Day 3

"I wish the stage were as narrow as a tight rope so that no incompetent would dare walk on it"

-Goethe

Read about his life. I wish I could go back in time to meet him. It really showed me that you must experience life to act it. I need to go out and experience life, maybe I'll go get dumped.

Day 2

Sanford Meisner on Acting

I warn you; I take notes on my blog as I read, so it may not make sense to people reading it but it makes sense to me. :)

Notes on the Introduction by a student of Meisner

You learn an organized way to deal with what is imaginary. It's not about technique, but rather instinct. So True! But does this mean that people should just have that natural instinct that they find and grow through technique, or is it something you can learn?

It takes at least 20 years to become an actor. Interesting.

He had the exact same feeling going into Meisner's acting class as I did last year going into Jim Bonney's class (Bonney taught a form of Meisner). Is it the person, or the technique?

Book List

My Daily Practice is to study. I will read from a book about acting and comment on what I read every day. I don't really know where to start. I will ask Luke and Stacies for suggestions of good reads. For now, I've come up with a list. Hopefully I will be able to add a lot to this list.

Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner

Advice to the Players by Robert Lewis

An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski

Day 1

Person A: What are you doing? That's not how you do it.

Person B: What?

Person A: It's supposed to be hanging. Stop. No, stop. You're messing it up.

Person B: It looks fine.

Person A: Stop. That's not how you do it. You don't know how to do it. Give it to me.

Person B: Take it.

Person A: Look, you see how it's hanging off the leaves like this. Look at this one. You smashed it right into the tree. It looks horrible.

Person B: You overcrowded the tree with the lights. There is no more room to have them hanging. What are you doing?

Person A: Hanging them the right way. What is this? This looks like shit. You just jammed them into the tree.

Person B: There is no more room! What are you doing? You're going to break it!

Person A: Are you serious right now? You didn't even try to fix the lights. I payed good money for these stupid ornaments you wanted. You just smash them in like they're nothing.

Person B: Can you do it?

Person A: Oh so that's what you wanted. You did this on purpose so that I could do it.

Person B: Please.

The power of music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnBau6fL8S8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5yN43TqCk&feature=related