A Change of Pace

My blog is going to be shifting gears to topics relating to monologues. This is because I am in the process of creating a website about audition monologues for women. It can be very time consuming to find a good monologue. You have either spend hours seaching the web or reading through books. That's why I'm making a site that will be a collection of monologues that have worked for me. This site is a work in progress, but so far I have monologues from The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare, Voice of the Prairie by John Olive, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, and some others. If anyone out there is in need of a monologue that works really well, go ahead and visit my site! www.ius.edu/abraune

Be Kind Rewind

I recently saw the movie Be Kind Rewind. It is written and directed by Michel Gondry, the genius who made Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, and all those cool music videos for bands like Radiohead and The White Stripes. Be Kind Rewind stars Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, and Mia Farrow. In a nutshell, all the movies in a small, vintage video store are erased, so Black and Def try to save the store by remaking or "sweding" all the movies, including Ghostbusters, Rush Hour 2, and 2001 Space Odyssey. I love this movie, obviously, since I tend not to write about movies I don't like. I was very disappointed with some of the American public when I heard people leaving the theater sputtering, "Well that was a disaster..." Kids these days just don't understand. These people wouldn't know a work of art if it slapped them in the face. Anyway, despite what some may say, Be Kind Rewind is a wonderful movie. Go see it now.