Mid Day Blog

Another mid day blog, kind of just debriefing here really.  You wouldnt neccessarily think I would need it but I think I need to tap into my zen like Eric mind a little bit, i need to relax, not for hours or anything, but I just need to take time to meditate and relax, listen to some good music, and just chill out, not worry so much, i think I am getting a little too wound up about little things and taking them a little bit too seriously.  I kind of just realized this today, just chill out, calm down and dont worry.  I work Wednesday through Friday on various projects.  I want to keep developing material, ive been typing into the notes on my phone and coming up with some decent stuff.  I also think Im going to start listening to music a little more and at the same time pulling away from social media, besides things like a blog, or note taking, applying for stuff and dictation.  Gotta get back to the basics, like a camp fire, i want to feel whats really going on around me.  Deal with stuff in a good way, keep having fun, spice things up. Alright lets see if theres anything else interesting or not.  I just overheard a lady who is putting up signs for a lost dog, its not hers, she found it, she is trying to find the owner.  My place has a couple of roommates in it, it doesnt always run as smoothly as you would want it to, Im trying to do my best, you want to be able to live and pursue things and keep a certain amount of harmony in the place and thats a tricky balance sometimes because you never know whats going to be thrown at you, sometimes when you feel like your doing your best something comes up suddenly and unexpected, but I think you have to take it as it comes, not make anything more of a big deal than it is, whether someone is mad at you or you are mad at them for whatever reason, you gotta stay even, maybe even find some comedy in it.  Peoples priorities boggle me sometimes, it is as absurd as it gets.  I read something recently about not taking yourself so seriously and it says that it allows you to find comedy in the day to day things more.  But really I think the most important thing is to try and be respectful and also just make sure Im doing my thing, waking up early and getting things done and staying on task with my goals and things I want to do while maintaining an appropriate space.  I think one thing I found thats hard is while someone may find something I did wrong, I may have also found something they did, but I dont neccessarily want to go mortal combat on them about it, I let little things go alot, which I've learned theres another extreme, some people let nothing go.  Any how, it is time not to just stay, but get focused, this time of the year is easy to get more lax, but i think it can be a more productive time, things can get done, alright until next time blog.

Randon Post

Hey Blog, I just figured I would check in and do a post about what I'm doing.  This week I had a couple auditions for promos and internet commercials that I got off of actors access and La Casting.  They both went pretty well, I am also self submitting myself for an open call which I have done most of the filming for.  Other than that I am working out, and preparing for camp and still trying to book paying gigs that help me move along and stay busy.  I did another open mic as well which didnt go great, but I got a laugh, haha.  I got to thank my family, they have been really supportive of my career out here in many different ways.  I believe in myself because of all the different things that they have instilled in me, I can do it.  I worked out with my roommate Luke this morning, pretty good workout.  Saw the movie Chef which I thought was really good, it is a fun one for sure, for anyone that likes food.  Still trying to focus on working on projects and staying proactive and busy, i know I'm not where I want to be yet but still am generating momentum to get there.  Alright Im gonna end the blog, I know its a short one, hope you enjoyed.

Sweet child

I'm not sure where this blog is coming from, but just know that I'm listening to fat bottom girls while I write it. Tomorrow neighbors come out should be pretty funny. I haven't been drinking much at all, but out the spirit if a fraternity movie i suggested the roommates maybe play a game of beer pong before the film, no harm no foul. I have been writing lately, even just stirring up some new ideas, doing some odd work. Workin on that budgeting/making ends meet game/trying to get the next gig. Ok, enough of that. I wanted to blog because of a thought that was provoked in my mind. I think that it's easy to not want to like Los Angeles, especially if your not native, or just new in town, or a number of reasons I guess the list could go on. But I had this little realization, while I may live a bit of a sporadic life or whatever, I realized that I hear people talking about not liking earthquakes or being scared and there is a little bit of that, but even though they can be scary, I do like them, and just like every other natural disaster or weather pattern I'd never wish harm to anyone obviously, but I do like them, something about it makes you feel alive. I'm not sure where I am going with this, I think what I might be saying is if I can embrace this place I think maybe I could love it, because I think even unbeknownst to me at times, I at least do like it. I think people that truly don't like it out here aren't able to embrace the things they do like, and I think I at least have some of that. It's easy to forget it when your just industry hungry or if you put yourself in too much of a box or don't switch up your routine. I've got tons of room for growth and I need to continue pushing forward and try to recognize my reality and deal with things head on and have no fear. Well, let's see how that goes, man I have seen some wierd things lately, been in some wierd situations, kind of been rocking, but you still gotta fight, find that eye of the tiger. Figure out a way to Mae that oil change, and get after it. Workin on some sketch writing too I think there's some potential funny in that. I've had some interesting experiences to say the least that I may be able to draw on. And by the way Al. I listened to the interview with pharrell williams on howard stern it was great, i am going to make sure and stay in touch with Taurus do. What a great collaborator that guy is, so many songs I didn't even realize he wrote for other artists. I could be wrong but in a comedic way I think Harold Ramis was a little like that too, he didn't necessarily need all the attention on him. I'm realizing life's to short, hopefully this can lead to some realizations and enlightenment, I will get back to with these soon hopefully. Later

Short

My brother is in a play, opening night, that is pretty cool, i miss the transormative experience in the theater.  A lot of magical stuff happens on stage.  I dont have a lot to say, I finished my class at the Groundlings, today I had an audition through my KMR rep, I dont know what Im gonna do tonight, maybe hit a mic up, maybe just take in a show, we will see, ill do something.  I need to get more focused on the art and just making steady income I think, food for thought.  Gotta stay true to myself, alrighty, till next time.

