Links to Linkins: Our Blogger that we Share with the World

Well, folks been a while since I sat down to write an entry and I am going to work on changing that as soon as possible.

In the meantime I wanted to share a little piece on Rorschach Company member and all around fantastic guy Jason Linkins.

Washingtonian Magazine's blog has run a profile on Jason, because of his work on the blog Eat-the-Press.

Jason as many of you know is a master blogger in the realm of politics and pop culture, but when he wants to show his softer side he comes home to Rorschach. HERE is the link to the whole interview, in addition to his musings on Bob Scheiffer and bad restraunts in the Downtown DC area, I just wanted to commend Jason for remembering his family at Rorschach in his answers:

Favorite thing to do when you’re not reading or writing about the media:

“I’m an associate company member at Rorschach Theatre in DC, and I enjoy participating in all aspects of production from acting in shows to helping out with production or big PR pushes. Putting up a piece of professional theater is an audacious undertaking, and there are always those all-hands-on-deck moments where you have to solve a problem or push through a ton of work to survive and thrive. I get to do that with some of my best friends in the city. It’s intense and often insane, but at the end of the day you’ve done something meaningful with people you love and respect. And even if no one else gets that, it hardly matters—you’re a part of a very special brotherhood.”

As Fumor Travels

Fumor #5

Jason Linkins has added a new job to his list of ten, he's playing the jug.

Jason Rorschach's lovable blogger, actor, witch hunter general, surgeon general, muckraker, music critic, thorn in the side of the establishment and fantasy role player, has taken up the jug.

Jason comes from a long line of jug players going back to his great-grandfather Elias "Pouch Cheeks" Linkins. Old "Pouch Cheeks" was famed for his jug handling and his uncanny ability to store nuts for winter. He played with The Good Old Boys, The Plumb Tuckers, The New Good Old Boys, Jasper and the Tolerables, The Plumb Tucker Xperience and Jefferson Bi-Plane (this was Grace Slicks' original band).

Jason has been working up to a public performance for over a year now and hope to have a band together sometime this spring.

Jason says "The jug can be an angry mistress! Not as angry as an actual mistress, but about as angry as a mistress with no arms, no legs and a handle on the side can get. Believe me when I say this is a mistress who can get angry and let you know about it. I suppose it can't use words so it is more about you feeling the anger coming off the jug more than it is actually about you hearing about the anger. With a real mistress, who has a mouth, you would hear about the anger. I am sure that is all she would talk about, and then you would just say I have had enough and go back to your wife or girlfriend and say I am sorry. Jugs are better"

My Favorite Rorschach Prop

An Essay

by

Scott McCormick (10 Years Old)

As a young person in this country of ours I am reminded of my favorite Rorschach Theatre prop of all time, Jason Linkin's head.

Jason's head was first used in Master and Margarita when his head was taken off his body by a street car after he slipped in some cooking oil. It got thrown on stage by someone. It was not his real head but a paper mache copy of his head made by a crazy lady who used to work for us.

Jason's head was cool because it was shiny and it was hard. Much like a piece of paper mache fruit my grandma brought back from Mexico when she went on one of those crusies like the Love Boat. Grandma said all she brought back from the trip was that piece of fake fruit and an intestinal bug, which she never was able to shake.

Jason's head has served its role in several other plays since then, but I can't remember them because I was not in them. Jason writes on web sites for a job, which is cool. But wouldn't it be even cooler if we could get Jason's head a job writing on web sites. I suppose someone else would have to type since he has no fingers, but it would be cool to see what he thought about issues of our day in this country, like global warming and whether Britney is an unfit mother.

I miss Jason's head and wish we knew where it was at. I would like to keep it safe for the next time Jason is in a show and we need to cut his head off. Because really cutting his head off would be messy. Did I mention it had a cup in its neck so when you held it upside down you could pretend to drink blood out of it? My friends Grady, Melissa, Tim and I did it once or twice and then Jenny said it was taking too long and only Lindsay should drink out of Jason's head. Oh and the blood we were drinking was supposed to be coming out of Mark Sullivan. It was kind of gross.

Thank you and good bye.

JASON'S HEAD RULES!

Guest Bloggers and Buck Rogers

Thank you Jason Linkins for that exceptional preview of Myth Appropriation: The Brothers Grimm.

Small correction it is Catherine Tripp not Cathering Tripp. I can only assume that Cathering is that act of distributing the works of American Novelist Willa Cather. Used in a sentence:

I spent all day Saturday cathering the neighborhood with materials of American Prairie values.

