BaDecision '08

So last night I went to the Work Less Party. I drank - a lot. Probably too much, but alas, it was good times. I actually approached women and talked to them. Two in particular were cool, but how is it possible that of all the many many women there I zero in on the one who was married (now divorced) and feels like she recently met the love of her life AND the other one who was cute, wearing a cat mask and only purred at me... go figure.

I Concede.

Battlestar Galactica isn't just for nerds. Well it might be, but then that would make me a nerd. After getting sold out last night I settled in and watching the miniseries. Not bad at all - kind of like a sci-fi thriller type show. I am not one for sci-fi, but I do love the whole heart pounding out of your chest thriller type thing.

I have to preface this next part with the fact that I really enjoy my roommate, he's a great guy and so easy-going. But he's gone for a few days and it makes me realise how much I love being on my own - not that I am at all financially able to do so - but I really do love being on my own.

Tonight I'm going out with my friend Amy and we're going to the Work Less Party - she says it's lots of fun, so we're both going to get drunk and make bad choices... gotta love nights like that - I am sure it will make for an interesting blog.

New Beginnings

So I had my first day at my new job today - it was good and painless -- I think I am going to really enjoy it... for the first couple weeks I am doing a lot of shifts at both jobs - but I think that it's going to be alright...

Dog Sees God continues to go super well. I am loving acting again - not enough to actually audition for surff - but I am super happy to be back on stage - even if it's just for a week. There's so much complexity in the show, because I am playing a character who is pretty easy-going/non-confrontational for so much of it and then there's this total adjust... I look forward to seeing the response as a whole. Because I am so used to directing it's been a difficult task NOT doing that - but I am happy the way things have been going... I will definitely keep info on here about when we are playing... 

Other than that, I have two nights free this weekend which I am really quite stoked about. I work both Friday and Saturday - but have the evenings off so hopefully I am going to get out and do something -- if anyone has any options let me know! :)

A Very Very Very Busy Time

ba-zing.
It's been a crazy few days --- Sunday was work, followed by a photo shoot for Dog Sees God, following that we had a rehearsal and some good cast bonding (see: drinking) times...
Monday morning I woke up and headed to Granville Island for our first rehearsal for The Musical of Musicals: The Musical. I am so stoked for this show. I think it's going to be incredible! The cast is great and the script is really quite funny...
Other exciting news is I got a new job - well I should say I got another job - working for the Vancouver Theatre Sports League as an executive assistant - I am excited for that...
This is boring - and I apologise - but I thought it might shed some light on where the heck I have been.

Thoughts

So it's been a couple days - but I'll explain!

Wednesday night was another "date" - it went well, she was super cool and chill and we had a good time just hanging out and drinking and chatting. Hopefully we can hang out again. Not sure if there were a ton of romantic sparks - but who knows?

I had a thought though. There's two particular girls that I have dated in the past two years or so that I wouldn't consider myself over. There's a lot of similarities between the types of relationships I had with both of these girls. Not the girls in particular, but the relationships we had. Both were short but intense relationships. Both ended prematurely. Both I still keep in close contact with. It's just interesting the similarities between those two situations. Or maybe it's just interesting to me and you have already skipped to the next paragraph.

I had a friend come visit from Prince George for Thursday and Friday night and we had a good time. Went to see Get Smart yesterday. It's pretty funny. Not intelligent by any means - but a very very funny movie - and I love Steve Carrell, and Anne Hathaway is pretty hot too. Also have seen two new tv series - Weeds & Californication. both definitely worth checking out if you have a chance! Well, Robb hates Weeds... but I like it. I also did a little bit of shopping yesterday - that always makes someone feel better.

Other than that we have our photo shoot for Dog Sees God tomorrow, I am pretty excited for it - I will try and post a couple of pictures once it's done.

And no, I am not shaving my head... sorry.

All Alone...

So I got stood up tonight... perhaps it was karma, or perhaps it was because I was a couple minutes late - or perhaps it's because her favourite people in the world met their end in fiery car crash - regardless, I was stood up... and the OLD Ryan would've focused on that and written a super bitter emo blog about it, but the new Ryan will instead talk about something else.

Such as the fact that we've started rehearsals for Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead and they are going super well. Basically the show is an update of the Peanuts character, and I'm playing CB. The cast is an incredible blend of people I have worked with before and people who I haven't. One of my favourite people Christine is playing my sister, Matt who was in Autobahn which I directed is playing Van (Linus), and Alex - another great friend is playing Beethoven (Schroeder.) The cast is rounded out by four other amazingly talented actors which I am excited to be sharing the stage with.

It's so strange to be on this side of things though. Christine and her friends Jenny & Laura who are stage managing and directing and producing and acting (each of them is doing two of those things) have asked for some help - and I, of course, am happy to give it - and advice when needed, but still it's so weird not being a director or producer and just needing to worry about my lines - it's a cool feeling and one I haven't had for a while - I am definitely enjoying it... 

