November 9th, 2009 (07:35 pm)
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United States, Wisconsin, Madison
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Screw writing my theatre paper on the sound design of Imaginary Invalid! Here's what's been happening:
1. I got radio board certified last night! I got a certificate and everything. I turned in my air check tape, show proposal, evaluation, and shadow sheets yesterday and if I get a show, I'll find out in a few days when it is! :D
And because I apparently enjoy public embarrassment, here's my radio audition tape for you to enjoy listen to, if you want. It's 10 minutes and all the songs are telescoped, so the first and last 15 seconds, plus all my voice breaks and a cheesy PSA I had to say about zombies.
HI MY NAME IS RAYNA AND THIS IS WSUM 91.7 FM MADISON (i hate my voice ;__;)
2. I found out Friday afternoon that I was going to Chicago with the Titanic Players to be in the travelling cheering section for the Founders when they performed in the College Improv Tournament Mid West competition! It was a BLAST! I watched 12 groups perform 15 times. The Founders got 3rd (yay) but honestly really really deserved 1st. The two higher teams both used piano and that takes so much weight off of the improvers because there's automatically never awkward silence, you know? But everyone, even the judges, admit that the Founders' prelim piece was THE best piece of the entire tourney. It was the best they've ever done even. so. fucking. funny. Those kids are genius.
In between prelims (at 4) and finals (10) a bunch of us UW Titanic Players had dinner and walked around Chicago. It was me and Alec from my team, our director Jason, Aaron, Sherri, Jon, and Julie (the 5 Founders), and Elliot, Kelsey, Claire, and Kristin. We went into a porn shop, a tattoo parlor, ghetto hardcore clothing stores, three comic book shops, and a Starbucks. I had my first coffee/energy drink that I actually liked. Those vanilla Double Shots. dayumm they're awesome.
After the competition, we headed to this guy Mike's house, who's pretty much in charge of the entirety of Titanic Players, here, at Northwester, and U of Illinois. I learned how to play Abdell, a card game, and we sang along to the 90s music and tv channel for hoursss. There were like 17 people sleeping in this one little house to me, Alex, and Jason all slept on this tiny couch. Me and Jason stayed up talking and watching Robin Hood, South Park, and Dr. Who until 7 IN THE MORNING. :D Then me, Jason, Jon, and Kristin all drove home the next day, got back to Madison at 5:30. Needless to say, I'l a little tired (but that's normal) but it was so so so much fun.
3. Patrick bought our tickets for the St. Louis International Film Festival. I'm definitely seeing 5 movies on Saturday. I'm seeing Adela, Those Three, 35 Shots of Rum, the Documentary Shorts: Communities program which is Down Here, Goleshovo, and Waiting for Women, and Shorts Program 7, which is eleven 4-12 minute long animated shorts. I kinda wish I could be there for the Comedic Shorts program because I'm not the biggest animation fan, but that's on another day. Besides, short films are my favorite style of movie. I'm super excited. I guess I'm seeing 17 films then actually! Awesome. :D 35 is French and German, Those Three is Iranian and is in Farsi and Turkish, and Adela is from the Phllipines and is in Tagalog.
4. First year parents weekend is this weekend! I'll get to see my family for the first time since August! :D yayy. We're going to the Michigan/Wisco football game. uh oh. ;] But that should be fun.
5. I'm going to Chicago for Thanksgiving, and will meet my people there for 2 days. It'll be FANTASTIC spending the holiday with my aunt and uncle who own a restaurant (what whaat!) instead of forced family friends in Michigan like every year. heh heh.
6. I saw Final Fantasy and The Mountain Goats on Friday! FF was a-fucking-mazing. The venue, the High Noon Saloon, is so small and cozy and awesome. I was completely on the stage, front row, as in sitting on the stage before the show. It was awesome. Very intimate space. I took a bunch of pictures, but didn't like using flash (it's distracting :P), so I don't know how well many turned out, and I took tons of video too. His set was too short, imo. I'd listen to them perform all night. It was weird, only going to a concert for the opening band. I heard the three older women next to me mentioning surprise at 2 people knowing the lyrics to FF and I'm like "I ONLY know FF, never heard of the Mountain Goats." Turns out she's a reporter for the Capital Times newspaper and was reviewing the show and we all ended up talking through out the night. Here's her article: http://host.madison.com/entertainment/music/article_86d58151-3a84-51a2-aac0-23f3bb9b7b22.html
I had to leave the Goats 4 songs early to make it back to the Union in time for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 90s live action one, with Corey Felding), and it was AWESOOOME. I can't believe I've never seen that whole movie! It's so funny! Really, really bad, but I loved it. ;)