Jay Croft

January 22, 2009January 23, 2009

What I Did On 2009-01-22

Start a part time job, tomorrow night at Mambo Italiano in Norcross. #
Darn it. I steeped my green tea too long again. bitter. #
@rinaslayter Days? Yikes. Thanks. in reply to rinaslayter #
@rinaslayter Good to know. I keep a pitcher of water here at my desk with my canisters of tea leaves. in reply to rinaslayter #
Trying to get excited about rehearsal tonight. #
@the_brian_jones What’cha doing at Red Clay in reply to the_brian_jones #
You know you live in Georgia when you have Theatre names like “Kudzu” and “Red Clay” and “Peachtree” #
Broccoli in a lite vinaigrette is not the same as dipped in a fatning glob of ranch. #
Off the rehearsal. b-bye. #

January 21, 2009

What I Did On 2009-01-21

@wcdarling Nice one. in reply to wcdarling #
What FONT are you? http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/helvetica/quiz.html I am Helvetica. “industry standard. Classic. Reliable. Bit Boring” #
@the_brian_jones Yeah. I can see that. Congrats on the job BTW. in reply to the_brian_jones #

January 21, 2009April 29, 2009

I Ought To Be In Pictures

By Neil Simon

Neil Simon Monologues (ISBN: 0-940669-34-X)

HERB: Wait a minutes, you! You just listen to me a minute. I never figures I had anything coming to me. I gave you up, that was my loss. I left that house because if I had stayed it would have turned into a war zone and there would have been no survivors. You want to talk about guilts, regrets – I got enough to fill up my garage. But that’s my business and I’ll handle it my own way. I never expected anything from you or your brother. Outside this house, you can call me any goddamn thing you want to call me. But under this roof is my domain, and if you talk to me, you show me some respect.

HERB: Okay! For the sake of argument, let us say someone looks at the card. Someone is looking for a valet service for his son’s bar mitzvah. Someone just met a girl at the party and wants to write down her number. Someone has a piece of spare rib in his teeth and is trying to pick it out with the card. Only a small percentage of that group will look at the back of the card. But let’s say one does. He sees, “Libby Tucker, New York trained actress – No Part Is Too Big or Too Small.” Do you imagine he’s going to slam his foot on the break, pull off the road and, say to his wife, “That’s exactly what I’m looking for. An actress trained in New York who doesn’t care if the part is too big or too small. Right under my nose in my very own car. What a break for me. I’ll contact her first thing in the morning and hope and pray that someone else with spare ribs in their teeth didn’t get to her before me!”

January 20, 2009January 21, 2009

What I Did On 2009-01-20

My Dad was wondering if Nintendo would put out a miniature version of the Wii called the Wee Wii. #
I would love to have seen Colin Powell as Pres and Madeline Albright as VP. How’s that for a ticket. #

January 20, 2009April 29, 2009

Life During Wartime

by Keith Reddin

Synopsis: Tommy, a young security systems salesman, made his first sale to Gale, a divorced mother of a teenage son. Gales is older than he is, but that doesn’t keep them from falling deeply in love and planning to marry. After Tommy makes a few good sales, his boss tells him about the company’s sideline: robbing the homes in which they’ve installed security systems. The boss offers Tommy a piece of the action and he replies that he needs some time to think about it. A short while later, Tommy learns that Gale and her son have been murdered as they walked in on a burglary in their home. In the next scene, Tommy is in a bar talking to Richie, a total stranger.

TOMMY: This one time, I brought over this bottle of champagne, we were celebrating … I don’t know, I’d made two or three sales in a row and I was feeling hot, like I could do anything and we sat at the kitchen table, in her kitchen and we drank this champagne and … we drank it pretty fast it was so cold and it was good champagne, it was a bottle of really good champagne and we drank it fast and we got drunk and we were laughing, laughing at anything either of us said, and I was sort of sliding out of my chair and then I said the floor looks really good, why don’t I just lie on the floor and I did, I was lying on the kitchen tiles and they were cold and I said Gale join me on the kitchen floor and she did and we were both so drunk and laughing and the floor was sort of spinning as we lay on it, like we were lying in this boat on the waves and we lay on the floor and looked up at the ceiling of the kitchen and we held each other and I loved her so much and I said that, I said I love you so much and I wanted to say on the kitchen floor for the rest of my life, holding her, holding this beautiful woman that I loved, but of course you can’t. You can’t lie on the tile for too long, because … I’m sorry I forgot your name…

Timed to 50 seconds:

TOMMY: We were sitting at her kitchen table and we drank this champagne and … we drank it pretty fast and we got drunk and we were laughing at anything either of us said, and I was sort of sliding out of my chair and then I said the floor looks really good, why don’t I just lie on the floor and I did, I was lying on the kitchen tiles and they were cold and I said Gale join me and she did and we were both so drunk and laughing and the floor was sort of spinning as we lay on it, like we were lying in this boat on the waves and we looked up at the ceiling of the kitchen and we held each other and I loved her so much and I said I love you so much and I wanted to say on the kitchen floor for the rest of my life holding this beautiful woman that I loved, but of course you can’t. You can’t lie on the tile for too long, because … I’m sorry I forgot your name…