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February 3, 2007:

FRIED BRAIN

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Well, dear readers, I am home quite late and the notes should already be up and running, but instead the notes are down and sitting here like so much fish. And so, I shall endeavor to write them swiftly, like a gazelle eating a burrito. Of course, my brain is completely fried so I don’t know how lucid they will be. I am never really lucid with a fried brain, but I’m fine with a sautéed brain or even a boiled brain. But I do not have a sautéed or boiled or even broiled brain, I have a fried brain. Speaking of a fried brain, yesterday was one long day. I got up, expecting to work with Miss Yvette Lawrence, but she called and had basically lost her voice, so we’ll reschedule our session. I then went on a mission to clean my CD closet, which I did and which took two hours to do. It’s now back to being neat, so I can actually find things. By the time I finished, it was already after noon and I had to hustle to get some other things done and then be on my way to LACC to see the first program of one-acts.

The first program of one-acts led off with one directed by our very own Mr. Cason Murphy. He did a fine job and avoided the pitfalls that most student directors fall into – he kept things simple and trusted the text of the play. His actors were very good and it moved right along. There were two other plays, one quite graphically sexual in nature, and one strange adaptation of The Trojan Women. The directors did fine, but by the end of the afternoon I had come to the realization that I just don’t really care for one act plays very much, with rare exceptions. It was a long afternoon, close to three hours with the two intermissions. I then went to my beloved Bird’s for a bite to eat, and it was as superb as ever – brilliant onion rings, great roasted chicken (all white), and little yummilicious sides of Caesar Salad and cole slaw. I then returned to LACC for the second program of one-acts, this time four of them. Again, all the student directors did just fine, but all the plays were quite long and this time there was only one intermission. I didn’t really care for the plays, but the actors (several from the Brain) did very well, and I am a fan of the final one act, William Saroyan’s Hello Out There. Little known fact: I issued the opera version of Hello Out There by Jack Beeson on Bay Cities. The evening shows lasted about three hours and fifteen minutes with intermission and I was like a zombie by the end of the evening. Still, it was fun to see everyone, and all the directors are to be commended for getting the job done, especially Cason, who should be very proud of himself.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because my brain is fried, fricasseed and fershluganah, not necessarily in that order.

Today, I intend to do a bit more cleaning up, this time in the garage. After that, I must drive about in my motor car, do some errands, sup, and then in the afternoon I shall write. Tonight, I think I shall stay home and watch DVDs. Tomorrow, I have a meeting at noon and then supper with MusicGuy at Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Oh, boy.

I really want to eat something interesting today, or go somewhere I haven’t been in a while. Perhaps I’ll even venture over the hill to the Wood of West to check out some restaurants I like over that way. We shall see.

We should just leave our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons on for the whole month because this month is loaded with birthdays and today is no exception. Yes, we must don our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, we must break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, we must dance the Hora and the Brain Tap, because today is our very own dear reader edisaurus’ birthday. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to our very own dear reader edisaurus. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO OUR VERY OWN DEAR READER EDISAURUS!!!

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, write, clean, organize, do errands and sup. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your all-time favorite one-act plays, and what are the best productions of them that you’ve seen? I’ll start – Arthur Miller’s A Memory Of Two Mondays and A View From The Bridge and Albee’s The Zoo Story. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, while I put my fried brain to sleep.

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