Its a Big Bright Beautiful World

Hey blog fans.

firs of all, apologies for the lack of updates. I think i'll be updating weekly now as it seems like there's just no freakin' time here to do anything by yourself.

Basically Ive been living at PUB(lications) shop and spreading the joy of graphic design.

4 days ago, Councilors in Training arrived (CITs) following their entrance to Buck's Rock came the children. The many noisy, over excited, hyperactive 24/7 children.

I had forgotten how completely full on Full-On-Teens can be.

We have our first PUB 24 hour event tomorrow (Sunday) where all attendees are going to make a complete comic book. My partners in crime Amanda and Vanessa are both supa designers from the future. so space cadets ahoy; we get designs done... yo.

All the people here at Buck's Rock are amazing!

Barnaby has made allot of new friends when he entered the pie eating contest. Less and Less people are being freaked out by him.

Im appreciating the time spent away from campers. Its good to chilax with creative peeps.

Tonight, i'm performing FREEZE RA Y from Dr Horrible infront of the whole camp. Im hoping it will go down well. *fingers crossed yo?*

Ad while i'm missing my peeps from Australia, im just having the most spectacular time here. I'll catch you all round soonish.

Fruit of the Moment: BBQ lunch on the lawn in the sun

Put on Your Sunday Clothes

Apparently, camp life is kinda full on.

I'm sorry to suggest it, but less frequent posts are an assured thing here at Buck's rock.

Since being welcomed by the rain (and even more rain) life has settled down. Im offically known as either Kenney to the Americans or Mr G to the international Staff.

Meals are sounded by the massive gong and Ive managed to enlist the assistance of a $9 alarm clock from our trip to WALLMART!!! (yes, it was an exciting night out for us Buck's Rock kind.) I managed to score some sneakers and a Lanyard for our Layout crew! I now feel at home because I have a name tag to wear.

My Muppet has been officially named Barnaby, and he has joined the staff here at Buck's Rock.

Im learning a lot about plates and how to really utilise CMYK colour, and its awesome. Im almost finnished with the camper's orientation handbook (It being Design and Layout's first big project before the kiddies arrive on Tuesday).

We had a whole staff challenge called Cutthroat Island yesterday and guess who manged to be the first camper out? Yes. Moi. It was okay tho, I got to watch eveyone else make a compelte fool of themselves.

We had the Coffee House performance night yesterday and I decided to give the "lunch is about the worst time of day for me" monolouge from Charlie Brown a spin. People thought it was awesome. I was so embarrised at the number of people who kept on coming up to tell me how great they thought I went... Even today, people were still giving thumbs up in passing. So I really cant express to you how awesome living with a whole lot of enthusiastically creative people actually is.

Been meeting alot of cool people and am working on remembering everyone's names.

The shop I work at is Publications or PUB for short. My layout buddy is Vanessa, my boss is emma and the print Guru is Bob. Today we filmed a parody of WILL IT BLEND? from Youtube for the camper's orientation VIDEO. It turned out a scream!

Tonight is the official 'Staff Party' and we get picked up in around an hour. Am interested in how long hicksville USA can cope with 150 odd drama peeps...

Camp is pretty much repedative here. So until I have something really interesting to note, i'll keep you all in the dark!

Fruit of the Moment: Purple Carrot Concentrate

Are you a Vegetarian?

Greetings from Buck's Rock!

I am totally here in the dining room and settled. The wi fi is switched on, and free for all until campers come, and then it will be password protected...

Hokay, so. Nothing much to report today except for the REAL holiday sleep-in!!! Also, it took 30 GOD DAM minutes on the corner of 7th Ave to get a taxi... IN THE RAIN with all my bags.

After all that, I managed to catch the connecting bus to go to CAMP! (traffic in New York was horrific due to the downpour)

I was put up in the FOUR SEASONS cabin (all cabins are named after fancy hotels) and apparently I got the best deal. We have a room with all the hot water/heating for the 2 story building. I call it the 'Warm Room' it is currently drying anything wet. It will be useful for drying clothes.

Ive met SO SO SO many people here. If dad can remember that unenthusiastic person I was talking about, they are still as unenthusiastic as ever (and confused at why so many camp councilors are so perky?!)

Above is a friend I made, Marion (also from Sydney) we had dinner at the same table and we shared internet geek stories. It was fun.

Anyway, a long day of nothing calls for a very boring post.

