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Feb. 27th, 2022 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWoke up this morning around 7:45 am to a ringing phone - shouting "Chris the Super" repeatedly. I picked up the phone and went into the bathroom, to discover the floor was wet, my bath mat soaked through, and the toilet filled to the rim. I immediately plunged it. Then called the super.
Super: Thank God! Why didn't you answer the phone?
Me: I was sleeping? I just woke up.
Super: We rang and rang and rang. We rang your buzzer and your phone. Your neighbors heard it and wondered what was up with you.
Me: I heard nothing (my bedroom is behind the kitchen - and the phone is in the living room - with the door closed to my bedroom - I hear nothing. Also apparently I was dead to the world.)
Supers come into my apartment and check everything out. They are clearly puzzled - since while the floor is wet, it's not really flooded. The toilet was plunged and the mat is wet. But it's not enough water to have poured into the two apartments below me. It was so bad - they turned off the water for the entire line (all six apartments).
"Maybe it's not her apartment?"
So they go into the apartment below, and play with the toilet, sink, and shower heads in mine. No leaks from my toilet, sink or tub.
ME: I think the toilet over flooded last night - and I didn't catch it.
Super: Not enough water on the floor.
Then they proceed to have a twenty minute conversation in Polish. (Which by the way sounds like Russian to my ear. I honestly can't tell the difference.)
The gist? It wasn't my fault. They are having contractors to check out what is happening below me - it may have been a faulty pipe. They will come by and declog the sink later in the week. And from now on - my phone is next to my bed, and the bedroom door is open.
(I look at my phone messages - they called me 10 times between 4:30 am and 5 am. That's when they turned off the water.)
**
Currently watching the documentary Broadway - Beyond the Golden Age - 1959 through 1980 on PBS. Various film/theater stage actors from Elaine Stritch, Robert Morse, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Shirly Knight, Shirly McClaine, etc...discuss the difference between theater acting and film acting. [Apparently the documentary filmmaker interviewed everyone who appeared on the stage and cobbled together hours and hours of footage.]
Robert Morse & Robert Goulet: We forgot our lines, but we were from the theater - so we ad-libbed on and on...until the director shouted cut, and said Gentleman, this is film, we can start again...apparently you are allowed to make a mistake.
Shirley McLaine: In the Trouble with Harry - I memorized all my lines, I thought I had to know them all - for some reason I thought we were going to shoot the picture all in one day, I don't know. (Trouble with Harry was her screen debut).
Estelle Parsons: When you shoot a film, you shoot from six in the morning to six at night, with no audience...and what is that?
Tommy Tune: They wake you up, and you get into your costume and - I'm ready to go, and you don't go.
Dick Van Dyke (regarding transition from stage to film): It's piece-work, it's tedious and long, there's long waiting times, and you sit and sit and sit while they light..
Betsy Palmer: One of the things about doing film is.. it's hurry up and wait and then you're up..
Ben Gazzara: Film is 2 minute acting, film is two minutes and you're up, that's it.
Estelle Parsons: Five lines and then, I don't remember the next one, and okay, tell her the next one and we'll shoot it with the next one, I mean what is that - that's not acting, is it?
Shirly Knight: It's as if I'm the director and I say turn your head really fast towards me - okay, that's it. Cut. Thank you.
Film and theater are different mediums, they state.
Jane Fonda: The camera has to love you in film. It doesn't mean you have to be beautiful, but the camera has to love you.
Tammy Grimes: OR they don't love the camera for some reason they feel too self-conscious or awkward on camera.
Sondra Lee: The delivery had no place but the theater.
Jack Noseworthy: Literally had to sing over the orchestra pit.
Tommy Tune: From the stage - we work from here (points to his gut) - that's probably not good for a film, the film is all here (points at his face and eyes).
Jeff Daniels: It's all in the eyes - that pulls the lens.
Tab Hunter: Either people have it or they don't - that reaches out and touches you and doesn't always have to do with talent..
Frank Langella: Some people are so arresting on camera but not as arresting in front of an audience, and some people are so powerful in the theater and they kind of wash away on camera.
Tammy Grimes: James Stewart, I was introduced to him, and I asked him - Mr. Stewart what is the difference between stage and film acting, and he said, Ms. Grimes the difference is - on stage you use your whole body to express something, and on film - you use the photography of the mind.
Roberty Morse: most of the time in film they talk like this (softly) and I'm used to talking like this (loudly).
