Dude abides

This weekend I went to Lebowski fest with my cousin Shane Thomas Kirkland. It was bad ass. I got to see a speech given by the real dude, Jesus bowling partner, and saw a burlesque show performed by the wonderfull Itty Bitty Bang Bang. White russians were $10 dollars so i kept it and one and had a dudes rug for $8 bucks. There were some people that dressed up real great. It was an amazing experience to be surrounded by so many avid achievers who practicly quoted the whole movie the entire time. The fans consisted of guys who dressed up to dress up and just follow the show around. I met a guy who went to the festival in Kentucky, I believe this was his second fest and he wants to make it a bigger priority and more of a lifetime commitment. Its a grievous ill to say I am typing this right now while the bowling party has already began but I was at the beach all day and am bushed. The real little larry was there, wow. They had all the actual costumes from the movie on display, everything from Walters vest to the Nihilists girlfriend but and toe cut off. The check out girl from clerks was there and that was hillarious, there was a lot of stonewalling mentioned in the speeches. Its even become a religion, literally, they have created dudeism and said a prayer before the event. What a wonderful way to spend a night, with so many avid achievers. I talked to someone tonight to say that there are other Lebowski gatherings that go on around the city all the time, I look forward to partaking. Real tired, should prob go to bed, have an audition at next stage theatre tomorrow.

Peace I mean, the dude abides

Blog

I got to coach soccer at a really nice house in Bel-air yesterday. My Head coachs name yesterday was Josh,he was really nice and said his girlfriend was an actress and that she had taken some different improv classes with the ucb. After that my gps system bugged out on the way to my next stop for soccer and i had to use my phone. Got lost and was a little late for our training session, but they said no problem your new to the area its going to take some time. I wont count on getting to use that as an excuse anymore I just need to plan things out a little better instead of last second. I believe I will probably teach again on saturday and continue to do some training. Today Im going to get a toaster. My cousin is in the entertainment business up here and is hooking me up with a free build your own acting page up here so thats pretty cool. I need to get a little more active, a little much sitting around.

Lasonles

So. I got my headshots printed off today. Submitted for acting jobs. Bought grocerys. Saw tons and tons of theatres in the valley wow. My first short film was pretty fun and i met a girl named kat who lives in park la brea so that was pretty sweet. Pretty lazy day ya. PEace

So today I got that soccer job, will be working 2-6 on weekdays and am free on saturday which should leave me time to audition in the morning and maybe do improv stuff at night. Still need to print off my headshots and resumes. I dont today was crazy, missing home a little bit.

Los Ange

Tomorrow I have an interview at 10 in the morning with the soccer guys. I had my phone interview and i made it to the next level so thats great! Bringing Matt to get his car at 12. I am signed up with L.A. casting and need to get copies of my resume and picture printed. I still need to work on my resume but my pictures are all good. I got a role in a movie on sunday with my new friend Ricks girlfriend. Apparently I am an extra with lines and will be making fun of a hobo. Today I kind of wasted the day. Didnt make a whole lot of progress and just kind of sat around really. Well besides all the walking and going places i did but all in all it didnt amount to much. Id like to get out to the beach again. Im still getting settled in but need to enjoy myself a little bit. I still havent been to these great shakespeare plays they have out here. I am considering signing for improv classes either at io west or second city, or ucb, there like 300 dollars for 1 class per week, 7 weeks. I am also interested in doing some stand up comedy or something like that. I watched alot of Zach Galifinikas today, anyway. My cousin Shane is up here and I have gotten to hang out with him a few times. We have been joking around about how we look like Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon Levitt in the movie 50/50 coming out. Im Black Rogen. Lots of people have told me I look like the black or really tan Seth Rogen since I have been here, I looked up Seth Rogen and his favorite movie is the big lebowski, random connection, moving on. I tried to do my senior colloqium based on random connections and it really bombed, meaning sucked. Where am I, o ya Los Ang. Im thinking about hustling a little more, doing some clinical studies or finding some super random part time jobs. I have a connection with a security guard job down at the grove and applied for a job, maybe get the graveyard shift. I dont think they will give me a gun. haha o well, we shall see. Its nice to have pictures back. Meeting with background agency on the 26th. Applying for random student films, commercials and reality shows until then

Los Ang

Today was a good day. Woke up quick at about noon. Applied for a couple jobs today. Got a couple call backs about a soccer job and a pilot questionarre job. While not having landed anything yet, that was nice. I have yet to surf and that is my only real downfall right now. Tonight Taylor and I attended Monkey Butler improv which was pretty good and definetly kept me on my toes. There was some really cool people there, it was good to get out there and be involved in some community. Taylor and I had Sushi for lunch, which we got from a pretty cool looking place called traders joe, we agreed that the sushi was so-so, how could can it be coming out of a tubber-ware container. We stopped and visited Heidi at the Dream center where she works with the women shelter. I guess Lindsay Lohan has worked there before, so I am getting closer to bringing her home for thanksgiving. Got my first glimpse of the staples center. Im waiting on my pictures to come back so I can sign up with L.A. casting. Going to drews improv show tomorrow night. Well Night blog, Im out! PEeeeaches!

L.A

Today I found U.S bank unfortunatley it was closed so I could not get my check book. Then I applied for a job at chipotle. I thIink I will apply for a job at the movie theatre at the grove and I sort of applied for a soccer job via email from some guy Tay knows. I went to Venice beach to my cousin Shane today and that was pretty awesome fightin the waves, the ocean is beautiful, I like to watch it trickle at the top of the sand towards shore. Went to the grove, checked out some places around my area and some shops it was pretty sweet, so, ya. Goin to church wit Tay tom, Im kind of excited for that. I have found that driving kind of sucks, and you have to plan stuff out a little bit haha. Me plans, thats new. Ya well Im looking forward to getting a job or some jobs and have an appointment with central casting late in sept to do some background work. Im working on contacting an image consultant but its kind of a pain in the but to figure out how to actually get a hold of them or find their email. The goal is to keep moving forward i suppose. To tired to keep writing. NIght