Open Inspection

Sorry about the photo post...it was such a stirring image I felt it deserved a solo post. Am I right?
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Of course I am.

Whitehorse's Seussical tonight! Now I'm not one to whinge or complain...I am. But $80 for two tickets! What is going on here? It's costing me an arm and a leg to see these shows...and the crap part is I want to see the shows...I want to see these guys perform...but it's just getting harder and harder. I remember in the day I thought paying $20 for a ticket to an amateur musical was steep...now look! How can people afford to see these things? Movies are cheaper...and that's saying a lot! Ah well...we suffer, we suffer, we suffer in silence.

I saw a rental property yesterday...just in case you people weren't up to date...we're moving out of the CBD...and it was a great place...enough room, enough character...and I put in our applications...but there was a couple who also put in their application just before me...and earlier on in the inspection they had made some chit chat with the inspection woman and shared some smiles...so I was thinking...how do I set myself apart...I look a little businessy/stalker (I'm wearing what looks like a psycho stalker jacket...and with the glasses and my current hairdo...it really is quite startling)...and the couple looked a little bohemian (like one was a graphic designer and the other was...dating a graphic designer)...so I thought I better make a joke or something...so while we're in the living room there's a big bookcase and I pretend to be looking at all the books and I say to her (the inspection woman)...'Is it wrong to want to steal these books?' - and she laughed and said something like 'He probably wouldn't notice...there's heaps there!' and chuckled a matronly chuckle...BANG! I'm in...definitely! I don't know how it happened...I open my mouth and God sees it fit to bless me with the gift of urbane, witty conversation...what can I say...you either have it...or you've had it!

Of course saying this...we probably didn't get the damn thing.

Powerful imagery

The Life of James

Phew...let me catch my breath...it's been a whirlwind of inactivity over here...it seriously feels like nothing has really happened in my life recently...so let's recap...

• Journey's End was a rousing success, especially on a personal level (got some really nice photos of me pulling all sorts of 'actorly' faces...actually they look like I'm performing some kind of body function/movement...but they're black and white so they're classy looking body function/movements!)
• Recently went to Canberra for the 9th National Business Forum on Sustainability or Somethingorrather...which was nice...I had dinner with PM Rudd...I talked with him about some issues I had with his foreign policy and he really helped me through some unresolved issues I had with my self-esteem and getting to like who I am...which was nice
• Jenter Zilm has come back from cruising...on a cruise...he was playing trumpet...and it sounds like it was an awesome experience...and no it wasn't like The Love Boat...idiots...I already asked.
• Have seen about 3 or 4 shows in the last week that friends were in...Nick Kong as Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie...in which he was a standout (along with his Millie), Rachel Juhasz as Lois in Kiss Me, Kate...definite standout...best thing in the show by a long shot...and Helena Plazzer as Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd...again...most impressive thing in the show...such a strong interpretation...and tonight we're seeing Jojo Sutton in The Fan at VCA...so fingers crossed for that one...we haven't actually ever seen her perform in a drama and she's in her final year of a 3 year acting degree!
• Preparing to move in late June/early July...which involves looking at properties and trying to arrange inspection times and being completely intimidated by the whole damn thing...it's funny...I'm an incredibly mature, level-headed, and I would say adult adult...but when it comes to these kinds of things...I feel so young and out of my depth...like I need my Dad to organise it or something...which is crazy I know...but I can't explain...like I'm 18 and about to buy a car...
• I'm auditioning for one or two shows...I won't tell you what...just in case I don't get in and then have to be embarrassed because you know that I auditioned and didn't get in...let's put it this way...if I don't do a show in the next 4 months...I auditioned for things but obviously sucked enough to be rejected...hard to believe I know...

So that's been the last few weeks in my life...sorry about the lack of posting...I know you guys missed me...who wouldn't!? And I'll try to be regular in the future...actually I had some prunes for breakfast so that regularity should kick in pretty damn soon!

Strike a pose!

Young Mel Gibson...second from the right.

I posted this picture on the vox site...but couldn't resist another posting...who could...look at the picture...I know, I know...you're eyes are drawn to the handsome bugger in the front row...but looking at the photo as a whole...it just looks of the period doesn't it? Like someone had been rummaging around their grandfather's old suitcases and found this weather old black and white photograph of his old war buddies...well maybe not that old...maybe if you were rummaging around your father's papers and found this rather newish looking colour photograph of your Dad when he posed for a photo when he did a production of Oh, What A Lovely War! last year at St Alban's Players and you scanned it on your work printer which only does black and white and this is what you were left with...yeah...it's history alright!