I'm sorry miss jackson... I am for reeeallll

Alrighty then. Let me run  you through what's digigity dog goin on. It might just be some late night euphoria but about exactly 30 to 45 seconds ago I put some things into perspective for myself.  I looked at my acting site that was given to me for free by Charlene and Larry's son Matt.  I think he may have updated the site because my page looks awesome, it already looked good but the format changed and everything it's really neat. I will give out the  website link in a blog after I have worked on it a little bit more, should be real soon. Well, I'm living in it, I'm out here, anyway I was looking at my page. I'm not going to name everything but I can't ignore the fact that I've got new agents, I've had recent bookings for small non union commercials and I have received a callback for a TV pilot and a commercial all within the last month or so, and to go along with that I am starting to work on my own projects which I will also talk about at another time, most likely amidst completion, I just mention it  because it was this new found hope I found while putting things into perspective by accident about 2 minutes ago..   Anyway I went to a church downtown today, pretty cool, I wasn't super attentive but the message was decent. I went to a Starbucks after and threw back a couple ice coffees with my gift card while I did some writing for my short and worked on budgeting among other things. I won't get to into detail with that but I'm working on it, I sadly declined to go out to the Cheesecake Factory tonight, went on a run instead, made myself my 99 cent spaghetti, a sand which with some meat and a hot dog. It's baseball season, I've been meaning to get on the mlb site and see how the cubs and the dodgers are doing. I went by an irish pub today that had a ton of games on the tv, it was tempting to walk in have an ale or two and watch a game. I haven't had beer in a week, I don't really need it that much anyway but I figured I can wait until my birthday to enjoy a beer or two. I've been cutting back and have been working out fairly frequently, some days more high intense than other. I went on a decent length run tonight, I'd say probably 3 miles maybe. I finished death of a salesmen yesterday, great book. I will have to decide what to read next, i still need to read mikes novel. I applied at a Quiznos today, kind of a random move but worth it I suppose. Bill sent me this great video this week on being creative and making deadlines, I thought it was interesting it talks about how it's easy to get dissapointed at the work you are making, because your a creative person, and you have good taste, and that's why you can tell it's missing that special something or just not as good as you'd want it to be, and one thin g that can help is to put up a big volume of work to close that creative gap. Alright, that's enough from this guy, catch ya later down the trail.

Friday

Yo blog. I have gotten in the routine again of waking up earlier again so that's good. I did some stand up tonight at an open mic, I actually got a few laughs, not rolling laughter but I think I got zero laughs the last time I tried it, so compared to that it was a success. I came up with this on my own I think, but I also read a thing that you should do at least one thing every day geared towards acting, which is part of the reason why I'm looking into and trying the open mic circuit. I also had class tuesday and Thursday at the groundlings they went very well I should probably journal about  what I learned. I listened to this amazing interview my grandpa al recommended with Danny  trejo, wow, he's a famous working actor now and he did like 10 plus years in the  can. Apparently he had some good acting lessons on staying alive or how to act tough when things were crazy, he was also a boxing champion. He had a pretty tough/challenging life, I figure if he made it through what he did, than I can too. Still making money but need to find a way to make some other income, had a good audition this week through my commercial agency haven't heard anything yet. I am doing things I've set out to do recently, and that is good but I am still feeling a little, for lack of a better word lazy, I think misguided is better. I get up, I do things, I get stuff done, I have auditions, I try to stay in shape. Some things I need to do for starters is budget, I'd like to sit down and just take a good look at what I've got and maybe think about what I need to make to live out here and take classes maybe drive a car ect. I don't feel lazy I actually just feel the need to fulfill my adult responsibilities I think, and I would also like to get out more socially and things of that nature, I'd also just like to feel motivated and feel like I'm  playing the game to win, and be aggressive and not afraid to get dirty. I have some short term deadlines set up for myself but I think along with the budgeting I am also going to set up some short term goals and possibly some other deadlines for myself. Alright I'll keep you updated.

Riding the wave

Well blog it is about an hour before I attend my first improv class. I have signed up and am attending the groundlings workshop B. It's a 3 week class with two classes a week different from what I normally do. Anyway I have been reading some of my past blogs and I am thinking that I need to take a risk, there has to be some sort of element of risk. I am not sure what that means, but at least I know that.  I have continued to write my short, I should  probably speed that along a bit. Lots of good thoughts going on here.  I've kept up with some of the reading and all that I reported in earlier blogs. I still need to find a side job, the preschool I worked at has mentioned interest in bringing me back for summer. This might be the time in life where Eric has to grow up a little. I also like the idea of riding a wave, about riding this wave of life and going with the flow accepting who you are and seeing what happens. Man I had a wild and funny cell phone adventure a few weeks ago, I may have already written about it, but it was stolen by. Guy that works at they dmv, sort of anyway. I should probably start making my way towards class, I will keep you updates and hopefully will get more of my short done after class. Peace!