We’ve got a date and a space so mark your calendars! July 28th at 8pm will see the 4th annual Slapdash Flimflammery*!

* witty subname pending

We are going to get you a shiny spankin’ new carseat on Saturday. But you HAD to vomit peas and brown rice all over this one today, didn’t you, just so that Mommy would have to take the whole thing apart and wash the cover. It looks like something out of the Exorcist. Only two more days, TWO MORE DAYS! Is this your sign of protest? Your way of telling us, “Mommy and Daddy I am 28 and a half inches tall and my carseat only goes up to 29 inches and is starting to feel uncomfortable and I feel it is high time you upgraded to a convertible model.” Well, that’s what we’re going to do, sweetheart, just sit tight until Saturday. You would have gotten it today, but there are gale force winds in effect and Mommy’s car is a like a top-heavy tugboat. So just wait until Saturday, okay? Thanks sweetie!

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Aunt Mary

2007-02-11T02:30:00.000Z

What a graphic illustration of your current life, Julie! XOXO to Stella! It was so wonderful to have you visit. I heard the T-giving plans were your idea. How lovely. THANK YOU!!!

note: i tried to break this into paragraphs to make it easier to read, but it’s not working. i asked the web master about it and he “had no clue” why it wasn’t working. thanks;) So I have been listening to the Rent soundtrack lately for the first time in about 8 years or so. Stella sometimes has her “witching hour” late in the day before Tim arrives home and sometimes the only thing that keeps her entertained is me putting her in the sling and singing and dancing around the living room. This is not to say that she’s happy, just no longer crying. And the girl seems to really love musicals, although, to be honest, I also find them more fun to perform than regular old rock n’ roll. So we pulled out the Rent soundtrack Wednesday and now, of course, I have all the songs on constant repeat in my head. And I am realizing that 1) the characters in Rent are really whiny, 2) they really don’t have any talents, and 3) they are hypocrites. 1) Evidence they are really whiny: well, just listen to the lyrics, “how do you start a fire when there’s nothing to burn and it feels like something’s stuck in your flue.? How do you generate heat when you can’t feel your feet and they’re turning blue?” So they are supposedly concerned about the homeless people living in the tenement city down the block, but yet the Renters, who actually have a semblance of shelter, are whining about their feet freezing off. Have you guys heard of blankets? Coats? Space Heaters? (I realize their electricity has been turned off, but come on, couldn’t they use battery-powered ones or a hot plate or something?) 2) Evidence that they have no talents: once again, let’s turn to the songs. In “Santa Fe”, Collins says that Angel could “make the menu sparkle with rhyme” and that he would “chat not about Harbinger (or something like that) but wine.” So they are going to open a restaurant and no one can cook? Good luck with that one, Bohemians! Again, referencing Angel’s talents, in “La Vie Boheme”: “And, on the ten gallon pickel tub, Ms. Angel…” I realized that all this person can play is a plastic tub like it’s a drum. Lame-o! And Mark is a “documentarian” with tons of expensive equipment. Uh, hello, want to get out of that freezing quandry? Sell your fancy gear. And how did you pay for this gear in the first place, anyway? My guess, Mommy and Daddy, who he so rudely ignores. How dare they call on Christmas Eve! So what does Mr. Talented film? His friends. Yep, his roommate trying to tune his guitar, his ex-girlfriend doing horrible performance art, etc. What was it with the early 90’s and filming your friends and then calling it a documentary (also see Lelaina, Winona Ryder’s character, in “Reality Bites”)? What did they teach at film school back then anyway? And a sidenote: Collins is a TEACHER! 1) how does this qualify as a “Bohemian talent” and 2) doesn’t he make money from doing this? He teaches at a college, for Pete’s sake! I’m not saying he’s rich, but come on, he could afford to help his friends buy a battery-powered space heater or a tasty beverage now and then (see Mark’s declaration that he couldn’t pay for a tea at the High Life Cafe in “La Vie Boheme”) 3) Evidence of hypocrisy: Roger wants to write one song that will bring glory, aka money and fame. And you bet your boots that Mark is filming his documentaries in hopes of selling them and making the big time. None of these people are doing their art to stay poor. And another thing, can’t they have day jobs? Does Mark really NEED to spend all day long filming his friends? Maybe he could film his coworkers. Do not one of these, other than Mimi the exotic dancer who doesn’t take her clothes off, have any skills? Perhaps I’m just bitter because as a teen I planned to starve on the streets of New York to make it, then took a detour and decided I liked heat and food better. I actually told my parents, “I’m going to go to New York to be on Broadway. I don’t care if I have to eat out of a dumpster like Madonna to make it. I think film is trash, Theatre is the real art.” I could have been in Rent, I was such an asshole. Of course, I still agree with the last statement. In fact, my theatre teacher in high school had a t-shirt: “Theatre is Life, Film is Art, Television is furniture.” Cute, huh? Oh, well, that’s enough diatribe for a Friday morning. Besides, I’m a hypocrite. In the time it took me to write this bitch-fest, I could have gotten started on the play I am supposed to have finished by January. Ha!

