Not bad, thanks. A little tired, but all in all doing okay. Stage Monkeys Hattiesburg are still doing allright. Our newbies are showing quite a bit of potential. The group has yet to crash and burn under our directorship. "Our" meaning William and me.
Oh yeah, not sure if I mentioned, but Iapos;m one of the co-directors for the Hattiesburg troupe now. Ty still handles administrative business, but William and I (and Jon, who will be taking over WIlliamapos;s spot in January) handle practice duties. So far, weapos;ve worked on an introduction to accept and build, working with others on stage and character work (some of which I cribbed from Acting on Impulse, which is a great read if youapos;re into improv). I have to meet with William later on to discuss what weapos;re doing for this weekapos;s practice.
I recently got a promotion at work. I no longer work weekends as a result. Starting tomorrow. Should be nice.
Iapos;ve started watching this show, The Big Bang Theory. For those of you who havenapos;t heard of it, itapos;s by the same guy who does Two and a Half Men. Two scientists, Leonard and Sheldon, live in an apartment. An attractive new neighbor, Penny, moves in, causing Leonardapos;s libido to come full force into play. Lots of sitcom nerdiness abounds.
My friend Matt B actually wrote a long blog about how he believes that the show has set nerds back several decades, as Leonard and Sheldon are caricatures of what people think your average nerd is like. I can see that. However, itapos;s a sitcom, and sitcoms make caricatures. At least, ancient sitcoms do. Many newer sitcoms that Iapos;ve seen are trying to focus on well-rounded characters. Scrubs is a prime example; some episodes focus far more on character development than on the jokes. Pushing Daisies is another example, though that show seems to focus more on whimsy than anything else. Not a bad thing, since it avoids caricatures.
I am not offended by the characters in the show. Sure, their "nerds" are a little extreme in regards to social ineptitude, but I find them to be silly caricatures more than anything else. In fact, Iapos;ll go so far to say that Sheldon is one of my favorite sitcom characters in recent memory. Sure, heapos;s kind of a one-joke premise (that one joke being "Iapos;m so damn smart that Iapos;m stupid sometimes"), but that one joke works really well. He has a powerful grasp on the laws of physics and math, yet the most basic social interaction eludes him. He knows far more nerd trivia than I know, yet he doesnapos;t know how to walk out of a sperm bank with dignity intact.
My problem is not with the characters on the show, but with the format of the show. The sitcom with laugh track has been dying a slow and painful death for many years. I was hoping that shows like Arrested Development and Scrubs wouldapos;ve killed it mercifully, but the laugh track sitcom still lingers.
I dunno, maybe itapos;s necessary to have fairly mindless entertainment that doesnapos;t provide deep character studies.
Donapos;t know where that came from, but okay.
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