Why not?

Im not sure that Im feeling inspired but I do feel like blogging. Alright blog lets try and update you on whats going on.  Welp, the inside of my room is clean, now just for the closet.  I took a different path home from the gym this week, I checked out a library from a local arts store about some girl that struggling in her 20's, i dont know if its necessarily the book I want to read right now but it had a funny chapter or two I'll bring it back soon, I have also been reading a little bit of Matthew McCohnaugheys new book on himself and Barnes and Noble.  I saw Mad Max a couple weeks ago, its pretty good, not a must see if super hero movies aren't your thing, but its good enough, fun enough, and has simple enough of a story i think for anyone thats a fan of movies to enjoy.  I hear the new Spy Movie with Melissa McCarthy is really funny.  Not that it is a revolutionary thing or anything but I am trying to write my blog a little different then usual,  after saying that I realize I'm not sure how i usually right, but I think I get focused on what I need to do and acting and in this blog Im sort of trying to just, blog. I took a class a couple weeks ago, I guess you would probably call it a life coach class, and i dont know if we talked about this but I am thinking about the notion of doing the same thing over and over again without desired results or a certain kind of results is the defintion of insanity.  I'm and I'm sure a whole lot of people including myself find themselves dulving in this trap from time to time, and so I may only be making small changes, but I'd like to think that I'm trying to make small adjustments and do things differently and stay open to possibility, I'd at least like to think that haha.  I was reading up on the acting trades about this show called LA BEER, they shoot a web series in front of live audience, pretty cool idea.  For quite awhile I cant remember how long now, I have had the song Why not by Hillary Duff stuck in my head, at times inspiring, at times annoying, what a strange song to have stuck in your head over a long period of time, cant say I've had an experience quite like it before.  But anyway, I do feel like I am making at least small movements and progress with the acting, I would say at the very least I am still definetly hustling.  I've pretty much developed an addiction to working out, I even had to think to myself and am trying to get myself to potentially take a day off, thats a big change from a couple years ago where I couldnt phathom going to the gym. I will still never post a hashtag tuesday or a hashtag no pain no gain, its just too douchey.  I guess you could say that I am a man of extremes.  I'm not really drinking at all right now, I have given myself permission to indulge in caffeinated beverages though, always coffee, and have found that coffee actually tastes incredibly delicious with protein.  Its raining today, the weather is so nice out here generally, its always nice when it rains too, it feels like a huge climate change from sunny.  Pretty much done with a couple of film projects Ive been working on with my buddy Jorge.  We hit a dodger game a couple weeks ago saw a good pitching dual between Kershaw and Baumgarner.  Well blog I'll leave you with this, do your best forget this rest, just keep on keepin on. Just keep livin, alright alirght alright.     

Monday

Ok I dont know if i will actually post this blog but ill give it a shot, maybe itd be better to wait until the end of the week.  So over the weekend i got a couple things done, room cleaning, laundry, went to church, got a couple of workouts in, did an open mic saturday, also bought a plane ticket so that I can attend my college buddy Brad Hartzlers wedding.  It took me awhile to decide but now I'm going and i think itll be a fun time.  I will be a groomsman, and there is a wedding party I'm looking forward to it and I know that it means a lot to him as well.  Like I said in my last blog I have been attempting to keep my workouts steady and I would say that I have basically at least maintained where I'm at.  I would like to get more serious about my workout approach this month, from this time to June 1rst specifically I'd like to be a little more hardcore ill let you know how this goes.  I think last summer i got down to at least 203 lbs I'd like to get at least back in that range.  I am also going to try and write more, at least take pen too paper and continue to come up with different ideas, Im working on an idea right now thats kind of funny to me i dont know if it will translate though haha.  I did finish the hunger game book I thought it was a pretty good series, need to figure out what to read next, i still need to read my uncle mikes novel.  Hopefully I can get that done this summer.  Alright perhaps I've ran out of things to talk to or need to get goting, I will try and revisit this at weeks end.

