(I'm Peeking) Over Your Shoulder

So I already extolled the brilliance that was FFOK, but lemme add one more thing. Korby's organ BROKE during the first song, so by the time I got there, everything was being played in "organ" style on a casio keyboard (or as he referred to it a "crotch organ"). And it STILL worked. Amazing.

I also saw Tsar yesterday at SIFF and lemme just preface this with Ivan the Terrible? Pretty much an AWFUL person. Yeah, of course everyone confessed to his made up plots, under threat of torture most people would 'fess up to ANYthing... Crazy. He wasn't just power hungry, either, he wanted God to send him signs that he was doing the right thing. He believed he was an instrument of God's will. Creeepy. And, sadly, very timely. Religious fanatics seriously creep me out. Good movie though. Some tough torture sequences, but beautifully shot and acted. Plus the movie reel died on us for about 5 min, so we all got free vouchers! Success!

Tonight I have my first real rehearsal for As You Like It. Table work on a scene I am assuming I am only in to sing and fill out the "men" in the forest. Then I'm going to see a movie about gay neo-nazis falling in love called Brotherhood... should be interesting. Hopefully no more torture though. I think I'm tortured out for a while...

Of course, in all the fun I was having last night, I stayed out too late (and on the way home was yelled at by a homeless man to "go home" and I was like "I am!"), so today I am exhausted and wanted to be comfy. I am wearing my stretchy black Jolt pants from Nordys, purple off the shoulder The Ballet Studio tee by American Apparel with black racerback Express tank underneath and black Chinese Laundry booties with silver studs. I am also wearing my mirrored earrings and purple bracelets.

Tomorrow I get to go to yoga (yay!), but then have to miss a SIFF movie I really wanted to see because I have rehearsal (boo), but MIGHT be able to get back in time to catch the wknd 1 NWNW studio series at 5pm (fingers crossed) and then catch a movie, Fathers and Guns at Uptown tomorrow nite... YIKES. Weekend is gonna be jam packed...

Gross Gross Gross!

Example of why the crappy ankle shoes look fails. I stealthily took these of a girl waiting at a bus stop...

She was in no way fat, but the cutting off at the ankles? Does not work! The bunching of the jeans? Yuck, yuck! Unattractive. I mean, how could she leave the house like that?

Poor thing...

Frances Farmer Organ Karaoke

Um... Can we talk for a second about how utterly and ridiculously brilliant this is? It's karaoke. But without any of those slow boring ballads. Or contemporary popular songs (I got a lovely rant in response to why there is no Lady Gaga on the list). And accompanied. Live. By an organist. Um, yeah... brillz.

The next one is on June 17th (2 days after my bday, anyone?) and I really plan on trying to get there if my rehearsal schedule permits. I made new friends, reconnected with old ones and killed singing Blondie. Does it get any better than that?

Brought to You By the Color Green

Mmmmmmm... the text workshop we had last night in lieu of rehearsal reminded me how much I LOVE learning. Makes me wanna go to grad school. Just completely immerse myself in technique. Of course, which technique (and by default, which grad school) do I want to study? No idea. That's what lets me know that I WILL someday go, but also that right now is not the time...

Speaking of acting, I found out a few days ago that I have a callback to the 5th Ave for ensemble in A Christmas Story The Musical in about a week... No jinxing, but w00t! Supes excited about that!

Tonight I am not called for rehearsal, so I am going to Tsar (all about Ivan the Terrible) at Neptune at 7pm and then possibly a little Frances Farmer Organ Karaoke? Mayhaps, mayhaps...

For all of this excitement (there's SUN, too!) I am wearing a thrifted lbd, green striped Cardigan sweater, grey Mod Cloth belt, Steve Madden black boots and old grey knee socks.

Oh, and PS it looks like the BBOS winning purse is the yellow Kate Spade. Crossing my fingers I get it before the 13th!

Bag, Borrow or Steal: Options

OK, so my lovely orange Andrew Marc is due back at BBOS on 6/13, so I am currently in the process of narrowing down my options and I figured, what better than to lay them all out here on Mr Blog and have you all help me make my difficult decisions... Of course, compounding the choices is that the two (here & here) I had already narrowed down are on the wait list and it looks like neither of them are going to be ready to go by next week.

I also had decided that I am looking for a different shape than my current bag (for something different) and a bright color or fun pattern (it IS summer, after all--despite the crap-tastic weather). With all this in mind, below are the top three options.

Option #1: Furla 'Frida' Large Satchel Handbag

Option #2: Kate Spade 'Geraldine' Boerum Hill Oversized Satchel Handbag

Option #3: Betsey Johnson 'Hold Stud-y' Tote

Now I need your help, which should I rent next?

Olive You, Babe

We had our first read through of As You Like It last night and I think it's going to be such a fun summer. I can't wait to really dive into rehearsals... and find who Audrey really is (with all her 10 lines). We have a combined (with the R&J cast) night of text workshop/beginning text analysis for rehearsal tonight and then I have a night off tomorrow, followed by Fri rehearsal. I think as soon as I can get it on its feet, I will start to really figure out who the character of Audrey is for me. PLUS our song? SO utterly ridiculous! Hearts... Heres hoping I get to sing!

Today I am wearing my new olive Zara tunic (a birthday gift from my Dad & Pam), F21 side-zip black leggings, black Express v-neck sweater and brown Blowfish fold over side-zip boots from DSW with the red ring my Dad picked out for me in Panama.

Hot Hot Hat

Yesterday, after spending $100 on new books at Elliott Bay Bookstore (including the new Sookie Stackhouse!), I wandered into a store on Broadway that is usually far too spendy for me, only to chance upon the perfect straw fedora. And on sale, too! The salesgirl even said as I was buying it, "I couldn't tell if that was ours or if you already owned it. It suits you so well." and $10 later I walked out with a new hat! Success!

With my new straw fedora from Aprie, I am wearing an empire-waisted blue-grey Zara tunic, bdg dark denim jeans from UO and grey plastic Target shoes. I also threw on my thrifted black 3/4-length sweater for the office (it's always chilly).

I saw two movies yesterday and, honestly, they could not have been more different. Like I said last post, my Mama, Seestor and I went to see an Iron Man 2 matinee and I really liked the movie. It definitely is an example of superhero genre movie serving as a character study (a la the reinvigorated Batman franchise) instead of relying purely on the WHAM, BAM, POW crazy-insane fights that often plague other superhero movies. It was a nice continuation of the first Iron Man and props to director, Jon Favreau (who also plays Happy), for giving himself a pretty kick-ass fight sequence!

Lindy and I then wandered around Elliott Bay and grabbed lunch at the Elysian before splitting up. Then I wandered slowly down Broadway, killing time and ending up at Roy Street Coffee and Tea (the Starbucks designer coffee store) reading before my next movie Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime started at Harvard Exit.

It was an interesting movie. A continuation of the characters and story he started in Happiness (but with different actors) and if you like Todd Solondz movies (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Palindromes) you would probably like this movie. It is very dark (pedophilia, growing up, forgetting, forgiving, lying, suicide...), but also super-hilarious. Definitely a black, black comedy. And Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds and Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle) were brilliant. Plus fun little cameo from Gaby Hoffmann (of Now & Then fame), Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) and Ally Sheedy (Breakfast Club, anyone?). I liked it, but then I like movies like this...

Then I got to walk home (downhill, thank you very much) learning that I am almost directly below Harvard Exit, just ya know, with I-5 in between...