Vive le Quebec Libre!

Oui, oui - c'est vrai! Je me trouve en Montreal....

I have had the good fortune to have been cast in the most current Mike Dowse (director of FUBAR, It's All Gone Pete Tong, American Kids) project....A pilot for Showcase called: The Selkirk Foundation. I've known Mike for a long time - he's a Calgary boy, afterall....So, it's a real treat to be working with him. Paul Spence also has a role in the pilot, so I look forward to many late hours with him on set! We will be doing ALL NIGHT SHOOTS! I'm terrified! Our days will begin at 5pm and wrap up at 6am...

I fear that I am far too old for this sort of thing. I'm a bit embarrassed to confess that I have only stayed up to watch a sunrise once in my life (on purpose)....And maybe a handfull of other times when the evening somehow "got away from me". I have come armed with several tinctures ( Astragalus, Echinacea, Goldenseal)...And my "Lady" vitamins, and Milk Thistle! I hope to stay healthy - something that has been a challenge to me of late.

I celebrated the one year anniversary of my marriage to Bruce Horak last Tuesday....with my girlfriend, Michelle. Weird? Maybe...But, for a Canadian-acting-couple - it's par for the course. I got drunk on Sake and made several late night calls to said husband. He's been infinitely patient with me lately. This is my time of year to be depressed...and this year seems particularily bad....

I can't stop thinking about Global issues this time around. The environment has become a hotbed of media coverage, and has led me to all sorts of dark thoughts. Bruce and I continue to flip flop on the topic of children....But looking into the world, and the state of the environment....I can't say I'd feel 'responsible' getting pregnant. Having a baby probably does a LOT to add to your carbon footprint....And, as I type this there is a news report about an alarming number of dead dolphins washing up on beaches all over the place. Jesus. Bee hives are mysteriously expiring...And David Suzuki is lam-basting the Canadian government.

What next?

Seem ridiculous to be making a TV show in the face of all of this....

And THAT's a brief taste of the dark place that I'm sitting these days....

Thank God for breathing....sometimes, it's all we have.

:-(

The Slow Return....

Ahhhh.....another post.....
Slowly, slowly...I return.

A Cole's Notes update:

My blog is PUBLIC again.
Why? Well....I went private because I thought that I was merely blogging for my family and close pals....and thought, "private's not such a bad thing" (even though there's really nothing here that I'd be embarrassed to talk about in an interview!)...But in choosing a username and password, that I thought surely those closest to me would know - I confused EVERYONE, most notably my family (who know damn well what street I grew up on, and what my Mother's name is!)

So - public it is. It save much emabarrassment for everyone.

Bruce and I are coming up on our one year ANNIVERSARY as a married couple....And marriage is both great, and a challenge all rolled into one. We laugh a lot, and sometimes pool noodles are involved!

We wrote a show together that we recently took to the playRites Festival in Calgary. It was Bruce's one-man show, called, "This Is Cancer"...though, to be fair, it's not really a one man affair. It also features a fabulously talented pianist, Waylen Miki....And I had a non-speaking role as "Cancer's personal assistant, Lucinda". The experience was GREAT! Beautiful, scary, heartwarming....And a real challenge to both Bruce and the audience. We hope it has a long life (the show, not the disease!)

Professionaly I had the good fortune of guesting on This Hour Has 22 Minutes this season. A blast!

And....we will soon be at work on various Fringe projects....

For now, I, like so many actors, find this a difficult time of year while we wait to see if we book any work for the summer....It's tough not to judge your own self-worth by your lack of employment....Hie diddly dee, an actor's life for me!

Christy and I recently returned from a trip to Bermuda! Lovely, and much more cold then I would have thought. A nice break though...

Ummmmm.....I guess that's it for now.
hope all is well with the rest of you out in the cyber-world...

R