It's been awhile... I know. Maybe I'm not cut out for blogging.
I have a good excuse though! I'm designing a small show that goes up tomorrow. It's actually a series of short plays that all take place in a basement, and it's called "Root Cellar." It's going up in this new space in (yes) someone's basement a couple blocks away from me. The whole thing is designed with cliplights and practicals and it's been fun to have to figure out how to light a space when the homemade board tends to heat up dangerously if you have more than about 600 watts up. It's called the Alamo Underground because it's in the Alamo, a big fortress like apartment building sporting a pirate flag and a bunch of 20-somethings and their cats.
Since I last wrote I've been to:
1. The lake. Which is HUGE.
2. Frenchman St. Which is the place to be.
3. Pravda (multiple times)- a sort of soviet-themed bar operated by the girlfriend of one Jim Fitzmorris, a Tulane playwrighting professor who's friends with my Nola Project friends and whose political rants are famous at Le Chat every other Saturday night. Jim just got appointed associate artistic director of the Tulane Shakespeare Festival, which he is trying to reorganize into a community-based event that explores "the question of leadership." He's very interested in relevance and local specificity, and altogether I find him an exciting person to talk to.
4. A Rilo Kiley concert at a venue called Republic. Rilo Kiley is awesome. I've decided I want to start an indie rock band, but I need to learn how to play an instrument first.
5. Pretty much everywhere else in the city. My boss, James, gave me a work-related driving tour the other day that took us through the 9th ward, St. Bernard Parish, East New Orleans, Gentilly and Lakeview. Parts of the city feel very much like little ghost towns, especially the parts of the lower 9th that flooded the most. Overgrown, empty plots of land where houses were literally washed from their foundations into the road or into other houses, skeletons, total emptiness. They call it the "Jack-O-Lantern" effect when you have neighborhood where a couple people maybe move back but the rest remains dark.
Rachel is coming to visit on Tuesday which is super exciting.
5 comments:
the play sounds fun, han. hopefully you won't blow the place up. you seem to be meeting the most interesting people in new orleans -- how great is that?! we're having a monsoon in manhattan tonite -- and there's a tornado watch on long island. so who needs oklahoma? going to phila tomorrow for a quick visit.
love you, gal,
xoxo, bobbie
Han, Please don't give up your blog. I loved your last posting about all the interesting people and places you're getting to know. We're celebrating Mar's birthday this weekend in Sag Harbor and also going to the Sag Harbor Film Fest- I think we're seeing 3 films. Love you, Jude.
rilo kiley! i saw their last show on that very same tour in santa monica, california! hooray. you rock, hannah.
hi dixie girl,
la famille had such a good time last wknd in sag harbor. we went to three films at the hamptons film festival -- all indie prods, all with a middle eastern theme -- and pretty good. also, did some fun shopping and had a great birthday celebration with everyone -- you know marcia, she likes her bdays to start early and end late. speaking of late, we girls were sitting in the den sunday nite when a BAT!!!!!!!!!! flew by IN THE ROOM; judy and i were freaked, but marcia was screeching to be committed! god knows how this poor thing got into the house, but walter bravely dispatched it, and i just hope it didn't leave a nest of batbabs behind. yukkkkk! also, the preppy killer, robert chambers, who lives in my 57th st bldg, got arrested here a few nites ago for dealing cocaine. i hear they bashed in his door and he broke a cop's wrist in the ensuing struggle. he's a 3-strikes and you're out guy now, and will probably spend the rest of his life in jail. and so handsome too. anyway, it's so much excitement i have to go on vacation -- leaving with michael monday for down south (not quite far enuf, alas, but one of these days...) anyway, miss your bloggettes and hope to see more soon. sending you mucho love, always, xoxoxo, bobbie
i love rilo kiley! can i be in your indie rock band? i also have yet to learn an instrument, but i just picked up a flyer for guitar lessons...
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