Kira Disapproves

My audition song will be “Happily Ever After.” Check out the YouTube video of Carol Burnett singing it in the original. People always tell my Mom she looks like Carol Burnett, and everyone tells me I look like my Mom. I don’t really see a resemblance between me and Carol, though, except for maybe the big facial expressions.

So, I’m near being done with this “project.” I have a LOT of homework to do, and the audition is Monday night. I’m going to be rushing there from school, so I won’t have time to be nervous. The last logistical thing is, I need a headshot. The only non-retouched (because why would you not let them airbrush you if it’s an option?) professional photos I have are the ones a photographer friend from college took as a gift after he crashed on my couch for a month. They’re two years old, but they still are close enough to what I look like that it’s what I’m going to use.

So, dear readers, which one of these should I use? Leave your vote in the comments. Thanks!

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*And a random afterthought: I might be able to use this article in my class on sight in the fall. Thanks again to everyone who sent me great suggestions for the syllabus. I post the article here because I’m procrastinating on finishing the syllabus while I think through what I want to include, and I don’t want to forget about it.

^ All photos © Ryan Burke 2007

My neighbors can definitely hear me singing.

I’ve been reduced to singing whenever I’m in the car to avoid detection. I did this yesterday on the way to the dog park with Lila, but she wanted to stick her head out the window like a dog and so my solitude was ruined.

Does anyone who is in the Atlanta area know how to play the piano?

(Isn’t spring pretty?)

My blogging (and real life, actually) friend A. Fiercehair (a.k.a. Amanda), has been working on making her blog more interesting lately. Apparantley, one of the tips from the bloggers in the know is to undertake some kind of project and blog about it. Amanda’s current project is Dunkin’ and Deceivin’, which you can read about here and here.One of my projects that I already blog about is writing, but I’m applying to a bunch of contests and working on publication stuff right now, and I can barely keep everything straight, much less reflect on it in this blog. Also, I kind of think my loyal blog readers are who they are. (Hi, guys!) But…I am going to undertake a project this week that you all might find interesting.

I get to do a lot of creative things in my life. Writing is the obvious one. I also do creative things in school (I hope), especially this semester when I’m taking a class called Experimental Texts that is all about approaching scholarship in unique forms. Despite that, I really miss singing, which is something that used to be my main creative outlet.

So, the project. I’m going to audition for a musical next week. The show is at a semi-professional (not clear on EXACTLY what that means) theater in North Atlanta. They’re putting on Pippin, an eighties musical about…well, about Pippin.

The main character (um, Pippin…) is a guy, and they’re only casting five women total. So I’m not really expecting to get in, although that would be cool. All I really want out of the experience is to be able to say I did it, and that I did the best I could. So, more to come this week as I prepare for Pippin (while also trying to keep up with schoolwork, applications, and the ball-of-disaster I call Lila.)

For a peek at one of the songs, go here. (Pam, any instructions on embedding You Tube videos?)