I’m going in tomorrow with 8 other women for a mini-workshop/audition for the colt Joey. The female puppeteer on it also doubles as a French woman in the show. After the workshop, they’ll also have me read the scene as an actor. The actor part is significantly harder for me because she is, um, French […]
Tonight I’m heading out to hear one of my favorite bands, Kill Henry Sugar perform at Barbes in Brooklyn. You should totally come by. They start at 10:00pm. Edited to add: I got a callback for an audition tomorrow so I’m staying in and working on the sides. You should go anyway because they are
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I’ve just had the audition and frankly have no idea how I did. But I had fun. They had Topthorn here, the black horse. He is a gorgeous, gorgeous puppet that just wants to do the work if you don’t fight him. We spent most of the time just trying to walk. Walking is a
This week is definitely about the disparate careers that I have. Yesterday was all about the fiction side of my life. I started the morning at Macmillan Audio with an interview about recording Shades of Milk and Honey. That was fun and strange at the same time. It was lovely to actually get to meet
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Hey Jodi and Emily, these might be helpful since you guys have your audition first.
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I’ve safely arrived in Brooklyn to stay with my friends Jodi and Sam. The trip was surprisingly uneventful and I actually managed to sleep a little. This morning I woke up to the sound of “Bleaaaah.” I thought that I was probably dreaming, because no one actually makes that sound outside of films involving fraternities.
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Doug Lain is teaching a six week writers workshop through the Woodstock Community Center and Portland Parks and Recreation starting on July 1st. The course will be run on the Milford Model, but will also feature presentations on aspects of writing from various local writers, including me. The full lineup of guest speakers is: Jay Lake,
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I’m at the Portland airport (yay, free wi-fi!) waiting for my flight to New York. Yes, it’s another redeye. I don’t love them but at least it feels like I’m wasting less time in transit since I spend a good portion of it asleep. I’ll be out there until the 25th and am contemplating having
Off to NYC. Again. Read More »
This USB typewriter is just brilliant. The fact that it can also function as a typewriter so that if you want to write on paper and then have a computer copy is a beautiful thing. Thanks to Jon Freestone for sending a link to this beauty my way.
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The weather has finally turned to summer here and it feel so good. I assembled our teak table and set it out in the courtyard yesterday. I had lunch outside and it was really lovely. All of our neighbors went by while I was out there and stopped to chat. Funny how just putting a
My weekend was lovely. How was yours? Read More »
The dialect is definitely going much smoother when recording Shades of Milk and Honey. The first day I was covering about 7 pages an hour and my usual speed is 15. I’m back up to the twelve range, which is still slow but at least in the realm of reasonable. It will be interesting to
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Everyone needs a break sometimes, so I took some time off to go fishing for kitties. Here’s a demo video.
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Well, I’ve just stumbled onto the best resource EVER if you are writing about warfare in a time with mounted artillery. The King’s Troop is a ceremonial unit in the British Army which King George VI decided to maintain following the mechanization of the last of the horse drawn artilleries. So what we have here
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So, I have my audition slot. June 17th next week from 2:30-5:30. There will be eight other people in my slot and they are calling it a workshop. This means I can make some guesses about the format, although they are just guesses at this point. I know that one of the horses will be
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There’s this saying in puppetry, “If it doesn’t hurt, you aren’t doing it right. Conversely, if it hurts that doesn’t necessarily mean you ARE doing it right.” A lot of what we do involves twisting our bodies into odd positions and then holding weights over our head, while lip-syncing and singing. There are more comfortable
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