Lots of stuff

So I didn't really expect to blog tonight but I had a random thought and so, hey why not? It's late though so it'll be short. I've been waking up pretty early, I definitely prefer that it feels good. I just watched about half of goodwill hunting, I hadn't seen it in awhile. It still holds up, great film, acting, the soundtrack, it really was just perfectly made. I assume no movies perfect but it was just a wicked combo of everything coming together I think. A little surreal seeing Robin Williams in it too, a great actor, it would have been cool to have met him. Anyway, there was a scene in the film that reminded me of my theater teacher in college, she talked about it once and said they put it in their because they were young and it shouldn't have been in the film. It's the scene where Minnie Driver meets Wills friends, it mostly consists of dirty jokes, and when I was in school I didn't really agree but watching it now I think she may have been right, but it's hard to say for sure, but I do value her opinion on that I could see how it would have been tempting to put it in but maybe wise to leave it out. Anyway I avoid watching that film a lot because it is such a classic and I've seen it too many times, but sometimes you start not watching a film and then three years go by and it's fresh again, I actually have not watched the big lebowski in a long time. It's always good to watch a couple scenes from time to time as a refresher. I am trying to read more too sticking with my hunger game book, been staying in tune with the playoff Super Bowl noise. I am picking the Seahawks. As long as I can remember in Super Bowl history since I've been watching when a number 1 defense shows up it is usually a massacre, now I think this game will be close, but don't forget offense can win games, defense wins championships. I think that the Patriots are coming off a more impressive win but I also think Peyton Manning should have been the opponent in that game but his season just fell apart, Tom Brady seems to be holding up. I think it's all about whether the Seahawks defense can hang tough or not because the patriots can really score. I think it's about which one gets going first because as much as the patriots can score the Seahawks can become an offense when they get going. It's gonna be a chess match. Alrighty I'll predict a score, Seahawks win 31-25

Blooog

So this blog is pretty much coming out of the blue.  Not sure what Im going to write, alright will just go for it.  Today I am feeling pretty deflated, woke up at about 6:30 and got a good workout in, otherwise ive been submitting for acting jobs and actual jobs.  I have been reading the hunger games almost done with part 1 of the 3 part first book.  But I am feeling pretty deflated dont know if I'm in a great place right now, could just be from a lack of sleep and I'm sure this feeling will pass, so I'm going to attempt to focus on some positive things. Alright since I've been back I finally got out on some good auditions, havent heard back but at least had some good opportunities, in search of a part time job ive put upwards to 30 resumes out there and I did here back from a pretty nice restuarant and had an interview their last week, i think I would have already heard back, but a i still got a lot of resumes floating around out there and I'm going to punch even more out, filled one out at IHop today too.  I really dont feel like blogging that much, Im more doing it to humor myself at this point, im sort of just a little wore out.  Living situation, auditions being slow, everything but I cant really control those types of things as of now, just gotta keep pushing.  I'm sure I will blog again soon.

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.