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Feb. 27th, 2022 07:36 pmWoke 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.]
( difference between film and stage acting from the perspective of top professional film and stage actors )
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...
( Read more... )
***
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.]
( difference between film and stage acting from the perspective of top professional film and stage actors )
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...
( Read more... )
***
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..