Emory Rundle

Packing and Voices

2012-01-22T19:43:00.001-08:00

This is the final week in Florida. Had a great time here and can't wait to find some new experiences in other places as well.

Christina and I have a mutual friend who does vintage radio shows on the Internet. Christina helps with the script where she can and her friend needs actors, so I can help there. I have an appointment over at his house tomorrow to do some voice filming. I had a great time with the last project and this is really new.

While we're recording, Christina and her friend will be making cookies.

Found five AFTRA agents in AZ that I'll be submitting to.

Made it to 2012

2012-01-09T07:16:00.001-08:00

I have an audition today in Tampa. There's been number of auditions that I haven't listed here. I seem to get those.

We're in the process of moving again. We're heading back west. There's a great deal of things to accomplish. I'm going to look into marathons. I'd love to train and run one.

I'll try to be better at updating, however, where we're heading, not sure how many auditions I'll be getting. I'm going to try my hand at theater.

A few weeks of auditions

2011-03-24T20:43:00.000-07:00

The past couple of weeks have been busy with auditions and work. First I worked on a commercial for a hardware store in Canada. It was about a 5 hour day for about a three second shot. The cast and crew were very cool to work with.

Tooth Faerie II was the next day, which was 12 hours on set. Met some great people that were fun to talk to while we were waiting to film. I got a picture with Larry the Cable Guy.

On the audition side two weeks ago I had "Freeze Squeeze", "Servpro", and "Academy Sports". The next week was "Food Lion", which also turned into an audition for "Pep Boys". Then there was Disney B roll, and a new movie called "Big Mike"

I had to put myself on tape for two things "SBAN" and "Magic City"

At this point in time I have not received any callbacks, but I know one day I will get one, then a roll will follow. I will keep updates on my trek as I progress.

Enjoying the Weather

2011-02-25T09:25:00.001-08:00

As February comes to an end, I've been getting a lot of calls for auditions and direct bookings.

On my spare time, I had a chance to go to Brews, Bands and BBQ which was at Sea World. Between checking out the bands and the brews, I also had a small tour of the park with my wife who knows a lot about these animals. This picture was taken at Sting Ray Lagoon. There are two species of stingray in the water: Cownose and Southern. Both are about 2.5-3 feet in length. There stingers are like our fingernails so they can be clipped without hurting the animal and these rays have all been clipped. There was a chance to feed the stingrays, but we were really busy and kept moving on to the next display.

We also went to Aquatica and Busch Gardens this week. This picture is from Busch Gardens and this is the only alligator wrestling I'm up for. Both parks are fun. We went on everything at Aquatica within a few hours. Christina really liked Roa rapids. There's no tubes allowed in that stream so we put life vests on and floated a few times around. The slides were pretty cool. I managed to get Christina to go down some of the ones that scared her. At Busch Gardens, we caught the Cirque show and found some displays we hadn't seen the last time we went around the park.

Lexus

2011-02-11T14:40:00.000-08:00

This week I had two auditions. The first was for a hardware store in Canada, and the second one was for a Ford Dealership in New York. They were both with R.J's Casting in Orlando.

I got a call on Wednesday night from my agent for a direct booking for the next day. They called about an hour later letting me know that I got it. It was for Lexus of Melbourne.

I had a great time shooting. The director was hilarious, and the other actors were a great bunch of people. I was able to drive one of the new 2011 Lexus hard top convertible. Probably the most expensive cars that I have ever driven my whole life.

Auditions last week

2010-07-26T08:36:00.000-07:00

I had two auditions last week. One was for an industrial shoot and the other was for an Orthopedic place in Jacksonville.

The first one I had to cancel on, which I never do, but I finally got a job with a constant paycheck. I had to do some paperwork and go to a class.

The second one was for the Orthopedic place and it went okay, but I was nervous and had to stop at the beginning and start over. I don't know if that can be a real bad thing or what.

I hope to be able to start some acting classes here soon. I think that it will help with the nerves, because until we moved out to Florida it had been a while since I actually had an audition with any lines.

