Casting Couch

So, here's the challenge, should you choose to accept it.
Link to the journal you found the 'listing' questionare in, include this top bar bit, saying it origionated from kaiberie

List your favorite actors, your 'casting couch' as it were, the ones you wouldn't kick out of bed in an ideal world. Make the list as long or as short as you'd like :)

In no particular order (well, the first five are, after that it's a free for all):

1. Alexis Denisof
2. Sean Maher
3. Christian Kane
4. Michael Rosenbaum
5. Ames Adamson (one of the actors in King John)
6. Anthony Stewart Head
7. James Marsters
8. Richie Haratine (one of the actors I worked with at school)
9. Nick Brendon
10. Sean Astin
11. Robin Sachs (he's not exactly a favorite actor, but I wouldn't kick him out)
12. Alan Rickman
13. Ian McKellan - gay or not, I'm not gonna say no to that man
14. Nick Lea
15. Angus MacFayden


I'm sure there's more, but these are the only ones I could think of now.

Yesterday, today, and...

So there's actually a very good reason for me not posting last night. I was at a party and didn't get in until about 3:30 or so and, not thinking, turned my computer off right away. And when I remembered, it was about an hour or so later and I was like, "whatever" and went to bed.

Anyway, last night was the official opening night of King John. It went really, really well. Had, like, one or two nitpicky things, but other than that.... Afterwards there was a party/reception outside with free alcohol (wine and beer) and free food (donated by local eateries and stuff - including sushi - I tried a vegetarian one, R!) So lots of fun - got to mingle with people and hang out with the cast and crew and stuff. And at one point Paul, Steve and I were talking and Steve was like, "While I have you two here, we have a week left and we need to go drinking and I need to buy you guys a drink." After discussing it, we now have a 9pm call for Poor Herbie's (the local bar/pub) tomorrow night. (Now, in theatre - you don't miss a call or very bad things will happen.) So who knows who all's gonna show up tomorrow night, but it'll be fun. While we were at the party, some of the female apprenti got Mike (one of the actors) to do his Fabio impression - which was quite funny (although Mike's got curly brunet hair). And I was hanging out with Ames (another actor) and some other people and he was telling us about this audience member that he was pretty sure was high and what she was doing to some of the actors and stuff and when he started getting in my face and staring as an example, I started giggling. Which he then periodically exploited for the rest of the party.

At first I was going to leave about midnight because I was thinking about going to church this morning, but next thing I knew, it's like 12:30 or so and the last few of us interns and apprenti are going back to the dorm with three of the actors in tow - Ames, Mike, and Matt. When we get back, there's a bunch of apprenti outside, so we end up hanging out with them and having more alcohol (some beer, tequila, and a bottle of Southern Comfort - which tastes oddly like cough medicine, but not in a bad way). And a bunch of people got thrown into the kiddie swimming pool we have (which had ankle-deeep water). We then got Matt to do his velociraptor impression - which is actually quite good and rather funny.

Ended up hanging out with Ames most of the night while we were at the dorm - which was cool since he's a great guy. He kept saying, "I'm a dirty old man." And we'd disagree with him (because he really isn't). It was rather amusing. And a few times, he was like, "I feel kind of drunk - but I only had, like, two glasses of wine and a beer so I don't know why." At one point he wandered a little way away from the main group to lay in the grass to see if that would help and Sharon and I wandered over with him to keep him company and talk. While we were talking, and after I smiled at something, he said to Sharon, "Doesn't she have a beautiful smile?" and she agreed with him - which made me slightly embarrassed because I'm not used to that. Somehow during our conversation, Sharon and I started touching him - (No! Not *that* way! Get your mind out of the gutter!) just, like, playing with his fingers or stroking his arm, or running our fingers through his hair. ("Hi, my name's Adrian and I have this need to touch and make physical contact with other people and I've been going through withdrawl." Tactile Anonymous, here I come. :0P) But he seemed to enjoy it. After Christine joined us, whenever someone else would come over, he would say, "I'm being stroked by three beautiful women. Life doesn't get any better than this." Then Mike came over and comments started getting made about Ames and Bottom (who he played in a touring production of it) and the fairies after Bottom gets turned. (Mike played Oberon/Theseus in the same production.) At about 3 am, we tried to convince Ames not to drive since he still felt a bit sloshed, but he wouldn't listen to us. (He lives about 30 minutes away.) We asked Mike what he thought and he was like, "I rather he didn't, but I think he'll be okay." Some of us were like, "Ames, let one of us go home with you, so we know you'll be all right." But most of them didn't really push it since they had to be at the theatre or other places early today. I probably could have done it since I didn't have to be at the theatre until about 1 and he had to be there at 1:30, but I didn't feel like arguing anymore. (I probably should've, though.) But Sharon made him promise to call when he got home - which he did.

I was kinda nervous about this afternoon since it was going to be "the morning after" (well, technically afternoon after) since he had had Mike tell us this rather funny, yet embarrasing story about this time when he (Ames) got shit-faced at Bonnie (the artistic director/head honcho)'s house this past winter - which he's kind of embarrassed about and I wasn't sure if he was going to be rather embarrassed about getting slightly drunk and just kind of pretend it didn't happen. But I was in the green room (where we all hang out) when he came in and he as he passed by me, we said "hi" to each other and he gave me a kiss on the cheek. So I guess I shouldn't have worried, right?

Today's two shows went really well. And the second one was basically perfect. My mom and John came to see the matinee today and really enjoyed it - which I'm very happy about. Ames, last night when I told him my mom was coming, was like, "I want to meet your mom - you'll have to introduce me to her." But he disappeared before I got a chance. I can't begin to describe how cool it is that my mom - who was the biggest, "I want you to follow your dreams, but is theatre even a valid job option?" in my family - drove two and a half hours *one way* to see a lesser known Shakespearean play - the author of which she doesn't like that much. And it was kind of funny - I was down in the green room after the second show to grab something and saw an envelope on the table with my name on it (spelled 'Adriane'). Ames had told me he wanted to give me something, so I figured that that was it (and I had also seen a couple of the other notes he had given other people on the crew). When I double checking with him to see if it was, he was like, "I originally gave it to Al (the lightboard op) to give to you, but then I took it back because I figured I'd see you."

I think I have feelings for Ames. But have no idea what to do about it. Well, I know what to do - I just don't know how to do it. So I solicited some help from two guy friends and one girl friend, and got a little bit of help. Still painfully nervous about trying it out, though. Why does this have to happen a week before I leave? Well, maybe it's good that way - otherwise I might not do anything and this way I'm a bit more like, "Okay, I'm gonna at least attempt something."