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So this happened today
#LSUEiffelTower
So i finally got cast in my first LSU theatrical production and I couldn’t be more excited. Its an adaptation/revision/updated version of Jean Cocteau’s piece entitled Wedding at the Eiffel Tower, although I believe we’re calling it Eiffel Tower Revisited. Boy oh boy, is this gonna be one hell of a show. We havent started rehearsals yet and I’ve only read the script and heard of some of the crazy stuff thats gonna take place during this show, but man is it gonna be insane. A wedding, a lion, a General, a child with access to firearms, an ostrich, popular musics, and the Trouville Bathing Beauty. Whats not to love about this show?
We’re updating the script to be a twinge more modern, so instead of phonographs and telegrams we’re gonna be using Macs and PC’s and tweets (guess who’s got two thumbs and is playing the Justin Long-esque Mac? also, now that you’re in the mood for guessing, guess who decided to get back on twitter @michaelmentz?)
All I can say at this point is I cant wait to get started. Oh, and look out for the ostrich. I hear it got loose.
(oh and sorry this post wasnt my usual funny and witty rambling. To make up for it, here’s a laundry machine making inappropriate noises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcbuybGp4dE&feature=player_embedded)
Flag Burning
Here’s my thoghts on the whole flag burning issue that seems to have everyone up in smoke. (pun intended; this isnt going to be a funny post so I better get every joke in while i can)
I personally would never burn a flag, partly because I am not the hugest fan of setting things on fire and because I love the country I live in and the flag which is a symbol of that country. However, I think people are forgetting that the flag is a symbol of freedom, one of the being the freedom to burn a flag if one so desires. (Before I go on I would like to not that I am not in favor of the flag burning that happened a few weeks ago, but not because that person burned a flag. I am against it because that person burned THE SCHOOLS FLAG AND THAT IS DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Ad also that flag in question was in memorial of the soldiers who died in WWI and that is very disrespectful to anyone who truly calls them self an American. I’m very against that incident.)
But I’m very annoyed by the people I’ve seen attacking others for merely defending freedom and the first Amendment. I understand these are difficult, turbulent times and we just killed the most hated man in America, but that doesn’t change who we are as a country or what we as a country stand for.
And before people go off on me and say something to the effect of “How dare you Michael, people died for that flag and I dont want to see someone disrespect it.” While you make a passionate point, I would like to politely remind you that those people died for the freedom the flag represents, not the piece of cloth itself.
Look I’m all for patriotism and love for your country, but learn what your country really stands for. Don’t blindly beat your chest and say the Pledge of Allegiance because that’s what everyone around you is doing, instead, say it because you mean those words from the bottom of your heart. Don’t attack others for expressing different viewpoints, embrace them because of it. Don’t hate another person for desecrating something you hold dear, instead, ask yourself why you hold that object dear to you, and why that other person doesn’t see it the same way you do.
And if you disagree with the points I’ve made so far, please watch this video: I think it will make clear my point:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF2iX2VG6e4
And again, the great Bill Hicks said it before me and better than me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBCkm9-LvRg&feature