Commercial Audition in Tampa

2010-07-06T15:53:00.000-07:00

I had a commercial audition in Tampa at 10 am this morning. I didn't sleep last night, probably due to nerves. We did our shower ritual and checked emails, then we were off at 8 am for this 85 mile drive.

It was a little cloudy and 78 degrees all the way up. We had to backtrack once because I got on the wrong road once we were in town. Tampa is beautiful and so different from LA.

Showed up about 10 minutes early. Went over my lines once more, then I went in. I was paired up with a really nice woman who was auditioning for the part as "mother" and we did a little setup for the scene. I read four times, each time was taped, then I was released.

Having not slept last night, when we got home, both Christina and I crashed for a few hours. Nothing like a mid-day nap.

Two Auditions

2010-06-29T21:42:00.001-07:00

As you can tell, I have to film myself and send in the audition tape. This is for Army Wives. I really hope I get it. This has to be submitted by 3 p.m. tomorrow. We have to get the best film possible before I can submit.

I have another audition tomorrow for a commercial at 2 p.m. I'm cutting it close on two pieces of script that I have to learn quickly.

Going to bed early for once. I finally exhausted myself. Now if nerves will allow me to actually fall asleep.

New Photos

2010-06-28T13:30:00.000-07:00

I had my new photos taken last Friday. The appointment was at 4 p.m. and I had chosen some of the clothes I was going to bring earlier in the week, but I still had to find some plan t-shirts.

Christina went with me and brought along snacks, though we forgot water. The photographer was great. After every set of photos, he downloaded what he took so we could look at them on the computer and decide if the photos so far were good. We did some indoor photos and outdoor photos.

It was rush-hour when we were finished, but rush-hour out here isn't nearly as bad as in LA. You can sit on the 405 in LA for three hours, but out here on the 4, it was probably twenty to thirty minutes. Not too bad for a Friday.

I sent my photos to my agents so they can chose which ones they like the best, then I need to get those decisions to the photographer so he can make them into head shots with my name on the bottom.

Agent Update

2010-06-23T12:11:00.000-07:00

Last week and over the weekend, two more agents got hold of me. One agent is giving me a three month trial, so I went ahead and sent my pictures to him last Saturday. Friday I was called about open auditions for another agency, but had to have two monologues so I spent the weekend getting prepared for that. One of the monologues I wanted to perform, I couldn't find in my acting folder so I had to find a copy of it on the net. I had both these monologues rehearsed and ready for Monday.

Monday, I went to the open audition and while sitting in the waiting room with other actors, I learned that the agency has really high standing. I auditioned and they took me on, but again with the picture issue. I really need to get new photos.

I've signed up with three acting sites on the Internet, at the request of one agency. The photos I put up are older ones. I'll be getting my newer photos taken this Friday. I waited a few weeks because when I did the extra work, I got burned pretty badly and I didn't want my skin peeling for the photos. My skin never really peeled, but I had to wait for the redness to go down too.

I hear that Florida is giving incentives to production companies to get filming out here, and Transformers 3 is going to be filmed in Florida. Hopefully I'll get the chance to get on that set. That would be really cool.

Extra Work

2010-06-10T09:01:00.000-07:00

My agent called yesterday saying she had some extra work for me. I was more than willing to take it. I checked the GPS to see how far it was and it was 55 miles out from where I live and I had to be there at 8 a.m. this morning.

I tried to go to bed early, but I can never sleep very well at night. I went to bed at 10 p.m., but was back up by 1 a.m. where I found Christina reading in the living room. She's either writing or reading these days. She took her book to the bedroom and I took over the living room catching up on the Bones seasons.

Finally went back to bed and the alarm was set at 5 a.m. It was really difficult getting up. Around 4 a.m. is when I usually really fall into my better sleep patterns. Anyway, back up, showered, ate, did all that fun stuff and was in the car as the sun was barely coming up.

For lunch we had hot dogs and hamburgers. They were keeping to baseball spirit to go with the extra work. When I got home I had to be aloe on my skin because I was terribly burnt.

