News from Danaland and Dr. Ice's VillageFebruary, 2010
Web site updates -
I've added my print-ready headshots on my Photos page, and updated my film and theatre Resumes. There are also now links back and forth between them, mainly because I find that more and more often, casting peeps in Seattle don't use Actors Access (why is that, does anyone know? :-} ), so they want to have a link on an actor's own web site to get a photo and resume. So, all five of my print-ready headshots - three film/tv shots and two theatre shots - are now easy to obtain right here. With my name already on there so you can remember who I am whenever you feel like you need to be reminded! :-}
New people on the "Which Dana Rice Are You Looking For?" page - I've recently revised this page, which is a sharing of my domain names with other people with my name. - to add a few more Dana Rices to the directory - including my friend the firefighter/poet in Tennessee, and a cinematographer in L.A. who once shared my IMDb record for a few months last year. :-}
Complete overhaul of my PNW Callboards page. New national and international resources added, plus a few new local ones, as well!
June 15, 2009
I'm on Twitter! It took a few days to get used to, and it really didn't seem to make much sense for awhile, but I _so_ get it now, and I have an account I'm using for my statuses: DanaRiceActor. I had to chuckle, one of the first "people" to start "following" me was "Gov. Schwarzenneger". I took a day off from Twitter to contemplate the implications of that. ::brain frizzles:: And, by the way, there is also a Dana Rice account on Twitter, that's not me. Although, I am "following" it because some of my friends have found them by mistake. I only tweet a status once every day or two, but I now have it hooked up to feed my statuses on Facebook, ReverbNation and MySpace.
I'm also getting a bunch of links together from friends who are as expert as one can be about the acting scene in L.A.: Crash Course on the L.A. Acting Scene.
December 10, 2008
I now have a new Mailing List, and a Street Team, on ReverbNation. If you'd like to receive notices of my performances (mailing list) or help promote them (street team) or both, please sign up in the widget below, or just email me at dana@danarice.net with the contact info of your choice. Thanks to everyone who's already signed up. :-}
November 23, 2008
Fun Thanksgiving Movie - What's Cooking? (2000) We saw this cute Thanksgiving movie - a hilarious look at four LA families, their holiday food, fun and drama. The DVD has some of the recipes used in the film. The ending is a fun twist. Mercedes Ruehl, Joan Chen, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, and directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham). Lots of familiar faces and voices in this piece. And a very funny sequence of all four families preparing the different parts of the meals - the turkeys, the mashed potatoes, etc. I love the mashed potato sequence. Striking, the different tools used to make the same dish. Enjoy! (Not necessarily for kids, though - there is a scary scene with a gun and a few love scenes and adult discussions. :-})
Oh, and I have some more we site updates - I added my Voice123 profile and my new DanaRiceActor YouTube Channel to my Contact Info page.
November 17, 2008
I am laughing so much, I saw this great slogan today, "More Glitter, Less Bitter". I think the person who invented it should have a cabinet post in charge of political campaign ethics. :-} Or at least governing the tone of campaign slogans, speeches and debates. Hilarious! Seriously, unless they lighten up and stop the garbage, I don't think I can watch TV during an election campaign ever again. It's just too much! ::chuckle:: More glitter, less bitter!
I'm rehearsing monologues and show tunes again. And every whippoorwill is selling me a bill... by the sea with the fishies splashin'... how perkifying... And yes, that does mean I've been singing three of my new favourite show tunes - "A Cockeyed Optimist", "By The Sea" and "Popular". Tomorrow, I'll stick to the edgier tunes for balance. I promise.
July 18, 2008
I love the movie
"Young @ Heart" about the rock 'n roll chorus
of seniors that plays to sold-out audiences
all over the world. :-}.
From my Facebook Status today: "You know what? Contentment is a summer day
with soft Spanish music, three sleeping
critters and a tall glass of iced tea. :-}
Now where's my to-do list? ::sigh::."
June 25, 2008
I'm psyched to be getting into the
recording studio this weekend with my friends
Bruce, Bill and Jeff. We're recording Bruce
and Bill's rock tunes. They go by the name
"Blood and Biscotti". I'm playing bass and
singing backup vocals for this project. I do love playing bass, it's like my soul instrument!
June 2009 - I've been working on several projects for the improvement of Danarice.net lately. :-} Widgets, new photos, a new splash graphic on the home page that melds my headshots into a photo of the beach in my mom's Florida home, and a new page about the L.A. acting scene. Linking together this site with all means of interacting with me on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, ReverNation, and so on. And I've been doing what I can on those sites to provide consistencly, such as designing a splahs background graphic for my Twitter site. It's all good. If you see anything you like or don't, or have any suggestions, please let me know! :-}
February 2008 - I have redesigned my web site (this one, Dana Rice's WWW Home), and gave it a new green design with a regular toolbar at top and bottom instead of the previous array of oddball buttons. And I finally realized a dream of adding a new page called "Which Dana Rice are you looking for?" because I get so many calls for other people with my name, I'd like it to be easier to find them. I also have a new Photos page, so I'll be moving photos from their current shared location with resumes and contact info onto their own screen. Once I pick a final headshot for print purposes! So much to do!
I've also been working for a few years now on a freelance web site http://www.LaurieMarum.com/ with my friend NancyEllen Regier (N'Ellen), who is an ace Graphics Designer. Please feel free to peruse the site and send us feedback! N'Ellen's graphics, as always, are stunning and beautiful. :-} She was working with Laurie on brochures, and designed her logo and branding and color scheme. And when they had a good start going on brochures, N'Ellen said, what else do you need? And Laurie said, how about a web site? N'Ellen designed it and handed it off to me to make the code, find the hosting service and get the site published and promoted. My first experience doing all that at once! Quite exciting! I need to meet more graphics designers who don't like to do code. :-} Well, maybe!
If you aren't already on my email show notice list, and you'd like me to contact you when I'm in plays or musical projects, I can do that! I have email lists, I have a phone, it's all good. Just let me know how you'd like to be notified. Call me or email me at dana@danarice.net and say, "Please put me on your mailing list!", or some such thing. You can also just mention it the next time I see you, eh? Don't forget! And don't forget to tell me about your artistic endeavours, too!
I have now have a Mailing List and a Street Team on ReverbNation. If you'd like to receive notices of my performances (mailing list) or help promote them (street team) or both, please sign up in the widget below, or just email me at dana@danarice.net with the contact info of your choice.
Thanks to everyone who's been sending me their news about artistic endeavours, and thanks also to all who use my show notices as an excuse to catch up! I love that!
Song Lyrics & Other Writing
A special thanks to those of you who've asked for the lyrics to my original tunes.
They are now on my Writing Collection web site, along with some other of my writing stuff:
Dana's Writing Collection And
thank you very much for asking! I hope to get some more songs written one of these days!
I'm on Twitter! It took a few days to get used to, and it really didn't seem to make much sense for awhile, but I _so_ get it now, and I have an account I'm using for my statuses: 
