Got registered for an Acting II class at ACC today. The guy that teaches it is the theater chair so hopefully I'll impress him and he can help me get into the UT or St. Edward's theater program down the line. I'm back on track gang!

Glad to hear that!

Plus, the real reason I'm excited: freaky theater chicks.

I've heard the theater kids pretty much rule the school here.

Most of them are douchebags. I was never in the actual school of theater but I tried out for a bunch of stuff and they always looked at me like I was a piece of shit for not being in the "clique." But the look on their face when the unknown guy gets the part over them is totally worth it.

Yeah, I've heard they're really pretentious douchebags.

What's your major dude?

History.

Hmmmm, don't have any friends in History classes I don't think. If you meet dudes named Martin Perez or Ed Lamotte, those are my old friends who still go there.

Yeah Orpheus.

I myself am taking Acting II at UW-Milwaukee this coming semester, and I myself am not in the theatre program. I actual switched from theatre studies to film studies within two days because I asked myself, "what am i thinking?!"

My professor for Acting II loves me (and I would like to think he based the class around me because the material we're working on is "Fool for Love" and other Sam Shepard plays because he knows I love Sam Shepard). Last year I was in "12th Night" under his direction, and all the other theatre people were complete jackasses. They never accepted me into their little talks and conversation. And my acting was different from theirs because it wasn't theatrical in the sense ("Where art thou, Shakespeare!") but more, I don't know, method like? They hated me. And they are a bunch of D-Bags, but if I were you, and I'm sure you do this already, just have a fuck you approach if they're going to be jackasses, and just do your work.

Theater kids >_<

You think they're bad? I'm at an art school.

Theatre kids...my thoughts and only my thoughts

Now, I'm not saying they're all like this, just some of them that I know.

Aspiring actors go to school and take classes where they dance, do stretches and vocal excercises, and find their technique for their acting. That is perfectly fine. Whatever they do to find their technique is fine by me.

Me on the other hand I go in very raw, and I hope to some who watch me, I go in very electric, and I trust my instincts more than anything to find my own technique. I don't care to dance because I don't plan on doing any dance musicals, and I don't plan on musicals in general (I never saw the purpose in musicals. Breaking out into song to communicate? No thanks).

And also, theatre kids I feel are so wrapped up in their note taking with acting professors etc, that I feel that they miss the freedom they have in exploring their own craft. I believe in finding your freedom before your technique. Find your freedom first, and your technique will follow. Theatre kids are so trained it bothers me. But I always listen to my director and take his direction.

I'm in school for radio and I hate country/western. You better believe that if I got an on air offer for a country/western station I'd take it in a second. Point of the story is, work on your musicals too. Don't limit yourself.

I wouldn't say I am limiting myself. I just never found the sense in musicals, the fact that an actor is singing his dialogue. In your case there is sense in country music, because after all it is music. I would find similarities with you and me with me and Shakespeare. I don't like doing Shakespeare, but I understand it is a play and not a musical, so I do it.

Fair enough.

*high five*

Hey dan, I'm finally taking the video classes that are required for my broadcasting degree and I was sitting in class today thinking "is this what dan does?".

woot.