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http://AliciaAmerican.com
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
A Mighty Wind
Last night it was 63 degrees out when I was walking to Jon Montgomery's debut performance of his new all-star supergroup The New York Blues Project. Such a beautiful night, hard not to be in a good mood. The packed, friendly, excited house loved what they heard, and chanted when it was over for the star drummer Bleu Ocean (who used to be the live drummer playing behind the Monkees back in their original tours, among other cool career credits). Jon is a living legend and he associates with others of the same ilk. They're already talking about playing Europe and so forth, it feels like an exciting start.
Walking home from the cool old 60's style club on 78th Street across from the Museum, the weather had gotten a bit colder, but MUCH windier. All these pretty women out in stilt heels and flouncy dresses, all walking backwards against the wind, trying in vain to hold their skirts down against the extreme gusts. Life is free entertainment if you just look all around you.
Today, I was walking to Trump to see Horus cat and the wind was so strong, it almost knocked me backwards off the stairs as I approached the building! I saw a guy accidentally get tangled in a woman's dog leash! The wind was more extreme than I've ever seen it in New York, which is saying something.
I am excited this weekend to be working on co-creating female characters with a woman with an international reputation in animation. I'm doing a lot of writing and drawing as well as playing with Horus and brushing him. It's a very busy time but I feel extremely grateful to literally have too many things to do in the time allotted. Which reminds me, I'd better get back to it.
Hmm, no illustrations for this blog entry, that's odd for me. But maybe it's appropriate that a blog post about wind should be filled with nothing but my hot air.
Walking home from the cool old 60's style club on 78th Street across from the Museum, the weather had gotten a bit colder, but MUCH windier. All these pretty women out in stilt heels and flouncy dresses, all walking backwards against the wind, trying in vain to hold their skirts down against the extreme gusts. Life is free entertainment if you just look all around you.
Today, I was walking to Trump to see Horus cat and the wind was so strong, it almost knocked me backwards off the stairs as I approached the building! I saw a guy accidentally get tangled in a woman's dog leash! The wind was more extreme than I've ever seen it in New York, which is saying something.
I am excited this weekend to be working on co-creating female characters with a woman with an international reputation in animation. I'm doing a lot of writing and drawing as well as playing with Horus and brushing him. It's a very busy time but I feel extremely grateful to literally have too many things to do in the time allotted. Which reminds me, I'd better get back to it.
Hmm, no illustrations for this blog entry, that's odd for me. But maybe it's appropriate that a blog post about wind should be filled with nothing but my hot air.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Public Drunkenness in Paris!
New AMERICAST from Paris just uploaded today!
http://aliciaamerican.com/
http://aliciaamerican.com/
Thursday, February 10, 2011
How to Be the Hottest Chick
Our new podcast is up at http://AliciaAmerican.com!
Oh my god vote for me (the redhead) to be your Valentine here:
http://peterbernard.com/aablog/aavote.html
or vote for Debbie (the blonde one) here:
http://peterbernard.com/aablog/votedebbie.html
But why you would vote for Deb I do not know. Love ya, Deb!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
A Date with Debbie!
BRAND NEW!
A Date with Debbie American!
http://DebbieAmerican.com/
http://ThoseAmericanGirls.com
“Everyone likes white women! Except if they’ve got an Asian girlfriend, of course.”
~~Debbie American
A Date with Debbie American!
http://DebbieAmerican.com/
http://ThoseAmericanGirls.com
“Everyone likes white women! Except if they’ve got an Asian girlfriend, of course.”
~~Debbie American
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Debbie's Weed Vacation!!
Of course, we would NEVER advocate the use of any illegal herbs or chemicals.
LISTEN NOW FOR FREE:
http://debbieamerican.com/
LISTEN NOW FOR FREE:
http://debbieamerican.com/
Written by Peter Bernard, performed by Rachel Cleary.
See Rachel Cleary tomorrow night (January 21, 2011) on TLC’s “FOUR WEDDINGS.”
Keep watching to see if Rachel and her voice actor partner Lloyd Floyd win!
WILL THEY ACTUALLY GET MARRIED ON NATIONAL TELEVISION TOMORROW NIGHT?
Open music by Belly Brain, background music by Robin Hood and his Black Brothers
Copyright ©MMXI Peter Bernard
Copyright ©MMXI Peter Bernard
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Sarah Palin Blood Libel CARTOON!
Yes, it's an animated cartoon now, go here to watch:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7b288348d/sarah-palin-blood-libel-and-everything
Alicia American's IMPORTANT MESSAGE about BLOOD LIBEL and SARAH PALIN!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7b288348d/sarah-palin-blood-libel-and-everything
Alicia American's IMPORTANT MESSAGE about BLOOD LIBEL and SARAH PALIN!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Those American Girls FIRST SINGLE!
http://peterbernard.com/aablog/?p=42
It's Alicia and Debbie American performing their first dance hit!