Theater Audition

2010-06-08T16:46:00.000-07:00

It's nice to have a chance to audition for theater again, though I didn't do as well as I would have liked. It was at Orlando Rep, which is downtown Orlando. It's a nice theater. The auditions were held in the blackbox that they have there. We walked through the lobby of the main theater, so I don't know what the main theater looks like, but the lobby is nice.

I can't believe its been seven years since I've acted in a theater. I worked the front lobby of a theater and that's not the same. I miss being on stage with the actors.

A Week of Auditions

2010-05-31T09:07:00.000-07:00

I ended up having three auditions last week. I had a commercial audition, which was for a New York firefighter. It's funny because when I got to the place, all the men auditioning were wearing the same thing as me, black shirt and jeans. Apparently when we think "New York Firefighter," we think jeans and black shirts.

The next thing that week I auditioned for was an online commercial, which had three parts to audition. I was told I did a good job, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The audition was further out from where we lived so I thought it would be better going early instead of late and having to get stuck in traffic, though traffic out here isn't nearly as bad as the 5 and the 405 in California.

Last thing I auditioned for was a character actor at Universal Studios. It wasn't a go this time, but I'm pretty happy with all the auditioning I got in this week. I felt very confident about everything.

I found three comedy monologues that I was interested in but narrowed it down to only one I'm going to use for my audition at the theater.

Booking Agent

2010-05-21T13:26:00.000-07:00

Sent headshot and resumes out last week. Received two calls from agents this week and I just got back from booking an agent today. The first audition will be happening next week. This happened really quick. If this would have been LA it probably would have taken months before any of this happened. I also have a audition for Orlando Rep on the 7th of next month. I now need to brush up on some of my monologues. Things are going really good.

Agents, Agents, and more Agents

2010-05-16T01:40:00.000-07:00

This week I put out for all the AFTRA agents in Florida and next week I will be submitting to all the SAG agents that I can find out here. There is some overlap, so it does make it a little less Internet searching. You can find all the franchised agents on both AFTRA and SAG websites, but then you need to do research on each agency to see what they are looking for, and how they want you to submit. Who the agents are, so you can personalize your cover letter. Finally whatever other info you can gain from your search.

I should have started this search sooner, but I was concentrating on looking for a job to pay the bills. I decided that I can't wait any longer and I need to do both at the same time. I am still looking for a regular job. I have lost count at all the places that I have put in at, but I am confident that something will be coming soon.

Christina's dad was out for a week. I love it when he comes out to visit. I usually gain about eight pounds, and this time was no different. I am now pushing myself to loose what I gained. Why oh Why is it so easy to gain it and so hard to take it off. LOL

Frosty the Snowman

2010-03-18T05:29:00.000-07:00

One of the first roles I was given was an elementary school play. I was the great and powerful Frosty the Snowman. I remember there was a lot of dancing and singing in it. We performed in the elementary school gym. If I remember correctly I really had a great time doing it, no matter how bad it turned out to be. It must of been around Christmas time that we did this, because it was cold and there was snow on the ground.

As you can tell, I loved the costume so much that the following year I went as Frosty for Halloween.

Acting Classes

2010-03-14T20:45:00.000-07:00

I've looked up acting classes. There are many classes to chose from, however, I'm a littler worried about what filming will take place out here in Florida. If the Florida Film Incentive Bill goes through, the type of movies I'd like to audition for won't be filming out here.

I'm trying Beginner Budokon for more flexibility. Budokon is inspired by Ashtanga yoga with a mix of martial arts movements and meditation.

Heard on the news that we are in the middle of a tornado watch. It's been extremely windy between the buildings. We've also been busy making some plans for the across country trip. I think we're going to do half the states on this side and when we move back to the west coast, we'll finish our motorcycle trip on that end.

We hung out at Barnes and Nobles a few days back and had an early dinner. We're trying a vegetarian life style. That includes many raw veggies and seeds. We've cut milk from our diet and today discovered that Soy Milk substituted for real milk makes corn bread sweeter and really appeals to our tastes. There is going to be a great deal of experimenting with food to see what is going to work for us.

