There is something I find very romantic in a bohemian type of way that I have to access the internet at coffee shops. It makes it easier for me to pretend that I am actually this super creative person, when in fact I am not, and just play one on TV. Well hopefully I'll play one on TV some day. I tend to do that a lot. I create stories and characters for myself that I act out in my actual life, in public. Like at this moment I hope to appear to the people around me as a fascinating young author who just had to stop at this Starbucks because he had a breakthrough and couldn't risk forgetting it. I also do this for people that I see. Like the girl sitting in front of me right now is (according to me) a Columbia graduate student who is lounging with her laptop, happy to be done with finals. The lady to her left is a struggling author/cat lady. She writes on her Macbook, hopefully publishing the next New York Times Bestseller, but trying to remember if she changed the litter in the box yesterday. The man with the suitcase behind me just flew in from JFK from England hoping to meet his long distance lover. I know this all makes me sound like a creeper, and maybe I am, but I am amusing myself with my own imagination.
Uta Hagen, the author of my Acting Technique textbook and brilliant actress, says that true actors are story tellers and will make up stories for people that they see on the streets. I guess this is a good sign for me?
Part of me wishes that my roommate/landlord doesn't get internet access. On a practical note, it also gets me asleep faster, seeing as I stay up until 4 or 5 in the morning looking up useless factoids on wikipedia.
This was my favorite entry of yours so far! I like doing the same thing with people...I did it more when I rode the bus. I'm still waiting for some kind of fiction from you lol. Oh and maybe one day we will write that screenplay...(the same day that you make me pork fried rice in your apartment and we watch Clash of the Titans haha)
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