Learning you are

Ok, so this may or may not be the best time to do a blog, I don't regally know let me update you on some things. I am reading the third hunger game book, I have less than 100 pages left. I will have to start digging into those movies at some point. I think I've seen the first two, but will re-watch them. Other than that I have been keeping up with my gym workouts. The weight loss goals have consisted of strikes and gutters, ups and downs, I'm trying to take a new approach that is less, result based or outcome oriented and more about consistency. Will see how that goes. I've done an open mic at the same coffee shop in Hollywood the last two weekends, I think I'm finding some good things in it, um, I am just doing it to do something first off, and am learning and also experimenting to see if it helps me with sketch writing. Let's see what else, I turn 26 Tuesday, holy cow. I'm not sure what else to write but here is a current train of thought for turning 26 or for living in LA for about 3 in a half years, however you want to look at it. Ok, so I guess my goal, or hope, is that I am able to evolve, personally and professionally, all facets of life, I plan on doing this by trying to put things into the proper perspective and also changing some of the patterns in my life. That may have been vague but that's what I'm running with. I don't even know if it's something that I can explain in a blog, I think it's something that may just become evident over time. I am still really learning, and that's ok, it's good in fact, my goal is to be open and willing to continue to learn and push forward. I guess some easy examples for learning venues would be taking classes, or hobbies, shooting projects, anything really I don't think it's necessarily limited, I think should figure out what some of these are and blog again soon, until next time.

Eye of the Tiger

So, it's probably too late to write this blog and I'm not sure if I have a lot to update you on but I figure I'll give it a try. This was not my best week overall all as far as motivation or productivity, not a bad one just not the best, the 5-7 week prior I got a little more done and used my hours better. Although did get some good filming done this week and had a few auditions that I did fine at. I'm pressing on ward, getting my taxes done, there are things I need to do this next week that hopefully can get done, I'm sort of organizing in my mind exactly what those things are. I'll have to journal but I think they drift from job hunting to really getting hungry and seeking that next acting gig, wherever that may be. I also need to look at health insurance. There's lots to do with planning and budgeting and action I need to take care of, I'll update you again soon on it all. I am still determined to press forward and fight for what it is I want. Until next time.

Milestone!

Welp, that only took about three and a half year but I am now officially part of SAG-AFTRA which is an acting union, I have been eligible for awhile but after so many bookings you must join.  This last month I did a little acting work on my own and on paid gigs.  I have been keeping up regularly with my working out, and also seeking other job opportunities.  I have a job interview tomorrow so I shaved today, we will see how that goes.  I have also read the first two hunger game books and just started the third one mocking jay.  I also should be one more day of filming away from completing the short film that I wrote last summer and started filming about a month or two after coming back from vacation at the lake.  I met a guy doing a print shoot named Jorge and we have become friends, he is shooting the short film, we went to Lebowski Fest last friday and that was a lot of fun.  It'll be nice to finish the film we will throw it up on vimeo and I'll see if there are any short film fests I can send it too, probably put it on social media, and then time to move on too my next move and to continue auditioning.  I am really happy with my commercial agents they really do a great job for me.  I went to church today, met a nice guy named Johnny who dabbled in acting as well.  I have been somewhat serious minded lots of working out, writing, a little shooting, auditioning, sending out postcards, headshots, looking for jobs ect.  I'd like to push myself into some stand up or something of that nature again like the groundlings, I'll need to save for sure though and be smart and budget.  But just be doing something thats fun and creative.  And also look around a little bit at what this city has to offer, my goals and changing a little bit, but at the same time I want to ride this wave, I'm happy about certain parts of how I am doing, just need to keep pressing on.  Saw two movies recently, the duff and focus, I thought they were both decent films, I liked the duff a little more than focus but probably because I had read the duff which was a book.  I am working on turning my bed room into kind of a work space so I can hopefully be more organized and get stuff done in there.  I had a paying job recently and the drill will be kind of the same as usual and that drill is that, that job is over, time to find the next one.  Alrighty dont want to drag this blog out too long, I will update you again when I feel like there are new moves and improvements in what I am doing here, or if I just want to track where I currently am.  Until next time, rest easy, blog.

Short Blog

So just last night I had a thought, a random one, and it was that yeah I'll blog eventually probably not soon. But a early Saturday morning workout at the gym and now finding myself at Starbucks with my coffee music and rocky music coming through my headphones and here I am.  I figured  Id update a little bit on the week and past week. So, I auditioned for groundlings,  I passed am now eligible for taking there main track of classes.. I also had a  small acting success this week  that I will explain another time. I am keeping up with work out routine, I have given up alcoholic drinks.. I am trying to eat better but still falter from time to time. I've been hitting the courts a little bit. Colin and I filmed a scene for our short last week, I didn't like the original first scene so we redid it. Not much else to report. Short and sweet blog, figured id check in. Peace!

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