So tomorrow morning I travel up to London to start rehearsals for a musical I'm lighting up in Edinburgh. And the list of people I'm going to be working with is certainly an interesting one. There's someone who the public deemed "not as good as Jedward" (but then the public have always been morons), someone I've never heard of because I don't watch Eastenders and a guy whose professional surname is "7".
Now obviously it isn't unusual for actors, dancers, creative types to have a stage name. I know a guy who swapped his first name and surname round so that he could register with equity. But a numerical character is certainly the other end of the thought train. As far as I understand it, he's a hip-hop/street dancer so I guess it's his right to be a little bit wackier and seemingly more cool than the rest of us. And who knows, maybe it'll catch on. Would certainly make double barrel names easier. Although "John 9-3" sounds a bit like a question from a maths teacher.
In actual fact, for a short while I spelt my name with a silent 3 in the middle. It had no real effect on anything in my life other than adding an extra 20 seconds of explanation to any given conversation. It's an idea that I possibly borrowed from a Milton Jones joke and I didn't exactly apply it in any real situations. A mantra I mostly find to be true is that things that are funny on the internet, not necessarily so in the real world. For example, if a cat genuinely asked you if it can "haz cheeseburger" you'd freak the hell out (or possibly just correct it's grammar).
So I'm sure 7 is a nice guy and not a member of the Borg Collective. And who knows? If non-traditional character names really takes off, maybe my friends &y and K@ won't seem so strange anymore.
Surviving the Apocalypse Tip #7 : Dehydration can be as unpleasant as having your brains chewed on. Drink lots of water.
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