The process is so different. I could never act on film, theater yes - and I adore the theater - there's an energy in theater that doesn't exist with film. It's kind of - I guess the difference for rock concert fans vs. films of concerts?
***
My brother has taken up the Cello again. But...
Mother: Your sister-in-law doesn't like classical music.
ME: She has very narrow tastes, while Bro is like me and fairly ecclectic. in his tastes. But...does she Cello music?
Mother: Not at all. She doesn't like string music. Or plays.
ME: She doesn't like Musicals.
Yet, she lets him play. I love Cello music. Sis-in-law likes bad rap music and heavy metal, also I think disco in roller skating rinks.
Me: Well she loves roller skating, and he doesn't.
Mother: no, he broke his arm roller skating, hasn't done it since.
Me: Roller skating is dangerous, I prefer ice skating. (I tried both.)
Sis-in-law was a disco roller skating queen in the 1970s and 80s, when it was in.
Sigh. I prefer the Cello. And musicals. And classical music. But I also like some rap, some heavy metal, some hip hop. I think being too picky about culture is like shutting off a part of the world. It's like saying you don't like flowers, but only like trees.
***
My teeth hurt - every time I eat meat or anything tough like tuna steak, and it sticks in my teeth - the teeth hurt. I'd become a vegetarian, but there's a lot of vegetables that do not agree with my digestive system. (Beans and I are unmixy things for example, and sigh, gluten intolerant). But I'm thinking of trying squashes. Also, I'm addicted to celery juice.
***
This Broadway Documentary that I'm still watching - states how A Chorus Line - was created from 100s of interviews. The writer/director/choreographer of A Chorus Line (Michael Bennet) - interviewed and taped hundreds of Broadway Dancers. Michael Bennett - had a lot of pull - because when he asked - people went. So, they all met at midnight one night - and told them what he was doing. Then he asked them questions, and one by one they told their stories.
It's why that musical is so powerful - because it resonates with people - because it's stories from the actual chorus line, actual dancers on Broadway. The dialogue and stories were taken from actual dancers. It wasn't made up. I've seen it on stage, and I saw the movie. And for years I had the original cast album - as a record. (Some days I miss my record collection - it was small, and mostly musical theater. Mother may still have most of it, I don't know.)
Also the original cast - many of those stories were actually their own.
****
During the whole toilet travesty - none of us wore masks. I forgot about it until after they left. Then I felt odd.
***
Revising my contemporary romance novel that is over 800 pages. To see if there's anything there. I think there is. And I like the exercise. See where it goes. The fantasy novel needs to percolate a bit longer - mainly because it's starting to feel like a twist on Arthurian legends, also a lot of the Mabinogi or Welsh and Irish folklore I studied is blending itself in there without my awareness. I'm a subconscious creative writer - I'm not always aware of where all of these stories arise from when I'm writing them.
***
Anyhow...this is long enough, I think. I didn't do all that much today, besides knit, go grocery shopping, and watch tv. I watched more episodes of New Amsterdam, and an episode of Legacies. Tried the Dana Carvey Show documentary - but it didn't hold my interest, while the Broadway documentary is - which goes to show you that I'm more interested in theater than a failed sketch comedy. (I don't tend to like sketch comedy - I know, weird, but there it is.)
Here's a picture..
Super: Thank God! Why didn't you answer the phone?
Me: I was sleeping? I just woke up.
Super: We rang and rang and rang. We rang your buzzer and your phone. Your neighbors heard it and wondered what was up with you.
Me: I heard nothing (my bedroom is behind the kitchen - and the phone is in the living room - with the door closed to my bedroom - I hear nothing. Also apparently I was dead to the world.)
Supers come into my apartment and check everything out. They are clearly puzzled - since while the floor is wet, it's not really flooded. The toilet was plunged and the mat is wet. But it's not enough water to have poured into the two apartments below me. It was so bad - they turned off the water for the entire line (all six apartments).
"Maybe it's not her apartment?"
So they go into the apartment below, and play with the toilet, sink, and shower heads in mine. No leaks from my toilet, sink or tub.
ME: I think the toilet over flooded last night - and I didn't catch it.
Super: Not enough water on the floor.
Then they proceed to have a twenty minute conversation in Polish. (Which by the way sounds like Russian to my ear. I honestly can't tell the difference.)
The gist? It wasn't my fault. They are having contractors to check out what is happening below me - it may have been a faulty pipe. They will come by and declog the sink later in the week. And from now on - my phone is next to my bed, and the bedroom door is open.
