Don't have to tell you things are bad here...

They are, though.

Seems watching DVDs and reading as always helps me get through bad times.

Been reading:

Stanislavski's An Actors Handbook again, but today I was using it as sorta an I-Ching kinda thing where I ask a question and randomly flip through it and stop and read the first line I see as if that were an Answer from The Universe. Today the answer was, "Abandon yourself to your feelings."

Been rereading choice bits, medicinal really, from my friend Beverly Gray's Roger Corman book.

Read Donald Spoto's "Rebel: The Life and Times of James Dean."

Read Terry Gross' "All I did Was Ask" but only the Johnny Cash interview, so far.

Watched:

Peter Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc?" again for the first time since seeing it in the theatre when I was a kid. Boy, Barbra Streisand is smoking hot in that attainable hot chick way with a Sarah Michelle Gellar/Jennifer Aniston vibe. I remember laughing so hard as a kid. Still funny. Must be because my Niece's 3 year old watched it with me and she wasn't bored.

Saw Kino's "The European Pioneers (The Movies Begin Volume 2)" and my favorite short was Robert W. Paul's experiment with stop-motion using live actors in "Extraordinary Cab Accident," from 1903. Possibly the first punk'd/Jackass kinda prank put on film.

Watched Ken Russell's "Mahler." There's some awesome stuff in it and in Russell's work, like a nude chick peeling off her cocoon and the ever present sexy Nazi imagery.

I almost forgot my troubles.