Late blog

Just got home from reading at the book store by my place. Read a book on the business of acting, it was good, talking about sending out cards, networking, stay in touch with contacts, employees, always looking for next job, all that good stuff.  A lot of this  is similar to stuff I've read before but had a nice sort of fresh yet old school approach I think it may have been an older book or written by an older person about there start in the biz. I don't think I've blogged for awhile,. Today I attempted some writing and worked out, I'm trying to diet a little bit, I put on a little weight these last two months, so I'm trying to fight back a little, hopefully be hitting a weight I want by February during pilot season. Looking and feeling goods a big deal but I've got my work cut out for me, a lot of different things to accomplish besides the weight loss.  These things entail potentially getting another part time job, also just staying hungry and looking for acting work, trying to get even future projects in the works. Also working on my website or even creating a new one, I'll see what I can add and do with the one I currently have, it's a good time to pull resources together. Also sending out a few postcards or taking a meeting. Also being proactive with things I mentioned but also being patient, do what you have to do to survive, making the best of each opportunity and make goals and take steps to try to make a living as a working actor. It's sort of on me, i really want to take responsibility for my career. This means I have to keep doing a number of things, auditioning, writing, studying, grooming, ect. I am going home for Christmas break, looking forward to it, intend to really enjoy that time and touch base with the family. And once it's done get back out here and get to work, come back maybe get rested for a day but then really get after it, make a plan push forward move ahead. I do hope to keep blogging and give updates, I don't know how often it will be, will see.

Unstuck

I'm thinking a short and sweet blog here. I have been writing lately, shooting a film a little, I have an audition tomorrow. I am trying to learn to think outside the box. My great grandpa turns 90 tomorrow and my cousin Alice 5. I still remember I bought the album Alice by Tom Waits after she was born. I haven't listened to a lot of waits lately but that's probably his best album. Tom Waits is an interesting cat he's made a living making music but he's also crossed over into the acting as well. He's even in the film fisher king with Williams and Bridges. He sort of plays some despicable or low life characters like the ones he sings about. I'm excited to see St.Vincent with Murray probably see that soon. I'm thinking about strategy, I think I may need an acting strategy. Will see how this short film comes out, I think it's just good practice at the very least. I do think I sort of need to re-focus and get focused. Which will take a lot hard work and just staying at it. A lot of things come to mind, I'll let you know how that part of this blog is going soon. Distractions are easy to come by, listening to your gut and intuition is not always easy, especially when it feels you have no control over the future. So I strive to live more in the present and challenge myself to stay on task, setting up necessary tasks for myself and eliminating distractions so that I really have a chance to be great, and am willing to be open to go out and fail , and succeed. There's so much I could write but it would be very long, and I won't write it all here, not because of the content, but the length. I'll keep on for a bit though. I listened to a Bill Murray interview on Stern it was pretty interesting, I dig the dude. I am sensing that time is becoming an issue, tick tock, I'd like to get organized in part is it's easy to let time go by, why not make the most of it and leave the rest in the hand of the creator. Life's too short is a thought/theme that ran through my head over the last month, interesting eh? Haha. I had a moment when I was on my way to the bank my mind had an interesting thought, I thought back to when I worked at the sandwhich shop, I accidentally dropped a cutting board in the sink while I was washing the dishes, it happened to be big enough to clog the sink, too guys came over and couldn't get it out, they said don't worry about it shit happens, that could've happened to anyone that's a huge board, they went to go get a special thing to get it out because they couldn't, by the time they got back I had figured out how to get it out, I got myself unstuck, they were amazed they said how did you do that. And for some reason it made me think you know what shit happens, things get stuck, sometimes you just have to improvise, that's life. Anyway I'll probably blog again soon, I'm gonna go see if I can get some laundry done, peace.

Sept

Hello. The thing I've learned about booking gigs moving forward ect is that you have to continue to hustle, you cannot be lazy you just have to keep steadily moving, doing things for your career each day. You can't really celebrate a victory or a booking too much, it's really cliche but it's so true that as an actor it's always about finding that next job, and in someway I think it will always be about what's next for quite a while. So when you book something, enjoy the experience, then move on accordingly. And sometimes finding the next job is just hustling and auditioning and literally doing your job. Because not everything's in your control, but you have to take care of what you can control. I'd like to go into more detail but I have to think about what that means even more myself, I have to have less excuses for not getting things done. Gotta create opportunities, network, class ect I'm still young and new to the game foots gotta kind of be on the gas, take some steps back to regroup though if needed. Here's another thing, and this might be a tricky thought, but no job, is bigger than any other job. I booked a gig not long ago that paid about 500 bucks, it was a great time, I had fun on the set, but I didn't blink an eye, I didn't even look for the commercial, I moved on, now that was smaller than some of my other stuff but when your trying to make a living artistically you gotta at least be able to maintain that mentality for awhile before you celebrate. Anywya, these are just my late night thoughts, I need to pick up the pace a little bit, not let anything intimidate me.

