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Friday Evening and Thoughts on Jenny's Visit
I ended up having a really good time with Bart, Jared, and Jared's two daughters (and of course my aunt and mother). Sometime during the day Bart calmed down about the weather and realized it wasn't raining, so he agreed to meet someplace a little closer to my apartment. They (Bart and my mom) decided on Joshua Tree, a restaurant on Restaurant Row right next to my landlord's office. The rest of them got there at 6:00 and I arrived later, around 8:00. I was looking for them on the top floor where they said they'd be but they turned out to be on the ground floor so I was walking up and down the stairs looking for them. When I approached the table, the two girls' faces just lit up. It was so sweet--I tend to get that reaction from girls especially. For one thing I like kids--I enjoy talking to them and I love their energy and lack of pretense. But they also seem to see me as some sort of kindred spirit, I guess because I'm small. These girls--their names are Bianca and Ariana--had apparently been doing "research" on me. Jared told me they'd checked out my website and had all sorts of comments on it, and me. They want me to add sound clips of me singing--Don, we'll have to get on that!
So I spent the rest of the evening talking to them. Jenny has a great picture of me talking to them, and the two of them were just rapt. So cute! God, I love little girls. I just want to adopt them ALL. Although these girls are not that little--they're ten and eleven. The older one, Bianca, wants to be an actress, so after she got over her shyness, she started talking a mile a minute about the shows she's done, including Once On This Island (she played Andrea) We bonded over how great that show is, and I told her how I sing "Waiting for Life" at auditions. Jared asked me what she should do to prepare for a career in acting. I thought about it and said the most important thing she can do is to study other people, and try to figure out why they act the way they do. I explained about motivation, and how important that is in acting. I also said that, as in sports, the best way to improve is to work with people who are better than you, and study them.
They told me the shows they'd seen--they've seen more Broadway shows than I have! I was impressed with some of them--The Boy from Oz, The Rocky Horror Show...
After we left, Mom, Jenny and I went to the Electric Banana Bar and hung out, drinking margaritas. I love my relatives. Hanging out with Jenny is so much fun. (My mom too, but I see her a lot more.) Jenny told me I have "the life." (And she loved my apartment--she kept exclaiming over how great it was. She took pictures to show to my cousins, to get them to visit--Jessie especially needs to visit. But she hates to fly so it may not happen.) When she and Mom first arrived at my apartment, they looked into my refrigerator and commented on how typical it was for a single person living "the life" in NYC--very little to eat, but lots to drink. I do have an inordinate amount of potables in the fridge--champagne, vodka, vermouth, spicy gin, Kahlua, sour mix, margarita mix. What can I say, I'm running true to my WASPy blood.
So I spent the rest of the evening talking to them. Jenny has a great picture of me talking to them, and the two of them were just rapt. So cute! God, I love little girls. I just want to adopt them ALL. Although these girls are not that little--they're ten and eleven. The older one, Bianca, wants to be an actress, so after she got over her shyness, she started talking a mile a minute about the shows she's done, including Once On This Island (she played Andrea) We bonded over how great that show is, and I told her how I sing "Waiting for Life" at auditions. Jared asked me what she should do to prepare for a career in acting. I thought about it and said the most important thing she can do is to study other people, and try to figure out why they act the way they do. I explained about motivation, and how important that is in acting. I also said that, as in sports, the best way to improve is to work with people who are better than you, and study them.
They told me the shows they'd seen--they've seen more Broadway shows than I have! I was impressed with some of them--The Boy from Oz, The Rocky Horror Show...
After we left, Mom, Jenny and I went to the Electric Banana Bar and hung out, drinking margaritas. I love my relatives. Hanging out with Jenny is so much fun. (My mom too, but I see her a lot more.) Jenny told me I have "the life." (And she loved my apartment--she kept exclaiming over how great it was. She took pictures to show to my cousins, to get them to visit--Jessie especially needs to visit. But she hates to fly so it may not happen.) When she and Mom first arrived at my apartment, they looked into my refrigerator and commented on how typical it was for a single person living "the life" in NYC--very little to eat, but lots to drink. I do have an inordinate amount of potables in the fridge--champagne, vodka, vermouth, spicy gin, Kahlua, sour mix, margarita mix. What can I say, I'm running true to my WASPy blood.