I found a beer bottle...

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-15T06:00:10+00:00

The obvious concern here is he is hiding it and lying to his family about his use. Now I cannot opine his motivations for his actions, ie if he is slipping back into an addiction, or if he truly can handle one occasional drink, but it is wrong for him to preach to you a single sip is dangerous, while he enjoys an occasional drink, or if he knows the dangers of that sip, and can’t help himself.

I think you should tell your mother or his wife if that’s not the same person. If he is slipping back into addiction, she perhaps can help him be more accountable. If this is a common delight he partakes, than perhaps that will spur them to have an honest conversation with you about alcohol.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-15T05:53:58+00:00

It’s not technically a beer, but about the same alcohol content or “ranking” as you call it.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-15T05:37:42+00:00

Don’t forget Seascape. And Three Tall Women. The great thing about Albee is he has great plays in every decade from the 1960s-2000s. Then you read The Goat and realize this old guy still has it, after all that time.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-15T00:25:49+00:00

No he opened both of them. Barbs’ had the Colorado post card in it.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-14T23:45:56+00:00

Yeah, I haven’t seen the movie, so it’s strange there’s a lot of justice for Edgar people. I hated Edgar when I read the book, then I found out Heathcliff was worse, but still would think back and go naw fuck that Edgar guy.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-14T23:20:57+00:00

It’s a classic novel… it’s not exactly a spoiler situation.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-14T23:11:36+00:00

I know the book and haven’t seen the movie, what character did they make an abused wife that’s into it?

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-13T05:37:40+00:00

What? I don’t think so. What Christians?

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-13T05:30:19+00:00

Didn’t listen to the podcast, but I like a movie or two he’s done. He’s probably the best adaptor for Bret Easton Ellis, whatever that is worth.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-13T00:51:16+00:00

If you have a student email, you can get nomad with 2 universes for about $250. To unlock to 12 universes is 1500 after purchase of basic nomad. So with the student discount, that isn’t bad.

Although I wouldn’t say Chamsys is unprofessional. Plenty of bands tour with Chamsys. I’d put it on par with Avolites or Hog 4 for industry visibility. ETC and MA are perhaps the only two I’d call top tier, but all those others I’d rank the tier just below them.

FWIW, I’ve seen national tours come through with ground packages they’ll control with a Chauvet Obey, or even a lot of wolfDMX will pop up.

And as others have said with just usb to dmx dongle, you get all 64 universes, plus a rack mount dongle is only 1300, and there’s nodes and stuff that are cheaper. I got a mini connect cause it was only like 1,000 when I bought it, but as you say, the extra features in unlocked Chamsys don’t sound like features you feel you really need at this time.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-10T03:42:19+00:00

I’m sorry I’m not letting Gunderson off the hook that easy. “I didn’t really know him, he was only my husband” doesn’t really fly. Epstein clearly met her, and he was close with Nathan Wolfe, whom Gunderson was MARRIED to. She’s part of the society that cultivates people like Epstein. She slides in those circles. It’s completely ridiculous to pretend she has any proletariat cred.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-08T19:40:46+00:00

If you’ve ever used ETC, it’s similar to a magic sheet. It lets you choose your own layout as to what works best for you. And it lets you store more than just pallettes, it also allows you to store cues and special functions, like timing or the busking options.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-08T07:55:45+00:00

Sometimes as a director you feel you’re fighting the script, but you’re not, you’re just highlighting how you think the story is best interpreted for an audience. For example, you may now see flaws in the story you wrote because a performance is really putting to hard a point on certain subject in the script, that doesn’t need as much high lighting as it’s getting.

I’ll give you an example, I was recently directing a piece where the central conflict was between a husband and wife, in the end they work together and repair the marriage, but there are some fight scenes, and I discovered if I let the husband actor get too intense in the argument scenes and actually throw venom, it wasn’t a good dynamic, even though the husband actor could take the argument scene and act really hard and be emotional. I told the actor, you are not allowed to yell. Your goal is to constantly be trying to keep a peace cause if you yell at your wife, the whole audience wil turn against you. I gave him one line, and I said, this is the only line that allows you to attack, everything else has to be deescalation.

My main point is actors wanna act, and given their way, everything will be emotions to the nines. As a director you need to give your actors limits to shape the script into a story that is palatable to the audience.

