Cross road Thoughts...

September 25th, 2007

My eyes are bigger than my stomach

9/25/07 03:38 pm

Facebook has corrupted me. I am sorry LJ people but it is just too good.
I have done the typical thing and gone from feeling crazy hermit like to bitting off far more than i can chew. Which is ridiculous! am so STRESSED! (!)
The theory with list making is that you then do all the things on the list. I don't know if I will but at least this may calm me down a bit

Stuff to do this week (no particular order)

1. Pick up double passes for "War on democracy"
2. write review for "death at a funeral"
3. check email incessantly for replies from the ABC
4. Read article on Stendhal's The Red and the Black and critique it
5. Learn lines to "cooking tried and new"
6. Walk dog everyday.
7. Swimming on friday
8. Look through all Sondheim stuff and attempt tp find audition piece.
9. Arrange transport to and from Claire's 20th on sat
10. Learn running order for "Off the wall"
11. Buy milk.
12. Organise Claire's present
13. arrange transport to dads on fri night
14. See hairspray with paul

I concede that a lot of the items on this list are good things. They are making my week worthwhile, yet they are lovely distracting things.
Excuse me, I have spring rolls in the oven for the Oz Asia Moon lantern festival tonight.

15. find mosquito repellant

Love Genevieve

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September 7th, 2007

Being published is great joy.

9/7/07 03:39 pm

Hello all,
Crazy times at the moment. Have been scanning portfolio stuff madly, finishing essays, organising comp tickets, the whole shebang (and birthday parties of course!)
Is anyone interedted in going to a show i'm in Off The wall: The Curator's Key on Sat October 13th at 8pm? I would love it if people did, i am doing three songs in it "Feeling Good", "Close every Door" and "Moonfall". The cost is $10 and you can book through me! Please let me know!

Here are some reviews i've done lately you may be interested in:

( Irina Palm - A Seedy Buisness )

( The Flying Scotsman - Biking and depression )

( Inland Empire - One Trippy Film )

( Dr Plonk - Adelaide on Silent film! )

My potrfolio is coming together (eventually). Its my resume that needs large amounts of work. What are graduate attributes anyway? handing up stuff late? sleeping in?
I can do these!!
Actually handed up my mammoth Henry V 5,000 word essay. THANK GODDESS!!! So much bullshit...lol.

Love genevieve

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September 5th, 2007

I'm 21! (It's lots of fun)

9/5/07 11:36 pm

Yes, It's my birthday today, I am now a legal adult in ALL parts of the world. lol.
It had been a good day.
(Except for when i meant to send an email to a friend and i sent it to a publicity professional... about the most embarrassing thing i have ever done.)
Friends kept distracting me from work, giving me worry dolls, buying me coffee, taking me to anti-war rallies
(and i think pro awareness of global warming...saw Chris also!.)
Had dinner with Mum, jamie and Nanny, was nice pasta and gelati, poppy's leg is infected and worrying nanny. Got a big bunch of flowers from dad and creina (and freya) so that was nice
(guy came when i was in the shower, kept ringing the doorbell and i'm like ARRRRGGH Get conditioner out, answer door! didn't make it. oh well)
Getting lovely antique rings on friday (they need to be resized) , one amber and one topaz. they are lovely.
(Am happy i have lovely friends and family :)

I just saw "The Prestige" MAN thats a headfuck film. But good!
Anway screening tomorrow morning, back to the grindstone.
Have a wonderful weekend!

Love 21 Year Old Genevieve

Current Reading: The Red and the Black - Stendhal,
Current Music: Camille

August 30th, 2007

Blood on the moon, Vampires and Cats, and Dead things in the ceiling

8/30/07 10:48 am

Well its all gotten crazier than normal. Have been sending out invites and etc to my birthday party (am glad i got in early with everyones birthdays floating around) , trying to get a 4500 word essay on Henry V done by this week (so that i don't have to work on my birthday next wednesday) and general mish mash of events.

( Blood on the moon, Vampires and Cats, and Dead things in the ceiling )

August 24th, 2007

Garfield goes mental

8/24/07 08:26 pm

XKCD.com
I would so love it if he actually were like that. Starving artists ball tomorrow, hooray!
Love genevieve

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August 23rd, 2007

Guess who is turning 21?

8/23/07 09:31 pm

Yes its that time of the year, the Birthday Season! Drag out your diaries, calendars and brains and write this on it:

Genevieve is turning 21!
Come help Celebrate!
On Saturday 15^th September
at 35 A Tusmore Ave, Leabrook from 7 pm
BRING food BRING drink BRING friends
BRING happiness.
RSVP: 0423 518 759

You are invited! Yes, you!!! Come!!! (exclamation mark city)
Or I will be sad. oh and you can email me as well a_duck_is_watching@hotmail.com
Love genevieve

August 13th, 2007

All over red rover...or is it?