There will be other guest contributors this week, so please come back often as we count down to a uniquely Rorschach experience. Remember tickets for Myth Appropriation are only $10 and there are only 2 shows Saturday Night at 8pm and 10pm.

Please watch the following video and tell me if Okkervil River's "Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe," doesn't remind you a tiny bit of the opening theme to 1980s Space Adventure Show Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Very Busy

Everything is coming together for tomorrow nights opening. I am very busy today so I offer you some photos and a link to Jason Linkins birds article over at DCeiver. It is a fun new game you will all enjoy called Rorschach's Birds or Member of the Sugarcubes.

Remember one last PWYC preview tonight at 8pm. I will see some of you at Opening, to the cast and crew thanks and good luck.

Jason's Odyssey

I would like to draw your attention to another Company Member's blog. Seems the incomparable Jason Linkins had a little adventure on his way home from the Referneces . . . cast party on Saturday Night. In a post Jason is calling Wherein the DCeiver Leads the Tired and the Deaf to Freedom from Fairfax County he recounts a harrowing journey in an attempt to get home. It is sort of a mix between The Incredible Journey, Boogey Nights and Children of a Lesser God.

This is Jason Linkins folks so parental discretion is advised. But you will laugh until I cry. Promise!

(By the way he hates it when I use this picture. But it is the closest thing I have to him falling asleep on the Metro.)

Linkins asks Linkins

I never get tired of Jason Linkins. There are many people in this world that I can not say the same of but I need me a does of Linkins about every couple of weeks or I start to go into withdrawal. Here he asks himself the questions and slngs back the answer. Remember this is the second to last weekend before MONSTER closes. Don't miss it!

1. Where are you from, originally?

Washington, DC

2. Where did you go to school?

The University of Virginia and, later, Virginia Commonwealth University.

3. What is the last book you read for fun?

How Soccer Explains The World, by Franklin Foer

4. When you first learned that you would be working on MONSTER, what was the first thought that crossed your mind?

OH CRAP. I HAVE TO GET ON A BOAT AGAIN??

5. If you could reanimate anyone, who would it be and why?

Paul Wellstone, for the obvious reasons.

6. As a kid, what was your favorite Halloween candy?

Hershey's SPECIAL DARK. They just seemed so EXOTIC. Also, like my friend Sommer, I believe Krackel to be heaven-sent.

7. What tune is going on your "Awesome MixTape 2006."?

All of these:
The Strokes, "You Only Live Once"
The Dresden Dolls, "Delilah"
Bishop Allen, "Flight 180"
Rainer Maria, "Catastrophe Keeps Us Together"
Keane, "Is It Any Wonder"
Jarvis Cocker, "[REDACTEDS] are Still Running The World"
The Hold Steady, "Stuck Between Stations"
Middle Distance Runner, "Naturally"
The Daybreak Line, "Bleeding Hearts"

8. What story of primal horror would you like to see Rorschach stage next year?

Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom

9. What are your words to live by?

"This is how it works: You're young until you're not. You love until you don't. You try until you can't. You laugh until you cry. You cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe until their dying breath. And this is how it works: You peer inside yourself. You take the things you like, and try to love the things you took. And then you take that love you made, and stick it into someone else's heart, pumping someone else's blood. And, walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed. But even if it does, you'll just do it all again." --Regina Spektor

10. I'm going to quote you out of context. Okay? Go.

I had never dipped them into the gravy before that day...now, I can't help myself.

11. What's something you do in every show to maximize the audience's fear?

I bury ancient Indian remains under their seats.

12. Why DID Victor give the Creature a [REDACTED]?

I think the real question is, how did he learn to use it just from reading Paradise Lost?

MONSTER Cast

Some of the favorites you have come to love at Rorschach and a lot of new folks take the stage in just under two months as Rorschach presents Neal Bell's adaptation of Mary Shelley's shocking and timeless classic of mankind treading in the realm of the gods themselves and creating life, Frankenstein. Monster will open on October 31st, will you be ready?

Join Artistic Director Randy Baker as he directs Rorschach favorites like Paul McLane (The Scarlet Letter and Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards) and Resident Company Member Jason Linkins (The Master and Margarita, The Scarlet Letter and Behold!) along with lots of new faces and talent.

I can't wait to be scared ladies and gentlemen and I hope you feel the same way. Here is the rest of the cast:

WALTON Paul McLane
VICTOR Jeremy Goren
ELIZABETH Lily Balsen
CLERVAL Jon Reynolds
FATHER/FORSTER Jason Linkins
MOTHER Nicky Daval
JUSTINE Tiernan Madorno
WILLIAM Ryan Nealy
MONSTER Robert (Bobby) Rector