61. Grimm's

"And when the full moon got up, Hansel took his little sister by the hand and followed the way where the flint stones shone like silver..."

60. Reading Week...

...or, in my case, critiques/auditions/formals/essays/rehearsals week! The week we have "off" to study for exams always turns out to be much more chaotic than expected. So, on that note, this post will be equally chaotic. Lots of miscellaneous things I have neglected to report!

 1. Thing one is a dream. come. true.....I got cast as PIKACHU in a Pokemon musical going up in the spring!!!! Going to be an insane cast and crew and the show is going to be SO FUN. I can't wait to go on break and have the best excuse ever to watch all the old episodes again. Pika pi!

2.  Thing two is also super exciting, I am going to be in the first English-translated version of Machiavelli's Italian play, "The Girl from Andros"! Don't know much about the play itself since we haven't gotten the translated script yet, but I like it already from the audition sides!

3. Number three: As I was writing my final essay for my film class, I came across these old pictures of Jodie Foster. I love how she looks at this age, so pretty!

4. Number four. Discovered the song "Islands" by the great great band Young the Giant and been listening to it nonnnstopppp all week. Make sure to listen to all of their other open session songs on youtube (especially "Strings" and "Cough Syrup") because they are sooo good, so much better live!

5. Five is for formal, yay!

6. Six is for The Seagull--rehearsals so far have been soso exciting, I can't get over how nice and welcoming everyone is. At the first meet & greet we got to see the design concepts for the show and I couldn't help sneaking a few pictures of the beautiful costume designs with my phone. You might not be able to tell from the picture, but my character ("The Cook") was labeled "Cooky" for some awesome unknown reason, so now my nickname at rehearsals has become Cooky :D

7. Aaannnd lucky seven is for this lol pic. Cheerz to the end of reading week!!

59. Been an Awful Good Girl

58. The Seagull

Soo, after some spontaneous e-mailing and a quick audition, I found out today that I am going to play the Cook in the Yale School of Drama's production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull..!!!! I am so so so excited and feel so lucky for the opportunity to learn from some really talented people! The play itself sounds incredible, here are two quick descriptions of it that I've found and liked:

1.

What is art? What is celebrity? And what does it mean to be a genuinely successful artist? In The Seagull, Anton Chekhov grapples with these crucial questions with both biting wit and genuine pathos. On a seemingly idyllic country estate, the famous actress Irina Arkadina and her idiosyncratic group of family and friends struggle to dissect the true nature of artistic creation but fail to find easy answers.

2.

Nina wants to be an actress. Aspiring playwright Konstantin wants to revolutionize theatre. As they put on their first play by a Russian lake, the audience is unreceptive, to say the least: Konstantin's mother, the famous actress Arkadina, laughs. Her lover, a celebrated writer, falls asleep. Indeed, in Chekhov's profound comedy, years of petty squabbles and thwarted love affairs breed miserable hilarity in the countryside: lovers and artists alike struggle with memory, forgetting, and moving on. 

Artistry! Idyllic estates! Love affairs! Memory! So many great things!! 

The main characters are obvi going to be all grad students, but another undergrad and I are joining in for the minor roles of the Cook and the Workman. And the director Alexandru Mihail, has some really fun and unique ideas for our parts!

 Also, as I was researching more about The Seagull, I found out that Carey Mulligan (<333333) played Nina, the ingenue and aspiring actress, a few years ago and was so enamored with the part that it helped her land her a challenging role in the upcoming movie Shame by discussing it with the movie's director and even tattooing a small seagull on her wrist to always remind her of Nina. Here's the article that will definitely explain the situation much more clearly than I just did haha

So that's that! Rehearsals start next week and the show goes up Jan 24-28, you can buy tickets now if you'll be in the New Haven area then and want to come! :D

57. You're my Funky Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOucougginY

 (photo via Wildfox)

56. Movie Inspirations

- The Virgin Suicides - 

My cliche Sofia Coppola favorite. The shots, the colors, the girls, the soundtrack.

- Lolita -

My EVERYTHING movie. The acting, the score, the outfits, the bobby pin.

- Confessions of a Shopaholic - 

My shameless guilty pleasure and go-to happy movie. OMG, BEX! 

55. PepsiCo Gardens

On my mission to catch up in my film photography class, I adventured to PepsiCo sculpture gardens to crank out a few rolls. I hadn't been there since a 3rd grade field trip, so it was very fun to rediscover! Lots of beautiful open land and strange and interesting sculptures. I took most pictures on my film camera, but obvz made sure to sneak in a few with my digital!