Field of Daize’s

So many things keep hapening, but so hard to keep track of them all.

Who am I? What am I doing? These are my the usual questions that I have in my mind constantly, the ones that drive me to some sort of senility. Funnily enough, it is not any easier when they said to me by others. I would have thought that it would take some of the onus off the energy invested into thinking, but alas, not the case.

So I ponder harder than ever.

On an aside… some interesting things that should be mentioned. I won the Friday night Dress up party… again! What can I say.. I’m a ninja. Not without merit, either, since I put in a hell of an effort for this one. The theme was “Dead or Alive”. I came as Pinnochio! The puppet who wanted to be a real life boy? Get it? I was rather proud of it. Photos should be up in the next couple of days.

Today was an interesting day. I went to a small town whose name completely escapes me. But the idea is that it is a little Dutch town. More of a tourist curiosity, but it was nice to see the thatched roofs and fake windmills. A very picturesque place. Why was I there.. you ask? Why would I drive the better part of three hours out of LA to get to this place. Ah…. wait child… answers are coming.

I got the most curious request by my boss last Friday. She said “hmm, would you like to take photos of my band? We are going to “. Like the crazy person that I’ve become, I say “Ok”. And thus it was settled, without much argument from my part. It actually turned out to be a great day, though WAY longer than it was intended to be. The band is a four piece group, all girls, and all rather gorgeous. Yes, terribly good day

Couple of random messages (in no particular order)

Sally : Sorry for not writing email.. will do
KT : You are the greatest person. You really are. Your friendship means so much to me.
Cherrie : You are so sweet.. mwaa
Jimmy : Rock on, my dude.
Mick : you… just do your thing. When are you coming to LA?

Just random thoughts.

Oh, and if you want to see selected pictures of the wanky photo shoot that I did, click on http://daize.puzzling.org/pics/Headshots

Again, so long without posting. I really should make more of a habit of this.

So, we are now in a time period in the studio called International Dance Festival. It has little to do with dancing, but it is international, and it has a lot to do with seeing how much activity we can generate in the studio. So, towards this means, we hold 6 weekly dress up parties.

Theme parties are allways cool, and since I do little else but studio stuff, I’ve really thrown myself full weight into them. The overall theme this year is Opposites. The first one was Heroes and Villians (at which I dressed up as Jaffar from Aladdin), and the second one was Rags to Riches. I’ve just come back from it, and I’m happy to say I’ve won the teacher’s costume parties BOTH time. What can I say….. I’m a sucker for compliments! But I did put a fair bit of effort into this one. I got a beat up suit, and a pair of beat up shoes from an Op Shop, and went to work. I glued insane amounts of newspaper to the suit, and cut the toe out of the shoes. Then, I made a paper mache hat, and made a little bow tie out of a chip packet.

I was going for the “even bums like to dress up to dance” theme, which I think went down rather well.

On a more bizarre note, a friend of mine asked me to drive him to a foto shoot. He wanted head shots for an acting gig he was applying to (side note : Everyone in LA seems to be in the movie business, or trying to get into the movie business. It is unnerving). So I took him there, and just sat around. Mind you, I’ve been growing my beard for the theme party that night, so I was looking rather more ferral than usual.

Cutting to the chase… I was just sitting around, and one fo the girls asks me “Why don’t you get some shots done as well”. I told her that I didn’t really plan on acting, but she did bring up a good point; for dancing, you do need headshots on a fairly regular basis, specially if you want to do exhibitions. I asked how much, and they said not to worry about it. So I got some make up done, and then got some photos taken! Apparently, I get the shots in about a week. Maybe it is a scam, but it was a lot of fun being made up, and asked to do silly poses. I could get accostomed to that….

On other news, I’m glad to see that Mick is still alive. I’m thinking good things your way, my dear friend.