Uphill both ways

So it's been snowing here in Provo for about three days straight and it pretty much feels like I'm walking to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways. I got back from winter break and literally had to let my car slide into a parking spot. Luckily there weren't many other cars around. So I decided to go to the grocery store yesterday and figured my best bet would be to put my car into four wheel drive but in order to do that I have to turn these locks on my two front wheels and I could only get one of them in place. Thinking that would be better than nothing I tried to pull out of the spot but the back of my car just kind of swung from side to side and when I put my foot on the break my front wheel kept spinning so I put the car into park and it made that horrible noise that a car makes when a person who can't drive a stick shift tries to and it kind of goes reeeeeeeeaaaaarrrrrrrruuuuggghhhh. So I think I broke it... we'll see.

In other news this semester may well kill me. There's a student film I'd like to try out for but I don't think I'll have time with all this other stuff. I'm still working on "Picture of Dorian Gray" until about mid-February and this semester we start production on "Inspector 42"... I don't act in that however, I'm in the art department. On top of all that though my makeup class this semester is intense. For an assignment I have to supervise one of the BYU productions so I chose Macbeth... this means I have to be there for all the dress rehearsals, makeup training days, photocalls, and the run of the show. I have to be one of the first people there and one of the last to leave. Also, I'll have to supervise the beginning makeup students, making sure their doing everything right. Now this would be intimidating normally but this show is extra scary because they're doing tattoos that appear gradually throughout the show which means I'll have to be airbrushing tattoos onto actors backstage during the show... scary. Also since just about everybody dies in Macbeth there's lots of injury makeup I'll have to do pretty quickly backstage... lots of blood. Also, every single person in the cast is wearing a wig. Why the boys need to wear wigs is beyond me but that's just what happens I suppose. So yeah, it's going to be an insanely busy semester but hopefully I'll live.

So far no news on the book front. I'm still waiting for the copyright to come in and I've arranged for my friend to shoot the cover of the book for me. Then I'll buy a UPC for the book so that it can be sold and my roommate Jackie will design the cover and format the book since she knows inDesign really well.

Picture of Dorian Gray trailer

Alright this is the official trailer for the indie film I'm in based on Oscar Wilde's novel "Picture of Dorian Gray"... keep in mind we didn't have our boom for my scene in the pink dress so it's not entirely my fault that you can't understand a word I'm saying. Also, A major motion picture studio is currently working on a version of this story with Ben Barnes and Rachel Hurwood... I'm not sure how much this will affect us but it's kind of irksome that they'll get all the publicity and we may get compared to them even though our budget is completely nonexistent and their's is unending. /end rant. Enjoy the trailer :)


Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8FlV3dFqMc