Merry Christmas

Hopefully, a lot of new things in 2014.
I haven't been posting here for three reasons.
I'm not near a computer as much as I used to be, nothing much is new ( just auditioning and auditioning...) and I can't really talk that much about my projects that are either in the works or ones that I haven't gotten yet.

Philadelphia is a small town, I still really would like to work in these theaters.

I switched management and the group that I'm working with now is pretty fantastic. I hopefully have a project lined up for February, I have two in January and I'll be playing Tybalt at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater next Spring.

2013 was a great year, a lot of fantastic opportunities.
Thanks to the people that gave me a chance to play.

Thanks to my family, and Mrs. Boogle.
Onward.

So it's December.

What? I can't believe that it's December.

My head is spinning. I'll be in Birmingham, AL this upcoming weekend working on a 2 day shoot. I get to see my cousins as well. One of these days I'll make some time to write something decent here.

http://www.danielmcglauglin.com/

So here is my site.
And I have updated it.
Well what do you think?

http://www.danielmcglauglin.com/

The Hunt Continues.

11 AM Philly
1 PM Bucks County
7 PM NYC

I'm gonna get something soon. Right?
Who wouldn't want to hire this?

#ZKEGMOVIE

So ZK: Elephant's Graveyard is a wrap. 
For me. 
I had a great role that was challenging and a ton of fun to play.

I have to personally thank Brian Gallagher for bringing me on board. 
If it wasn't for him, it wouldn't have happenned.

So. Shout out there.

My friend Carlyn Miller made these Youtube Videos. Ya' got me.

Enjoy.

31 - 8/29/2013

This is an echo of the post "30-8/5/2011"

Instead of describing it, here's a photo montage.
This night topped the night me and Mikey had, roughly around the same time, two years ago.

2NK

HEY INTERNET, LONG TIME!

Been Busy Guys!
A few things.

Yes I want to do the comic, still.

I'm about 3 strips into an extended narrative ( about 30 strips ) that will tell one story. I'll post them all, 3 days apart, when I have them all done.

I just finished a film called Assumption of Risk Way to go Mark Kochanowicz.
Doing a play.
And MAYA is available on the internet right now.

And That's it right now.

I gotta go.

How hot has it been?? Philly People? Rhetorical Question.

31 #104 in absentia

31 #103 - The Wheel Pt.1

31- #102-CollageFestival

This is happening this weekend. Come see a tiny play about sinkholes in Florida amidst a handful of art, crafts, and music.
http://www.collagefestival.com/

31 #101 - #whydidn'tIthinkofthis

31 #100 The NeverEnding Story

The footnote to this image is more interesting than the comic itself:

So this dialogue is pretty much verbatim about the love/hate relationship we both have with iOS games. The woman in the picture is of course, Amy Frear, a very talented actress that you can find out more about here.

I try to get her to play a game. She humours me. Etcetera.

The Magical Trapper-Keeper aesthetic of Robot Unicorn Attack 2 was more than she could resist this time though, she immediately picked up her phone and was hooked. The art style hit a deep nerve in the hippocampus, summoning up cherished grade-school day dreams and memories the way ( I'm sure ) a Terminator 2 arcade cabinet, Mac'n'Manco's pizza and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles take me so immediately back to a place that's made up of nothing but good memories.

But that's another subject.

One of the IAP ( In App. Purchases ) that is offered is the song "The Neverending Story" by Limahl. This lead to discussion about the 1984 Wolfgang Petersen film of the same name.

Neither one of us could quite parse the film correctly, or guess at its thesis. The movie felt lacking, "weird" and incomplete, among the other distinctly impoverished categories I have for critiquing art.

That led us to this guy. 

Read this blog post, it is fantastic. You'll see why the movie is hollow and incomplete and why the author calls it "that revolting movie."

Let me just say it would be the equivalent of Disney optioning Animal Farm, stripping the novel of any allegorical significance or meaning and making a heart-warming children's tale out of the husk of the characters and outline.

Just a sample of this guy's stuff, click on the paragraph to link to the article.

