Hi all, I took the first steps on a journey today. I auditioned for a local theatre troupe. I'm being realistic about my chances of being accepted. I'm an ecologist by trade, so the theater thing is kind of new. With the exception of a year working with an improv troupe, I don't have much experience. The important thing is that I tried though...As I was riding home on the train I was listening to Tigermilk and thinking "Wow! I'm just like Belle and Sebastian". Here's how that works: I figured when they made the original Tigermilk it was kind of on a lark. Only a few hundred copies were made, but it turned out they had what it took and they managed to make it big and live out their dreams of becoming rock stars, even if they don't act like rock stars most of the time. So, there I was trying out for this theater company when I really had no business to be doing it. The difference of course is that B+S actually have talent, whereas I'm somewhat of a hack. Oh well...I'm not really like an actor, and I'm not really like a rock star, but I'm trying, durn it. And Thom Yorke says "if you try the best you can, if you try the best you can, the best you can is good enough" So I'll take Thom's words to heart and be happy :) ...And so ended the most unnecessary post ever. The townsfolk rejoiced, the princess was saved from the dragon, and everyone pushed delete and happily moved on to the next message. Jason _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+