mikeyg13

and 3 weeks later...

2004-05-27T20:57:21Z

I died! I just...stopped living!!! Nah, I didn't really. I just haven't been in an updating kind of place lately. Don't know why. Anyways, Hey! I'm back home in jersey, yay. Well kinda yay, except for the severe boredom that comes with being home after a year away at school. But I've been keeping busy as possible...

So since I updated last, it was the last episode of friends. single collective tear. but you'll be happy to know that I purchased Season 4 and I, as of now, officially own the entire Friends DVD collection.

The road trip home was LONG. Derek and I were the spare drivers, who rotated between the 4 cars in the caravan. we stopped at skanky south of the border, where mark and i encountered much racist markings on the bathroom wall, and then stayed overnight at eric's ESTATE!!!! (YES ESTATE...BIGGEST HOUSE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD EVER) in virginia beach, which was you know, no big deal. LOL!

adam got me an amazing job at Pine Grove Day Camp to be co-drama director with him! getting paid $1800 for the summer to direct 2 shows and basically do stuff i love. cant beat that. the upper camp show is fiddler on the roof jr. (not my choice, but u do what u gotta do) its gonna be awesome anyway.

been trying to see as much ppl as possible. saw marisa twice, and then she left to go MOVE BACK TO ARIZONA!! how crazy is that. she like lives there now. she's like a real person and everything. scary thought.

fantasia won american idol. the more i think about it, the happier i am. i originally was going for diana, but fantasia, whether u like her macy gray tone quality or not, is an UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE performer. congrats bobo.

went to pt. pleasant with joe and other manalapan hs ppl last fri nite. it was cool to hang out with him, but i felt a little like a babysitter, not gonna lie. there were like freshman and sophomores or whatever. not the funnest game. but i got to hang w/ my bro. i missed you dude.

tonights'the fpac showcase/reunion. im excited to see the rest of crew!! (andy, faithy, witty, kerri)

i've gained 5 pounds since i've been home. maybe cuz i make frozen pizza and mozzarella sticks at 3:00AM. i know its not a big deal, i know im skinny, but lets not let it turn into a big deal. time to sign up at elite. for someone who used to run between 30 and 40 miles a week, i should have a lot more motivation. DONTC!

nessa and i have resumed our midnight adventures! i missed my wifey so. me, megan and andrew went to visit her at hofstra. but now she's home for good! went over there the other nite at like 1:30am and went swimming. yay for marriage.

natty's nose looks awesome. ur not jewish anymore nat! YOU'RE A BEAUTIFUL GIRL!!! THE FAMILY LOVES YOU!!!

apparently, derek got a job as a SPY. dude, i can't believe ur doing like private investigator shit. i hope you don't get shot. that'd be awkward. FOR ALL OF US. (jim gaffigan voice-wait, that's his name, right ness?)

i miss the Miami gang a lot. Kim, i hope you have a great time in colorado. but i'm gonna call you before you leave. mark and derek, we're gonna hang out real soon. surfing and harry potter. sounds hot.

and finally, we get to real emotion. andrew, avert your eyes. i'm back to the same exact place i was last summer when it comes to my feelings for jill. i don't know how or why it happened, but it did. and now we're kind of in this limbo place, where we both know how u feel but we're both scared of doing the same thing all over again and then having to cut it short. ahhhh....

that ought to be enough to hold you guys off for a while. i know i'm just that interesting. lol. i'm kidding. in the words of ryan seacrest, OUT!

please don't kill me.

10 Years...

2004-05-07T03:29:02Z

I'll get to my personal life next entry. This one is devoted entirely to my favorite show of all time...Friends.