Download it now for free on iTunes!
It's Alicia and Debbie American performing their first dance hit!
Download it now for free on iTunes!
Palin Blood Libel! Plus Positive Affirmations! (MP3)
Brand new AMERICAST is online starring BOTH
Alicia AND Debbie American!
http://ThoseAmericanGirls.com
http://AliciaAmerican.com
http://DebbieAmerican.com
COMING LATER TODAY:
Those American Girls
FIRST iTUNES SINGLE!
Alicia AND Debbie American!
http://ThoseAmericanGirls.com
http://AliciaAmerican.com
http://DebbieAmerican.com
COMING LATER TODAY:
Those American Girls
FIRST iTUNES SINGLE!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Alicia's Americast #1
12/09/10: AMERICAST ONE: Waiting for Debbie (2:33)
Hi, it's me, Alicia American from http://theamericangirls.info
with my first-ever internet podcasty radio thingy!
LISTEN TO THE FIRST EPISODE NOW HERE:
http://peterbernard.com/alicia/americast/aliciaamericastweb001.mp3
FRIEND ME ON FACEBOOK, LOVERS!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Alicia-America/100001885262314
Free web poster of Alicia American and Ashley Mitchell by Peter Bernard:
http://peterbernard.com/alicia/aapinup001web.jpg
Starring Ashley Mitchell, written by and Copyright © 2010 Peter Bernard & Ashley Mitchell.
http://AliciaAmerican.com
Hi, it's me, Alicia American from http://theamericangirls.info
with my first-ever internet podcasty radio thingy!
LISTEN TO THE FIRST EPISODE NOW HERE:
http://peterbernard.com/alicia/americast/aliciaamericastweb001.mp3
FRIEND ME ON FACEBOOK, LOVERS!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Alicia-America/100001885262314
Free web poster of Alicia American and Ashley Mitchell by Peter Bernard:
http://peterbernard.com/alicia/aapinup001web.jpg
Starring Ashley Mitchell, written by and Copyright © 2010 Peter Bernard & Ashley Mitchell.
http://AliciaAmerican.com
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
No rest for the talented
Saturday, November 27, 2010
"Call Us Cowboys" Live Theater Review
“CALL US COWBOYS” Live Theater Review
Ashley Mitchell is an extremely unique actress/writer/director who is so good at performing comedy that she took a supporting role I gave her and turned it into a starring role without changing a word of dialogue. I've become convinced while animating her voice work that she is one of the finest comedy actors I've ever heard or seen. There's no way that what I wrote was half as funny as what she read! This woman, I thought, is born to do comedy and will be making people laugh their asses off for many years to come.
Last night was the first time I ever saw Ashley perform drama, in the play “Call Us Cowboys,” at Roy Arias Theater, and I'm at a loss to put into words how blown away I was by her moving performance. Anything I write down just seems like I'm kissing ass and you won't believe me because I work with her, but I don't work with her doing drama. I have no reason to encourage her to do that!!! I need her to do my funny cartoons! Also, I've worked with some decent actors over the years, I think, going back to CHUD when I was a kid, haha (Daniel Stern, John Heard). Ashley can do things I've never seen an actor be able to do before. I don't just mean laugh on cue or cry on cue with real tears (which she does painfully convincingly), but this girl was commanding the attention of the audience sometimes even when she turned her back to us. I don't only think that she would stand out in small theater productions like this one, I think she would stand out even among the most accomplished of performers. This girl is in her early 20s and after the show I saw actors older than her asking her to go into teaching. But although Ashley's techniques are clearly well thought out, and she could probably make any actor better, there would be no way to teach someone how to be as good as Ashley Mitchell.
See? I told you, it sounds like I'm kissing butt. This is one of my problems with live plays-- there's no evidence left after the performance, it's disappeared already into the ether. If it were a youtube video, I could PROVE my points by linking you to it, but because it was live, you only have word of mouth to go on. Live theater is so ephemeral. If you can check this play out tonight or tomorrow afternoon, you'll be able to see for yourself what I'm saying, but if you miss those shows, you'll never know what you missed.
The play itself is intense and sad, about the effects of war on people's lives. There are flashback scenes of Viet Nam and Iraq, and Aki Tsuchimoto stood out most in those scenes with her quirky and interesting performance as a Viet Namese artist who gets close to the wrong Yankee. But the play comes alive in the scenes of domestic quarreling between Ashley's character Wanda and her husband Frank, played by Kevin Ploth. At points I felt like I had been trapped at my parent's house after Thanksgiving, so genuine was the writing and the performance of domestic bliss turned to an ongoing and worsening, inescapable Hell.
