Friday, June 20, 2008
Videos and an Update
My summer goal is to get at least one of my new quilt tops quilted on my home sewing machine. My camera is not cleaned out of the pictures from our trip because our summer weather has been too beautiful for sitting at they computer. If you've been to the theater lately you may have seen the preview made fun of in this video.
This video from The Onion is also funny:
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"Best Performance in a Pre-Show Prayer Circle"
Oooooh man that brought back memories! I did props for a couple of plays, but was a choir nerd more than a drama nerd. Thanks for the laugh!
"If theater kids were considered nerds, I suppose the tech crew was really low on the totem pole, but life is much more fun if you let your geek flag fly! "
There was a pretty formal hierarchy, with the stage crew at the top, dancers at the bottom, and so on.
Theater kids aren't really nerds, more so on tv (where people with boats all wear captains hats and blazers, farmers are mentally challenged to put two words together, fathers can't perform a single household chore correctly, and all businessmen are evil) than in reality. But as is said about Disney's High School Musical, it might be entertaining, but it doesn't have much to do with actual high school or actual musicals either. I can think of the words we actually used to describe actor types, but it wouldn't be "correct" to repeat them here, though nobody was all that offended back then.
Frankly, my high school experience was that crew involved having a lot of friends, of both sexes, and an active social life. (While at the same time the "normal" guys in my advisory probably didn't say more than a few words to a girl in their four years in high school. Who was the nerd?)
Stage crews can have a geek streak, but I saw it as decidely creative and crafty, and a fair number of people I did it with were definitely not geeks. Though some obviously were (and are). Probably depends who's running it and how?
R
R- We were absolutely not geeks! I'm only making an awkward attempt at self-deprication. Of course you are correct that the tech crew is at the top of the totem pole of theater because of our technical expertise and creativity. These days it seems like it's totally chic to be a geek, so I guess I'm referring to that here. Obviously in real life all those social hierarchies are totally artificial and I can't imagine anyone having more fun in school and in their free time than we did at crew.
I do remember that I read in the New Trier newspaper back then that "only geeks hang out in the rotunda". I laughed as I realized that I hung out regularly in the rotunda and I liked my friends there and I really don't care if "they" think it's a geeky hangout. I absolutely never felt persecuted ever at school. You, Anonymous R, had your own cool, fun car and were hanging out with girls so you were really high status!
I've been so nostalgic lately. I think it's time for me to get a job.
Rebel- Props was one task none of us really liked to do. My friends preferred building, painting, and lighting to fiddling with props, but it was all good times!
S- I hope I didn't sound defensive about it, but I'd hate for anyone to think that it was all nerds.
Anybody who shows any interest in activities beyond just sitting on the couch and changing channels is going to get called a nerd or a geek by "normal" people who have no serious interests of their own. So being "geeked" about something is actually where the fun comes from!
-R
Hey, we had an airline pilot neighbor down the street on Cherry Street -- he still lives there, I think. He flew for American for years, and back in the mid 1970s his annoying daughter was forever bragging to the rest of us on the block about the family's frequent trips to Maui.
This was back when exotic travel for my family meant a drive to my grandmother's place in Urbana IL, or maybe the other grandmother's outside Detroit.
Anonymous J- Did you ever try camping at the forest preserve? I wish we could have gotten away with that. The most I ever did at the preserves is light illegal fireworks.
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