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- I’m completely updated for the week over at A Year at the Academy.

- The more I think about Boy Gets Girl from yesterday, the better it gets. One thing I’m always a bit wary about is nudity on stage (a subject I touched upon back in June)… if there’s not a purpose behind it, I don’t necessarily love it. Not that it was unwelcome in Boy Gets Girl, but I didn’t necessarily understand its relevance to the show. Normally, I’d get upset, and write gratuitous nudty to a playwright who knows they’ve wrote crap and is trying to distract people from the inadequacies of their show — but the rest of the show was so well written I knew that couldn’t be the case.

Thinking about it this morning (honestly, I was thinking about the relevance of the nudity, not just the nudity itself… really), I figured it out. A central theme of the play is to examine the way that men perceive women in society. In the course of the play, one of the characters relates himself to the stalker character — saying that he’d seen the woman and thinking that he wanted “to fuck her.” Honestly, I think that the nudity was placed into the show to titilate the men in the audience (which I’m sure it did), but to make them realize that they are thinking the exact same thing as the characters in the play. Who’s really the villain in the situation? Is there one?

Fucking genius.

- Anyhow, I’m off to see a show at Stacey’s studio tonight. This will make three days in a row that I’ve gone to see free theater — that’s amazing. Apparently, this show’s a bit distubing as well… which also makes three somewhat disturbing shows I’ve seen this week. Well, at least I’m not paying anything… right?

- Slafta and Greta are home this weekend. This pleases me greatly. Hopefully, I’ll get to see them both — I’ve been missing them both incredibly as of late.

- Finally, although I can’t state it enough over at my other site, I love Jackie Bartone. For weeks, she’s been forcing us to read the newspaper and have social events discussions, with her intent being to create intelligent actors. I’ve found more and more that my friends and I at school are having intelligent conversations and debates about politics and social issues. To top that off, I’ve been hanging out in the library more often. What the hell is happening to me? Am I actually becoming smarter in two years of acting school than I did in four years of high school?

- Speaking of high school, congrats to TZ for employing those bent on child molestation.

- As that strange foreigner said on My Name Is Earl this week (and some more obscure celebrity is known to say, as well), “Seacrest out.”