Vacation's over


It's 2am, and tomorrow I go back to work for the first time in a month. (sigh)

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Propergander show closed this weekend. We're kinda freaking out cause we only have 2 1/2 months to put up our next show, which we had hoped we would have started working on during this show, but haha, that never happened. For now, tho, we rest.

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I went to a buddy's bbq today. Pilipino guy named Alden. He runs the box office at East West Players. Lives in a nice place up in Eagle Rock with a shitload of housemates.

Tons of of food and beer, and I helped myself. The main culinary attraction was a full-pig being slow-turned on a spit. I'm not entirely used to seeing what my meat looks like before I eat it. Usually I go to a restaurant or the store and get a small slab of unidentifiable flesh that ends up tasting good after it's been burned for a little while. It rarely has limbs and almost never has a friggin head still attached.

I had a little after they carved it. It was okay. I think watching it get cooked was more interesting than the actual taste.

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I'm not into huge social gatherings. As would be expected, my circle of acquaintances grows every year, but really, I have a small group of real friends who I hobnob with. There were lots of people at this bbq.

There were the expected theater/film folks that I see around. There were also random folks that surprised me. Like 2 old UniCamp guys that I hadn't seen in years.

The rest of my run-ins with people fell into 2 categories:

1.) People who thought they knew me. Over the years, I've noticed that for a large number of people that I meet, I seem to have this vaguely familiar, yet mostly indistinct look about me. I basically remind everyone of someone else that they know. I'm kinduvan "insert face here" kinda guy.

2.) There seems to be a small group of people who think that I'm unmistakably distinct, and that they've for sure met or seen me before. I think easily half of these people are crazy and fall into category 1. For the other half - I'm sorry I don't remember you. I'm just bad with names. Or I'm crazy.

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Saw "War of the Worlds" today with Akie and Mike. Not going to win any awards for Best Picture, but it was tense and fun. I'm sorry, tho. Dakota Fanning still freaks me out. That little hell-spawn acts and looks like she's friggin 30. She's very talented, but so unnatural. I wonder how she interacts with other 11-year-olds?

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STACY
Hi, I'm Stacy. Do you come over and watch Kim Possible?

DAKOTA FANNING
Kim-what? Hey, do you have any cigarettes? I've had 3 auditions today and I left my purse at the apartment.

STACY
Smoking is bad for you.

DAKOTA FANNING gives STACY a look of knowing and lost innocence. Stacy becomes uncomfortable. She moves to a different part of the playground and eats a fruit roll-up.



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