(I look at my phone messages - they called me 10 times between 4:30 am and 5 am. That's when they turned off the water.)
**
Currently watching the documentary Broadway - Beyond the Golden Age - 1959 through 1980 on PBS. Various film/theater stage actors from Elaine Stritch, Robert Morse, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Shirly Knight, Shirly McClaine, etc...discuss the difference between theater acting and film acting. [Apparently the documentary filmmaker interviewed everyone who appeared on the stage and cobbled together hours and hours of footage.]
Robert Morse & Robert Goulet: We forgot our lines, but we were from the theater - so we ad-libbed on and on...until the director shouted cut, and said Gentleman, this is film, we can start again...apparently you are allowed to make a mistake.
Shirley McLaine: In the Trouble with Harry - I memorized all my lines, I thought I had to know them all - for some reason I thought we were going to shoot the picture all in one day, I don't know. (Trouble with Harry was her screen debut).
Estelle Parsons: When you shoot a film, you shoot from six in the morning to six at night, with no audience...and what is that?
Tommy Tune: They wake you up, and you get into your costume and - I'm ready to go, and you don't go.
Dick Van Dyke (regarding transition from stage to film): It's piece-work, it's tedious and long, there's long waiting times, and you sit and sit and sit while they light..
Betsy Palmer: One of the things about doing film is.. it's hurry up and wait and then you're up..
Ben Gazzara: Film is 2 minute acting, film is two minutes and you're up, that's it.
Estelle Parsons: Five lines and then, I don't remember the next one, and okay, tell her the next one and we'll shoot it with the next one, I mean what is that - that's not acting, is it?
Shirly Knight: It's as if I'm the director and I say turn your head really fast towards me - okay, that's it. Cut. Thank you.
Film and theater are different mediums, they state.
Jane Fonda: The camera has to love you in film. It doesn't mean you have to be beautiful, but the camera has to love you.
Tammy Grimes: OR they don't love the camera for some reason they feel too self-conscious or awkward on camera.
Sondra Lee: The delivery had no place but the theater.
Jack Noseworthy: Literally had to sing over the orchestra pit.
Tommy Tune: From the stage - we work from here (points to his gut) - that's probably not good for a film, the film is all here (points at his face and eyes).
Jeff Daniels: It's all in the eyes - that pulls the lens.
Tab Hunter: Either people have it or they don't - that reaches out and touches you and doesn't always have to do with talent..
Frank Langella: Some people are so arresting on camera but not as arresting in front of an audience, and some people are so powerful in the theater and they kind of wash away on camera.
Tammy Grimes: James Stewart, I was introduced to him, and I asked him - Mr. Stewart what is the difference between stage and film acting, and he said, Ms. Grimes the difference is - on stage you use your whole body to express something, and on film - you use the photography of the mind.
Roberty Morse: most of the time in film they talk like this (softly) and I'm used to talking like this (loudly).
The process is so different. I could never act on film, theater yes - and I adore the theater - there's an energy in theater that doesn't exist with film. It's kind of - I guess the difference for rock concert fans vs. films of concerts?
***
My brother has taken up the Cello again. But...
Mother: Your sister-in-law doesn't like classical music.
ME: She has very narrow tastes, while Bro is like me and fairly ecclectic. in his tastes. But...does she Cello music?
Mother: Not at all. She doesn't like string music. Or plays.
ME: She doesn't like Musicals.
Yet, she lets him play. I love Cello music. Sis-in-law likes bad rap music and heavy metal, also I think disco in roller skating rinks.
Me: Well she loves roller skating, and he doesn't.
Mother: no, he broke his arm roller skating, hasn't done it since.
Me: Roller skating is dangerous, I prefer ice skating. (I tried both.)
Sis-in-law was a disco roller skating queen in the 1970s and 80s, when it was in.
Sigh. I prefer the Cello. And musicals. And classical music. But I also like some rap, some heavy metal, some hip hop. I think being too picky about culture is like shutting off a part of the world. It's like saying you don't like flowers, but only like trees.
***
My teeth hurt - every time I eat meat or anything tough like tuna steak, and it sticks in my teeth - the teeth hurt. I'd become a vegetarian, but there's a lot of vegetables that do not agree with my digestive system. (Beans and I are unmixy things for example, and sigh, gluten intolerant). But I'm thinking of trying squashes. Also, I'm addicted to celery juice.
