small world...

very small.

so I had a second callback today at the Zspace for a theatre company called Word for Word: www.zspace.org/4adverbs.jsp

this callback went rather well…which is always nice. the crazy thing is…the show for which i was auditioning is written by Lemony Snicket (actually name: Daniel Handler), who i recently found out went to the same college as little ole moi (that would be the ubiquitous Wesleyan, located in Middletown, CT). THEN as i was reading the texts, i noticed that he mentioned yet another Wes alum, an Amanda Davis, who sadly died in a plane crash just around the time that her first novel, “Wonder When You’ll Miss Me” was taking off (WONDERFUL, chilling, moving, exquisite book) and i was standing there in the dim, shabby-ish, over-heated hallway thinking, “Damn, it is such a small world.” okay. yeah. but it gets better…

so - a mere half hour later, i am sitting with Dave at his work, where ANOTHER Wes alum (who happens to work with him) walks up behind us, and in the course of the ensuing conversation, tells me that she had recently been flying United and opened up their silly magazine to look at the movie and music selections for the month and saw in the ‘New Music’ section two selections, one following the other, that she recognized as 1) a band that had almost ‘made it’, whose lead guitarist works with her and Dave; and 2) another band, Dresden Dolls (www.dresdendolls.com), of whose 2 total members, 1 happens to have gone to Wes with us. Dear god. Small world.