Other than that I might be breaking one of my own rules - I can't write too much about it yet - but I will keep you all posted.

 

Different Strokes

So I went on a pseudo-date on Saturday afternoon. I feel odd blogging about this since I suppose I've been on pseudo-dates with a lot of people - many of whom have Facebook and therefore can check my blog - regardless I'm going for full exposure here, so if you don't want to read on - that was your spoiler alert.

So I've been talking with this particular gal for a while and things have been cool, we write lengthy facebook messages, etc. She seems really sweet, down to Earth - all that good stuff. Just, like me, busy. But we make plans to get together Saturday and hit up Granville Island - and we do, and we meet and she's really cute - not to belittle her looks, she just is. She's not "hot" but I think that she doesn't want/need to be, but she's definitely a head turner. Things are great, we walk around check out all sorts of stores laugh, etc. All seems cool - though of course I am the worst and realising whether or not someone is interested in me, so I just assume she's not.

She messages me yesterday and says she had a great time, but just can't see any romantic chemistry between us - which is fine, I mean it was one date - and I'm not losing sleep over it, but it's just too bad, because she really was a very cool girl.

I took down my online dating profile last night. I figured that I need to get better and approaching people when I'm out - just to see. I have a couple of other pseudo-dates lined up for the next week and a bit - it should be fun. I love pseudo-dates... it's just great to meet people. I suppose for me, it's just an opportunity to meet people outside of the realm of the people I generally hang out with - and hopefully make a connection. It is astounding how great most of these women are. Of course there are the few crazies who make up astounding obvious lies about themselves, but they are really few and far between.

But that's my dating story from the weekend.

The Tony Awards

So tonight is the Tony Awards. For those of you who don't know the Tony Awards are the Academy Awards for Broadway. I think the first year I ever watched them was maybe grade 9. I remember it was the year that the Grease revival with Rosie O'Donnell was up for best revival. I don't remember much of them, but I do remember loving the fact that I got to see these huge Broadway shows in the comfort of my own living room. It was so exciting for me - because up until that point my musical theatre knowledge was so incredibly limited. So from there I don't think I have missed a year. In grade 12 they had a 'wet grad' on the night of the Tonys - guess where I was? One of my favourite Tony stories to share is the summer I worked in Barkerville. No cable anywhere except the one redneck type bar, and so what did we do? We begged and pleaded with the owner to let us put the awards on. They said it was alright if we kept drinking all night. So to the sounds of hippies and logger types we enjoyed performances from Wicked, Avenue Q and Fiddler on The Roof... It truly was great.

I love the years when they have an actual host - Rosie was one of my faves, Hugh Jackman was great too - and tonight is Whoopi Goldberg, should be incredible. On top of that the lifetime achievement award is going to Stephen Sondheim -- hopefully they will have something masterful planned.

Hopefully you'll all tune in. It's on CBS tonight starting at 8.



PS - I have turned comments back on, but they are moderated now.

An Embarassed Update

So, it's been two weeks since I last blogged. I am sorry. I am a bad blogger - but life just seems to have gotten in the way. It's been a busy, stressful, but rewarding few weeks and certain elements (perhaps stars?) have aligned to make me more and more excited about the summer...
First and foremost - I am in a show. It's a bit of a story, so sit back and relax. Originally I was cast in a burlesque Broadway show. I was pretty stoked to sing and dance for the summer - and on top of that there was only one performance - so that was helpful too. A few friends asked me for some advice on putting up a show this summer - and I suggested a few things to them - and it was set that they were going to do a night of one-act's. I was going to direct one or two and act in one. Turns out the only time the theatre was available was the same week as the Burlesque show. Conundrum. What I decided was that I would try to do both - the two theatres were pretty close - and that if I couldn;'t do both on the night of the Burlesque show that they could just pull my scene from the one acts. What ended up happening though was we found an incredible 75 minute show called Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead which is basically the story of the Peanuts (Charlie Brown) characters in high school. It's funny, witty, crass, heart-breaking and truthful all in one show and so we (they?) decided that this might be a much better first endeavour - and I of course piped up that I would love to play CB (Charlie Brown,) whether it's because they agreed or just because I am persuasive that's now what I'll be doing, so I had to drop out of the burlesque show - which may or may not have been for the best.
Other than that, the fringe show I'm directing starts up rehearsals in a week and a bit and I am totally excited for that too... the cast is just amazing, and the material is going to be so much fun to put together. I can't imagine a better summer than spending it with those two groups of people.
Other than that, work is going well. Still loving it. I'm working a lot right now, but I don't seem to mind it.
The female situation is - well, interesting. Not much to report there except confusion, frustration - happiness? I don't know.
But the Tony Awards are on this Sunday - and I get to watch them with some great friends and THAT is a reason to be happy :)

I will try to write more often... I promise.