Friday, October 30, 2009

Diving right in...

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
- Anatole France

And....Welcome!

This is my first blog ever so I guess I have joined the 21st Century. My friend Alex is putting up her first blog as well...as a matter of fact, right next to me. How modern of us - we are together, hanging out, and tapping away separately on our computers. Ah, to be a city dweller. So, as I keep typing/erasing/typing/erasing (what do I really want to say anyway?) I keep thinking about how I could never figure out why people blogged to begin with - seems so strange to empty out your everyday random thoughts onto a page and put it out there for the "world" to read and yet here I am, joining the fray.

Well, since this is La-La land centric, let me you give you a little current Geography: i'm typing out this here post in the heart of K-Town, after having eaten some mighty tasty "Kyo Chon" chicken. Check out this site, some things are definitely lost in translation.
http://kyochon.com/usa/us/la.asp

I'm an actress (really? in Los Angeles? You don't say) and now I can add blogger to my ever-expanding list of skills......sigh...

Saw a good show this weekend that my friend was in: Private Eyes (I was waiting for them to play Hall and Oates but I guess that would be too on the nose). It was actually really good (thank god) and the story was funny. LA is not a theatre town like NY or even Chicago, for example. There's a lot of it (hell, this is a town filled with actors, right?) and to be honest a lot of it is simply about people getting out there so some agent/manage/guru/savior can see them and tell them 'You're it!' which tends to produce some pretty puerile stuff.......therefore, it's either big-name productions that originate elsewhere (i.e. NY) or small 99-seat theatre stuff that tends to be...."interesting"...if you catch my drift. The upside is that you can get out there and just put up a show without a lot of capital since there are so many small theatres around town. We got a lot of strip-mall theatre out here, which is about as american as you can get (at least in my world)...