1. You're right. One does not tend to choose to follow Coyote. One wakes up and finds that the bastard is in your bathroom smearing toothpaste all over everything because 'it feels minty'. Being too clever for one's own good is an excellent way to attract his attention.
2. I had a significant theater career, culminating in my first directing job just before I left Oregon. (Unless you count something like my "Leave Stephen Alone" video work I did with Clay Robeson.) My favorite gig was probably... Much Ado About Nothing. I got to play Antonio with a very talented cast who eschewed the stereotypical offstage drama and focused on what would make a good show. We schmoozed with the money like pros, we worked together like a family (in the good and the bad aspects of that), and we were doing Shakespeare. Antonio is also a lovely role.
Either that or the Actor's Nightmare production we did in secondary school, despite the fact that I was the lead and had more lines to memorize than I could probably handle. My director really trusted me and gave me my head. He was very productive for me to work with.
3. Probably our production of Solid Gold Cadillac, which was a somewhat weak show to begin with. Compounded by (a) the fact that I failed to get very far into my character (which I blame as much on me as on the fact that there just wasn't that much to get), (b) the fact that, during tech rehearsal we realized we wouldn't have a set because nobody had built one yet, (c) we had a lot of trouble remembering lines. The last was not helped by the fact that there were many scenes that took place in the same locations with somewhat similar action.
4. I do like to adapt lines from MacBeth for the current production and shout them from the stage. (During Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of our favorites was the line about Birnham Wood coming to London High Street.) But at the heart of it, pretty much all superstitions are strange. Otherwise they'd be precautionary measures or wise strategies.
5. If badger badger, mushroom, then by definition you cannot snake badger mushroom--it simply badger snake badger in exclusion to the badger mushroom mushroom.
6. That's one of those tricky ones--You can make plans and make plans until life has already happened. It's one of the safest ways to avoid having to actually choose a plan and then act on it. But I'm not prepared to live a life with no planning. The thing to remember is that planning is not a substitute for acting, and even a well processed plan only survives until first contact with the enemy.
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2. I had a significant theater career, culminating in my first directing job just before I left Oregon. (Unless you count something like my "Leave Stephen Alone" video work I did with Clay Robeson.) My favorite gig was probably... Much Ado About Nothing. I got to play Antonio with a very talented cast who eschewed the stereotypical offstage drama and focused on what would make a good show. We schmoozed with the money like pros, we worked together like a family (in the good and the bad aspects of that), and we were doing Shakespeare. Antonio is also a lovely role.
Either that or the Actor's Nightmare production we did in secondary school, despite the fact that I was the lead and had more lines to memorize than I could probably handle. My director really trusted me and gave me my head. He was very productive for me to work with.
3. Probably our production of Solid Gold Cadillac, which was a somewhat weak show to begin with. Compounded by (a) the fact that I failed to get very far into my character (which I blame as much on me as on the fact that there just wasn't that much to get), (b) the fact that, during tech rehearsal we realized we wouldn't have a set because nobody had built one yet, (c) we had a lot of trouble remembering lines. The last was not helped by the fact that there were many scenes that took place in the same locations with somewhat similar action.
4. I do like to adapt lines from MacBeth for the current production and shout them from the stage. (During Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of our favorites was the line about Birnham Wood coming to London High Street.) But at the heart of it, pretty much all superstitions are strange. Otherwise they'd be precautionary measures or wise strategies.
5. If badger badger, mushroom, then by definition you cannot snake badger mushroom--it simply badger snake badger in exclusion to the badger mushroom mushroom.
6. That's one of those tricky ones--You can make plans and make plans until life has already happened. It's one of the safest ways to avoid having to actually choose a plan and then act on it. But I'm not prepared to live a life with no planning. The thing to remember is that planning is not a substitute for acting, and even a well processed plan only survives until first contact with the enemy.