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2007-07-12T08:39:54.000Z

um i cant believe you just said what you said about RENT- if you payed attention, you would see everything you just said was unjustified.

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I had a most bizarre experience last night.  I went to go see Vaudeville Vanya and I didn’t know a single person in the audience.  Of a SOLD-OUT SHOW!  I know, I know this may not seem bizaarre to you, but I go see a lot of theatre and I know a lot of people who see and do theatre, and I almost always run into at least one of them at shows.  Or I at least recognize people.  Last night I recognized exactly 3 people out of the 70-something that were there.  Although I almost didn’t recognize Jason Neulander because of his new Starsky and Hutch moustache.  Where are these people hiding?  Are they all St. Ed’s people and they only go to shows involving St. Ed’s actors?  Strange.

Stranger still, I was waiting for the bathroom, I thought someone was in it, and some bitch just breezed past me and went right in!  I was floored!  Is this how kids today behave?  She came out and saw me staring death at her and said, “sorry.”  I said, “that’s okay.” icily.  But it wasn’t!  Then she cut in front of me again for the line at intermission, and then let two bitches in front of her.  Seriously, if I had not had to pee so bad I would have started some shit.  Grr.

Maybe it was invitation only or something.  People did keep staring at me like I had two heads.  So I was alone.  I mean, come on people, watching theatre is an activity conducted quietly in the dark, it’s the perfect thing to watch by yourself!

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Mindy

2006-07-30T15:15:55.000Z

When she apologized, you should have shrugged and said “That’s ok. I’m contagious anyway.”  Betcha she wouldn’t come close again. 

From my own observations, I think it’s safe to say that the general trend in society is this annoying frickin sense of entitlement people seem to carry around with them. Thus, I’m a hermit.

So Brandon issued a challenge to Erin and I:  complete a first draft of a full-length play by the end of 2006.  Woah.  He basically called us out on the fact that we just write these little 15 minute scenes every 2 years for Slapdash and we need to be doing it all the time.  So he, Erin and I have committed to having plays finished by 1/7/07, when we will gather those we trust and have a reading.  I’m excited because it’s something that’s been needing to happen, but also scared to death.  What will I write about?  How will I sustain something past about 20 pages?  That’s the longest thing I’ve written since, gulp, college.  Damn!  But it has to be done.  It will take discipline and more time spent writing scenes than writing and reading blogs and all the other crap I fill my time with.  Wish me luck.Â

So Slapdash 3 is over and it was a HUGE success!  We nearly sold out Arts on Real and the audience gave us much love.  When I walked out to deliver the curtain speech, a roar of excitement went up from the crowd that brought tears to my eyes.  It felt wonderful to finally have Slapdash get the attention it deserved.  This was due in no small part to Tim’s tireless efforts to get out the word through publicity, especially since they left us out of the Chronicle AND ACOT, and our actors making sure their friends showed up and supported them.

