A documentary, two music videos, a
restaurant promo, tutorials, ten story templates, multiple
educational lessons, a facebook photo album, an animation project, a
vacation video and those are just the ones that I can remember, I
didn't even look at the list. Additionally I have a host of
administrative tasks and lists to keep and update. I'm busy.
Then there's the play which opens
tomorrow night for it's run of ten shows in twelve days. It sort of
turned into a bit of cluster fuck as it was conceived of and executed
in a way unlike any other B-Floor show, oh yeah and did I forget to
mention it's also the largest technical undertaking they've ever had.
I guess that it's one thing to put on a show with actors and a stage
crew but when you add moving scaffolding, an exhibition in the
courtyard, shadow puppets, Italian set and costume designers and a
high profile composer for sound design you kind end up needing eight
arms but only having seven...or as it actually is, two.
As Nana pointed out in her comment on #22 - Christopher it is somewhat surreal to be working on a play about
survival when actual death in more ways than one has visited me in
the very recent past. Still, the overall message of the play has
been somewhat perverted from it's conception and I fear the serious
as well as the comedic points of the show have been somewhat dulled
by a lack of artistic vision. Still, I'm speaking after a lengthy
rehearsal process that has completely skewed my objectivity of the
show. In addition to that I also just watched a truly awful dress
rehearsal of the show. But dress rehearsals are always bad so who
knows, maybe I'm totally wrong, I hope.
Aside from all this work there has been
some fun to be had. Christmas on the island of Samui with Nana's
family was nice if not a bit awkward at times. They're all nice
people and interesting but apparently Nana's boyfriends get a cold
shoulder from the men in the family. I shudder to think what the
other boys endured since Nana told me they were nicer to me than she
expected they would be.
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| Nana at Crystal Cove |
The first day on the island we went on
an all day trip that took us out to a small group of minor islands an
hour and a half from the main island. We snorkeled, kayaked, had
lunch on a deserted beach and climbed up to the viewpoint of crystal
cove, the image that inspired the book The Beach
of which a movie with the same title was made staring Leo D. The
second day we went zip lining amongst the tree tops. It was fun
except that when the wind blew the platforms situated in the tree
tops, upon which we stood, swayed quite unsettlingly.
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| The pool party |
The climactic
day of Christmas was spent at a pool party at a resort (not our
resort, we stayed at a family friends home) where Kevin Hart the
comedian and Ludacris the rapper appeared for a short swim. I felt
bad for them though. It was easy to see the downside of celebrity as
they were bothered by a number of people for pictures. They didn't
stay long once people recognized them. People can be such lemmings,
such absolutely brainless self centered idiots. Did you even know
the last movie Kevin Hart was in? Can you recite more than one song
lyric from Ludacris? No??? Then don't take a fucking picture with
him. It doesn't give you some magical bond to him and no one is
going to think any higher of you just because he was a nice enough
guy to indulge your idiocy. Anyhow, we flew home the next day
instead of taking the thirteen hour train and ferry trip that got us
to the island.
New years was
nice too. We joined a small house party at a co-workers and chatted
to a guy who lived in Singapore for a long time and had a very
interesting set of anecdotes and experiences to share about the
dictatorship of the country with the highest percentage of
millionaires at one out of every six households possessing one
million USD in disposable wealth. Of course they don't call
themselves a dictatorship but any time a government has been run by
the same political party for over fifty years and the popularly
elected president is seen largely as ceremonial you pretty well can
be sure it's some type of dictatorship. Some examples of interesting
policies in Singapore: Cars cost two to three times normal and you're
only allowed to own them for ten years before the governments
repossesses them. When you get married the government sells you an
apartment at an extremely low price. They built a park in Singapore
which they modeled after Hyde Park including the speakers corner Hyde
Park is famous for. They announced that speakers corner would be a
safe haven for freedom of speech. The first person who went there to
speak was taken to jail. Now no one even goes in the park to take a
walk.
Ah well, time to
leave you all for a short while. I hope to see you soon. Be
HEALTHY!
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| The quaint little family house we stayed at on Samui |
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| The actual Crystal Cove |
-Adam