March

2010-03-07T11:19:00.000-08:00

Other than it being a little cold out here at night, the weather hasn't been that bad. The water levels on the lakes around our apartment have gone done considerably. We see so many birds around here that sit on the water looking for fish and bugs so it's weird seeing the water level down as much as it is.

I've started working out again. Christina picked up some books from the library that she wanted me to read, books on being Green since we are both into the Green right now. She also picked up "Skinny Bastard" which was written by the same ladies who make all the "Skinny Bitch" videos that she enjoys. I've been reading the book and it's changed the way I look at the food I'm consuming. I never thought I'd say this before, but I'm seriously thinking about being Vegan.

Auditions and the Rest

2010-02-28T14:53:00.000-08:00

I auditioned for Universal, which must have been for a dance show. I made it through the first round where they look at you and decide if you would fit a character. The second round, the dancing got me kicked out. I've had dance when I was younger, but it's been a few years now. Christina thinks I should get into yoga when I get a personal trainer. I'm looking into both.

I auditioned for a character at Disney, but this was for the parade and though I made it through the photo and the dance audition, we both got kicked out during the first round. Now is a great time to start pin pointing what the problem might be, but I won't do it. I'd like to do something creative if I was going to be in the parade, like walk on stilts.

The auditions for Disney's stunt performers was the following Monday, BUT I got sick. It was a nasty cold and it hit hard, so I slept through the auditions, though I'm not sure how good I would have been feeling the way I felt. Now I'm waiting for Universal's Stunt Show auditions.

There's plenty of things to do here for fun. We've been to Disney Walk more than a handful of times. When we get jobs, we'd like to try some of the restaurants there. On the weekends, they have shows there. We've been going to the library a lot, in search of entertainment. I rented a lot of Blue's cds to find new groups I'd like. Last time we went, I rented a few movies, which ended up being very strange.

Speaking of strange. I rented two really strange movies, one of which was Perfume. This movie has a very huge orgy scene in it and cannibalism. It was on for less than five minutes before Christina said she wasn't interested. She only saw the part where they wanted to torture a guy for his crimes. She missed the really strange pieces. She came in during the orgy and walked back out. The producers found some very open extras for this movie. This is one movie I wouldn't have been an extra in unless it would have given me a SAG card... and even then... The other strange movie I rented was The Riddle. It had really weird pieces woven into the movie about Charles Dickens. Christina did watch this one, because it has an actor in the movie that she likes. We were both a little confused about the portions of the movie that cut to Charles Dickens narrating his novel, until the end, which was still, very odd.

We went out driving and found another strip mall with a Best Buy that might be easier to get help in. The one we had been going to, which was right next to Barnes and Noble, which Christina loves, was way too crowded no matter what day or what time we went to it. This one we found looks like its in a quieter neighborhood and there is a Barnes and Nobel in this parking lot. The bad thing is that its 11 miles away and the road to get there is a little stranger.

We now have a really nice keyboard which was a gift from my mother. We had it in storage with the rest of our stuff, but now that it's out, I decided to teach myself how to play. So far so good. I'd still love a drum set.

We went to the annual Blues-B-Q in downtown Orlando and it was great. Next year we'll need to bring our own chairs and better food. Christina isn't fond of meat and that's all the vender's were selling. I had a beer and we just enjoyed ourselves and the people around us. This is a big event. Two radio stations were hosting and the streets had been blocked off for this. So many people showed up for this event. I want to do this next year.

Gone Done and Moved

2010-01-27T14:40:00.000-08:00

It took the better part of a week, but we finally made it to Florida. We didn't get to do as much site seeing as we thought we would. Many family members gave us lists of places to try and see on our way out, but time was a constant issue since we had to be at the apartment to get our keys by Saturday. We did stop in San Antonio for a few hours and checked out the River Walk and Alamo.

It took another week to get settled in. For the most part everything is in its place and we've had room to cook a few dinners now. There is a few hours in the day when we just want to get out and explore, but most of our time has been spent trying to find needed places like the grocery store, the post office, the DMV and so on.

I'm happy to have the Internet. In LA, the Internet was where I had my best opportunities to find acting jobs. I also went to my IMDB and saw that a short film I did in 2005 was up on the site now. That gave me a happy little shock.

