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21910. arkymalarky - 6/6/2007 4:00:54 PM (warning: scroll by if bored--I'm in an introspective mood)
When I first went to work where I am, it was only for a year about 25 years ago. I came back to stay a few years later. The first day we had meetings, etc, like schools do, and we were "on our own" for lunch. I asked where people went to eat, and some of the teachers said "we have a Dairy Queen up the road on the highway, and most of us are going there." I thought, wow, that's so cool, such a tiny town having a DQ. Glad I'm working here.
I should have ridden with someone, but it was right on the highway, they said, and I hadn't met anyone yet, and irl I'm not the type to instantly be sociable with people, so I drove myself. I went probably ten miles without a blasted Dairy Queen anywhere to be seen. I am a Texan, and I love Dairy Queen. I wouldn't have missed it.
After giving up and turning around I stopped at the first "food" place in the town that I saw and got a (really great) burger to go. I got back to the school with it and when I complained that I couldn't find their DQ, after some confusion and explaining on both sides, I found I'd gotten my hamburger there. They just called their walk-up burger place Dairy Queen.
It has another name now, but it has fantastic soft-serve ice cream and great dinners, burgers--everything. Judith and Keoni can vouch for it, and Judith can vouch for our other main restaurant too, because she's been to both. Last night I had to go to a major meeting, and I decided I wanted one of the RURAL DQ's ice cream cones, so I'd eaten a light snack and headed for the meeting, planning to get one when I got out. Well...about two hours later I was starving, so I left the meeting, got my cone, ate it--which took a while, because the "small" one was so tall--and got back only to be informed that the most important stuff happened while I was out. Oh well. They filled me in and I don't know what I'd have done anyway.
That was a great ice cream, though. 21911. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/6/2007 4:31:42 PM 
21912. judithathome - 6/6/2007 8:37:42 PM I am so craving the new waffle cone (pieces) and chocolate chip blizzard! 21913. judithathome - 6/6/2007 8:38:51 PM Arky, the weekend we talked about...next weekend...is fine for us.
We're orphans. 21914. arkymalarky - 6/6/2007 10:40:47 PM We pretty much are too. We're not nearly as "fun" as the other set of parents. 21915. Seamus - 6/7/2007 5:15:15 PM I apologise for the intrusion, but I've been feeling so very low. I was casting about for a touchstone--I thought of this place and yes, just reading and recalling you gentle folk here has lifted my spirits immeasurably. In case you ever wonder if your pixels mean anything, I can tell you that to this lost soul, they always will.
Again, I truly apologise for this. I simply needed to tell you that. 21916. judithathome - 6/7/2007 5:18:48 PM How nice to see you again, Seamus....stick around and we'll try and cheer you up. 21917. judithathome - 6/7/2007 5:21:40 PM Here's something fun to start with...you can try being your own Jackson Pollock
Squiggle around and click your mouse to change paint colors. 21918. Seamus - 6/7/2007 5:25:45 PM Hello judith. You are so very kind. 21919. arkymalarky - 6/7/2007 9:35:46 PM OH SEAMUS! It's so great to see you, but I'm sorry a low mood is what drew you here. Is everything okay? I second Judith's request to please stick around! 21920. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 4:44:46 AM Seamus! It's wonderful to see you but I second Arky in that I'm sorry you're down. 21921. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 4:54:37 AM Arx, Jude,
What are the plans for the weekend? I want to pretend I'm there. Actually I'll be at the theater all weekend in rehearsal which I'm having a great time with.
I don't know why I'm so surprised. I think it's because I'd been away for so long and also because it's a tough play. Plus, there's a big love scene and that had me doing a minor freak out until we got the kissing out of the way.
It's a small cast - four people - and the director is a friend I've known for something like sixteen years, so it's a pretty comfortable atmosphere even though I didn't know any of the other actors before this show.
There isn't any driving need at the moment to step fully back into the world of theater, but I'm definitely enjoying this experience and it's lead me to the conclusion that I'm probably not done with the stage for the rest of my life. 21922. judithathome - 6/8/2007 2:28:19 PM MsNo, I really wish you could come that weekend...plans are to go to a play called Nice People Dancin' To Good Country Music...sorta like the antithesis of the karoke experience (or at least parts of it!)
