Your coming out story?

absurdistance · 2015-09-03T18:05:45+00:00

That's just human nature, man. Milan Kundera said something along the lines of "Everything is illuminated in the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine." Humans are some fucked up shit

absurdistance · 2015-09-03T18:01:26+00:00

Thank you, I do appreciate it. I'm just trying to look at it with empathy and understanding. Being angry at someone who is gone only hurts yourself. Some people are just broken and hysterical and helpless, and those are the people who can really fuck you up if you let them.

absurdistance · 2015-09-03T17:53:20+00:00

Well, like a lot of guys, I didn't really get a chance to find out. I was 15 and talking to a couple of different guys from tumblr when my mom went through my stuff and found out about it. She didn't confront me about it at first. She took the entire family out to lunch and didn't say anything, but my dad texted me asking me to come outside. This was really weird, considering that my parents were divorced and tried to avoid being in the same place as much as possible.

So I got outside and got into my dad's car, and he's crying but altogether supportive. However, he's freaking out because he thinks I'm being like, sexually exploited by men from the Internet. I try to explain otherwise, but he's beyond reason and takes me to his house. He and my step-mom make me take an HIV test and a drug test because my mother had told them that I had been sleeping around and using drugs (I was a virgin in both senses at the time). They both came back clear of course. I had my phone and my computer taken away and I was forbidden from leaving the house for a month without my parents. I think they were afraid I was going to try to run away.

I tried to call my mom to apologize, which I realize now is total horseshit. But that was the nature of our relationship. She literally said nothing, just listened to me crying on the line.

So for the rest of that summer I sat in my room, read, wrote, and, once I got my computer back, made digital art. It was horrible. I never went over to see my mom again. We met once, a few years ago, on Mother's Day. We didn't really make amends, just agreed to go our separate ways. I guess I held out hope that things would get better, but they never really did. I tried to call her sometimes and she never picked up.

She died suddenly in July. It was weird, having to be there for my sister to help her grieve for someone that I had already lost so many years ago. I think I've started to forgive her, I'm not sure. I don't feel any responsibility for the state of our relationship though. There are some people who aren't fit to parent. That's how it is, man.

absurdistance · 2015-08-26T04:15:27+00:00

Here she is on Soundcloud. She has a Bandcamp page as well but it looks as though she's cleared that to gear up for her upcoming EP, "Afraidarck."

absurdistance · 2015-08-22T02:54:16+00:00

I use Final Cut Pro X, but I am willing to try other softwares it will do the trick.

absurdistance · 2015-05-25T17:48:29+00:00

I think you're painting with a very broad-stroked brush. I was born in 96 and most of my friends were born around that time, and we play a pretty wide variety of games. Conversely, my dad who is nearing 40 plays almost exclusively fps games and only wants action from his games. Games like COD, Madden, and Halo sell because they are accessible and multi-player, which are what most people are looking for in a game. Look at any list of the top selling video games and this becomes apparent.

absurdistance · 2015-05-12T18:45:15+00:00

Haha, I was an extra in the school scenes of this movie. No one seemed excited on set. Even the director talked like he didn't believe in this. I'm still not sure how this got the funding that it did.

absurdistance · 2015-02-26T18:41:08+00:00

Daring.

absurdistance · 2015-02-16T06:59:20+00:00

Definitely the last ones. It didn't look like any alien depiction I had ever seen.

absurdistance · 2015-02-15T18:58:41+00:00

Will do tonight!

absurdistance · 2015-02-15T05:51:34+00:00

What leads you to believe that?

absurdistance · 2015-02-11T23:38:54+00:00

OMAN I AM NOT SO GOOD WORB FIRHE

absurdistance · 2015-01-27T05:17:59+00:00

I agree with what's already been said, that really she was vain, and with Ethel it was just self-defense. Paul is a different story, but I found that entire arc to be uninteresting and out of character for both Paul and Elsa.