I will now get back to looking for work out here and hopefully find an agent.

Made It to Arizona

2009-12-26T19:41:00.000-08:00

I am now jobless, but I'm not worried. My last day at work went smoothly, considering I was training the new guy and let him take over. It didn't really hit me that it was my last day. The relief wasn't there. It felt like any normal day and I'd be coming back after vacation.

Once in Vegas, it finally hit. There is a great deal of relief right now. I felt stuck and that's not good for a creative spirit.

Some of the guys from work helped us load up our van and we were going to leave Sunday to get out to Arizona, but ended up leaving Saturday night. We both just wanted to get the van where it was supposed to be. We want to enjoy the trip, but carrying everything you own in a very easy to steal vehicle doesn't give much reassurance.

We made it to my mother-in-law's house, where we were spending the night. We had to pack up the stuff that Christina's mom was holding for her. Once we dropped off what we had carried out for her mom, we packed up the rest of Christina's stuff. Our party was Sunday night. So many family and close friends showed up for the pizza and get-together. It was very comforting and a great way to be sent off.

A Personal List of To-Dos

2009-12-17T00:44:00.000-08:00

I just recently got my hair cut and lately I've been growing a beard. I wanted to do something different and though it's something definitely different, it doesn't really fit in my life style so after Christmas I'll be shaving it off. Christina likes it, so I said I'd get the family photos with it.

I need to decide what I want to do with all the photos I have that I'd been sending out to auditions. I have four sets of photos, but have lately been using the LA data base to send electronic submissions. I have all these photos I need to recycle for a few reasons, but for the biggest reason, they are old photos and I've lost about thirty pounds since then. I need new photos.

Making the chocolate dipped strawberries worked out well. We did a batch of dark chocolate and a batch of milk chocolate. The milk chocolate was a little thin and didn't stick to the strawberries very well. Christina took many photos of us cooking. She loves her chocolate as she repeatedly mentions in her blog. However; with all the chocolate in the kitchen, it didn't stop her from getting into my dinner and eating the broccoli off my dish.

We were talking and we might look into doing a zip line when we're in Vegas. I think it would be awesome. We might also get in the race cars while we're out there and I know Christina plans to ride the New York, New York Roller coaster, so I'll probably do that with her. We should probably do it at night so we can sleep off the sickness that is inevitable. We've just recently found out that roller coasters that loop make us nauseous.

Christina is pretty awesome when it comes to finding yummies. She found almond syrup, which I can't wait to try. I'll have to make my famous banana pancakes. She also found cherry honey which looks really good. We haven't opened either because we have less than a week here before we head to Vegas and then to Arizona and then another week back home before we head to Florida, so opening food products right now would be a bad idea. But when we get there...

Getting Ready

2009-12-15T18:35:00.000-08:00

There are many things I'm getting ready for. I have two more days at the Performance Hall and then I will be a free man. I finally met my replacement, who is an emergency hire, which I was when I finally got hired on with the school. I've been there for five years so I'm fully invested and it's time to move on.

The weight training is going good. As I've mentioned, I've lost a lot of weight. It started out with a goal to do pull-ups and ended up being a full on program to lose the weight, gain the muscle. I've also gained flexibility. To be involved with stunts, I need to press a little harder.

I was in such a good mood, that we went to see two movies yesterday. We've been so busy, so yesterday was our catch up. We watched "Christmas Carol" with Jim Carry, which was amazing and "Princess and the Frog," which Christina really wanted to see. It was cute.

We went to the yogurt shop next store to the movie theater. There are usually twelve yogurt flavors to chose from, then there are about 50 toppings that you can put on yourself and then about twenty fresh fruit toppings in another bin and four syrups. One of the syrups was caramel, which I really love and they had melted marshmallow. We didn't try that one this time. Since you pay per ounce, all this can get pretty costly.

We went down Candy Cane Lane earlier this week and took a few pictures.