I'm excited for Arky to see this theatre group...we'll be using a new venue for the summer, going from a small black box theatre to a full sized, fully professional one...in this play, they're going to be able to put a REAL pickup truck on stange rather than use two boxes and a headlight...ha!
The rest of the weekend is up for grabs...may just laze around or go to the pool and laze around there. 21923. Seamus - 6/8/2007 3:05:29 PM arky & Ms. No, thank you. It is wonderful to see each of you again!
Although it is effectively what I did say, I truly didn't mean that I need to be low to want to come here--and I will gladly remain.
Each of those plays--the play you are rehearsing for, Ms. No, and the play you and arky are planning to attend, judith--seems intriguing.
How does one "practise" a love scene, Ms. No? I've often wondered how that works. 21924. Ms. No - 6/8/2007 3:35:53 PM Pretty much the way one rehearses the rest of the show, but with allowances made for the fact that it's most likely going to be awkward for the actors. Now that I think about it, it's not that different from the way one rehearses for tough physical blocking --- slaps, stage fights, stunts, disrobing.
The first two nights we did the scene we didn't have to kiss but we did work on getting physically comfortable with each other -- sitting close, holding hands, cuddling up and generally just lounging around the bed together. Here, I have to really be grateful to the man I'm playing opposite because whether through design or through osmosis, he made me feel very comfortable. He wasn't shy or embarrassed or hesitant and so I didn't have any need to be.
I'd never had to do a kiss much less a love scene with someone I didn't know beforehand. I mean, Tom and I met on the first night of rehearsal, we rehearsed our scenes together with the director the next two nights and then I was off a couple days while he worked with another actor and then we met back up for what was essentially our third night of rehearsal together and had to start working the kissing parts.
So the first couple of times it feels like a kiss. Sure, it's a relative stranger and you may or may not be attracted to this person and you've been chewing gum since noon and avoiding frangrant foods since yesterday, but it's still a kiss. And somewhere not too long after because you have a lot of other stuff to concentrate on -- how long does this kiss last before we have to speak again? Who's got the next line and what is it? What are the characters thinking about while they're kissing that leads them to stop kissing and start talking again? Where on the bed are we supposed to be moving to? Who's supposed to end up on top or on which side or close to the foot of the bed? ---it pretty quickly becomes a piece of blocking like any other.
This is not to say that it isn't entertaining, but it isn't real kissing. You don't lose yourself in it. I can only imagine how horrid it would be to have to kiss someone you disliked or who had bad oral hygiene or who pushed the envelope between "acting" kissing and truly lustful kissing. We're not actually exchanging a whole lot of spit -- it looks far more carnal than it is, but that's why they call it acting. ;->
21925. thoughtful - 6/8/2007 4:02:59 PM my understanding is that acting kissing isnt kissing at all but merely pressing lips together in a way to simulate kissing...no need to pucker or anything else...just make it look good for the audience.
didnt they say that clark gable had terrible breath? 21926. thoughtful - 6/8/2007 4:03:09 PM hi seamus! 21927. Seamus - 6/8/2007 4:03:52 PM Fascinating. Seems it is a play within a play.
Were I an actor (if the subjunctive mood didn't exist, it would have had to be invented for that impossibility), I want to believe that I would show up for rehearsals having paid at least some small attention to my oral hygiene. But having that go to thinking about what I ate the day before...hmmm. I can't say I'd have ever thought of that. Then again, there may be a metaphor for my life in there somewhere.
Wow, Ms. No! Acting is hard work! And here I thought it all started when the director said "Action!"
That was a poor attempt at humour. I know it is much much more than that.
How many lines do you have? And how does that compare to, perhaps, an average?
Thank you, Ms. No, for explaining it so well. I truly hadn't a clue. 21928. Seamus - 6/8/2007 4:05:48 PM Hello, thoughtful! 21929. betty - 6/8/2007 4:38:31 PM "I'd never had to do a kiss much less a love scene with someone I didn't know beforehand."
there are so many slutty comments I could put here.
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