***
This Broadway Documentary that I'm still watching - states how A Chorus Line - was created from 100s of interviews. The writer/director/choreographer of A Chorus Line (Michael Bennet) - interviewed and taped hundreds of Broadway Dancers. Michael Bennett - had a lot of pull - because when he asked - people went. So, they all met at midnight one night - and told them what he was doing. Then he asked them questions, and one by one they told their stories.
It's why that musical is so powerful - because it resonates with people - because it's stories from the actual chorus line, actual dancers on Broadway. The dialogue and stories were taken from actual dancers. It wasn't made up. I've seen it on stage, and I saw the movie. And for years I had the original cast album - as a record. (Some days I miss my record collection - it was small, and mostly musical theater. Mother may still have most of it, I don't know.)
Also the original cast - many of those stories were actually their own.
****
During the whole toilet travesty - none of us wore masks. I forgot about it until after they left. Then I felt odd.
***
Revising my contemporary romance novel that is over 800 pages. To see if there's anything there. I think there is. And I like the exercise. See where it goes. The fantasy novel needs to percolate a bit longer - mainly because it's starting to feel like a twist on Arthurian legends, also a lot of the Mabinogi or Welsh and Irish folklore I studied is blending itself in there without my awareness. I'm a subconscious creative writer - I'm not always aware of where all of these stories arise from when I'm writing them.
***
Anyhow...this is long enough, I think. I didn't do all that much today, besides knit, go grocery shopping, and watch tv. I watched more episodes of New Amsterdam, and an episode of Legacies. Tried the Dana Carvey Show documentary - but it didn't hold my interest, while the Broadway documentary is - which goes to show you that I'm more interested in theater than a failed sketch comedy. (I don't tend to like sketch comedy - I know, weird, but there it is.)
Here's a picture..
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Date: 2022-02-28 06:05 am (UTC)Only thing I can think of to explain the "toilet travesty" would require an apartment above you. Assuming the toilets (and likely showers/tubs/sinks) empty into a common vertical pipe (the "stack")...
... a blockage occurs in the apartment below you that obstructs the stack. Someone then flushes the toilet (or takes a long shower, bath) in the apartment above. The water rises up in the stack, reaches your toilet, fills it, partially overflows. Most of the water leaks out of the apartment below.
The blockage could be partial, and eventually the water subsides in the stack, but your toilet bowl would remain filled.
Inquiring minds!
I love cello music, and most string music for that matter. Actually, most music, period. True story:
A friend is visiting, and is looking over part of my CD collection...
Friend: I don't know even a quarter of the musicians you've got here. You have very eclectic tastes.
Me: Thank you!
;-)
Did I mention nice pic? Is that sky or water?
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Date: 2022-02-28 08:03 pm (UTC)Light filtering through the trees. So sky.
Interesting about it being a blockage below - causing issues above, which cause it to leak below. I think that's what the supers were considering - because they seemed to think the problem was below me.
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Date: 2022-02-28 07:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-02-28 02:43 pm (UTC)That's not odd at all. The two languages have a lot more in common than English and German that are similarly related. I don't speak Polish but I can sometimes understand it when I hear it. I often have a harder time telling exactly which (non-Russian) Slavic language I'm hearing than understanding what's being said.
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Date: 2022-02-28 11:22 pm (UTC)Me: So he's Russian -
Co-worker: No, Polish.
Same here - my super would tell me.
Italian, French and Spanish sound similar to me as well - and weirdly I can understand bits of them, since I took French.
But I agree - there's almost nothing recognizable between German and English. I think its because English grabbed a lot of phrases from the Latin languages and Celt?
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Date: 2022-03-01 04:44 am (UTC)English is not an especially good place to start from to learn German. Danes, Germans and English speakers can't understand each other the way Italian and Spanish speakers can. But if you know a little German, languages like Dutch, Norwegian and English seem more like a family with German than not.
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Date: 2022-02-28 07:37 pm (UTC)Hope the pipe issue gets worked out, that's a huge problem for everyone. Also doesn't surprise me about the mask issues -- too early and too many things to focus on.
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Date: 2022-02-28 08:06 pm (UTC)Mine also is turned off at 11 pm and turns on at 6 am. So that may have been an issue - although apparently it was ringing off the hook because the neighbors heard it, and I've got both a landline and a cell, right next to each other - just in the living room. So the sound was heavily muffled? I found the whole experience to be discombobulating.
Seems to be fine now.