Tomorrow we are having the Christmas Work Party. We have white elephant, which Christina had picked out for us back in February. She was determined that we would not make the same mistake two Christmas parties in a row. Our first year, we both got gift cards from Starbucks to put in the white elephant drawing. Everyone loved it. The following year, we were running late and still needed to pick up our gifts when we locked ourselves out of the house and ended up wasting valuable shopping time for someone to let us in. Finally the cousins picked up their phone and said they had a spare key and they got us in. That year, running late, we did the quickest thing we could think of, we bought Starbucks gift cards. This year, we do not have Starbuck gift cards. We wrapped the gifts and left them at work so in the frenzy of getting food and other needed supplies, we won't forget the gifts. Plus, Christina said she is going to carry her spare keys for the month. No mistakes this time.

We have a dinner date with two very close friends tomorrow. We've been trying to squeeze last minute "things-to-do" in our schedule. We cleaned a great deal of the room today, though we didn't pack anything. We dropped our spare stuff off at the Woman's Cancer Society. Christina wasn't supposed to buy another book, but she did. She can't help herself.

We went to Bed, Bath and Beyond and found this shoe holder that fits under the bed and holds up to 12 pairs of shoes. That will work for the both of us, because we have a little less than that together.

It's been a long time, but I had Panda Express for dinner tonight. I'm not sure how long it's been, probably a few months. I've been really good with my work out program and my change of diet. I'm happy with the way I feel and look so I don't feel like I'm missing out.

Well I did it!

2009-12-02T16:55:00.001-08:00

I Joined AFTRA and I am very excited to get started. Will it help me or not? No one knows, but I believe it will work out to my advantage. Now I think that I need to get new pics.

On the weight loss front I am now in the 170 lbs range which is great from my 200 lbs range. I feel better and have more confidence in myself. I still have a ways to go but I am very happy about where I am at.

AFTRA or not to AFTRA

2009-11-05T15:38:00.000-08:00

I have been thinking about joining AFTRA for a while now. I really want to, but will it interfere with getting jobs, or will I get more jobs? There seems to be a lot more AFTRA jobs out there right now.

Early Walking

2009-10-11T17:21:00.000-07:00

We have some relatives that are doing this charity walk and it sounded like good exercise. One relative is doing the walk for just those reasons, just exercise and I told her that I would like to go with her this morning, which meant I had to wake up early for this walk.

I was really tired from getting up so early for the garage sale, but I just couldn't get to sleep till around 2 a.m. so I missed going for the walk. I told her early so she wouldn't be waiting around for me. When we finally got up around 11 a.m., I found out a great deal of the household had also overslept from their Sunday duties.

We had errands and found that Sunday is a very lazy day today. Maybe it's the weather. Very cloudy and overcast. Bought more power bars to take to work since there are times when I get too busy to eat. Christina was the one that pointed that out. I will work eight hours without eating because house manager just doesn't afford any breaks. It's not the greatest thing to eat, but it's better than getting so hungry that I go for fast food.

I've been pushing myself, but not as much as I could be doing. After working out with my personal trainer, I'm really sore, but this weekend, I've been real sore. It was a heavy workout on Friday. I was really out of shape when I started. He said that I should be able to do 50 push-ups with no problem. It took a week to get up to 40 without stopping, and in another week, I'll hopefully be able to get up to 60 without a problem and maybe even 70 by the end of next week.

Personal Trainer

2009-10-06T16:54:00.000-07:00

Monday was my first day with a personal trainer and it went really good. It wasn't really my first training session, it was more of a here do this, so we can see where we are starting at. Lets just say that I don't have a very high bar to begin at. My next one is on Wednesday and I am really excited to go. I have about three months to get into much better shape. Pretty much have to work on everything from losing weight, to being more flexible.

I've kept a less intense schedule, walking or running around the block 3 times. We use to have a much large walking scale with far more ground to cover, but relatives were worried about us exercising at night outside because of the crime, though we live in a pretty good area. It's not Porter Ranch, but the last shooting down here had been domestic and not random. Still, to keep the family happy, we've stayed in the neighborhood and it hasn't been challenging.

This month has been really busy at the Performance Hall. There has been shows nearly everyday or a reason to show up to the theater everyday. We are barely squeezing Knott's Scary Farm in our schedule. We did get to see Zombie Land the first day it came out. We had to go early during the day and it was good.

