Creative Habit

Well another Easter has come and gone - this one had no egg dying, and very little ceremony Christian, Jewish, Pagan, or otherwise for me.  It would seem my friends are militantly agnostic or atheistic - and want to protest the entire holiday claiming Christianity is hypocritical, oxymoronic, and senseless.  Not even a chocolate bunny or cadbury egg (ironically - symbols of Pagan fertility NOT resurrection) were to be consumed.   This does not mean it was not a fun although ultimately unproductive - even counterproductive day.

Usually I do laundry on Sundays - but no laundry today.  Today I went out to Brooklyn to have Brunch with Amanda and her Broolynite friends.  They are a very intriguing bunch, one of them actually served in the military and was telling us about how surreal Honk Kong is (with its ubiquitous techno music and dance dance revolution games), Americanized the port of Dubai has become (Fudrucker's greats the sailors) - but the actual TOWN of Dubai is apparently very gay - men walking down the streets hand in hand claiming sex with women is for reproduction but with men is pleasure, Japan which is so clean it makes Disney World look like a cesspool of dirt, trash and gum, and Seattle - which is just cool.  More importantly - we ate a place called Jimmy's diner which gave us donut holes as the "bread" for the table - and let me tell you - these were the most amazing donut holes ever - I don't even like donuts - but I LOVED these.  And the pancakes were delicious.  We then went thrift store shopping where (In addition to a VHS cartoon version of Ben Hur starring - Charleton Heston)  I found a book for two dollars called Shakespeare is Fun.  I picked it up expecting it to be one of those books that explain the Capulets are like the Blood and the Montagues are like the Crypts and they are totally out shoot eachother's asses.  Instead - it is a fabulous book where the author interviews famous actors and directors (many from my beloved RSC) about why their parts are "fun" or their direction is "fun" or why they find shakespeare "fun."  It is really interesting reading about Tony Sher's take on Richard III (granted I have read more about Tony Sher's RIII than any other interpretation of anything in history - he even wrote an entire book called Year of the King about his portrayal - which of course - I read) or the most boring Shakespeare production John Geilgud ever saw - and what he learned from it about how to makes Shakesepare NOT boring - but FUN.  So I am thrilled with my new reading material once I'm done with the encyclopedia/encyclopaedia.  

Then I went to meet Reinking - we saw the movie Adventureland which was cute  - then we had a nice easter dinner of tomato soup and quiche lorraine.  MMMMMMMMM - living the high life.  It was most delicious actually.  Good and varied conversation -from theatre - to boys - to Pontius Pilate - to Somali Pirates - you know - the usual.

Tomorrow I'm taking a "me day."  Well kind of --- 

I'm taking class - then going home to do laundry and clean - then taking and working for Charlie who is newly employed and must complete training at MARS.  Sigh.  But the middle of the day is for doing my laundry - since - there are no auditions that I'd be any good at tomorrow.  And - I need to organize my life sometime - no matter how much I hate doing it or how incompetent I am at it.  Whilst in the thrift store, Amanda found Twyla Tharp's book "the creative habit" and asked if I had read it.  I said I hadn't - but I didn't need a creative habit  - that I have - what i need is a book about how to market your creative habit and make money at whilst doing so!:)