https://youtu.be/lhaMR97FgXg
Recently I was approaching Carlisle ave on Stuart here in da Druitt and some lady is just stopped blocking the way in her nice new little red car... I pull up next to her to overtake, in a little risky position and as she has her hazard lights on ask her if she's OK, who knows, maybe she's just had a heart attack, right? So she just says she's having a panic attack, and she's OK. Actually some days later I think it was, a lady with a heart condition with like a year to live, just off Stuart ave, calls me to give her a ride to the hospital as the ambulance is like $300 she says. Please don't die in my car! Ha ha. Also very recently some guy acting deaf and dumb, not sure if he was, he didn't buy a ticket so I gave him a solid grilling til his hands were shaking, guess that was an anxiety attack, being told the bus service isn't socialist (it's actually going private, non government in early July, soon!)
Anyway, so we've mentioned on this blog, one time Benji took two acting lessons in Paris France with Bob McAndrew who boasts of having trained Christopher walken and Angelina Jolie, screen acting. So he's explaining about relieving tension and anxiety during class, you have to do something quick, you can't just go jack off somewhere and you're not Harvey Weinstein to just jack off in front of whoever. So the trick was to just step away from your acting buddy while you'd be normally staring into their eyes looking at them, doing meisner technique and just observing their behavior. So with dying lady, panic attack lady and Carson, I'd be saying: 'you're anxious' and if they could see the truth in that moment they'd admit, 'I'm anxious'. That's Meissner for dummies I guess. So with Bob he liked to use a brief sub technique he described as relieving tension like just scraping the excess cream off a coffee. The actor just steps away from their buddy, shakes their hands repeatedly and yells loudly, 'get away! Get away!'
All of Bob's actors were doing this. They were serious TV actors like had been in French TV shows and such. I could see Bob's French orphan young guy assistant Antonio had an interesting relationship with Bob as they could play out any scene and be comfortable with each other, Eg., Antonio played a scene for Bob briefly saying 'EFF you! I hate working for you, you suck!'
I mean subsequently I've done this technique here in Sydney at a different school and it got to a point the girl I was working with was just saying 'you're rocking', because I wasn't really feeling anything and she noticed I can't stand straight without rocking coz that's just how my body is.
So anyway back in Paris, I was doing the same exercise and instead of stepping away and yelling 'get away!' I literally bounced a few times, like twice, to a nearby wall and headbutted it solidly off one bounce maybe two headbutts, then bouncing twice back to my partner. It all happened very quickly, just straight acting, no thinking, and I hit that wall really hard, big time. The sound of shocked, repressed laughs ensued quickly and briefly and as I looked in my partner's eye's Bob never missed a beat and he says: how do you feel now? I can't remember what I said, peaceful or something, no-one cared apart from being amused, it was Paris, after all. Maybe I impressed Bob who knows, he invited me to study with him two years in Manhattan on a fake student visa pretending I couldn't speak English on a Spanish passport. The moral of the story is young adults need mentors I guess and the jury is out on the full ramifications and effects of concussion. Almost four years after said events in Paris I was watching a Chinese movie on Chinese run state TV, in china, in shenzhen, in a very poor apartment there such as poor people living on maybe $300 a month wagesll might have. When the movie ended, there came Bob's name in roman characters, no I wasn't hallucinating, he actually made a Chinese movie, collaborating as a writer. While I never had Bob's skill for making movies, I think he was head of talent at one point for 20th century fox. He always struck me as an interesting fellow.
Bob's Chinese movie, circa 2000
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0238588/?ref_=m_nm_knf_t2
Idol a tree:
https://youtu.be/ef3mFZzGM4M
There was a cop in America some years ago caught crapping on a whore's chest in an act of mutual consent (business). Probably that's how he dealt with anxiety. Probably being a cop produces constant anxiety.
The thing about most of Bob's students I think they end up doing soap operas drama shows like days of our lives, bold and the beautiful, etc. I only like soap in the shower, maybe in the bath. Bold and the beautiful is showing daily here before Sandra Sully 5pm news and it's deplorable! La-bás avec les soap operas qoi alors!
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