Your randomly updated P.R.S. newsletter
Since I like to claim that one of the reasons I have a livejournal is to keep people not in my frequent and immediate circle abreast of what I’m up to, and since I’m drinking coffee at midnight, I suppose I should do one of these little updates.

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(Sorry, I was thinking of breasts.)

Oh yeah, so the latest. Um, the latest is nothing. And everything. I’ll preface this now by saying that if it’s not included in this update (e.g. love life, my New Year’s resolution to learn voodoo, etc.) it doesn’t exist, hence no update on that subject.

Currently, I’m simultaneously rehearsing for this:


for this:


and for this:


That’s the gist of it. I show up, someone tells me which script I’m performing that day, I pretend to know what I’m doing, I go home, and I wonder where my day went.

Also, I’ve been periodically bouncing Kitefliers stuff back and forth with trufflesfl, and I’ve been bouncing a new creative project back and forth with some other kids. The latter is so conceptual and new, that’s it’s too new to even bring up.

That’s about it. To the outside perspective, it looks like I’ve got nothing but one creative project after another going, which now that I think about it, I suppose I do. I dunno. It’s a forest and the trees sort of thing. It goes back to something Dave Foley said: you go through so much shit in this business that by the time something great happens, it just seems normal and unimpressive.

The good news is that everything is going pretty well. Girl’s Guide was the least of my concerns, because I’m not a third of the show. Ironically, this appears to be the one that’s changing the most. If someone told me this would happen, I would not have recommended it. It’s not usually a good idea on paper to fuck with a sauce that did so well a year ago that we had to add shows. However, we all seem to have a great perspective on this show, and we’re all coming up with ways to make it even better than it was the first time. The trick now is retraining all of the muscle memory for what I used to do. The added benefit is that it feels fresher, cleaner, tighter and more fun to own this newer work than to simply reclaim what we embedded into our heads last January. And for those of you who saw the first Girl’s Guide, you may now have a chance to see a revised, enhanced, and improved version.

One more note on Girl's Guide. For those who don't know, it's also touring to Fort Lauderdale, so I'll be down there for a weekend in April.

In music, I’m still digging Hooverphonic’s Blue Powder Wonder Milk, as well as The Beta Band’s The Three E.P.s, Turin Brakes’ The Optimist LP, and Super Furry Animals’ Rings Around the World (which I’m convinced McCartney does backup for “No Sympathy” and maybe “It’s Not the End of the World” and “Presidential Suite”.) There are other albums in my queue, but those are the ones I keep going back to. Also, just for kicks (and partially because of a conversation I had with broadwater) I just dumped two Hendrix albums and a Steppenwolf greatest hits album into the pc. It shakes shit up and brings me back to some very early roots.

Seen a few movies, too. I think I’ve officially reached the threshold of annoying the hell out of everyone I know with Dodgeball. It was just much better than I thought it would be. Sideways was okay – not worth the hype, but well done. I also had a weird perspective when I watched that movie, so it’s likely better than I think it is.

One last thing while I’m on the film subject. If you’re reading this, you – yes, you – should check out 1 Giant Leap. broadwater and littledorrit recommended this to me awhile ago. I Netflixed it and had it for about two months because I just didn’t want to part with it. I can’t recommend it for one specific reason. I can’t even explain it any better than saying it’s kind of the next logical step from Baraka, but better than that. Among very cool music, it features interviews with groovy people, including Dennis Hopper, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Robbins. Like I said, if you’re reading this, I promise you’ll find something redeemable and cool in this movie. Everyone will find something different to like in it, but trust me: rent it. At the very least, it’s a very nice break from anything you’ve been watching lately. Don’t think about it. Just get it.