8/13/07 06:05 pm

Hello all friendlings,
Am back in the land of the sane, the show season was wonderful, and now, sadly over. Had bump ouyt and cast party on sat which was lovely (the party not the folding table clothes and carrying tables). I have made some really nice friends in this show who i hope i'll work with again. I already miss the chaotic fun environment (maybe not the boobs jokes through or the 9 million muppets quotes) Actually I might work with paul (bertie for those of you who came along) in a vidcast organised through the writers centre which shall be lovely as a character named "Raeline Roundbottom" hehe. I bumped into the producer Katherine today which was unexpected but nice. She showed me part of the script. Not sure where or when we are going to meet up , hopefully soon. The chocolate bean is the best place for media student networking i mean, man! i was sitting opposite complete strangers today who were complaining loudly that they couldn't find any female actors to play a nerd in a student film *ahem* -Enter Genevieve- introduces self, gets them talking, suggestion of self taken up, details taken. Horray this has happened twice now! Of course you never know if its actually going to happen or fall through but the excitement is still there. Very useful stuff for my portfolio, which i need to compose by next week incidently (eek) for professional practise.

Funniness from XKCD:

Thats all for now, keep in touch!
Love Genevieve

Current Reading: Henry V - Shakespeare
Current Music: Kate Miller Hiedke "Little Eve"

Current Mood: relieved

August 10th, 2007

A review of "By Jeeves"

8/10/07 01:14 pm

BY JEEVES
Burnside Players Inc
Burnside Town Hall, The Ballroom
Until 11 Aug 2007

Review by John Wells

I am almost always a pacifist and I would rarely recommend violence as a civilized response. But I am roused into brutality: whoever is responsible for bums on seats at Burnside Players should be taken out and spanked. And spanked hard, Matron.

“By Jeeves” opened to an almost empty Burnside Ballroom. This is disheartening for the enthusiastic cast and for the tiny audience. Surely a company as well-known and successful as Burnside Players should be able to cobble together a hearty house for opening night?

“By Jeeves”, the musical by Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber is a frothy and droll skip through the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves tales. It is as light as musical entertainment can be, but requires a deftness of touch to be successful. And “By Jeeves” is successful up to a point – the problem is that a breezy and delightfully inane show such as this needs a constant bounce of laughter, so it can just flounce along happily. With such a small audience, the cast simply could not achieve that bubbling current of giggles. Unfortunately, this means “By Jeeves” tends to feel laboured and lame when it should be a charming and witty night out.

Director Megan Dansie has put together a strong cast who are disciplined and work very hard. To their credit, their gusto does not waver and they keep up the silliness to the end. The pace is a little slow, and the cast does not quite capture the upper-class dimness needed, but as the season progresses (and with a larger audience) this should improve.

Paul Briske as Bertie Wooster is impeccable. He sings beautifully and has excellent projection and enunciation. He plays the camp, gormless, brylcreamed twit perfectly. It is a stand-out performance and Briske is a highlight of this production.

He is assisted by some strong supporting performances: Nicole Seal (Honoria) is a good sport with good snorts and a brilliant horsey attitude; Max Halupka (Gussie) is frenetic and his manic energy lifts the show; Cara Brown (Stiffy) has a powerful and pretty voice, and her performance imbues her otherwise inane character with serious sentiment; Tim Benveniste (Cyrus Budge III, Jnr) has great comic timing and he wrenches every laugh out of his eager American abroad. The trio of Briske, Halupka and Benveniste are fabulous in the rousing title song.

The band, under Kate Pope’s direction, is sound and especially good when they swing. The band is too loud, however, and the singers have to belt hard to be heard. The action may be set in a run-down church hall, but the drab set here is woefully under-dressed.

It is sad to see a talented cast struggle; if the denizens of Burnside turn up in droves, this show should fulfill its promise.

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well im glad we are a talented cast!

Incedently centrelink can go die in a hole. why does reporting have to be so difficult?
stupid stupid.
also incredibly tired.

August 3rd, 2007

Make like tree and Leaf

8/3/07 11:41 am

Well opening night was a little bit of a fiasco i believe. We had a miniscule audience (and a reviewer! but he was ncie and wore silly glasses so all is well) and i forgot to put on the ladder chair and everyone yelled at me even though it wasn't my fault that i didn't hear the cue the cans weren't working properly. and everyone was throwing tantrums like prima donnas you wouldn't believe the number of people in the show who act like 5 year olds its incredible some people just never grow up! But the director hugged me and said i did well and gave me a pig figuerine (an in joke, not because i look like a pig) and nanny liked it so oh well.
Some prettiness for you, although no one seems to be commenting of late... where are you all?!?!
Love genevieve

August 2nd, 2007

Post-modern Pirate

8/2/07 04:51 pm

Because I question the notion of what it is to be a pirate by drawing attention to teh innate construction of the image...that and i wore whatever was in my cupboard.