I have a new love of my life: Pomegranate Martinis, sometimes called "The Oprah" (she steals my books for her reader's club, it only makes sense that she steals my drink). Now, usually I'm a beer girl on account of being able to drink pretty much all you want and never end up puking outside the bar, but beer really packs in the calories so all of that dancing in 3 inch healings gets canceled out. Anyway, a few months ago Melisa and I went to the One10 Lounge downtown and I ordered the Pom for the first time. So good! Seriously, the best thing I've ever put between my lips.
Recipe:
2 oz Pomegranate Vodka (I like 3 Olives)
2 oz Pomegranate Juice- make sure you use 100% pure pom juice
1 oz Lime Juice
splash of Grenadine
Shake with ice and pour it in a chilled martini glass, your life will change.
Rehearsals are going well, only 9 days until opening night. Last night we had a hair and makeup meeting and technical rehearsal. I had a very expensive face full of makeup and had to sit and listen to a Mary Kay makeup artist "teach me" about makeup. Since my return to the suburbs I've had to endure many conversations like this. I've heard all about Mary Kay, Olive Garden, Ross and even WalMart. Such is the life outside of the city.
K
11.27.2007
11.08.2007
On the WGA strike
Who was it who said that the artist's eyes are like a camera? Mine are. Ever since I was little I've seen everything as a movie. I would use looking my vision and imagine other people were seeing what I was, and I would control what they saw- making movies with my eyes. Around 4th grade I wrote my first story, it was about a horse that had a baby and died while giving birth, then that horse grew up and had a baby but died while in birth, and then that horse grew up only to suffer the fate of her mother and grandmother. It went on for a few generations, but they all had wonderful names (I've always been funny about names. It takes me months to name my characters). So throughout high school I wrote a lot (mostly angsty free verse and Salinger style short stories- but I was always writing) and took photo and painted pictures then all of a sudden the year I was 18 I had an epiphany about putting those things together. I could write movies! I could tell stories and show them!
My family was never a huge movie watching family. I discovered Casablanca on my own. And of course I'd seen Moulin Rouge, but then I learned about Baz Luhrmann and Strictly Ballroom and how to appreciate his version of Romeo & Juliet. Then I met Darrin and he taught me about Wes Anderson and Pedro Almodovar and Ang Lee and more and then, in my obsessiveness (and IMDB.com and NetFlix as my enablers) I started finding one actor or director or writer and watching everything they've done. I did the whole Anderson &CO, meaning Jason Schwartzman, Luke & Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Sofia Coppola etc etc, then Kate Winslet, then Gael Garcia Bernal, M. Night Shyamalan, Joaquin Phoenix, Joe Wright (I loved P&P and am greatly anticipating Atonement) the list goes on and on. I learned about Zach Helm and how inspiring he is. I'm still learning all of the little connections and there are so many classics I've never seen, but learning to appreciate the rare movie that is beautifully written, acted, produced and a million other things changed my heart. So I started to write.
I have all of these stories I want to write and show people. I have a script almost done right now about a group of friends dealing their friend's suicide, how they all uniquely handle their grief and how it changes them. I have an idea about a girl who with a huge imagination and a huge heart who goes through a dark time. Last Sunday I wrote out a couple ideas about a man who learns he only has three months to live. I started writing comedy sketches as well, little parodies or situations. Things that captured my heart. I want to finish and polish a few of these and then I fully intend on trying to "break into the business". I know how hard it is, I know what my chances are but I just can't see doing anything else with my life. That is what passion is, you don't pursue such an unstable profession for the money or fame, you do it because nothing makes you feel so good, nothing else would work.
Now the Writer's Guild of America is on Strike. I am so in awe of these people who quit their jobs and fight for their rights, for my future rights. It is the most patriotic I've felt in years to see people who are risking their careers stand up to major corporations and protect their art. Writing is so emotionally draining and intimate and these people who are, quite literally, putting themselves on the line... it inspires me as an American and as a writer. Quite obviously, I am pro-strike and pro-union and all of the reasons that I am can be found much more intelligently and eloquently explained elsewhere (try UnitedHollywood.blogspot.com). Mostly I am uplifted and inspired by and hurting for all of the writers on strike. I'll miss House and the Office and all of the nightlies and I hope that strike is resolved soon in a very pro-WGA way, but for the moment, for the week, I am so proud and enamored with the Industry that all I've been doing is writing, writing, writing.
