Eva Green

Everyone stop what you're doing and call Hollywood and ask them why the fuck Eva Green isn't the biggest star in the world.  She's AMAZING.  As Gabe and Jonathan have said, she should be Wonder Woman whenever they make that.  Not some stupid anorexic model that couldn't tackle a fucking fish.  Eva Green is quiet and delicate and smart in "The Dreamers" and "Casino Royale."  I always thought she was great but was too distracted by how stupid beautiful she is in past movies.

But today I saw "300 2" (not the title, I already forgot it) and she was in it and just tore up the screen.  She was SO good.  The movie is stupid and action-y.  The acting is atrocious and the dialog is ridic.  And somehow you believe everything she says.  You believe she can sword fight against ripped men and lead an entire army.  She needs to be cast in better roles.
And her costumes are super cool.

Gabby Young and Other Animals

Crazy british band at El Cid!!!!  So so so so so so much fun. 

Olivander!!!!

I don't think I've mentioned the incredibly important moment in my life where I received a wand FROM HARRY POTTER WORLD.  

Gabe from work brought it back for me.  It was hiding in my desk.  Best gift in the world.  Apparently, u give Olivander a special date (he did my bday) and a wand comes out.  There are different ones.  I love mine!!!! It's very me.  

I can't describe what it was like recieving this.  I imagine it's the feeling other women feel when they get proposed to.

Ps. This is my desk at work.  I put a shower curtain on it to make it look "pretty."  Everyone hates it.

Most San Marino Lost Sign of ALL TIME

Where My Musical Kids At?!

This is something I am serious about.  If anyone has any suggestions or knows if this already exists, please give me a shout.

I want to start a group that recommends good LA theatre to high school (and middle school if appropriate) kids.  I mean... I grew up here AND spent the last three years trying to understand the LA theatre scene, and I've JUST finally figured out how to find good plays.  There are good ones!  I swear! You just need like 15 years under your belt to find them.

Like most middle school girls, I didn't really discover theatre until 6th grade and got to be in a musical ("Annie."  The "Frozen" of old musicals).  I knew of them, but didn't LOVE them.  And, like most girls, went from loving that experience to wanting to be an actress in plays.  But for so many kids, that's where it stops, because other than plays in school, there is literally no way to actually explore theatre and see plays.  I mean, I was living in a city with literally more actors than particles of sand, and I could not find plays.  I saw the musicals at The Pantages or whatever was at the Ahmanson, but other than that, I had no way to enjoy it until I went to college.

I remember many frustrating days spent at Samuel French (when hanging out at Dad's work on the Radford lot!) wishing I knew what to read.  I asked the people at the desk, but they were always rude and pointed to the same shit I'd already read.  I had no desire to read "The Odd Couple" or "The Glass Menagerie" again.

I just wish I knew me when I was in 6th grade to say Hey!  There's this great play about race by a wonderful new playwright that's playing not far from your house.  Check it out, kid!  
(In that scenario... I was my own future hero...)

So I'm weighing the options of trying to do this.  Every time I see a great play, I already think, "Oh!  I should tell Ellie to see this!"  Ellie is a little girl I've babysat since she was born.  She's in 6th grade now and experiencing the wonderment of middle school musicals.

I could start with her and the kids I taught improv.  Maybe tell a couple public school acting teachers who would pass the info off to their students... And get a group going.  Maybe every other month I recommend a play.  I bet kids would go.  I can't tell if this is a genius idea or just weird.

AND maybe because I say I run this group I can start getting comp tickets to plays!!!  Because I'd totally pay full price for things...If I was a rich man....

Thought of the Day:

Can fish drown?

Ridiculous

If you want a ridiculous late night dose of theatre, go to "XXXander's Kids!" at The Echo theatre.
It was honestly the silliest thing I've seen for the longest time.
Jud Williford plays a crippled (retarded?) man whose half brother is putting on a telethon to not raise money for his crippled brother, but to raise money for his acting career.
It's super weird.  There are several "performances" within this performance that are worth mentioning... like when the guy who played the voice of JarJar Binx does a dramatic poem with himself (in a video).  Or when a guy dressed as Fred Flinstone talks about how he once saw an elephant and it made him cry.  Or when someone puppets Kermit the from to puppet lip-sync Cat Stevens' "Lisa."  So incredibly weird.
Jud is the best part.
http://echotheatercompany.com/echo_presents/xxxanders-kids/