 years! (Of course, these were a very kind 25 years where I wound up somehow with a successful acting career, a nice apartment in NYC and a house on the Almafi Coast where I had steamy love affairs with sexy Italian men, and I had a cute puppy!) We all shared our ideas and where we would all be in our mid-40's. It was definitely interesting!

I know it's because I'm an anxious 20-something in college, but I kind of just want to skip the bullshit and just be in that non-turmoil state (if I'm lucky enough to not be tumultous in my mid-40s).

I just think it would be interesting!

*End random existential musing*

EDIT: I found my puppy! :)

Inspiring

So although the Oscars were UBER LONG this year, and a little scatter-brained, and they forgot to honor Farrah Fawcett in the tribute, and that Miley Cyrus was there...I really enjoyed the broadcast. I was finding that in almost all of the main categories, I didn't have an absolute favorite and that I was going to be happy almost any way the results went. All in all, 2009 was an EXCELLENT year in cinema and film acting. Although people may disagree, there were several excellent films made last year and so many talented actors gave outstanding performances that needed to be honored with a nomination! History was also made with Kathryn Bigelow winning Best Director--she gave all of us female Directors inspiration. (And it was a bonus prize that she beat out her arrogant ex-husband James Cameron's kajillion dollar movie [with a less-than-original screenplay] in Best Director and Best Picture! You go girl!) Also, I was extremely proud of Sandra Bullock (alway thought she was an underrated actress!) and Jeff Bridges, Mo'Nique and Christoph Waltz. I really feel as though everyone who won an award was quite deserving!

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that the films and performances from all these movies are quite inspiring to aspiring actors, like myself. All the actors nominated gave such moving performances, it makes me want to perfect my craft and makes me proud to consider myself an actor. Although even my roommates have differing opinions about the Oscars, I found them to be quite enjoyable!

I feel like that post is a little scatter-brained, just like the awards show, but I'll just go with the excuse of "that's fitting since we just watched the Oscars". ;)

Summation: I love acting and I love actors and I love good actors and good movies! i want to do that for people! :)


Oh yeah, and here's part of Sandra's fantastic acceptance speech! I wish the part about her mother was included in it, because it made me tear up, but this part was just so great and shows how amazing, humble and deserving she is!

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This makes me want a cute little floppy eared boxer puppy and a trampoline so badly!! :)

Ho bisogno di andare Italia adesso!

Si, va bene! Ho bisogno di andare Italia adesso! Everything I think about reminds me of Italy! I've seriously contemplated going to grad school for Art History just so I could have an excuse to live in Florence. (PS I know zilch about art history, other than the museums I went to in Italy lol!) My goal for 2010 is to learn how to speak Italian so I can go there and be a translator or something! It's kind of pathetic how desperately I want to go and live there, but at the same time, I know I'll find a way to make it over there, even if it's only for a year or two!

Aaahhhh ITALIAAAA!! Non posso vivere senza voi! Mi manchi!!!

Never Underestimate

So because I live in a theater bubble, sometime I don't hear about what's actually going on in the world. Just found out about the earthquake in Chile and the aftershocks in Argentina, and about the tsunami warnings in Hawaii, California, Mexico and the Pacific Islands. Like I said, bubble!

This of course prompted an End-of-Days conversation with my roomie, which he is petrified of. I can't say that I feel the same way. I don't know if it's because I've watched too many 2012 programs on National Geographic or what, but I don't know, I just don't think that it's something that people should get worked up about. I definitely think that something, geologically or cosmically, is going to happen in 2012, but I don't know if it will end life as we know it, or it will be a day just like any other day. I know we're getting into one of those taboo topics that shouldn't be discussed at the dinner table, because it mixes all of those topics that people are so afraid of, but i don't know...I guess since there's nothing that we can do about it, or that we can change, or be notified in advance to deter, that we should just live life each day to the fullest and not stress about the future.

Summation of this post: Live life to the fullest, and my heart and prayers go out to the people of Chile, Argentina & Haiti. Never underestimate the awesome power that the planet we live on holds.

Turkey & Swiss please!

So my really good friend from high school is studying abroad in Turkey this semester, and so you should all follow her blog!!
www.slincerely.wordpress.com

And also, my other good friend from high school is studying in Switzerland, so you should follow his blog as well!!
http://alexsawesomeadventure.blogspot.com/

SNOW PLEASE

So at 7:00am tomorrow/today, our school will be notifying us as to whether or not we'll be having class or not. I am personally ALL IN FAVOR OF A SNOW DAY!! It's supposed to continually snow from tomorrow morning until Saturday afternoon (or something to that effect). If I don't have to go to class tomorrow and Friday, I will be one happy chica!! :)

In an effort to conjure as much Snow Day Good Karma as possible, here are some pictures from our last snow day!!

My Heart Will Go On And On...

How this movie fell out of my rotation, I will never know...



My roommate and I just revisited the epic disaster/love story that is Titanic, and I am IN LOVE!! I know it came out 13 years ago (yeah I was shocked when I did the math too!), but watching it in theaters as a nine year old was a completely different experience than watching it when I'm in my twenties! Seeing as I am now approximately the age that Leo and Kate were when they began shooting this movie (eek, I better jump start my career!), there is just SO MUCH MORE TO TAKE IN!!! I loved this movie back in 1997, I loved it when I was in middle school and high school, and now I am BEYOND LOVE!! It has all of the elements a great movie should! Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are giving such fantastic performances and have such amazing chemistry together!! I have so much respect for them as actors!





Along with my new-found-yet-not-so-new obsession with this movie, my roommate and I have also proceeded to download Celine Dion's anthology. Obviously along with a Titanic obsession, a Celine one shortly follows! :)

Here's some picture loving, because I can't help myself!!

Why I Love Gaga

More GaGaliciousness!



She's so real and well-spoken!! (Cindy is a little crazy, but gotta love her!)

And so it begins...

This past Wednesday and Thursday, we (my fabulous crew and myself) held auditions for The Vagina Monologues at my school. I'm the director (yay!) and it will be performed in our GINORMOUS, Off-Broadway theater!! I feel like I'm one of the only students to direct something in that space, which is super exciting!
Casting the show was probably one of the more challenging things I've ever had to do. SOOO many women auditioned (like 80, no joke, for a cast of 20), and I wish I could have cast them all, because they were so talented, but I'm super excited about the cast we picked! :)
Our readthrough is tomorrow, which I'm psyched about! Can't wait to get all of the girls in one room! I'm all about ensemble shows and cast bonding! :)

And what's even more exciting, is that we have our Cloud Nine read on WEDNESDAY!! I am SOOO EXCITED to start that show and work with Annie G(od) Levy herself!! Hahahahaha! My roomie is in the show as well, so I'll definitely have a subway buddy after late-night rehearsals! ;)

Basically...cannot wait for theater life to begin this semester!! It's gonna be GOOD! :D