A note to a friend
YAY! Thank you for your lovely note back. It oddly feels like I've met you before, you seem very familiar. I guess he is somewhat of a Sun and has a very unique gravitational pull that brings in folks - like you! - with original points of view. Happy it happened!
I feel you on the internet presence thing. It is like a tattoo. I don't have any tattoos (sticking to life-made scars), but I have plenty of cringe-y stuff out there online. I started up a company when I moved to NYC that helped people network at events, I was like a networking wingman and would help people meet new people. Fast Company wrote up an article on it once that made me sound like a prostitute :) And I weirdly did modeling awhile back before this agent was like 'you are a horrible model, take an acting class' so I took my first acting class which changed everything (thank you, Destiny) but some modeling mishaps are still out there. Anyway, the stuff with you and your dad is endearing, no matter the format, it is comforting to see a family-run business with love and respect intertwined.
And ya! Would love love to discuss creative projects and worlds, I'm having some breakthroughs right now and writing/talking through them is refreshing on many levels. I'm working out a one-lady show called CHRISTINE, HAUER YOU? It's somewhere between a comedic play and a cabaret, me at age 7 and me at age 32, and the versions of myself that I present versus the real me I can't figure out how to truthfully share (yet). That little summary sentence took me like 15 minutes to write out AHHH I care so much haha - I have an idea of what I want it to be in my head and it's daunting to try and figure out how to put it into words ... It's making me craZy in a good way and I've been painting and drawing and writing and reading and having my mom tell me stories about me from age 0 to 15 to try and pull out as much as I can from my visions of the show to make it as truthful and interesting and inside my heart as possible .... AND being able to be home right now and live in the house I had my childhood in while I write a story about re-living parts of my childhood it so serendipitous.
It's challenging to write though, yesh, I could go on and on about the process and discoveries. BUT I'm planning on finishing the script soon (fingers crossed) and putting it up in late June to friends in LA and friends in NYC before doing it at Hollywood Fringe in October. Fringe was supposed to happen in June (had a theater and dates booked) but it's now pushed to Oct so I'll put it up for real for real then with I guess, a 'soft' preview in June :)
Thank you for checking out my acting stuff online, that is super nice. I enjoy it, I would love to do more acting - what about you? Do you do acting as well as clown work? I did Commedia dell'arte stuff last year, but I haven't taken an official clown class before, really want to.
Acting habits are def front and center for me right now, and within some online Groundlings classes I'm taking, teachers flagged that I still 'push' too much, which I agree. So, to get more muscles, in July, I'm heading to London to take a 5 week Shakespeare class at RADA and really dig into acting technique. I still feel like I 'present' a version of myself within a character on stage/film versus live and breath inside someone. Something I want to explore and unearth this summer. Confidence is definitely a default and an instinctual trait for me (for better or worse) and I'm aware that it might hinder a level of rawness and fragility I also very much feel and would like to make more available. Musings.
I also have a book of poems I want to publish this month that I'm editing right now. It's called KID: a teeny book of poems. Do you write poetry? I feel like you'd be good at it, you seem quite sensitive to language and rhythm.
What projects are you working on? What are you feeling within your creative life right now? Tell me tell me.
Your question about 'what's happening in my creative world' got me excited because every day all day for the last month has been digging into "what is my creative world?" Hope I didn't ramble too much up there, looking forward to hearing what you are jamming on and where you are at and what's got YOU excited right now :)
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