Hello again! This may have to be a speedy one, as I have an audition in half an hour!
Had a 221B rehearsal on Sunday afternoon. We still haven't managed to get everyone together for my bit in Act 2 (Lucy was working and Thomasina was in the Panto's matineé performance), but we did have some fun reimagining interlude 1. Apparently my howling is rather harrowing - this from Ed who's actually meant to be the one doing it.
Me and Sam went from there to Amy's place for free pizza (Yay! Love you Amy), and I got subjected Flight of the Conchords for the first time. A bit like Peep Show but with random comedy music videos thrown in.
Then the ROSTRA Panto in the evening. Me, Chris and Ambles decided to break the mould by rooting for the rat. After all, all he wanted was for his fellow rats to live without oppression, right? What's so bad about that?
Helen's finished Malvolio's Revenge. Apparently, he kills Andrew, rapes Olivia and gets Maria killed. I played that guy in the orignal play!
Monday night was the last cheese night of the year. I went briefly but it didn't turn out to be that fun this time round. I think I was there about half an hour or so.
Missed the ROSTRA GM on Tuesday. The Importance of Being Earnest got in. Not actually what I would have voted for, but I do love that play, and this is the first chance I have of being it.
Wednesday saw me having my first meal at the Teras Lounge, the secret resteraunt hidden deep in the bowels of Main Arts. The food ranged from adequate to excellent and usually leaned towards the latter end of the scale. The hot drinks were very good as well, and relatively cheap.
Missed most of the BEDS Christmas ball, and therefore the pitching. Can't really complain about what got in, though I probably would have voted for Rebecca had I been there.
The tail end of the Ball was rather fun, and after a few goodbyes at scattered intervals between Powis and the Greek, a few of us ened up in the latter. I ended up spending 15 minutes trying to keep Lauren warm, and she was cold again within 5 minutes of leaving my presence, making it necessary for Sam to do the same. The girl seems to have very little in the way of heat retention capabilites. :P
A couple more goodbyes happened on the way back home. I probably won't see half the people I saw last night this side of 2012. Ah... the Christmas holidays, eh?
Anyway, I have that audition in a few minutes, so I should get to it now!
See you next time!
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Crowns and Fairs and Game Boys... oh, my!
The mysterious land of Garth turned out to not have the distinguishing smell that the residents say it has, but that might have been due to the three or four cans of glitter spray that people were being attacked with. Massive room though... and it had a piano in the corner. Varo turned out to be a pretty good duet pianist. Not with myself, mind you. I don't play piano. Oh, and Stephen turned up in drag. He didn't like it. He seriously didn't like it.
Leila fell over trying to keep someone else from falling over on Love Lane. This led to her letting a bag of frozen peas take up residence next to her ankle and, on Saturday night, going up to hospital. Sounds like it's fine though. Apparently the advice she got was to go easy on it and not to take up Irish dancing.:P
The Three Crowns was pretty fun for a while, though it did start to stagnate a little towards the end. And we won't go into people disappearing or anything like that to protect the hideously drunk. Anyway, just as we were about to leave... BAM. Dance version of Part of Your World. It was one of those things that's so bad it's amazing. Took me half the song to work out what it even was.
I shunned Occy and headed up to Upper Bangor with Amy and Lauren. Lauren came up with enough quotable comments to fill a small book. Because she's Lauren. The Mike Costa song made my fucking night. Though I remember little of it now.
Me and Amy bumped into Seth and Dan at Bella, they having come out of work about three and a half hours late. People spend a lot at Teras apparently...
So... that was my Friday night... and the Saturday?
There was a Christmas fair in Bangor. Went along part of the high street and in the area near the Yellow. I wandered down there and found Ambles and Helen and Imogen, and then more people found us as time went on. I ended up looking on in bemusement as people voluntarily went to be thrown around or turned upside down 30 foot in the air... :p
Costa Coffee failing to provide Imogen with her preferred hot chocolate, we headed back to Cynlas to have some of Ambles'. Yay for Ambles and her hot chocolate making skills!
Went back home after that for a bit and then went on to Skerries, where I sold one of my GBAs to Hannah. It's fine. I have another! Stayed there for a few hours. Hannah got rather pissed, but probably still remembers everything that happened. Don't ask me how... :/
221B rehearsal soon. And then tonight... the ROSTRA panto!
See you soon!
Leila fell over trying to keep someone else from falling over on Love Lane. This led to her letting a bag of frozen peas take up residence next to her ankle and, on Saturday night, going up to hospital. Sounds like it's fine though. Apparently the advice she got was to go easy on it and not to take up Irish dancing.:P
The Three Crowns was pretty fun for a while, though it did start to stagnate a little towards the end. And we won't go into people disappearing or anything like that to protect the hideously drunk. Anyway, just as we were about to leave... BAM. Dance version of Part of Your World. It was one of those things that's so bad it's amazing. Took me half the song to work out what it even was.
