Hey! There’s a new Off the Record up with an impor­tant announce­ment. I’ve changed the name, so now it’s called Muse­bleep. If you’re sub­scribed in iTunes or Odeo, go to the Muse­bleep site and sub­scribe to the new feeds. I’m tak­ing Off the Record off the web on Mon­day, so get switched by then.

Last week around this time, Holli was hav­ing night­mares about her upcom­ing direc­to­r­ial debut. Well, all went well. This year’s setup was quite a bit dif­fer­ent. Since our tech direc­tor is a play­wright, first and fore­most, it was decided that the show­case be of his works. I got to meet him, on Thurs­day, and I was a lit­tle taken aback. He’s about 3 or so years older than me, had a back­wards base­ball cap on, and was play­ing tetris on his cell­phone. Also, he has an amaz­ingly deep voice. I have to remem­ber to email him.

I thought the plays went well. Espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the short time frame and the ram­pant apa­thy amongst the actors. Holly Smith had to actu­ally act in hers because her actress dropped out of it and there wasn’t time to recast. That was prob­a­bly the most hor­ri­fy­ing part. I remem­ber when we had a very devoted group of actors, but it’s waned with grad­u­a­tions, and there don’t seem to be very many new actors com­ing in. It feels like watch­ing someone’s soul die.

But it went well; Holli’s par­ents and grand­par­ents came up to watch on Wednes­day (and to buy us ice cream). I got to run the cam­era for Holly Smith, who has plans to edit the show­case into a DVD, for both nights. I got rid of two canned and non­per­ish­able goods, also. The turn outs were good. See the pho­tos in my 2006 Fresh­men Show­case pho­to­set.

This week­end I headed home, but Holli was unable to join me because she was on duty. I had to sign my loan papers, so I drove down on Sat­ur­day, helped walk around Clear Lake for a lit­tle bit, signed the papers, and met Tony for lunch at Pizza Ranch. We called David who decided that he didn’t want to hang out with us. The day was then spent list­lessly dream­ing of adven­tures. The only adven­ture we had was get­ting three 12 packs of Coke with Lime, dur­ing which time Holli was also pur­chas­ing a 12 pack of Coke with Lime, dur­ing which time my mom was pur­chas­ing a 12 pack of Coke with Lime.

Then I got Tony totally hooked on Stu­dio 60 (Mon­days at 9pm on NBC), and I gave all kinds of peo­ple rides in my car. Sue loved it, and we had a long, heart-felt talk about grow­ing up.

This week I started on a viral mar­ket­ing cam­paign for News­bleep, but all it’s man­aged to accom­plish so far is mak­ing my friends and fam­ily add a new friend for MySpace and Face­book. So far no new blood. I think MySpace is going to be the key gate­way to any sort of pop­u­lar­ity, but the key is going to be to drive peo­ple to the web­site itself. I’ll have to work on my Pro­file in both to gen­er­ate that. Also, Face­book just informed me that my News­bleep account has been shut off, so I emailed them, and I’m wait­ing on a reply. *sigh* I think it was the 52 groups I joined in one day.

So, tell your friends about Muse­bleep! Tell your friends about News­bleep! Sub­scribe in iTunes! Watch and enjoy.