Tonight was the end. 236 episodes. 10 years. Wow. What an amazing run. As for tonight's episode, the more i think about it, the more i think it ended exactly the way it should have ended. let's face it-had ross and rachel NOT gotten back together, there would be rioting in the streets. I yea know the show has not been as funny as it was in its heyday (seasons 3-5). i know we all miss the days when they could all just be sitting around and make random comments (donald duck, doesn't wear any pants. but when he comes out of the shower, he puts a towel around his waist. what's that about???) rather than being entirely plot driven. but Friends at its worst was still better than virtually everything else on television. it's not just a tv show. these six characters have been a part of my life since i was nine years old. that's right, i've been watching since the fourth friggin grade. i didn't understand 90% of the jokes, but i loved the show anyway. i remember in fifth grade, at stephanie drawneek's valentine's day party, we all talked about the episode from the night before, when ross and rachel first did it at the museum. we probably didn't even know what "it" was, but we knew they were just so cool.

it sounds weird, but my grandmother's house and "friends" have been the most constant things in my life these past ten years. now that my grandparents have moved and friends is off the air, i have neither. way to be.

the last episode was hyped, but certainly not a letdown by any means. i think these characters have grown and evolved exactly the way they should have.

thursday nights will never be the same...

thank god for dvd box sets...

my head is spinning...

2004-04-26T05:29:02Z

I am feeling so many different things rite now. I think I need to write them all down, like therapy or some shit.

First of all, the show is over. After 2 months of unbelievable amounts of hard work, bruises, blood (both fake and real), tears, sweat, and drama, we did it. and i mean we really did it. i am so unbelievably proud of every single member of the cast and crew. each and every one of us helped in creating something beautiful on that stage. so on one level, i have that end of show emptiness feeling, and how much im going to miss this group of people, and the seniors who i may never see again, or at least not for a long while. all this is hard enough on its own to deal with.

but thats the very beginning. last nite was the cast party, the unofficial a.k.a. drunken one. so much fun, up until i did the stupid thing. if u were there, u know what im referring to. if u weren't, well, either its none of ur business or ill tell u later. i screwed up, and yes i was drunk and some ppl use that as an excuse, and as much as i would like to be able to use it, i know its not gonna fly. i need to work out shit within myself, my dire need to be the center of attention, whether i want a relationship or not, why i constantly need to be liked, especially by girls, why i get jealous when girls like guys other than me. seriously, what the fuck is wrong with me. i dont think i was like this in high school. where did this all come from. i really dont know. i am ALL OVER THE PLACE. my thoughts dont even make sense. and on top of my own drama, which i of course managed to create, everyone else has their own, and hearing about it all the next day is making my head spin.

oh, and now that the show is over, i no longer have an excuse to dick around when it comes to school work. that scares me too.

and i have to send out my application and resume to this camp that im applying to be the assistant drama director at for the summer. and i have to call them.

i've never needed my mommy more than rite about now.

temporary return to reality

2004-04-19T05:41:28Z

Being back in my room feels weird. Coming home at the end of the night feels weird. Why arent I with west side people with a beer in my hand? it doesnt make any sense. well i guess it does actually. i have class tom morning. after 4 performances, we are halfway thru the run. one of the most interesting weekends of my life. opening night. after the not so hot preview night (which was of course was attended by press and theatre dept faculty) we really did pull off a good show. not great, but pretty damn good. fri nite, we had off, did a cgc shoot at the UM vs FSU baseball game, went with collleen to the airport to pick up her friend, then attempted to go see Kill Bill Vol 2, but that was unsuccessful. a bunch of us chilled at nicole and aubreys. it was nice cuz i havent hung out with mark or kim or amanda in like forever. slept in til like 2 on saturday, then started getting ready for the show. im really looking forward to it, since the show was basically sold out for sat nite and, according to most people's logic, im thinking the show is gonna just keep getting better each nite. hold on to that thought. so im in the shower, and all of a sudden, i hear a voice. Mike!!! Mike!!! I ignore it, thinking its probably someone looking for my RA, whose name is also Mike. Then again, Mike! It's Manny! Are you in here? Weirded out, im like, umm yeah, why? He's like, shut the shower off a second. I do so. He says, David (our Tony) is sick, he can't do the show. I immediately go into flip out mode, naturally, and the next thing I hear is somethingsomething something going to play tony. i naturally think he said that I was going to play tony. i flip out some more, then i realize he syas that brian shaw (our musical director/conductor) is going to play tony. he says everyone needs to get over to the theatre ASAP. david has laryngitis, not only can he not sing, he cant speak. brian has 2 hours to learn the role of tony. being the musical director, brian knows the songs. and tony doesnt dance, another plus. but tony has about ten thousand lines. Miraculously, Brian pulls it off and actually does a phenomenal job. But rewind a little bit. remember how brian is the conductor. so yeah, one of the violinists has to conduct. and here is where the show goes to shit. during the prologue, they played it about half the spped it needs to be at. and at one point, there was no music whatsoever, which was scary as fuck. and dialogue cues for songs were so off, causing like 8 measure breaks between when the dialogue ends and the songs begins. ergo, we need to improvise like its our jobs and basically write dialogue on the spot to fill empty spaces. it was interesting to say the least. we were all thrown for a loop, but we did the best we can, and amazignly, the audience seemed to like it anyway. i wont ask what they were smoking. so last nite after the near disaster we all need to party party party which in hindsight was stupid stupid stupid since we have a 2pm matinee. david is vaporizing like a maniac. he decies to do the matinee. he actually sounded fine, just a little waeak. the showw goes, comparatively speaking, amazingly well. david decides not to do the night show, which of course, is like sold out. he wants to not kill his voice so he has one for the rest of the run. brian is back on. we are all freaking , thinking about what had happened when brian didnt conduct the night before. but whatever pep talk brian gave the new conductor dude worked, because the show was fucking awesome, everyone was so on, it was just phenomenal. lets hope the rest of the run is without chaos and drama, and that we keep getting better every nite, cuz my mama is flying down to see it! registration tomorrow morning, time for bed.

