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Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Storage=Money...Who knew?
Wow. I just got back from the used bookstore. They gave me $102! I left with seven boxes, and came back with 2 and a half. They even took all the Christopher Pike books that no one else wanted. So there is a lesson to be learned here.
Belton, although not the cultural capital of the world, or even Kansas City, isn't all that bad of a place.
So I will now plug the store...A Better Bookstore in Belton, MO. Go there. It rocks.
I chose this store, A, because is was the first one I called today, and B, because the woman was really nice, a pleasant change from the mean people yesterday. So I figured, why bother calling the mean people? She and her husband, who actually chose the books were both really nice. We stood outside the store, he went through all the boxes, and she and I talked about theatre and books and stuff. It was a good time. And the end result was money. Far more money than I thought I would get. I was thinking like $25-$30. $50 max. This rocks my world. Now I can afford to buy every movie Gwyneth has ever made.
Except The Pallbearer.
5/30/2001 05:37:00 PM link
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Tuesday, May 29, 2001
Storage
I don't understand how I can have so much stuff, and still only have three Gwyneth Paltrow movies. I've spent the weekend going through all the boxes that my family has stored for five years. Actually, probably longer, because I have a feeling that some of these boxes were taped shut before we even moved the last time. Not good.
I've found at least 10 boxes of books. I don't read them. I haven't read them in years. Why do I still have them!?
More importantly, why won't any of the used book stores around here take them from me, and give me money in return? I'll call tomorrow and see if they want the seven boxes of books that we found in the attic today. But most of them are all "We're not interested." They only want signed copies of the Bible or something. Or they'll give me a store credit. Do they not see that I want to elimnate books, not get new ones to replace the old ones?
On the upside, I did find a bunch of pictures of me being incredibly cute as a little kid.
5/29/2001 11:02:00 PM link
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Saturday, May 26, 2001
Options
or
What Would Gwyneth Do?
Watched Duets last night. Love.
Anyway. The past day has been strifeful. And not in a Dawson's-Creek-everything-in-my-life-is-screwed-up-so-let's-go-watch-E.T. kind of way. Yesterday Allison and I had the callbacs for You're a Good Man Charlie Brown at the theatre I'm working at. We didn't make it past the second cut, which makes sense, because they have decided to hire INSANELY OLD people to play children. Seriously old. The woman who I think is playing Lucy played Mother Superior in Nunsense about ten years ago. You can't be young and play a mother superior. Imagine how old she must be now. She's nice and all....but hello.
So that was kind of a pain, but I didn't feel that bad about my audition, since they obviously wanted older people. But then other things added to the not so strifeful atmosphere. I talked to Joe and he still doesn't have a job. I am certainly not one to judge, because how long did it take me? But if he doesn't get a job soon, then that will push our move back drastically. And another theatre here called and wants me to audition for a (she said this a lot in the message) "professional paid lead" with a lot of emphasis on the word lead.
So here are the options:
A) Stay in KC until November and do this show (Pending casting. So this option may just go away if I do the audition. But I'm thinking that they must need an actor pretty bad if they're just calling me.).
B) Go to Chicago now and sublet an apartment for the summer.
C) Wait until July and live for almost free in my friend Sarah's apartment. She's never there. While there, I could find a job and an apartment.
D) Become a crack dealer or a pimp, so I don't have to worry about money. Because the lottery doesn't seem to be happening.
I don't really like choices A or D. I don't think things will get any better in KC, and I'd be back in the same position that I'm in now, wanting to go to Chicago where there are ten times more theatres, and wondering if I have the money. And moving in November would suck, so I can see putting it off until the spring. Not cool. And I don't really have to say why I don't want to be a crack dealer. I don't want to share my crack with other people, no matter how much money the give me. ;)
B isn't a bad option, but then I'm stuck in a sublet for three months, whether I find a better place or not. That skeeves me out a little.
I'm pretty down with C, but if Joe doesn't think he can make it then due to lack of money, then I'll be living in a strange city alone, and I'm definitely not down with that. Yes, I know people, but I wouldn't live next door to them or anything. Chicago's a big city.
Gwyneth is being very supportive, saying that whatever I do is OK with her, but I can't help but wonder what will make her the most happy. After all, she'll be spending a lot of time there. She's offered to just buy me an apartment in Gold Coast or something, but I don't want to take advantage of her. I want her to see that I don't love her for her money.
The obvious choice right now is to go find some snacks.
5/26/2001 12:28:00 PM link
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Thursday, May 24, 2001
All Things Gwyneth
I must now proclaim my undying love for Gwyneth Paltrow. I just saw Bounce today. And it was great. As I was watching, I realized just how great she is.