I shunned Occy and headed up to Upper Bangor with Amy and Lauren. Lauren came up with enough quotable comments to fill a small book. Because she's Lauren. The Mike Costa song made my fucking night. Though I remember little of it now.
Me and Amy bumped into Seth and Dan at Bella, they having come out of work about three and a half hours late. People spend a lot at Teras apparently...
So... that was my Friday night... and the Saturday?
There was a Christmas fair in Bangor. Went along part of the high street and in the area near the Yellow. I wandered down there and found Ambles and Helen and Imogen, and then more people found us as time went on. I ended up looking on in bemusement as people voluntarily went to be thrown around or turned upside down 30 foot in the air... :p
Costa Coffee failing to provide Imogen with her preferred hot chocolate, we headed back to Cynlas to have some of Ambles'. Yay for Ambles and her hot chocolate making skills!
Went back home after that for a bit and then went on to Skerries, where I sold one of my GBAs to Hannah. It's fine. I have another! Stayed there for a few hours. Hannah got rather pissed, but probably still remembers everything that happened. Don't ask me how... :/
221B rehearsal soon. And then tonight... the ROSTRA panto!
See you soon!
Friday, 9 December 2011
The Christmas Meal I Went To But Didn't Eat At
Hello again all!
The ROSTRA Christmas meal happened on Wednesday night. I had to miss most of it because I was stuck in work but I managed to sneak in sometime between the main course and dessert. It seemed like quite a few people had taken advantage of the free wine! ;) And then we moved onto the Harp and Rose managed to convince them to stay open another hour or so even though they were just about to close. Yay social sec! Eventually we ended up at the site of the old mattress fort, which is, alas, no more. Still, it was a good night, and I'm really glad to see that certain people are friends again.
And then yesterday... I ended up in the Harp again. Saw quite a few people that I've seen before recently and also Sally who I've not seen since the first week or so of the semeseter, so yay for that. :) The Harp's not a bad pub anyway. It's not exactly the Tap and Spile, but it is the nearest good pub to my house.
Damon's party tonight. The mysterious land of Garth calls. I've only been there once before and that was when it was still JMJ. :p
The ROSTRA Christmas meal happened on Wednesday night. I had to miss most of it because I was stuck in work but I managed to sneak in sometime between the main course and dessert. It seemed like quite a few people had taken advantage of the free wine! ;) And then we moved onto the Harp and Rose managed to convince them to stay open another hour or so even though they were just about to close. Yay social sec! Eventually we ended up at the site of the old mattress fort, which is, alas, no more. Still, it was a good night, and I'm really glad to see that certain people are friends again.
And then yesterday... I ended up in the Harp again. Saw quite a few people that I've seen before recently and also Sally who I've not seen since the first week or so of the semeseter, so yay for that. :) The Harp's not a bad pub anyway. It's not exactly the Tap and Spile, but it is the nearest good pub to my house.
Damon's party tonight. The mysterious land of Garth calls. I've only been there once before and that was when it was still JMJ. :p
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
As I sit here, writing my blog with the sun shining on the screen...
... I'm reminded yet again how much the upstairs windows in Deniol need blinds.
Anyhow... yesterday I actually stared writing my play. I should probably give a little bit of background for this. Basically, a few days ago I went on TV Tropes and hit Random five times, and now I'm going to write a play using the five tropes I got. Might end up with something quite interesting. Luckily I didn't end up with anything that wouldn't work in a play context, although one of them was really annoying to get. I did the first scene. Yay.
But then when I tried to open it today all I found was a broken shortcut. Seems the bloody thing has been deleted or something. Now I'm going to have to do it all over again. Not happy.
And what other news? I ended up in Academi for Love Music Hate Homphobia last night. There was some umm-ing and aaah-ing about BEDS people coming out which didn't happen (though I did see Damon there), but I ended up going there with other people instead. It wasn't anywhere near as busy as I expected, and though I don't like really busy places anyway it was still a shame as I'm pretty sure it was meant to be a fundraiser. Plus most of the music was shite. Still, I did bump into Hayley there, which was good as our path's don't cross all that often.
See you later!
Anyhow... yesterday I actually stared writing my play. I should probably give a little bit of background for this. Basically, a few days ago I went on TV Tropes and hit Random five times, and now I'm going to write a play using the five tropes I got. Might end up with something quite interesting. Luckily I didn't end up with anything that wouldn't work in a play context, although one of them was really annoying to get. I did the first scene. Yay.
But then when I tried to open it today all I found was a broken shortcut. Seems the bloody thing has been deleted or something. Now I'm going to have to do it all over again. Not happy.
