Sore fingers.

Ah, the Guitar, you can slice it apart quite easily, but learning to play it is another matter.

I have had my guitar Lola, (Yes I named it, mainly because I couldn’t play it) for a year and a half. I have tried on and off to learn to play it, but to no avail

This time, oh yes, this time will be much different.

You see the guitar as a beautiful thing; it is one of the clearest ways of expressing yourself. You can instantly tell when someone is annoyed, sad or just plain ol’happy. Except in air guitar, because let’s face it, that’s just weird.

It is all about learning how to express yourself on the guitar though, through learning chords and tabs and where the hell you’re supposed to put your fingers.

I am making progress however. Through things like this:

I don’t know if it is best to teach myself or to get a teacher. Guitar lessons are very pricy though, and I am but a lowly student.

Eventually, Lola will no longer be my nemesis, and we will become friends. Until then though, my fingers will be sore and red and eventually crusted.

Photos are taken from:

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/guitaracoustics/guitar_graphix/guitar_anatomy.jpg

http://www.guitar-lessons-central.com/image-files/cheatsheet.jpg

All the world is a stage.

I got into the play in the drama club, which is called Howard Katz, it is about:

Katz. Howard Katz. “Father, son, husband, brother, showbiz agent, fifty and furious: Howard Katz throws his life in the air to search for his soul...’’

I didn’t just get one part. Oh no! They gave me three. I do not understand the significance of this, only that I am going to be schizophrenic until April.

Meet my new personalities:

Jess: a 40 year old. Obviously, I am going to need a lot of makeup (agree with me on this and I’ll be your best friend) She is the wife of Katz. I don’t know if this makes me a main character or not. I have never been a main character before..Ooooohhh ‘Citing!

Tina: is an agent in the same company as Katz. I know no more.

Linda: A transsexual. With an addiction to oranges. Actually, I don’t know anything about this one, only that she’s probably an extra or something?

They have the nicest names ever. It’s not like they’re exotic is it? I wanted to be called Antoinette or Fleur, or like something that isn’t the female equivalent of TONY.

But as a newly dedicated actress, I will no longer answer to you as the Sarah you all know. I am going to be one of the three lovely ladies.

Watch out, Tina bites.

Don't kill the Freedom of Information Act!!!

Ash has been working on the Press Gazette, who support the following petition to save the FOI act. I think as journalists, it is so important that we sign this petition because it could affect our very livlihood if the FOI is taken away from us.

Sign the petition!-Send the following with your name, occupation and organisation to dontkillfoi@wilmington.co.uk

"We, the undersigned, urge the Government not to undermine the effectiveness
of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by passing into law the Freedom of
Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations
2007.

According to the Government’s own independent review – the proposed changes
will result in more than 17,000 FoI questions a year being rejected by
local, regional and national public bodies on purely financial grounds,
irrespective of the public interest.

We are particularly concerned that the rule changes will, according to the
independent review, have a disproportionate effect on journalists and
therefore undermine the vital role they play in British democracy."

Talking Genitals

I decided to join the drama society the other day. So the first test was-THE DREADED AUDITION.

And I didn’t even know what I was auditioning for!

Now I have only ever done one other audition in my life and that was for the ‘Black’ version of The Wizard of Oz-conveniently called-‘The Wiz’

Audition was successful-I was the flying monkey people! I adapted him to be a Jacky Chan meets Chris Rock gangster monkey.

That takes talent you know. Or a lot of imagination on the audiences part (more likely.)

So today was quite nerve racking. I got in the room (Lecture Theatre 4) and there are two people reading from a script.

This is normal at auditions I take it.

The people behind the auditions had two separate plays in mind. One the Vagina Monologues, two-some other play.

The second play was not memorable.

I read from both, but by far enjoyed reading from the VM more.

Apparently, they are going to do it in the undercroft, sit the speaker on a stool and the audience sits on couches around them.

How intimate! So, wish me luck!