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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Anyone gonna be in Sydney over the next week? Come on, someone out there must be! One of my pieces was selected to the Sydney Short & Sweet festival (woohoo), but I cannot go to see it (booooo) - you know, what with the £1000, 12hr flight and everything to watch ten minutes worth of my writing. If I was a millionaire with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs, I'd be there. But then again if I was a millionaire with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs I would by now have probably bought myself a massive theatre hosting nothing but my own writing - ahhh, a girl can dream.
Anyway, if anyone reading this IS by some random chance in Sydney - give me an email and I'll give you details of when and where it's on so you can go watch my play and vote for it. Being UK based I feel somewhat at a disadvantage when it comes to the People's Choice award for this thing - everyone else has friends and family to vote after all. Mind you, not that this helped when 'Keeping Annabelle' was performed for Short Shorts at Soho Theatre, and Goulden Moments voted for another piece (out of sympathy, I might add) and I missed winning by one vote. Yes, one vote. Damn human empathy.
Thankfully, human empathy has seemed lacking in regards to the Jade Goody creature. Or perhaps it exists in excess for her playground bully-toy, Shilpa. No amount of snivelling and grovelling seems to be doing her much good. Personally I think the media backlash to the Goody one has been long overdue and she's pushed her luck with one reality show too many. There's a nice circular theme to it though - with the same show that started her destroying her. It's almost poetic (if you could ever consider Big Brother art - which you can't). Everyone already knew she was a nasty little thing, but somehow how her idiocy endeared her to people (stupid people, obviously, but where there are stupid people there are tabloids to give them what they want). There's nothing endearing left now, and I think most people rightly see that the tears are self pitying rather than any actual empathy on her part to what she put the girl through. A nice person would have seen the fall out from her behaviour immediately and tried to make amends before they got a heads up that people might not like it. But enough on that one - hopefully once she's had her few tabloid spreads blubbing and begging forgiveness that'll be the last we hear from her. Somehow doubt it though.
In more sombre (and important) news, I must attend a funeral on Tuesday - my cousin Richard unfortunately died the other week which came a bit out of nowhere - he'd been ill, but there certainly didn't seem any immediate death in sight. So it's all a bit sad and surreal as these things usually are. I hadn't seen him for quite a long time, though I spoke to him last year. He was definitely one of a kind and I know he'll be sorely missed. I don't think it's quite sunk in yet.
6:29 pm
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