Ello all!!!!!!!!!!!! So I saw the preview last night on the tele, and then a friend of mine who works at PRF posted this on her MySpace Blog and I posted it on mine. So here it is for my RenSpace Shire folks. I cannot wait to see this when it comes out. I will be so sad that this will be the end of Will Turner, Elizabeth Swan, and the famous, charming, and by God where is the RUM???? *cough* Sorry; .... Capt. Jack Sparrow.

I am stoked that we will see how this adventure ends, but the fact that it's the last is so depressig.

Just like The Lord Of The Rings, all epic and good things must come to an all-too-soon end. Well, here is a taste of what is to come from our pirate heros. Enjoy. And please restrain yourselves from slobbering too much over the key bord. You don't want to short anything and have the video cut out in the middle.

And with out further ado:

Now wasn't that effin awesome??? Ahhh I can't it!

I made the skin myself!! Thanks to Morror Mask and Arwen Photography and PRF!!
~Lulu

It has taken forever, but my pix section is finally working!! YAY!!! Here are some to start with. ENJOY!!! Lemme know what yall think!

www.renspace.com
~Lulu

Thursday, February 22, 2007

"To be? Or not to be?"..A Blackfryar. That is the question...
Current mood: confused
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

Hey all! I told ya that I would keep you posted on how the whole Blackfryar cast thing went....

Ok, so not thinking I would actually get anything I carried on my way through out my very long day on Tuesday(humm that rymed). I mean, I have never tried out for anything before, I only really sing in the shower and the car and I have the worlds worst memory! I'm truly happy I remember my own name half the time, and sometimes I have to think about whom I am talking to as to what THEY know me by. Gosh I blame school for that problem!

Anyway, I have a Sprint phone...I know, I know. Your asking yourselves; "Why on God's great green earth, would she do a thing like that????" Simple answer, I was backed into a corner by my mom and the creepy Radio Shack guy. Need I say more?? Didn't think so... So I have a Sprint phone and it gets the WORST reception in the entire universe!!!! Granted, I live in the country, but my drive to work is all wide open spaces and I pass like God knows how many cell towers the entire way down the road! Well, I was in the barn mucking stalls, the usual, and being that I am in a metal barn that acts as a fricken metal wall to the cell tower right outside, my stupid Sprint phone never goes off when I have a call.

I finished stalls and started down the road and the 1st chance my lil phone got A bar, it beeped that I had a voicemail. And as per the norm, I call and check it. It was John. One of the rockin actors and judges at my tryouts on Sunday. He wanted to know ya know, if I was intrested cuz I got the part in the Blackfryars group. UMM YEAH I WANT IT!! Now, granted, I really had no intent on going to audition, and actually getting a part. I really just wanted to kill time while my dear friend Laura tried out. Now me being me, I had to make sure that I had all my lines memorized cuz again, we know how bad my memory sux...(What were we talking about??? j/j) So like a crazy person, I cliped my script of Spoon River Anthology up to a shower ring while I was in the shower that morning, reciting these lines over and over again. Thank goodness I wash my hair twice. It gave me some time! lol And then ALL the way down the road, I kept going over them. I think Laura knew the monologue as well as I did by the time we got there! lol I sang a song before I left the house but still not knowing what I was gonna do when I actually got there. I didn't know what they wanted! So when I sang, thank goodness it was a faire song and one that I knew pretty well.

So after phaying phone tag which really only went one way, I finally got ahold of John today while I was at work. He was a really chill cat to talk to over the phone. He probably thinks I'm a loony though. There was a delay on our phone so he probably thinks I have like this studdering problen or something. Humm, that would make singing a song quite intresting now that I think about it! lol

My biggest problem about the entire thing is that I really wish and hope that my two frineds make it with me. It just wouldn't be right if they didn't. I would feel horribale. I know for a fact, that they are AMAZING actors. I hope they see that as well. And then my 2nd biggest problem WAS that I will have to miss some of faire to go to Germany. I asked John and the only stipulation is that I being back souvenirs. I think I can pull that off. My work is even cooperating with the faire schedual. I did have to bribe the boss with tickets though. Damn. Oh well. I'll take what I can get! lol

Currently listening :
Waiting for My Rocket to Come
By Jason Mraz
Release date: By 15 October, 2002

Blackfryars Auditions
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

My Blackfryars Auditions..