P.S. Vegetarianism is suiting me fine and dandy :)

Fruit of the Moment: SOYnut butter (yeah, you read right, OMG!!!)

Toxic Awakening

The Toxic Avenger Musical was the best piece of musical theatre I have seen in a very long time. A Rock comedy that tore the house down!

With the original director of Urinetown at the helm, and music from the peeps of LOVE YOU, PERFECT, CHANGE. What can go wrong?

It had me rocking in my seat from the first power chord to the last guitar solo band encore. The audience loved it, the cast loved it and after the show I got to meet the original Pennywise (who played the mayor in this show) who, had spotted me in my seat during the show. It appears I may have been making quite a racket in the third row.

The show is about a nerdy toxic waste super hero, in love with a blind librarian who needs to prevent a crooked mayor from continuing to turn New Jersey into a (larger) toxic waste dump.


The cast of 5 all had rockin' solos worthy of allot of woopin' and cheerin'. The two ensemble characters titled simply "black dude" and "white dude" starred as Mitch Mahoney in Spelling Bee and Sammy in Wedding Singer respectively.

I gotta note here that its off broadway. The sound was pumpin, the set was super slick. The lighting was freaking AMAZING. This show fucking rocked!

Fruit of the Moment: Bleach. Common Household Bleach

The Little Dissapointment

The Little Mermaid had very little to do with fantastic, despite the overuse of everything plastic. Do yourself a favor and ignore it.

The set, was of course the only awesome thing about this show. Not only was it visually exquisite, but each element was used in several ways... i.e. The sun above the water span around to become an underwater sculpture in king triton's palace, and then it span so the circle faced the floor and plastic diamonds popped out of it to create a chandelier. I could describe the other similar elements, but you get the picture.

The show itself was less than dazzling. What truly was laughable was Prince Eric (besides his errr.. unflattering white tights). Following a chase scene with the frech chef, Eric spent a romantic ballroom scene with the silent Ariel completely out of breath. I mean the works; heavy breathing and stunted dialogue. You'd think the actor would be able to anticipate it? Whatever.

OH! and meanwhile; the topless mermen/fish creatures? Can you say painted-Ab-on-Flab? pfft! very unpleasant (All of them). Stunning female ensemble tho.

Another unfortunate unavoidable deterrent was the theatre's balcony seating. It jots so far out, that i could only see half the stage as I was seated at the back of the floor seats (which was full price seating might i add)... This was okay, except when Eric's ship flew in. The ensemble scattered over the sails and masts were completely invisible to me.

And there were a sea of children. literally. About 40% adults id wager. But for a glorified pantomime, i should have expected it.

Fruit of the Moment: Mango slithers on a stick

Central Perkiness

An early start to head off to TKTS in chance to score a bargain for a little mermaid matinee. With my Venti Coffee Frappuccino in hand, i strode to the line 2 hours early to secure my spot. Turns out, the tickets were only 30% off. oh well, at least i'd get a good seat right? Wrong. (more later)

After a breakfast featuring my good friend bacon, i decide to head to Central Park. Here, i visit the Central Park Zoo. The Zoo was so tiny, it was shorter than Tuneil. (it was still longer than Kim).

A short trip up the park, and I managed to spy on a castle, a turtle pond and the Alice in Wonderland Tribute statue in todays happy snap. I lingered there for quite some time as there was this funky jazz band TIN PAN playing next to it. Toe tappin' awesomeness!

Anyhew, by the time I navigated my way back to the subway and 47th street, it was time for lunch and a matinee.

Fruit of the Moment: Dairy Free Vanilla Chai

Un Spirited

Blithe Spirit was a dutiful revival production with little creativity or thought to add to the original material.

Angela Lansbury delighted the crowds with her dottery old lady routine, while Rupert Everett seemed positively bored effortlessly sailing through an excellent portrayal of Charles.

The two wives were okay, however Elvira was as about as promiscuous as a filing cabinet.

Blithe Spirit is a play about a successful writer inviting a "medium" to his house under false pretenses for research on his new crime novel. What he doesn't expect is that the medium awakens a Spirit that ruffles even Charles' feathers.

The set was dreadfully dull and unimaginative, and the cast were often out of sinc with sound effects, Like they were responding to the sounds rather than the sounds responding to their movement.

And it was appalling but EVERY cast member stumbled their lines more than once... Even Rupert. EVEN Angela. The 2 act Coward play must be quite a mouthful.

Fruit of the Moment: "That Cheesey Thing we had for lunch yesterday; what was it?"