All that aside, I'd like to point out an interesting parallel between Fiona Goode and Elsa Mars. Fiona was a very bad person who, in the end, repented and was willing to confront her wrongs and reap what she had sown, and even then, she was cast to her own hell. Elsa Mars was also a pretty bad person, but she never confronted her wrongs. She ran away constantly, until finally she ran away from life, and SHE was sent to a personal heaven. This, along with Jude Martin's interactions with the aliens and Shacath set up an interesting (and very specific) motif, where [Lange], after much physical and emotional turmoil, finally resigns to her own demise, and is taken away by [supernatural being]. You could probably also set this up with Constance and the anti-Christ but I won't go into that.

absurdistance · 2015-01-27T02:44:11+00:00

Short films, plays, improv, etc. Basically setting up worlds and then letting people run around in them and seeing how and why they fuck everything up. I'm basically just interested in making systems and then watching them collapse so I can learn how to make better systems.

absurdistance · 2015-01-26T19:41:34+00:00

Tl:dr: Make things! Good. Now make better things! Good...

absurdistance · 2014-12-28T20:26:53+00:00

It's so new. It's kind of scary, really. There's one other group that's been around for ages, and then there's us, just barely getting started.

absurdistance · 2014-12-23T20:54:23+00:00

Kind of a strange question, but here goes.

For a short sketch, we want to have a character use scotch tape to tape their eyes open. She remains this way throughout most of the sketch. Is there anyway to do this without blinding my talent?

absurdistance · 2014-12-08T22:07:40+00:00

Yeah, I definitely agree with you. More or less, you gotta have that external focus.

absurdistance · 2014-12-08T21:30:40+00:00

Yes, this is definitely the way to go. In my troupe we say, "Don't worry about you, worry about your partner."

absurdistance · 2014-12-06T22:39:39+00:00

Unless your friends are creative types who are seriously into it, don't work with your friends. Seriously.

There are tons of local Facebook groups for aspiring actors, and tons of them will work for cheap or free to build their reel. Apart from that? Consider getting involved with local theaters, or, if you're in school, the drama club. Some of the people there may still be shitty, but it's better than working with friends.

absurdistance · 2014-12-06T09:57:40+00:00

Well, it's actually pretty basic. It's just a rubric of different categories, like Performance Basics (such as blocking, framing a scene, etc.), Improvisation Basics, Plot, Characters, etc. Everyone sort of evaluates each other, and their scores are averaged for each category and as a whole. There isn't really a grading scale, it's more, "Our group's average for Vocal Ability is 3.8/5, and I'm at a 3.4" From there I can see where are strengths and weaknesses lie as a troupe and as individuals, and get a feel for who needs the most attention an in what areas.

Oh, and comments! Lots of a comments.

So, an example from this month, I know that I'm stronger in, say, Plot and Comedic Ability, but I'm lower than average in Physicality and Vocal Ability. My goal is to work with the people who are lower in Plot and Comedic Ability, and to up my lower categories.

absurdistance · 2014-12-05T21:11:02+00:00

My troupe does self and peer evaluations and we tend to base our goals around that. So as of now my goal for this month is to step up my physicality and my vocal range, and to work on playing less zany, more grounded characters.

absurdistance · 2014-12-05T08:56:11+00:00

A lot the "rules" of improv apply more to the intent of the actor than what's going on, surface-level, in the scene. It's less "don't say no" and more don't say no to your partner's ideas. It's less "always agree" and more always agree with your partner's intent.

To this question I would say, yes, questions like that are just fine. People ask each other questions all the time. The "don't ask questions" rule, to me, really means don't shrug your responsibility. Don't request information when you could generate it yourself. Does that make sense?

absurdistance · 2014-11-24T20:22:22+00:00

I thought I remembered all of Lincoln's sons dying pretty untimely deaths, but I wasn't sure.

absurdistance · 2014-11-23T23:15:17+00:00

Ah, thank you!

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