The Neverending Story has the longest opening I’ve ever seen. It’s not the prologue and it’s not the first chapter. It turns out to be no fewer than twelve chapters describing Atreyu’s quest to find a cure for the Childlike Empress and the Nothing that is consuming Fantastica. But the quest is pure fakery — Atreyu was never meant to find out what’s wrong with the Empress. She already knows what’s wrong with her, and the only person who can fix it is a human who happens to be reading the book. Therefore the Childlike Empress needs an adventure to hook herself a reader. She needs a spectacle.

So that movie you watched growing up?

It was stupid.

The extended comic-less sojourn.

Yes. A very busy week, but you can always start here, and work your way forward. I'm developing an extended narrative: you know with a beginning, middle and end. So sit tight, and I hope you'll be patient with me.http://danmcglaughlin.blogspot.com/2011/06/30_20.html

Hey Guys! No COMIC this week! BUT! BUT!

YOU KNOW IT'S...

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That's Yoshi and Rachel. 

Go to Rachel's website and buy her book here: 

http://nachosny.com/

31 #96

It's just the frequent stops and traffic, really.

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31#93

Two Songs and Two Scenes.

Two Songs and Two Scenes.

We all get things stuck in our head. These things have been stuck in my head for a while

1.) A song. The Streets of Whiterun by Jeremy Soule - from the Elder Scrolls V: Original Game Soundtrack. Yeah, Yeah. Video Game Music. Go listen to it and tell me it ain't damn pretty.

2.) The scene in Joe vs. The Volcano when Tom Hanks is told he's gonna die and he leaves the doctor's office and can't stop petting the dog. He just wants to keep petting the dog.

3.) Looper. The scene where's Seth's future self (Paul Dano's character) realizes he's been caught in the present and he's helpless to prevent what's being done to him. I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it, but it's a scene of such precise, clinical horror, I dare you to show me anything scarier. No blood, no gore, no time.

4.) Aesop Rock. None Shall Pass. It's just. It's just excellent if you've never had a day a snow cone couldn't fix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEBGCOCxLgA

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31 #84 - The Melancholy Edition

31 #83 - The Melancholy Edition

31 #82 - The Melancholy Edition

31 #81 - The Melancholy Edition

31 #80 The Melancholy Edition

31 #79

An astute observation by a one Mr. T.G. You know who you are.

31#78

The more I listen to anything Dave Byrne does, 

and the older I get, 

the more I realize that the man is a genius 

and I don't understand him.

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31 #76

... I started playing guitar.

31#75

This boxset changed my life.
I think my Dad brought it home from an open house one day.

He was selling the guy's house.

He was just like

"Here ya go."

It was incredible.

Five Albums I've Owned, Listen to Repeatedly, and Am Now Listening to Again.

I'm going back to the well. I'm looking for new music. But while I do that. I'm listening to these 5.

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The End.

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31#67 (Cont'd)

Heal Me Internet. 31#67

The ENT took one look and said "Oh what an ugly swollen necrotic half dead tonsil you have there"

The got to work immediately with IV's and a local anesthetic and started work on the right side of my throat. It started with a cold and vomiting on Wednesday morning and got worse until I went to the ER at 2:30 on Friday morning or Friday "Night" depending on how old you are. I hadn't slept or eaten anything and couldn't keep any food down. 

I was looking at the exacto-knife, a straw, a tray of ice cubes and free- Denny's OJ carafe for a good long while...DIY.

Ya see, I'm "dumb" and suffer from "neanderthal brain" and am convinced that "positive thinking" should overcome "anything" including a growing violent pain in your kneck if you "just believe it man!"

It was, I was told, peritonsillar cellulitis and an abscess that was so virulent the doctor just said I was "cutting it pretty close there"

They gave me a morphine drip and I watched Gold Rush on the Discovery Channel. 

Amy stopped by and kept me company. She is, honestly, one of the kindest, most genuinely caring persons I have ever met.

Thanks Amy.

I'll forget a lot of the stuff that's happened in my life. I will never forget the past 24 hours.

Don't ask how much it's going to cost.

31 #66 Happy President's Day

31 #65 - The FB Rouge's Gallery

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31#63 - My apps are talking to each other, man