Posted in 12 of 12, personal on 12/14/2009 04:08 pm by kate
12 of 12 December 2009 – Los Angeles, CA
(all photos taken by me on the 12th of december)
10:49 am | my living room | morning pages
11:04 am | my dining room table | am i rich yet?
2:15 pm | my living room | home for the xmas tree
2:38 pm | my living room | feline patriarch supervises the holiday decoration proceedings
2:56 pm | xmas tree lot | so many treeeeees!
3:01 pm | xmas tree lot | yum! need scratch-n-sniff pictures :)
3:55 pm | my kitchen | teriyaki tofu on the Foreman~not sacrilege!
4:12 pm | my kitchen | fortification for tree decorating
5:35 pm | my living room | pre-tree-lighting
5:46 pm | my living room | happy tree-lighting!
5:48 pm | my living room | o star! the fairest one in sight...
7:50 pm | thai in l.a. restaurant | condiment duty table
Posted in personal, showbiz on 12/10/2009 01:41 pm by kate
so i have been attending a number of SAG awards screenings lately, mostly with Q&As afterward. some of them amazing and brilliant… but this last one i went to brought some very negative feelings to me, and i wonder if it’s just me or if i share the feelings with many who were in the audience that night.
i’m not going to get specific about who and what film. but the Q&A guest (let’s use the name “pat” for anonymity and non-gender-specificity) spent a lot of time going on about how pat didn’t even know if acting was a career pat wants. that pat often just decides not to go to auditions, that people pursue pat for work even while he doesn’t want it, that pat has so many other careers paths that pat would be happy doing, that pat doesn’t want half of the gifts of work that are offered, and that pat is untrained, un-hungry, and does not have a passion for acting.
and yet pat is sitting in front of a roomful of SAG members, with a burgeoning career most would probably sell their left foot to have, and talking about how meaningless all this really is to pat.
i was offended on a deep level of my artist soul. my frustration over all the years of struggle and hope and faith and belief seemed to blossom to overflowing while i sat and listened to pat’s unending flow of self-centered talk. i thought, “well if you don’t really want it, get out of the way and let someone who does have it! people are killing themselves inside trying to achieve the success that you have, to be in a position to work with the very best; people that won’t take it for granted or misuse the blessing.”
and again, maybe it was just me that got all het up about it. but i was. and i still am on a certain level. and i know there will always be people who have this attitude, this fortune they don’t see. but to blather it all in front of the company of struggling actors is just completely classless and egocentric in my eyes.