K
My family was never a huge movie watching family. I discovered Casablanca on my own. And of course I'd seen Moulin Rouge, but then I learned about Baz Luhrmann and Strictly Ballroom and how to appreciate his version of Romeo & Juliet. Then I met Darrin and he taught me about Wes Anderson and Pedro Almodovar and Ang Lee and more and then, in my obsessiveness (and IMDB.com and NetFlix as my enablers) I started finding one actor or director or writer and watching everything they've done. I did the whole Anderson &CO, meaning Jason Schwartzman, Luke & Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Sofia Coppola etc etc, then Kate Winslet, then Gael Garcia Bernal, M. Night Shyamalan, Joaquin Phoenix, Joe Wright (I loved P&P and am greatly anticipating Atonement) the list goes on and on. I learned about Zach Helm and how inspiring he is. I'm still learning all of the little connections and there are so many classics I've never seen, but learning to appreciate the rare movie that is beautifully written, acted, produced and a million other things changed my heart. So I started to write.
I have all of these stories I want to write and show people. I have a script almost done right now about a group of friends dealing their friend's suicide, how they all uniquely handle their grief and how it changes them. I have an idea about a girl who with a huge imagination and a huge heart who goes through a dark time. Last Sunday I wrote out a couple ideas about a man who learns he only has three months to live. I started writing comedy sketches as well, little parodies or situations. Things that captured my heart. I want to finish and polish a few of these and then I fully intend on trying to "break into the business". I know how hard it is, I know what my chances are but I just can't see doing anything else with my life. That is what passion is, you don't pursue such an unstable profession for the money or fame, you do it because nothing makes you feel so good, nothing else would work.
Now the Writer's Guild of America is on Strike. I am so in awe of these people who quit their jobs and fight for their rights, for my future rights. It is the most patriotic I've felt in years to see people who are risking their careers stand up to major corporations and protect their art. Writing is so emotionally draining and intimate and these people who are, quite literally, putting themselves on the line... it inspires me as an American and as a writer. Quite obviously, I am pro-strike and pro-union and all of the reasons that I am can be found much more intelligently and eloquently explained elsewhere (try UnitedHollywood.blogspot.com). Mostly I am uplifted and inspired by and hurting for all of the writers on strike. I'll miss House and the Office and all of the nightlies and I hope that strike is resolved soon in a very pro-WGA way, but for the moment, for the week, I am so proud and enamored with the Industry that all I've been doing is writing, writing, writing.
K
11.07.2007
I love Jimi Hendrix
Since moving from the city to the suburbs I've held tightly to my aversion to wearing any kind of sweat style clothing in public. I do not wear tennis shoes! I do not wear sweat shirts! I do not own any type of cargo pant! I can hardly wear jeans and a t-shirt. I just can not be comfortable in comfortable clothes in public. And then yesterday happened. I spent the entire day writing in my favorite black sweats. I'm not talking bunched at the ankle (think more Paris Hilton style), but sweats none the less, complete with paint stains. Soon 5:00 rolls around and, you know, I'm feeling pretty comfortable, I decided to "not care what people think of my appearance" and I go to play rehearsal in these pants and a hoodie with my hair up and no makeup. I'm feeling very "okay, I can do this. I can live in this town and go to rehearsal au natural". Of course, this was all shattered when I arrived and found out the photographer for the Port Orchard Independent was there for an image to accompany our press release. Being that I have an ironic and very Larry David like life, it of course makes complete sense and luckily only 7 people read the Port Orchard Independent, but call it a lesson learned. I will never again try to fit in with suburbanites and lazy people everywhere by wearing home clothes outside of the home.
Speaking of calling it a lesson learned, the John Mayer/Alicia Keys collaboration is phenomenal. Her whole album is heaven, listen to it. And as always John is brilliant.
I have some really great thoughts on the WGA strike boiling, they're coming soon I swear.
K
Speaking of calling it a lesson learned, the John Mayer/Alicia Keys collaboration is phenomenal. Her whole album is heaven, listen to it. And as always John is brilliant.
I have some really great thoughts on the WGA strike boiling, they're coming soon I swear.
K
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