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October 12, 2009
October '09 12 of 12
Another month already? Wow!
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1:56am: Starting this month's 12 of 12 by watching a feel-good vid I featured as last week's Self-Produced Clip of the Week at my column. It's a "lipdub" of the song I Gotta Feeling (this was called "lip-sync" back in my day, but "lipdub" is pretty cute) and I cannot watch it without both laughing and tearing up with joy for the creative spirit.
3:58am: I'm still completely enchanted by the sweet smell of the blooms on my patient hubby's hoya. Today marks our seventh nonaversary (as we celebrate the day we didn't get married. It saved our relationship). Here's a vid I recently did about PATIENCE, and the lesson the hoya continues to teach me, lately.
5:20am: Posting today's Self-Management for Actors tweet then going to bed while Keith works out at Runyon. Our schedule is totally whacked out, but it seems to work for us.
10:33am: Archie is an early warning system. He stands on my head just before Keith gets back from Runyon. He finds it charming. Me? Much less so.
2pm: Thanks to iCal, I live a very colorful life.
2:02pm: Another day, another producer query form on a cast-contingent financing casting gig. C'mon, money! I know indie film is always a project of passion. Let's have some funding flow, universe! Yeah!
4:50pm: Keith and I have headed out to our local costume shop to narrow down the costume choices for our big Classaversary-slash-Cricket Feet Showcase Retirement-slash-Allie's b'day and Chairman's b'day party. The theme is "Rock of Ages." Can you guess who I'm going to be? ;)
4:54pm: One of many walls of masks and costumes at Ursula's. They really like the upsell here. Once they saw Keith walking around with a stethoscope, it was all about the scrubs and lab coats and rubber gloves. Uh... no. Just a mullet, please!
5:03pm: Keith before... and after on the way! Rock it, Dr. Noah Drake! Yeah!
5:29pm: Costume shopping over for today. Parked atop one of Santa Monica's city structures with a lovely view of the storm that's rollin' in over the Pacific Ocean. Oh, how I love where we live! (Hey, does anyone know what's up with the tents parked out by the pier? Usually they go up in February for the Independent Spirit Awards. Not sure what's up this week, but the tents are all over the place.)
6:54pm: Stopped by Copa d'Oro to meet up with Cheryl before our ladydate screening of Fame. So excited! (NOT so excited about Copa d'Oro lately. Gonna have to learn how to jalapeño-infuse my vodka for passionfruit cocktails at home, methinks.)
7:16pm: Fame! I wanna live forever! (Hey, so what do they do with this lobby art/large-scale installation stuff after the movie leaves the theater? Anyone know?) As for what I thought of the movie, I thought it was good and I definitely went on the ride. I'm a sucker for anything in which people break into song and dance spontaneously. :) I LOVED the moments (very carefully chosen, it seems) that were shot-by-shot replications of the original and I really appreciated that they didn't do too much of that at all. Very well-played. Saw some VERY talented young actors--including Kay Panabaker, whose words of wisdom I quoted in a column last year, after I moderated a kid actor panel discussion for SAG Foundation. She's brilliant. And SO has her shit together. Overall, GLAD I saw it. Best as a matinee movie with kiddos, probably. :) A very good day!
As always, thank you, Chad, for another lovely 12 of 12 experience. :) Ever so much fun! Woo hoo!
Posted by bonnie at October 12, 2009 10:33 PM