On the same issue

""where are you taking me?? .... Into the Twitter sphere". ... LOL.

TMI

I kinda slowed down writing on this Blog, I guess because being on Facebook, I like to update my "status" quite often, ("Rinat is.. insert here useless mood/ action/ thought summarized in short sentences ), so by publishing these "status" changes, I feel emotionally and artistically fulfilled enough, LOL, that rewriting exactly that , but longer, as an entire entry on the Blog, is not at all necessary for me. (or for the one person who reads my blog but is not my friend on Facebook).
At the same time, (and while doing it!), I am utterly disgusted by this whole Facebook status, Blogs, and even more so with this thing called "Twitter", which is the worst: basically a combination of both Facebook status AND a Blog. It's just an on-going self-obsessed chatter of one's "status", published as a blog!
Perfect for important people with important bowel movements which should make the news, I guess.
Mine was pretty solid this morning.

Halt

After Belgrade, I came back home for one day, replaced winter sweaters and scarves with short sleeves and summer dresses, threw in my corsets, hair extensions and evening dress, and flew to New Orleans. Here I was rehearsing for Carmen.
Since it was a "traditional" production more than let's say such as the one I did in Germany , it seemed to me like I was just there; The quintet around the table, the Habanera teasing the chorus guys, the bitter end being knifed by a dirty, mad- looking Jose.
People ask me if it ever gets old to do Carmen again and again, and I keep saying no, because it really doesn't and I really love this opera with all my heart , but what surely does happen is , that one end of production stats to become the beginning of another, and sometimes it's hard to tell it's a different run anymore... I keep needing to remind myself that HERE, I walk from the table to the RIGHT, and not to the left as I did the entire past 2 months right before this...
And rehearsing six hours a day every day for 2 or 3 weeks, for a show that your brain is pretty sure you just rehearsed and performed for the past how many months.. well... it can have its frustrating moments.
But what is always so wonderful to me, is getting to know amazing people around, bonding with this or that person from the cast, exploring the specialties of the place, getting to know the locals, and often learning something new.
I am now back home, finally, for an entire month, before my next 6 hour rehearsals of quintets and habaneras... I might look at some other roles just to live a little plain month without all this routine sexiness. :)