The Dude is not in

Hey blog how you doin? I don't have anything of incredible significance to report just felt like touching base, I was reading some of my earlier blogs kind of different day same story, but not because I went through other stuff in between. Right now just working on projects, submitting myself, hitting the gym, trying not to eat too much the usual. Trying to keep my place cleaner than usual not even sure why, we got a new roommate, just trying to get off on a good foot, he's a cool kid. You know it's a very low key night, kind of nice actually to be honest, having a beer, doing some journaling and listening to music, gonna make a list of things to do for tomorrow. Let's be Cops was a good film. Wish I had more too report blog, didn't want you to think I forgot about yeah. Until next time, the dude abides.

Back to the grind

Hey blogpost, it's been awhile. I'm back in LA, got here a couple weeks ago went to South Dakota for a little while it was a great time, spent a lot of great time with fam and friends. On the lake, man michael can really drive the speed boat, he might be better than uncle mike at it, certainly not better than me, just kidding. It was fun lots of great food and there's so many younger kids it really kept me on my toes, oh and a famous Dave's visit was the absolute best. Good seeing everyone, I could talk about how much fun it was all day. My golf game wasn't bad hung in there with everybody, Judy and Al look great, Don too, their hot tub still works too.  It was a blast, my family has really assembled a great retreat there at shady grove. I miss everyone a great deal, but it was so nice to see them, and I know they are all rooting and are very supportive of me following my dreams. I can't stress enough how good famous Dave's was. Well I am now back in Los of Ang. I got an inn n out burger upon arrival. So what's happening here you ask, I was in a madden commercial that recently came out that was pretty cool. I had a beer commercial audition. I have been working out mostly at the gym, I played basketball today and I played very well against some pretty good players actually. This week I accomplished some things, I got my postcards ordered and sent them out to about 8 different casting directors, mostly ones id had call backs with or had just auditioned a few times for, it's called targeting as opposed to sending out mass mailings or postcards in this case. Today I did some self submissions, workin on my own project too. The Day Camp I worked at is over, I'm not sure if they loved me having a 2 week vacation haha. Anyway I'm kind of trying to figure out what's next I guess. Honestly, I'm not sure, I'll figure it out, should be getting a new roommate soon, sounds like he's a good guy. Other than that I'm workin on material I took a refresher commercial audition class, and audited a acting class, I was told I looked like Seth rogen there. Yeah so this is just a good time of the year to figure out what my goals are and how I'm going to continue to move forward. It's always a good time for that actually it's also a good time to look at my budget again and figure out how much money I would like to make and how much I can spend and what I need to save for and so forth. I'm not sure how to explain exactly where I'm at but I do think it is a half glass full situation where you wanna stay positive and looking up. I do believe hard work pays off, and so I plan to continue some of the things I've been doing, and I think good news will keep coming and good things will keep happening, it's time to get er done. Alrighty blog, until next time.

Late night, having late night thoughts gonna let them roll, I think I need to start looking into why I exactly am trying to do what I'm trying to do more, I wanna do things for the right reasons, it's pretty easy to get jaded, It be a lie for me to say that I'm not jaded or that I haven't been at times, I'm not sure where I'm going with this but I'd like to give this career a real shot and I think that means that I have to be smart about my decisions and to try and make the right decisions for the right reasons, find a way to set up goals and work hard and work for them and to not be fearless, but to not let fear stop me from trying to achieve my dreams, I've got a lot of feelings all around like this, I'm going to tap into it more, I could write forever but I think I will journal a little bit too, alrighty, night, peace, don't let it become and industry of cool.

May the 4th be with you

May the 4th be with you is a saying I thought of yesterday, only to find out it actually already existed and the actual date may 4th is national Star Wars days, so much for me thinking I'm smart. It is Saturday at noon right now. I probably could put this blog off until later, but what the hell, I woke up this morning and did a groggy journal, one of the ways I get myself to wake up early is I get out of bed and instantly write a page of a journal, it helps with waking up because it's suppose to be those thoughts when you just wake up, so I pop put of bed and get it on paper listen to music or whatever I need to do to get it going. I know it sounds wierd but I enjoy it and look forward to it. I don't neccessarily want to summarize the week, there was really more of the same, a few workouts, an open mic, some stuff at camp. A fun 4th at a park and beach with games, food and fireworks. One of those weeks, that stuffs fun an all, ready to get back to work though, being proactive and taking new steps in my career, working out material, auditioning, training, practicing. Nirvana covers a song from an old Christian band called the vasolines I think, it's called Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam, I believe Kurt cobain and I share that feeling of what Jesus wants from us. Not suppose to be sunbeams, we are suppose to get to work, so I'm gonna go ahead and try and figure that out. Had good talks with Alan Perry and Michael Perry this week, talking a lot about baseball, starting to realize that baseball is a lot like anything in life. I am distancing myself from social media again, not as hard core, but it feels a lot better to just be connected with the world around you and what you can see, an actor needs to be able to do that. Actually did a bit on stage this week that went well for more than just one laugh, will have to see if there is more in that. I could keep blogging but I'm gonna put a hault to it and move on with the day, next though! Peace