On to my experience of Slapdash.  The sacred circle rocked this year.  We had Brandon, Paul, Tim, Erin, me, plus Skipper, who was an absolutely awesome addition to the circle.  I think we all really enjoyed the process, and having Brandon back was just icing on the cake.  The only thing missing was Travis, but hopefully he’ll come back next year!  Sacred Circle rocks!  As usual, my assigned opening line really started the wheels turning.  My first line was from Paul and was, “Those legs have been together longer than the Smothers Brothers!”, which instantly made me start thinking of an old-time vaudevillian.  My ending line (which I wrote, of course), was “Watch out for that heavy-”, which, within the vaudevillian idea, made me think of something falling from the rafters.  To create drama, I decided the something falling from the rafters had to be purposely dropped to kill someone.  I had a cast of 2 women and one men, which led me to think that the 2 women had an act and were managed by the man.  Making the women twin sisters I thought would create a bit of humor because I was almost guaranteed that my two actresses would look nothing alike.  Hey folks, you gotta’ look for the funnies where you can find them!  My first thought was that the sister who tried to kill the other sister wound up getting killed herself, but where does the guy come in?  Oh, I should mention at this point that I never plot any of this stuff out before I begin writing.  I just start typing and the plot details develop and change as I go along.  I was helped out by the fact that I had to pump at about 11:45, which gave me 15 minutes to really think about my script.  I came out with 4 ounces of milk and my entire plot.  Two sisters love the same man, their manager.  They both separately tell their man about the plot they each concocted to kill their sister.  They wind up accidentally killing their man.  Along the way they banter in that sharp-witted way that I’ve loved in classic movies since I was a child.  I mean, hopefully it was sharp-witted:)  It was an idea that really could only sustain 10 pages. I kept going back over the script after it was finished to fine tune and punch stuff up, but I certainly couldn’t add anymore.  I was a bit jealous of the folks who came out with 15 pages and had to chip away.  But I started out fighting the scene because it wasn’t what I “wanted” to write.  Luckily, Erin reminded me there’s no time to fight it when you have to finish a script in just a few hours, and I kept going.  I was really happy with my finished product, then I got even luckier and had Brandon direct it and Travis, Mariana and Emily in the scene.  They really picked up that scene and ran with it.  They were incredible!  I watched them completely getting it, and taking the characters in directions I hadn’t even thought of, and thinking “This is the same thing I wrote last night?  No way!”

I only wrote this year and did box because of Stella, but I loved it, what fun!  All the scenes were fantastic, it was just a huge high, I can’t wait for next year!

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Kate

2006-07-11T17:47:36.000Z

So proud of you!  That sounds like it was really funny!

UPDATE:  We are almost sold out for tonight!  But don’t worry, we’re going to pack them in, so get your reservations in now.  If you don’t get them in, show up anyway.  Even if we sell out, we’ll start a waiting list and it’s almost guaranteed that not every reservation will show up.  But you’ll want to get there early or you might find your butt on a folding chair rather than a comfy theatre seat!

Tonight’s the night! We lock in at 10pm! Don’t forget to get your last minute reservations. And for your viewing pleasure, we have a slideshow of our actors, or rather the action figures that will be used to cast them.

UPDATE: And the Austinist has written us up. Don’t miss their interview of the crazy minds behind Slapdash!

We have 26 reservations for Saturday night!!!!  That’s like a new record, especially for Slapdash.  So keep them coming, you’re going to love it, I promise!  I can’t wait to see what crap my brain will come up with tomorrow night.  I can almost guarantee it will be bizarre and probably involve a lot of really trashy humor, because that’s what I love!

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Tim

2006-07-07T15:22:38.000Z

Rock! Keep ‘em coming!

I set up a new blog at http://juliesdramas.blogspot.com/  It will focus heavily on Stella probably, but I promise to post about other stuff as well.  It’s killing Tim, but I just felt theatre and baby blogging don’t mix well!  Please come visit if you’d like!

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I really should be doing something responsible.   I have a filthy house that has really only been cleaned once since Stella was born nearly 2 months ago, and the upstairs hasn’t been cleaned at all.   Our bedroom looks like a warzone.   I need to compose a letter to my credit card company telling them I don’t accept their new terms.   I need to send money to Administaff for my insurance benefits.   I have a thousand and one things I need to do.   But I can’t find the motivation to do them at all.   I feed and tend to Stella and all the energy I have left for after that is to do the endless piles of laundry and keep the kitchen reasonably clean.   Then I waste time on my   new laptop, which is unfortunately a powerful timewaster.   I just have no energy.   It’s so difficult, since I used to be the “go, go, go” type of person.   I was so responsible and always needed to be doing something, I couldn’t stand to sit still.   Now all I want to do is sit still.   It’s really sad.   I don’t even want to do productive things while sitting still.   I need to print pictures, set up a blog for stella, download pictures from the camera, organize the website pictures, a 1,001 more things, but I prefer to put pictures on my ipod and read silly gossip blogs. Â

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Kate

2006-05-21T03:29:15.000Z

You’re doing an amazing job with the lovely Stella.  All I can see in those pictures is how happy and contented she is and how much you guys are enjoying her.