January 2012
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That's Life
Did a little experimenting today. I took my “Calm-Magnesium” this morning. I felt very calm when I went to meet my director friend to see about him guest directing at the studio I worked with last year.
I decided not to react to anyone, just be calm. I wanted to prove something I had been observing. And sure enough, there’s really no love between strangers in NYC. Ran into...
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@^&*%$#& Banks!!!!!!!!
If I said it once, I said it twice, SCREW ALL BANKS!!!! I have a little credit union account that I opened 18 months ago where I was putting tiny amounts of money from random sources. Like the 1 or 2 dollar checks from class actions suits, etc.
Well, after one year, they started charging me $8 if my balance was less than $500! I had $16 in my account and now I have $1!! Fuck those bitches!
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Me, My Child, & I
Right now, I have the mentality of a 10 year old. I’m trying to figure out a “budget” and I don’t know where to start. And “budget” is in quotes because it will be a joke.
Here are the categories I’ve come up with:
Bills (includes tithes)
Catch up & pre-pay rent
Los Angeles
Amsterdam/birthday
Save
Repay borrowed money
Food
Supplements
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Mamajuana
The play was a huge hit. Everyone loved the costumes and I’m so incredibly stoked. The cast was really nice, with one exception. The director and direction was brilliant. I could watch it over and over. It may play in the summer for a longer run.
I did the costumes design and also the wardrobe supervision, which is super tough. This is the second job where I did both. I’m...
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“When surface appearances become all we see, then they will become all we know.”
– Sidney Poitier
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So Shall It Be
Hmmmm, I’ve sent out tons of announcements about the play I’m costume designing off Broadway to friends, family and colleagues. I’ve gotten maybe 3-5 congratulations, not including people on facebook. Really surprised to not hear from ANYONE on the two jobs I just completed.
So in the word of Jill Scott:
Go ‘head and hate on me haters, now or later, ‘cause...
Rackless Beauty and Peace
I’m thinking of pawning a silver platter that my parents got as a wedding gift. I need a cheap, cheap wardrobe rack and operating money.
My unemployment is on hold (not worth discussing, and therefore dignifying the travesty that is unemployment compensation in America). I don’t know that it will continue or, if it does, for how long and for how much. Yes, I’m stuck in the...
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Sickos in Power
Uh-oh! My unemployment benefit year has ended. I have to file a new claim. I have no idea if it will be granted and if so, at a higher or lower benefit rate. I also don’t know how many more weeks I can get unemployment. It depends on if I have a valid new claim or can only use extensions from my old claim.
What’s worse is that I totally included this week’s benefit into my...
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The Value of Air
Something really weird is happening between me and both directors of my costume design projects. And it’s all about money and creativity. It’s so funny how tightly wound the two are. For my part, I get excited about costume purchases, almost each and every one.
Anyway, I haven’t heard from one director for a few days. I’m wondering if he dropped me from the project...
WatchReally captures the spirit!
azizisbored:
Buildings (Opening Credits) by The Birthday Boys
This is hilarious. You should watch it. Btw can someone make an 80s style opening credits for Breaking Bad, The Wire, and maybe even Parks? I would love that.
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“Rabbits are very social animals; they live in colonies. In opposite, hares live...”
– http://www.orcca.on.ca/~elena/useful/bunnies.html
I guess I’m a hare after all.
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I Am Not The Hare
I had a discussion with a friend about how so far, time feels like a continuum, which it is. And 2012 is nothing special; at least not a beginning. I feel like it’s just a calendar convention.
I mean of course, you can reset anything in your mind. But one only resets something with anticipation of something better…
As usual, I’m preoccupied about my health… and...
December 2011
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“People at first were not so much concerned with what the story meant; what they...”
– Author, Shirley Jackson, explaining the content of some of the letters she received in reaction to her short story, The Lottery.
The story is about the barbaric tradition of “stoning” in a modern community.
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Downer Mom
The very first thing that happened to me this morning, after a wonderful Christmas with family, is that I read a horrible, acerbic, vitriolic email from my mom. Under the pretense of not sending her a Christmas card, she said some really horrible things about me, even saying that I can’t keep friends or take direction professionally.
The back story is that she jumped in to pay my rent 12/1...
The Good, The Bad and the Unknown
Still not in a holiday spirit. I went out yesterday to an interview and the streets were filled with people shopping, ugh! I’m just over it and I feel like I will be over it for the rest of my life. I would much rather be doing charity work in Ethiopia. I’m really going to try to not be in the U.S. anymore during the holidays and instead be somewhere helping others with my money.
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Hectic Holidays
I thought I would take a few moments to outline my approach to this holiday season.
There’s much too much consumerism to suit me. The movement to re-gift and recycle gifts is small but significant.
By chance, last winter, I gave second hand clothing, albeit very fly second hand clothing for Christmas. I gave some people second hand books as birthday gifts this year.
For some reason, I...
Watch Out Woody!
Why I am attracted to Jewish guys: I feel an urgent and sexual undertow, and a vulnerability portending a need to be saved.
Watch out Woody Allen :)
