Well so far I'm keepin' my promise to post on Sundays. So far my score is 1 out of 1 Sunday since I decided to do this. That's 100% on schedule!
I realised something recently about my sense of humour and my prejudices, that I want to test. I have this theory that there could be a person who is relatively quite uneducated, dumb and unsophisticated, tell a very vulgar joke and I'd probably think it was terrible, and I wouldn't laugh. Then, have another person who is well-educated, intelligent and sophisticated person tell the same trashy joke and I'd laugh my ass off. Why is that? Is that the result of my own prejudices? Do I judge the less educated person with harsher standards? Or is it just the hilarity of hearing a very intelligent and classy person totally subvert their image with a raunchy sex joke, while the joke in and of itself isn't all that good? Is it simply the irony? I don't think it's a class thing; but I'm not entirely sure. I have to wonder if there's a correlation, like the smarter the person is, the funnier the joke will be, or something like that, as if it's a matter of having the authority to say it. Or maybe I will find the same joke funny whoever is saying it, but I'll give the smarter person more kudos, because it shows that they might have a broader range of humour? It might be that, because I know no matter who says it, I still hate potty humour. Sex? Yes. Violence? Sure. Fart jokes? Hellz no. But again, I do think there's something to all this. For me, it does depend on who's saying the joke. What do y'all think?
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The past week has been a very inspiring one. I had about three evenings in a row where I was so motivated to work on my Half-Mask and Acting Masque pieces, and I've been prolific. I've virtually finished my first draft, four days before I have to present it in class. I really enjoy this year, because the emphasis put on self-created works. It's a delicious synthesis of writing and performance, two areas of interest that have always remained compartmentalised. Now it has me thinking about all of my post-post-secondary goals as an artist. There are so many projects I want to devote myself to, and I don't know which one is the best one to do first! FYI, here are my most immediate goals:
-write/perform a Fringe show
-get involved in the spoken word circuit, either here or wherever I end up living in the near future. This means writing poetry again! After so long!
-start up a theatre troupe that does Full and Half-Mask performances, and other non-realistic forms of theatre, like Clown and Puppetry. I want to take workshops in all of these things. This might even be a possible idea for Fringe. All, but especially Mask. The work I'm doing on it in Movement class is so gratifying, and it's surprisingly uncommon in the biz right now. There are pretty much no companies in Canada that do this kind of Mask. So yeah. That needs to change.
-finish my Writing degree. Wanna wait a bit before I go back to school, but this option is very plausible in my mind.
-while at some point I'd like to get involved in Film and TV, right now I'm more interested in doing smaller, self-produced projects. If I could get a camcorder and some other friends with cameras, we could make little indie movies and videos to put on Youtube.
-On that note, I'm strongly considering starting a video blog. The problem is it would need a point of focus, which I don't have yet that will lend itself well to video, rather than text.
-do more classical theatre. I fell in love with Shakespeare last year, and I think I still want to audition for Stratford in a couple of years. But, you know, that's in a couple of years, so it doesn't exactly count. I need other professional work under my belt before that. Maybe Bard on the Beach?
So those are some of them. The idea of self-created, self-produced work is shining brightly in my mind right now, knowing how hard it will be to get myself out there in the industry otherwise. I'll play it by ear, but I intend to do all of those things. Just you wait!
