mishap a la Hamlet
Saturday, March 03, 2007
This is why I will never buy an expensive cell phone:
Yeah, literally dropped it in a bucket of paint. Nothing hypothetical about this mishap. Amazingly, it still functions. This isn't the first time this has happened . . . ah, the life of a painter. I spent about an hour tonight watching film trailers and scraping it off. I was a little worried because paint got into the mouthpiece, but I scraped around, and it seems to be functioning just fine now.
The best part about it was that my boss doubled over with laughter. I seem to have a talent for getting my bosses to like me. I've gotten along quite famously with my superiors in the theatrical world (employers and professors) in the last several years. With my current boss, it's been difficult to reach that friendly level . . . but, we reached it this week. It's that level where we can give each other a hard time and I can yell or sing and we just banter with each other. I was afraid it wouldn't happen, but it did and I am now friends with my boss. Sorta weird that I could feel the working relationship shifting into something new. Well, "friends" might not be quite the right word . . . but we're friendly to each other. It's a pretty great feeling and makes the workday much easier.
As a side note, we're painting with this color on Hamlet called "Tudor House". It's a dark gray, the main color of the set. I keep calling it "Tudor Guild" and confusing the other painters. I get blank stares when I say something like, "Go mix another gallon of Tudor Guild, we're running low." They look at me and say, "Did you choose an new color?" and I say, "Oh, no, Tudor House is what I meant" and then I think of my lover: Ashland.
posted by tuesday at 2:16 AM
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Oh, if only you COULD buy gallons of Tudor Guild. I would gladly drop my phone in them daily.
Tim and I are going to Ashland for Spring Break. Don't be mad! We'll probably only see one play, and it'll probably be Shakespeare.
ha! i laughed aloud, i did.
not a bad color for your phone.
today i was painting a set in neon pink and purple. i now iwsh i had dropped my phone in it. hmm...
any good movies coming out soon? it's bad movie season right now, so i'm not hopeful.
What play are you doing, britt?
Yeah...there was something I was looking forward to, but I can't remember what it was. In the mean time, you should rent "Much Ado About Nothing" with Kenneth Branaugh. He's brilliant in it. Or, for a fantastically wonderous Judi Dench film, try "Mrs. Henderson Presents." It's wickedly delicious.
i myself am not "doing" a play. i was just helping to paint it. i don't know the name of it. i think it's a playwrighting thesis, so you wouldn't know it. on the other hand, i'm waist deep in a set design right now for my set class. it's for a british farce-ish thing called "she stoops to conquer." it cracks me up, and i personally think my set rocks.
much ado, huh? i do love comedies. and branaugh, while surely unendurable in real life, is a hoot onscreen.
aya and julia watched "mrs. henderson presents" last weekend as jack and i enjoyed "the departed." they said that there wasn't enough nudity. (kidding!) no, they said it was funny, but a little difficult to follow. kind of chaotic, they said.
on friday i watched "a history of violence." i liked viggo, but the story was kind of depressing and violent. and then i just saw "for your consideration" not his best, but entertaining. i also saw "a scanner darkly" for the second time. it still cracked me up, and i actually followed it this time. finally, this morning, i saw "rope" (aw, hitch.) and was impressed by the dexterity of the camerawork, but overall kind of blehhed by it. could've been watching a play, honestly.
well, i now realize that i've been doing entirely too much movie watching, and not enough work-doing.
Yeah, none of the trailers really hit me. I looked at some international documentary-types, and they looked mildly interesting. I'll let you know if I come across anything worth looking into.
Okay, so I spent a while longer watching trailers. I love it. I love it, I do. I found some you might be interested in:
Paprika - looks pretty amazing. "Evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox."
Snow Cake - only because I completely adore Alan Rickman.
There are two German films I was interested in . . . mostly because I'm learning German. They are The Lives of Others and Black Book.
Starter For 10 - just a little romantic comedy . . . but it looks entertaining. It's British, after all.
The Reaping - looked interesting because it's based on the ten plagues of the Bible. I don't know that it'll be a GOOD film, though.
Pretty sure Music and Lyrics got bad reviews, but I love Hugh Grant and it looks mildly funny. And, did I mention, I love Hugh Grant? I hear he's a jerk in real life, which is just sort of fitting.
An Unreasonable Man - a doc about Ralph Nadar. Looked to be presenting both sides, so it could be really interesting.
Beyond the Gates - a film set in the Rawanda violence . . . reminded me of Hotel Rawanda.
Across The Universe - Okay, freaking have to see this. First of all, a musical featuring the Beatles' songs . . . yeah, and I'm totally in. Add freaking awesome production design and an amazing director named Julie Taymor? Pretty sure it's on its way to becoming a favorite of mine. Hope it doesn't disappoint. Julie Taymor is brilliant. And I mean that in every sense of the word.
I take no responsibility for the ratings of these films.
And, dude. Across the Universe has Bono in it.
The Painted Veil - looks visually stunning. And, it has Eddie. Oh, Eddie, how we've missed you.
The Good German - could either be really stellar or an awful attempt to be really stellar. I'm impressed that they made such a seemingly commercially-driven film in b&w.
The Three Needles - looks compelling.
I really like Julianne Moore, Clive Owen and Michael Caine. Whoa, they're in a film together? Children of Men.
This Premonition one looks like it could be entertaining and a little bit mind-blowing. I hope it doesn't have some dumb explanation at the end that makes the whole movie decidedly not worthwhile.
I knew that. About Bono being in that movie. Wow. I'd forgotten. They mentioned it in his Person of the Year article, I think. I saw a picture of him in costume and he had a ridiculous moustache. When does that come out?
End of September. The 27th, I think.
I saw a preview for Starter for 10. Looked cute, but pretty much only because it's British.
All those Oscar movies I have to catch up with, like Children of Men, The Lives of Others, and The Good German. But they're getting old, so they're not in theaters so much anymore.
Have you guys heard about this film Helvetica? Jenn, I may have told you about it already. It's about the font HElvetica and how it's infiltrated our day to day lives. Looks wonderful. Right now I'm reading about how Arial is a ruthless imposter.
Yeah, I can't remember what it was about Starter For 10 that made me include it. That's kind of a bad sign. Maybe I'll watch the trailer again.
This Helvetica film is news to me! How interesting.
Oh, and there's The Bridge which looks sickeningly fascinating.
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