The reading on Monday night was amazing.
All the changes are working and I see really the only serious thing that still requires tweaking in the script should just take a few hours/days.
I left elated and exhausted.
In fact, I reacted more like it was a premiere than “just a reading” — excitable non-restful sleep from 1 to 5 am, then woke up and puttered until 6 and then crashed until 11:30 am (something I haven’t done in years.)
Significantly –– speaking of premieres –– today I took the “before” pictures for my new yoga ab fitness project.
Note: I still have many yoga tricks up my sleeve but right now I’m at my heaviest weight –– not great since it seems in seconds I will be mentoring a hot young star in the ways of yoga for the film –– so the regime is intensifying.
I asked Belle and my friend Cody –– he is a great guy and takes all the photos for Acre & Acrimony here –– if he wouldn’t mind shooting a totally unflattering shot of me today –– a request photographers seldom get (I assume). Cody was totally into it and even willing to do weekly-ish updates of my (soon to be remarkable) progress.
The first shoot today was simple and painless and then I whisked myself off to Bikram.
Truthfully this project is kinda brilliant –– but only provided there’s a major AFTER.
Otherwise, it’s rather insanely masochistic to get professional quality unflattering shots of yourself.
(I mean … really!)
But if it works –– and it should –– then it’s GENIUS.
Please stay tuned.
[NOTE: as with Arnold, sometimes the AFTER isn’t so great after all…]