Happy Easter (even to my Jewish friends)

2004-04-11T20:42:56Z

Hey all. Happy Easter. I'm at my grandma's in Delray Beach right now. Just ate dinner a little while ago, then needed to escape ASAP lol. Gotta love grandma's.

So me being here means that I am not at West Side rehearsal. And I feel guilty as all hell. I know I shouldn't. I know I haven't missed any rehearsals before this, and that I work my ass off, but the run thru did not look so hot yesterday, and that is putting it nicely. I don't know what's happening. We've all worked so hard for this show, why isn't it coming together? First of all, the scene changes and transitions are deadly, but I am confident that the crew will get their shit together and work the kinks out. I don't even think that's what I'm worried about though. I feel like some people just don't care as much as other people. There is zero energy on stage at certain points in the show. What are you waiting for, people? The show opens in 4 days, 3 if you count preview night (OH GOD). We are all so much better than what we are putting out there. And Nicole Colleen and Brian have all worked way too damn hard for it to not come together in the end.

Hopefully everyone was scared shitless by last nite. I know I was. Let's hope the whole "bad dress rehearsal=good show" thing is true.

AHHH no more West Side stuff. What else? The fam left Friday, they got back home Saturday, made really good time. My brother is on a cruise as we speak. Shithead.

Oh, and how could I have forgotten? Friday night, after Revolver, I got keys thrown at my face! Then my New York/Italian temper emerged. I surprised even myself. Good times, good times.

Time for dessert. They better not take me back to campus too late. I need to sleep and/or see "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Later all.

theatre people need to be medicated

2004-04-08T06:20:18Z

You were getting nervous, weren't you? You thought i wasn't going to follow thru. well i proved u fuckers wrong, didn't i.

HOLY SHIT, it is time for West Side Story to be over!!!!!!!!! We open in a week, AKA this is the time when everyone is so ridiculously irritable and on-edge and delirious. the shit has been hitting the fan in every direction, people are on ego trips like its their jobs, yelling, screaming, crying, threatening.

i think the show's gonna be awesome though, you should totally come see it.

my fam is here! they came in on saturday and stayed at the holiday inn across the street for 2 nights, then they went up to stay at my grandma's in delray beach for the rest of the week. i'm so happy they're here, it's a nice escape from west side land. we went to the grove (yeah cheesecake factory), sunset, dadeland, south beach, miami beach, and bayside, where we saw and got about an inch away from a giant manatee, which was awesome.

sat nite, my brother and his friend stayed with me. they wanted to do something fun, but i had gone out fri nite so no1 was really up for anything. they didn't understand the concept of college kids "just chilling out" on a sat nite, and when i mentioned the idea of playing poker and ordering a pizza with mark and eric, they looked at me like i had 8 heads.

my friend aubrie mentioned she was going to the io lounge w/ a bunch of friends and asked if we wanted to go. they were totally up for it. i wasn't in much of a clubbing mood, especially since it was already like 1am, but i did it for them. i had never been to the place before.