I thought the ending, without getting into details, was a bit “deux ex machina” as written but the remarkable way Ashley chose to perform the scene was the main topic of conversation among the audience after the show, from what I could overhear. I don't want to give spoilers concerning the plot details, but let's just say that Ms. Mitchell managed to do things not written in the script and not using words at all (!) to completely sell the ending of the play and make it seem entirely emotionally satisfying and believable. She'll make the hairs on your arm stand on end and you will know you have witnessed something very special.
Although the play was well-written and all the actors did their jobs, my thought leaving there was, “I bet I could even give Ashley ten pages of gibberish to act out but by the end of it, she'd have the audience crying or laughing or feeling whatever she wanted them to feel.” She's just out of school and has no representation yet-- a situation not likely to last all that much longer. The idea that her skills are likely to improve with time is nearly frightening.
I'll tell you now the same thing I told her after the show: Ashley Mitchell has acting super powers.
Ashley Mitchell in
Call Us Cowboys written by Bruce Colbert and directed by Jorge Navarrete
Roy Arias Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, 212-957-8358
FINAL TWO PERFORMANCES:
Tonight (Saturday 11/27) 8pm, tomorrow (Sunday 11/28) 3 pm
http://royariasstudios.com/
http://www.ashleymitchell.net/
Ashley Mitchell is an extremely unique actress/writer/director who is so good at performing comedy that she took a supporting role I gave her and turned it into a starring role without changing a word of dialogue. I've become convinced while animating her voice work that she is one of the finest comedy actors I've ever heard or seen. There's no way that what I wrote was half as funny as what she read! This woman, I thought, is born to do comedy and will be making people laugh their asses off for many years to come.
Last night was the first time I ever saw Ashley perform drama, in the play “Call Us Cowboys,” at Roy Arias Theater, and I'm at a loss to put into words how blown away I was by her moving performance. Anything I write down just seems like I'm kissing ass and you won't believe me because I work with her, but I don't work with her doing drama. I have no reason to encourage her to do that!!! I need her to do my funny cartoons! Also, I've worked with some decent actors over the years, I think, going back to CHUD when I was a kid, haha (Daniel Stern, John Heard). Ashley can do things I've never seen an actor be able to do before. I don't just mean laugh on cue or cry on cue with real tears (which she does painfully convincingly), but this girl was commanding the attention of the audience sometimes even when she turned her back to us. I don't only think that she would stand out in small theater productions like this one, I think she would stand out even among the most accomplished of performers. This girl is in her early 20s and after the show I saw actors older than her asking her to go into teaching. But although Ashley's techniques are clearly well thought out, and she could probably make any actor better, there would be no way to teach someone how to be as good as Ashley Mitchell.
See? I told you, it sounds like I'm kissing butt. This is one of my problems with live plays-- there's no evidence left after the performance, it's disappeared already into the ether. If it were a youtube video, I could PROVE my points by linking you to it, but because it was live, you only have word of mouth to go on. Live theater is so ephemeral. If you can check this play out tonight or tomorrow afternoon, you'll be able to see for yourself what I'm saying, but if you miss those shows, you'll never know what you missed.
The play itself is intense and sad, about the effects of war on people's lives. There are flashback scenes of Viet Nam and Iraq, and Aki Tsuchimoto stood out most in those scenes with her quirky and interesting performance as a Viet Namese artist who gets close to the wrong Yankee. But the play comes alive in the scenes of domestic quarreling between Ashley's character Wanda and her husband Frank, played by Kevin Ploth. At points I felt like I had been trapped at my parent's house after Thanksgiving, so genuine was the writing and the performance of domestic bliss turned to an ongoing and worsening, inescapable Hell.
I thought the ending, without getting into details, was a bit “deux ex machina” as written but the remarkable way Ashley chose to perform the scene was the main topic of conversation among the audience after the show, from what I could overhear. I don't want to give spoilers concerning the plot details, but let's just say that Ms. Mitchell managed to do things not written in the script and not using words at all (!) to completely sell the ending of the play and make it seem entirely emotionally satisfying and believable. She'll make the hairs on your arm stand on end and you will know you have witnessed something very special.
Although the play was well-written and all the actors did their jobs, my thought leaving there was, “I bet I could even give Ashley ten pages of gibberish to act out but by the end of it, she'd have the audience crying or laughing or feeling whatever she wanted them to feel.” She's just out of school and has no representation yet-- a situation not likely to last all that much longer. The idea that her skills are likely to improve with time is nearly frightening.
I'll tell you now the same thing I told her after the show: Ashley Mitchell has acting super powers.
Ashley Mitchell in
Call Us Cowboys written by Bruce Colbert and directed by Jorge Navarrete
Roy Arias Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, 212-957-8358
FINAL TWO PERFORMANCES:
Tonight (Saturday 11/27) 8pm, tomorrow (Sunday 11/28) 3 pm
http://royariasstudios.com/
http://www.ashleymitchell.net/
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