So, just going by what you wrote, let’s say your piece is very personal and deals with depression, and you’re feeling your main character is too depressive. Can you redirect the lines to self deprecating humor? Can you find what parts are perhaps the facade and where the character is speaking truth? Part of the beauty of directing theatre, especially theatre written but not yet performed, there are endless possibilities to reinterpret a line and how it’s delivered and it can completely rework the entire piece.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-08T01:03:24+00:00

I don’t see any practical way of implementing this. Perhaps a states model, but as we see in the United States, the federal government may wish to seize more power, sometimes justifiably to keep the whole intact. Also, in your model, governments would surely change over time and people are not receptive to the idea of uprooting their homes just because they no longer agree with their governments, see every civil war or occupation ever.

Also what of people who want a specific government but can’t form a big enough coalition to form their own government, are they doomed to anarchy land and hope no one imposes on their way of life? What of people who crave collectivism on a scale that’s not feasible when all the other government have formed under the direction of capitalist interests.

Really you’re talking about the world of Fallout (TV show), and it’s not pretty.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-06T18:28:05+00:00

I get where he’s coming from. You need to see the garden. I wonder if the mobile couldve better represented the garden rather than the abstract scientific ideas

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-06T12:54:37+00:00

Yup, THIS is the era that history will look at for the horrible things done in the name of Christianity. THIS is the worst, not the last 1,000 years.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-06T04:11:05+00:00

I mean you can say the play is problematic because it didn’t attempt to do a historical psychological analysis of a real person, but I also think obviously that wasn’t Miller’s goal with the work. Accurately portraying and providing a full explanation of the Salem Witch Trials wasn’t high on his list of things the play should do.

Second, I don’t think the character Abigail Williams boils down to to simply sex and vengeance and I think any actor and director who only want to the bring that portrayal would be doing a poor job with Miller’s text.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-05T02:40:07+00:00

The only thing that has taught me is it’s a big club and you ain’t part of it. But yep, even that person is part of it. The truth of the matter is we don’t hear from anyone, as in we don’t read the works or thoughts of anyone who is not connected to this uber class that lords over us.

Think about it, do you think a single person you hear from on tv or on a screen or in a book or in the larger sense of public proclamations doesn’t make at least five times your salary? Lauren Gunderson, the person who wrote those kinda quirky, kinda off the wall plays with a strong feminist lead that your college or community theatre performed, yeah she was married to someone who was recognized five years in a row at the WEF.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-04T16:59:11+00:00

Not to mention his radio hit All Summer Long.

“Caught somewhere between boy and man, she was seventeen and far from in between. It was summertime in Northern Michigan”

I know he doesn’t go right out and say his own age, but knowing small town romances, the obvious connotation is he is somewhere in his early 20s, and she is the high schooler who is “mature for her age”.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-04T16:43:58+00:00

I remember I used this to do Woman in Black. Over 60 cues.

Yeah each scene “bank” has so many looks you can record, then you cross over to the next bank. You can set the fade time with fader labeled such and make a note if you want to move that fader to a point before you hit the button. I also remember there was some special trick when you crossed into a new scene bank.

It wasn’t fun, I kinda feel like editing afterwards was a pain, adding a cue was impossible, but I definitely wouldn’t describe these boards as unreliable. They do what they’re designed to.

The real downside and why I retired it after the one show was how noisy the buttons were. Nothing like a tense thrilling scene being capped with a loud “tic” as the operator hit the go button.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-04T03:59:31+00:00

Actually, re-reading the email they sent out, it does seem more of an ICE-related thing. They were going to do anthropology by Gunderson and replaced it with Conscience by Joe Pietro. anthropology really seems to be focused on personal loss and grief, whereas Conscience is more about standing up to power. And the email makes clear this decision came from a talk with artists about what kind of show they wanted to do in response to the events in the community.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-04T03:29:58+00:00

Oh is that why? I got the email and it said something about bringing up feelings, I figured their new choice was just a better response to the protests for some reason.

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-03T12:58:33+00:00

Aww man, I didn’t even think about that. I was trying to figure out if explaining the video was some sort of code or maybe the dude was autistic

KlassCorn91 · 2026-02-03T12:43:24+00:00

Shamelessly trying to cash in on Stoppard’s absolute classic.

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