I mean, I always knew I liked her, but I didn't realize just how much I liked her until now. Let's analyze why.
A) Her name. It's Gwyneth. How can you now love someone named Gwyneth?
B) She's so cute! Look at her!
C) She's really good. She totally deserved that Oscar.
D) Even she had to do things like The Pallbearer, for which I will forgive her. So you know she paid her dues.
Now don't get me wrong. I still love all the other girls in my parade of beauty, still led by Sarah Michelle (Closely followed by Katie, Jennifer Love, Neve, Shannen, Holly Marie, and Allysa). And I've briefly flirted with the idea of other women, most recently Catherine Zeta-Jones...but none of them compare to my Gwyneth.
So she will be mine. Just you wait.
I'm watching Sliding Doors right now. For maybe the 5th time.
If you doubt my worthiness, go look at the pictures from my last show...
5/24/2001 12:01:00 AM link
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Sunday, May 13, 2001
New pictures of my latest show!
The Space Between Skeeved and Stoked
So I just got back from Chicago last night. And I can't decide whether it was a good trip or not. Here are the pros and cons:
PROS:
hung out a lot with Joe (new roommate) and we get along really well
saw all kinds of Chicago neighborhoods
learned how to drive in the city
rode on the eL for the first time
realized that i don't need to work at Bennigan's in Chicago, because it won't ever be as good as my old Bennigan's in Des Moines
CONS:
realized that I don't have nearly enough money to move to Chicago
realized that I will need even more money to have a car in Chicago
realized that I hate the brakes on my car
realized that I don't even have a clue what I'm going to do when I get there
realized that finding an apartment is a lot harder than clicking on a few ads online
And I can't decide if this is a pro or a con, but I realized that I want to move there more than ever. I just don't know WHEN I want to move there more than ever. It doesn't help that I got a callback to a theatre here, which will probably not amount to anything, but you never know.
Ugh.
5/13/2001 10:03:00 PM link
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Friday, May 04, 2001
Who knew Metallica would be right?
So for a long time I've been a staunch supporter of Napster, saying that I now listened to a lot of artists that I wouldn't have bought CD's for, and that the use of free file-sharing software had only broadened my music tastes. Not that my music tastes needed to get much broader, since I already have almost 400 CDs now...
And I was really riled when Napster started sucking. After the court ruling, fewer andfewer people were online, fewer files were available, and those that were in the system were encrypted with extra characters like "D9avid G9ray - Babylon9". Now how am I supposed to actually find a David Gray song if all of a sudden his Napster name is D9avid G9ray? So, in protest, I rebuffed Napster and took my files to AudioGalaxy.com on the suggestion of my friend Mike. It's a little less convenient searching-wise, but it's cool in so many other ways.
Then I started playing the game. The if I download this song, I don't need to buy the CD game. Something that I said I wouldn't do. I always said I would download live songs and songs that weren'treleased yet, but that ultimately I would buy the CD.
And maybe ultimately, I will. But when I make less than $200 a week, and take all that money and put it in the bank to save up for the ultra-expensive loft that I want to live in in Chicago, that doens't really leave a whole lot of money for CDs. I realize that I made these valiant claims when I actually had money, and had little to spend it on. "I made a hundred and fifty dollars last night...let's go to Best Buy!" Yeah. Now it's "I made a hundred and fifty dollars last week. Let's go put it in savings!" Somehow that isn't as much fun. Yes, I like having money, but I also like having CD's.
Of course, spring is the time when tons of new CD's come out. And of course I want them. It used to be that I would go to Best Buy on Tuesday and buy the new CD's that had come out that day. But it has been months (literally) since Duncan Sheik came out with a new CD, and do I have it? No. Same thing with the new Janet JAckson CD and Destiny's Child CD, although they have been out later. I've already downloaded their CD's. And Ican listen to them in my room. The only place I can't listen to them is in the car, and without a job, I don't really listen to CD's that much in the car.
So I'm feeling a little guilty. Not enough to stop downloading songs. Not even enough to stop going through music catalogues to see what CD's I've been interested in hearing, but not interested in buying. (Honestly...who would actually pay money for the Ace of Base Greatest Hits CD? Really.) But if no one pays for their CD's, how is Ace of Base making money? Or Duncan Sheik? I think I'm one of five people in the world who actually own his CD's. That $60-$70 must have helped pay some bills for him. At least a cell phone for a month or something.
I type all this as I listen to Destiny's Child's gospel medley. It makes me feel a little more like I'm stealing. Just because they keep saying Amen. I don't like that.
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