This post is purely for my mom.
Mom! I went and saw the movie Tropic Thunder and bought the soundtrack simply because of one song.
As the song started playing in the movie (a scene where they're all actors playing soldiers in the Viet Nam war, and they're flying in helicopters) it was as if I recognized it but I couldn't tell why...until they hit the chorus. Ball of Confusion.
As I listened to it on my iPod I realized pretty much all of it except the line about the Beatles is pretty current with the 2008 situation.
I've listened to the song about 10 times now and I'm about to listen again as I walk to the bank and get coffee.
Bye mom!
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Change #1
Last night was the last show for Johnny Roast Beef, my iO team. iO Chicago has a training center that leads to being on a team that performs, if you're good or lucky.
I moved here in March of 2003 and started taking classes. In May I was put on The Lottery...a show that randomly chose one student out of each of the five class levels. They would perform every Tuesday for 8 weeks and each time there would be different veteran guests. I had no idea what The Lottery was when I got the call that I was on it. It was fun. Andy, one of our coaches, liked me and put me on a team he was coaching called Miss Texas. I never really got to know the team very well as we were cut at the end of the schedule. Around September of 2003, as Miss Texas was having our last show and I was entering level 5 of iO, Andy became the coach of a team called Johnny Roast Beef and wanted me to be on it. And on it I have been for just under 5 years.
This is a rarity in iO. Teams are built. Teams are destroyed. It is just how it is. I guess it was always easy for me to accept the process even though we never got cut. There were a few times when we were on the chopping block and made a stand. This time just felt like it was more right than the others.
I'll miss having an easy opportunity to perform with all of them, and have missed playing with those who had moved on to other parts of their lives before we got cut. It's been great.
Since we leave for the ship in less than 2 months I will probably take a break from getting on another team. We'll see.
I moved here in March of 2003 and started taking classes. In May I was put on The Lottery...a show that randomly chose one student out of each of the five class levels. They would perform every Tuesday for 8 weeks and each time there would be different veteran guests. I had no idea what The Lottery was when I got the call that I was on it. It was fun. Andy, one of our coaches, liked me and put me on a team he was coaching called Miss Texas. I never really got to know the team very well as we were cut at the end of the schedule. Around September of 2003, as Miss Texas was having our last show and I was entering level 5 of iO, Andy became the coach of a team called Johnny Roast Beef and wanted me to be on it. And on it I have been for just under 5 years.
This is a rarity in iO. Teams are built. Teams are destroyed. It is just how it is. I guess it was always easy for me to accept the process even though we never got cut. There were a few times when we were on the chopping block and made a stand. This time just felt like it was more right than the others.
I'll miss having an easy opportunity to perform with all of them, and have missed playing with those who had moved on to other parts of their lives before we got cut. It's been great.
Since we leave for the ship in less than 2 months I will probably take a break from getting on another team. We'll see.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
So It Begins
We leave on October 25th to head back out on a ship for Second City. We've learned a few lessons from last time and are kicking into gear with our preparations.
Part of this meant telling our landlords we were going to sublet. I remembered conversations with them pre-renting and they said they needed to be included in finding a tenant. So, I let them know the news. Apparantly he remembered thinking we were done with ships. I don't remember that part. Regardless, they've offered to let us out of our lease instead of subletting...which is great by us. But we have to be out by 9/15 if we want any of our security deposit back.
See, it is hard to rent the closer you get to winter. I'm comfortable with this idea only because we dealt with the exact same thing last time we left.
So, do you need a couch or bed? We're selling.
Liquidation!
Headshots have been picking up...just in time for us to leave. If you need headshots you have just under 2 months to get in here. Don't wait until the very end!
Part of this meant telling our landlords we were going to sublet. I remembered conversations with them pre-renting and they said they needed to be included in finding a tenant. So, I let them know the news. Apparantly he remembered thinking we were done with ships. I don't remember that part. Regardless, they've offered to let us out of our lease instead of subletting...which is great by us. But we have to be out by 9/15 if we want any of our security deposit back.
See, it is hard to rent the closer you get to winter. I'm comfortable with this idea only because we dealt with the exact same thing last time we left.
So, do you need a couch or bed? We're selling.
Liquidation!
Headshots have been picking up...just in time for us to leave. If you need headshots you have just under 2 months to get in here. Don't wait until the very end!
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