Well now. There you go. I suppose I need to dust off the cobwebs on this sucker. So if this reaches you in fine shape, wow man. Kudos to you for checking your junk mail, your old email, or clicking on the blogdrive link by chance. I just wanted to see if this old blog klunker was still tickin.
First I hope this finds you well. Things with me have been on full throttle for quite some time....again. LoL. Well in the Fall, about five thousand viruses ate me alive making me sick for more than six weeks. The whole convalesence thing was prolonged because of all the things I was involved in. Then the holidays came. I made myself chill from all activity. The month of January came and went very quietly. There was talk of getting involved in some things but I kept to myself knowing that I'd eventually get back into stuff. Then Kaboom came February and a bunch of musical and artistic projects started to flood through. So I bit the Acting bug. We just finished up Dancer in the Dark, where I played a small role as a prison guard that walked the lead charcter to her death. If you're thinking, hey that title seems familiar. The play is an adaptation of the art film of the same title staring Bjork. Very dark movie. I still haven't seen it. The cool thing with this play is that the guys had a 10 piece orchestra involved to perform the score for this project. I'm not so much a theatre kind of person, so the acting thing was like trying to put on a pink dress or something. But when my friends Mike and Dan approached me on this particular role they were smart. I was drunk. LoL. And like most ideas seem when you're drunk, I agreed thinking no biggie. Then the sobriety came. I woke up with the memory then started to do the familliar klp overthinking situation. Finally a friend said, did you ever consider the fact that it might be....Fun?
WTF. Fun. Really. I had to think about that one. So on came the rehearsals, and the media drama to promote, the offstage dramas that ensued. I wanted to challenge myself in a way that normally would make me fell all uncomfortable and pissy like. Acting. Baby steps to world domination. It was a bit role, but it was a role that was enough for me to handle with work, the radio show and this writing project I've been working on. Always got to keep things at least tenfold and stressful. This is the link to see who was in the play:
So what now? Well what isn't going on...I'm planning for two major shows in the late spring early summer. There is this really amazing and open minded culture developer from the City of Kitchener that is willing to hear me out on this crazy ideas that I've got going on in my head. I'm working on a writing piece to enter into this writing project to win a spot in this Canadian Anthology of new writers. And in April...Dudes! We're going to NYC and Boston! Woo Woo! I'm jumping in the Languid Lotus Project Mobile to head down there with them as they go on the road for a five day adventure of performing grooves and poetry. There's even talk of putting me on the stage to perform a piece or two. Life Checklist item #13532515...perform poetry in NYC. The writing bug has really bit me as of late too. I have a friend here who is starting a zine for her independent record label and Stacer is returning back from Scotland where we're talking about her zine as well.
The radio show is going strong and crazy. I've been inviting more and more guests to come in to perform live. More friends are dropping in for interviews that keep me at the station until the wee hours of the morning. So the want to find things to do is never enough, but the time to do it...I'm still searching for that 25th hour.
Patches and I are getting along these days. Although, I came home from the play the other night and she had ripped the sheer drapes from the living room down. She pushed over some potted plants and she's been giving me these looks.
The..." You bitch" kind of looks. I deserve it. This apartment is in serious need of some lovin'.
Speaking of which....
I should get going onto the next mission. I know I've said this before, but come visit me here...
That's where I spend most of th Dougie Howser time. Eventually this blog will close down and I will just be checking into Myspace.
I hope y'all are good. GIRLS WHORE weekend is coming up next weekend. I can't wait to bust it.
Love,
klp