we get there, and it turns out its one of those 80's punk rock retro places, kinda like revolver, but not as good. i had fun, but they were totally not expecting the place to be like that. they definitely had a more rap/hip-hop w/ lots of hot girls kind of place in mind. they might have been kind of freaked out. i tried my best.
my brother did manage to hit on a 30 year old woman, though, who claimed to be the owner's wife. way to be, ed. way to be.

anyways, they leave on friday, and even though my mom's coming back to see the show in a week and a half, i'm gonna miss them. i think i'm ready for the semester to be over.

maybe this wasn't just a 1-time thing

2004-03-30T04:59:19Z

I guess this whole LJ thing wasn't a one-time deal, because here I am, going for entry #2. i'm impressed with myself.

mondays are fun, and i mean that in the most non-truthful, sarcastic way possible. mondays blow. i basically have class from 10 til 6, with a 2 hour break from 11-1 which i spent studying for that comm theory test. its scene shop that fucks everything over. scene shop, aka "unpaid manual labor" every monday and wednesday from 4-6. not the funnest game.

so that comm theory test, which i should have studied a lot more for. it wasn't terrible. 30 questions, and i definitely knew 21 for sure, so automatically i didn't fail. awesome. im glad my standards are so high. out of the 9, i was pretty sure on 5, and completely guessed on 4. out of those 4, i already know i got 3 wrong. whatever, as long as i got at least a C+. WOW, WHO AM I??????????

my newest west side story fear is that i cant sing my part. almost 2 months into rehearsals and im just realizing this now, you ask? idk, its just that im a tenor, and all of riff's solos are really low for me, i need to yell to get any kind of projection, which is a big no no for singers. i wasn't scared until today, so maybe today was just a bad day. maybe i'm just being paranoid. i hope so. fingers crossed.

mark's been sick for the past 5 days, he looks like shit. dude, get better.

maybe i'll go to sleep early tonight. maybe i'm a pathological liar.

mikey's in the building

2004-03-29T07:18:59Z

Yo. So I decided to jump on the livejournal bandwagon. Why you might ask? Primarily, it gives me more ways to procastinate studying for my comm theory test. I am so friggin bad. my study habits are atrocious. people think they're bad, but i'm worse. lets examine the situation at hand, shall we? i'm doing well in all my classes this semester except comm theory. got a c- on the first test. only three tests the entire class. you'd think that would give me a shitload of motivation to study my ass off, but no, not so much. i know i hafta study for this one, and i will, eventually, even if its during my 11-1 break tomorrow morning. i have issues.

so about me, in case strangers happen upon this. my names mike, im a freshman at UM, film and theatre double major. i like to have not one but two dead end careers to choose from. ba dum bum. thats my new tagline. I HAVE NO FUTURE! ISN'T THAT FUNNY??? HAHAHAHAHA. (razor razor razor)

realization # 1-this journal thing is really narcissistic, and I LOVE IT.

i'm playing riff in west side story. show opens in about 2 1/2 weeks. as always, the show is taking over my life, and im ready for it to be over, but we all know whats going to happen. after the show, depression will set in. standard sequence of events.

about the show-i really think its going to be amazing. i am slightly scared about the intense amount of ACTUAL LEGITIMATE dancing (thanks colleen) i have to do, but after rehearsing in a studio today, and seeing what i look like in a mirror, i am happy to report that about 80% of the time, I DO NOT LOOK SPASTIC! wooooohooo, props to me. now i just gotta work on those damn turning split leaps.

i went to the asst choreographer's party last night, and considering who was there, it was surprisingly drama-less (if ur close friends w/ me, u know what im talking about). i had a great time, and after the party was pretty fun too. wink.

realization # 2- my family is coming in 6 days! so excited, its only been a week since i left the 'pan, but i still miss them.

speaking of the 'pan, being home for spring break was the best/worst thing ever. nessa described fri nite perfectly, its like "here's everyone you love and miss like crazy...okay time to say goodbye!" it was depressing to be with all my friends for such a short amount of time. i really wish they could come see west side, especially nessa joe and natty. alas i live closer to fidel castro than i do to them.

that'll do it for my first entry. let's see if i follow through with this thing.