And what other news? I ended up in Academi for Love Music Hate Homphobia last night. There was some umm-ing and aaah-ing about BEDS people coming out which didn't happen (though I did see Damon there), but I ended up going there with other people instead. It wasn't anywhere near as busy as I expected, and though I don't like really busy places anyway it was still a shame as I'm pretty sure it was meant to be a fundraiser. Plus most of the music was shite. Still, I did bump into Hayley there, which was good as our path's don't cross all that often.
See you later!
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Keeping the blog going.
Hello world. It's almost 11 already and it feels like it's only 9. Still a little groggy. Which is strange, 'cause I was in bed at a rather reasonable time (for me anyway).
I've been invited to a rock night at Skerries on Saturday. Pretty much immediately after Musoc have done their Christmas concert. That should make for a rather interesting mix. And of course this weekend is the ROSTRA panto as well. Seems I'm going to be nicely busy this weekend. :)
And as for this morning? More job hunting. I think I've run out of on-the-go applications now. There's only one job I've applied for in the last couple of months that I haven't heard from, and I think that place is basically not bothering. What's particularly annoying about that is this was the place that insisted I went over there and gave my CV in in person, which was about an hour's round trip). They could at least have the decency to say no thanks. Everywhere else did.
Anyway, I'm going to go and wake up now. And possibly play some Zelda. Who knows? :) Catch you all later.
I've been invited to a rock night at Skerries on Saturday. Pretty much immediately after Musoc have done their Christmas concert. That should make for a rather interesting mix. And of course this weekend is the ROSTRA panto as well. Seems I'm going to be nicely busy this weekend. :)
And as for this morning? More job hunting. I think I've run out of on-the-go applications now. There's only one job I've applied for in the last couple of months that I haven't heard from, and I think that place is basically not bothering. What's particularly annoying about that is this was the place that insisted I went over there and gave my CV in in person, which was about an hour's round trip). They could at least have the decency to say no thanks. Everywhere else did.
Anyway, I'm going to go and wake up now. And possibly play some Zelda. Who knows? :) Catch you all later.
Monday, 5 December 2011
Why Start A New Blog When You Could Revive The Old?
Well, here I am again. More than a year since the last update. My, how time passes!
The main thing I've been involved in recently is the BEDS production of Julius Ceasar, which ended a pretty successful run about a week ago. Rave reviews in Seren and everything. I got two play two characters, Trebonius and Messala. (They were of no relation despite looking like twins in matching outfits in our production. :P) Messala in particular was a lot of fun to play, even though nearly every scene he spoke in had him reporting or discovering someone's death. As Kerry pointed out, he ended up being like some sort of morbid tour guide. Ah well, just turn up the grief and the anguised shouting! The rest of the cast was awesome. We have so many amazing freshers this year.
This weekend was the Christmas Dance show. The first show I've actually seen in JP without having had involvement in it since Reduced Shakespeare back in June. It was actually pretty amazing, especially when you spotted a few people who seemed to be in every other dance. How the heck do they do it? If I had to raise a criticism it would be towards the compéres. Being heckled by people on stage for not applauding loudly enough was a bit jarring. No matter how good the performance, applause is tecnhically at the audience's discretion. Having said that, everyone did really really well.
It's only a couple of weeks to the Uni closes for Christmas. Less than a month after term starts again, one of my best friends is going abroad until September. Another of my best friends is contemplating spending a year abroad FROM September. And yet another is already abroad, in Germany. I'm visiting her over New Year while she's actually in Britain, which should be fun.
Anyway, what is it about my friends fleeing the country all over the place? :p
The main thing I've been involved in recently is the BEDS production of Julius Ceasar, which ended a pretty successful run about a week ago. Rave reviews in Seren and everything. I got two play two characters, Trebonius and Messala. (They were of no relation despite looking like twins in matching outfits in our production. :P) Messala in particular was a lot of fun to play, even though nearly every scene he spoke in had him reporting or discovering someone's death. As Kerry pointed out, he ended up being like some sort of morbid tour guide. Ah well, just turn up the grief and the anguised shouting! The rest of the cast was awesome. We have so many amazing freshers this year.
This weekend was the Christmas Dance show. The first show I've actually seen in JP without having had involvement in it since Reduced Shakespeare back in June. It was actually pretty amazing, especially when you spotted a few people who seemed to be in every other dance. How the heck do they do it? If I had to raise a criticism it would be towards the compéres. Being heckled by people on stage for not applauding loudly enough was a bit jarring. No matter how good the performance, applause is tecnhically at the audience's discretion. Having said that, everyone did really really well.
It's only a couple of weeks to the Uni closes for Christmas. Less than a month after term starts again, one of my best friends is going abroad until September. Another of my best friends is contemplating spending a year abroad FROM September. And yet another is already abroad, in Germany. I'm visiting her over New Year while she's actually in Britain, which should be fun.
Anyway, what is it about my friends fleeing the country all over the place? :p
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