Hey kids!! How are you all doing? Here is how my day went Sunday! I just had to tell someone!
OK so I had decided Thursday to audition for the Ren Faire just for shits and giggles. My friend who was going to audition needed a ride and I though what the heck since I was there I wanted to see what it was like. So I had to work all day Friday, and Sat, and ended up memorizing my monologue in the shower Sunday morning(no really)! I hung the thing up on a shower ring and while washing my hair, recited the lines.
The audition time was at 1:35. I had to sing as well (eek)! and I had no idea as to what I was going to deafen the judges with until I got there!
I did my monologue, and then they were like "OK, so you wanna go ahead and sing for us." I was like, Umm OK! So under shaky legs I belted the only song that I knew right then and there only cuz it was stuck in my head, "Tell Me Ma," and old Celtic folk song. It actually didn't sound too bad. I effed up the 2nd line but kept on going. After, I kept apologizing and I told them that I only sang in like the shower and the artistic director was like "Don't apologize for being a great singer" I almost hit the floor! I told him "I heart you so much more for that! Thank you!" And then John, one of the Pro actors was like "OK, other then being a songbird, can you do anything else?" I almost peed myself then. I knew they were just being nice. But it felt good.
There were like 5 people in the room some were Pro actors and some art/cast peoples. "I'm great at being sarcastic!" I responded to John. I had them rolling and then I told them that "I am great with animals, but that wouldn't help me here." And they were like do you work with horses? I was like "Horses, dogs, cats, I am a certified pet care tech." And they asked if I rode and yeah, I rode (past tense its been ages since on the back of a horse consistentlybut i still get on occasionaly when I have the time.) so they were thrilled that I had horsey experience.
Then they asked me if I could stay for callbacks. I had nothing better to do, so I said Yeah! Really not expecting to be called back but I had time to kill and my friend who went before me, needed to stay anyway to find out if she got called back or not..

I sat there for like over an hour, and then this guy came out and called off this list of names for the callback for Blackfryars, and mine was called! I was like, "Can you repeat that in my hopeful ear?" So we went in (my friend and I and about 10+ other people), and did a bunch of group improves. I heart improve!

So that was over and John the one actor/judge, said that if we got anything, we should hear back from him in like 2 weeks or so and all that crap. And then the one judge lady was like "OK if I call you name please stay, everyone else you can leave." So I heard my name. I didn't know what to do! My friend's name wasn't called! I was like a deer in headlights! So this lil thing came in, her name I think was Jane Ellen. I have seen her for years at faire performing and she just has a stunning voice. I knew she was made the music director this past year, and she was like "OK, I want to hear you all sing" I had cotton mouth and nothing to drink and I was still all confused and couldn't still figure out why they wanted me to sing again! I thought once was enough torture...for them!
And so Jane had us all get up on the stage and as a group sing "Amazing Grace" She said that one person start it, and everyone else join in. So one girl was like OK who's starting it, and I donno what came over me, but I was like "I'll start if yall want me to." It was an unanimous "OK" I figured that no one wanted to make an ass out of themselves if they effed it up and I really didn't think about it till after we all sang and sat down and I realized what I had done. I rocked the start of the song though. and we all sounded great together. There was like 9 of us girls and a guy. And then she was like OK I love you all and wanted to end it there but then she was like OK, I want to hear your songs individually. I was like Oh man!
The 1st girl got up and started to do the "Star Spangled Banner" . I really liked her voice. Then I went 2nd. I though that since I messed up that line the 1st time singing, it REALLY matters this time, I had damn sight get them right.
So I started singing and the 2nd line that I messed up, I nailed and I felt great! I just kept singing my little song and I heard this lil squeal and puttering and when I looked down Jane (who was standing in the center of the room) was jumping up and down and had a huge smile on her face and giving the thumbs up and this one other girl was all happy too. She had worked at faire this past year as a Bonny Sot i think. I just loved the tone of her voice and the song she sang was beautiful, and was trying out again and they both looked really pleased. And as soon as I stopped singing, Jane let out this "YESSSS I LOVE THAT SONG" I was like "Sweet life!" Everyone else did like Happy Birthday and one girl did a song from Les Mis. My friend Lauren did the same song for one of her college performances and killed it and I LOVED that song !
And then they let us all go, and some of us stayed behind to ask questions, and chit chat and get pointers, and I was talking to the one lady and I asked her the diff between the part time "Blackfryers" and the pro cast, and so on..
Everyone is equal between Pro and Blackfryers, its just that Pro is there 6 days a week and they get paid, and Blackfryers is Part time (Only there to rehearse on Weds and Sats till faire starts) and doesn't get paid.

I didn't think that I wanted to do it before going in to audition but then as the day went on, I get bit by the bug as they say and now I really want it.

I ended up being the only one left in the room, and they were all talking to me like OK you should learn this song, or that.

My family always told me not to sing or more so never encouraged me when I did. They just didn't care, so I only kept singing in the shower or the car (that's my fav place) and it felt really nice to have a handful of people, whom I respected and admired on so many levels, be that pleased by what I did. I was honestly waiting on the 1st go-round an American Idol-esqu thing where they tell me "That was absolutely dreadful!" But they were all smiles and encouragement and it was the greatest feeling in the world!

I won't be too upset if I don't get anything, I'll still rock out in the Chocolate Shop. Of that I am guaranteed. I'm stoked just about that. I just hope, that if they do call me back and give me a something, they will be OK with me missing that weekend in October. If not, like I said I'm good at the shop. They already know what's up. I just don't want John and the other judges to be mad.

I'l put an update on all this tomorrow..