yesterday

Spent the day with Dad, yesterday, as planned - we went to the Conservatory to ogle the pretty plants, and then to the mall for lunch and me trying to return something. Still failed to return said thing, because neither that store nor the one in U Village had my size in what I want. *Sighs* Oh well. I've got store credit, and I can just keep trying.

After that, theladyfeylene and I finally got out to see "The Phantom of the Opera" in movie form! It was visually spectacular, musically quite good, and from an acting stand-point, a hell of a lot more impressive than I would ever have expected. ( The specific review - gushing, spoilers, and my attempts to play acting/directing coach within. )

I also remembered, yesterday, just how much it changes one's impressions of someone to actually draw them. The attention that must be payed to properly recreate a person's features brings out things you've never consciously noticed before - I think it should be a required activity for all actors, because it makes you notice exactly what a person is doing with their face that gives off the impressions it does. How I went twelve years (TWELVE! More than half my life!) without fully noticing that Andrew Robison (as Garak, at least, but I think in most of his performances, as well) has the peculiar habit of always holding his eyes more open than most people on a daily basis, I will never know. It totally changed the picture I was working on to realize that and then, when I explained this to my roommates, I demonstrated... and immediately realized why. There's a sudden feeling of greater attention, greater awareness, and a sort of... constant vigilance and curiosity, like he's trying to take in everything around him, all the time.

And now I'm very glad I'm alone in my room, because I'm sitting here pulling my backbone straight, opening my eyes rather wide, and generally putting on my best impression of his physicality for that role. Damn, I miss this stuff. I love how the physicality bleeds almost immediately into emotional changes, how quickly you can alter what your body thinks by how you hold it.

The cat is crying. I'd better figure out what he wants, and then get going with reading.

I'd say this was a surprise...

If it weren't so completely obvious to me that it was what I'd get. ;)

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