Warning: Randomness Ahead

[beandelphiki]

I fucking HATE improv. I really, really do.

Can I blame my sign? "I'm a Virgo, I HAVE to plan things out, I can't improv, the stars say so!"...yeah, that sounds good to me.

I have to take this Intro to Theatre class this semester because it's the only thing that fit in my schedule. This BITES, because it's basically a glorified high school drama class. And high school is all about the improv.

I managed to stay seated through the harder exercises, but I know that my prof will make me go up next class. Fuck this, I just won't go.

I've been trying to determine what bothers me about improv, and so far I've got:

1. I don't like looking stupid. I've looked stupid EVERY time I've gotten up for an improv game, and I don't think the next time will be different.

I don't shrug things like that off. I just can't, that's the way I am. It BOTHERS me.

2. I won't look cool, and that's "wrong." High school was all about looking cool, and I can't do it. I can't pull anything off in a "cool" way.

3. Every time I get up I BLANK, totally. "Just do whatever comes into your head!"...uh, we could be here a while.

I never understood why, if "nothing's wrong in improv!" I can't just stand here, and that's not okay.

4. It's too personal. Whatever comes into my head first is probably something I'd slit my throat before I'd share.

Randomness:

Today I went to lunch with Nick (another tech, for those of you unaware), and while normally he seems to run off cell phone batteries, today he scarfed a Chinese food platter AND then went to DQ for a burger.

I realized half-way through lunch hour that I was feeling threatened and trying to match his pace.

Not a good idea when you're a slight-framed female-bodied person who normally eats like a bird. Ohhh.

Comments

[fanelia.livejournal.com]

laughs

i'm an aries, i practically live off fly by the wire decisions and stick to them like crazy.

I love improv...hehe...sucker

I think that the primary part of improv, is to stop trying to play the 'cool' characters. Act like an idiot, play around, experiment, it becomes a learning process instead of sitting there dreading the teacher watching you and pulling you up. That's how i really treat improv, but then i love getting up there every now and then with something fun

And yeah...try not to match people in eating...it usually doesn't end right.

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

hehe.. the boy can eat, huh? :) sounds like me...

I can't help with the improv. I was the worst actor in drama... ever. Everyone agreed. :P

Maybe try to pretend you're someone else... someone who's good at improv like, maybe.. dunno. Drew Carey? Jim Carey?

Sorry, I'm not useful at all today. :P

[poopsmoothie.livejournal.com]

Huh, my intro to theatre didn't involve any improv at all. I was lucky!

I'm an Aries. I have no idea what that means, la.

I hear ya!

[wrdgrrl.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, I know exactly where you're coming from. In high school, there's no way I would have done improv. High school is all about being cool and feeling like a dork is not cool. I felt like a dork the few times I did it in college, so I KNOW I wouldn't have liked it one bit in high school. Just suffer through the best you can and be done with it. Who knows, maybe 10 years down the road, YOU'LL be taking improv classes too ;)