We had our yearly birthday party for October which is shared between three of us. We had three different deserts: home made pumpkin pie, banana bread cupcakes with cinnamon frosting and a raspberry cake. I'm not a fan of pumpkin pie so that was the only thing I didn't try, though I heard it was really good.

I need to work on my eating habits. I've gone out to eat a few times this week. We tried something new at Denny's which is a French Toast with egg and ham, powder sugar and syrup. I went with the syrup, Christina ate it the way it was. We also shared sausage, bacon, biscuit and hash browns. I also ate at Quiznos and then last night we ate at Two Guys from Italy and had spaghetti with sausage. We bought some power bars and I eat veggies, but it's still hard.

This weeks audition

2009-09-15T23:57:00.000-07:00

I had a audition for a non union movie last Sunday and we're down to one car so I had to drop Christina off at an event she was volunteering at. I think it went very well. The audition was in downtown L.A. by the Fox studios.

They had chocolate chip cookies, fudge chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal cookies out for snacking. I did not partake although it did look really good. I've been watching my sugar intake for health reasons.

I filled out the paperwork and then they brought me into the room to read. Most auditions I get pretty nervous, but this time it wasn't so bad. Read through once and they seemed to like it. I was asked to read one more time, but they wanted me to be angry at the other person. I got about halfway through before I was stopped. I don't know if that means that they liked what they saw or that it was bad enough they didn't need to see anymore.

I have started to get back into shape, so I can audition for some stunt shows when we move out to Florida. I have three months to do it. I hope that it will be long enough time for me to get to where I need to be.

Universal Adventure Park

2009-09-03T20:01:00.000-07:00

We've been out in Florida since late Monday, but didn't hit any the Universal Park until today. We had to get the majority of business done, looking for apartments, checking out the area, making sure we would like the place we would be moving to.

What I really like about this location is that all the big parks are right in the area. There are tons of dinner shows and other parks to audition at.

Young Again

2009-08-30T13:30:00.001-07:00

Tried to get to bed early last night because I was going to have to wake up at 4:30 in order to get ready for my shoot that was at 6:00 a.m. down off Oxnard and White Oak. I just couldn't get to sleep. I got up for a little bit around 11:00 and stayed up till around midnight and 1 a.m. I read, hoping that it would help me fall asleep. I just couldn't get to sleep at all and the alarm rung really early.

Just got done shooting my scene for "Young Again(Amerasian3)".

I got ready and ended up being the first person there and then a few minutes later, more actors started to show up. There was a large crew setting up, probably about thirty actors were on set when we started taping. It was filmed on a baseball field and the filming ended around 10:00 a.m.

It was pretty cool, and the crew were very professional, and nice. We even had a couple of people bringing us water and other assorted beverages. By the time that we really started shooting it only took about two and a half hours. This gives me one more IMDB credit...YEAH!

Tomorrow morning we leave for Florida for the week. Talk to you when I get back.

Tiny Bits

2009-08-27T14:06:00.000-07:00

It's ironic that right before our big (vacation) trip to Florida, I'd get a few acting jobs come in. I was asked to come in and tape for Thursday and the next project, which is completely different from this one, will be taped on Sunday, then on Monday, we'll be getting up early, which is going to be fun, considering how much we drag our feet, and try to get to the airport on time.

Today's role was fairly simple. It was for a music video. They had me playing pinball and then I hear something. I turn around and stare into the camera for a little while then this red balloon rises up. I watch it then go back to looking in the camera.

My next project is for a Movie called "Young Again(Amerasian 3)" I will be a baseball scout. It sounds like it will be a lot of fun. I will let you know after I am done.

Popcornopolis

2009-08-25T22:24:00.000-07:00

Since the both of us had nothing to really focus on, we drove the twenty-something miles to go to the Topanga Mall. This mall is amazing and worth the drive every now and again. Last time we went, we stopped at Popcornopolis to take a sample of their Cinnamon Bun popcorn. Christina had a craving so she was the one to suggest the drive so she could actually get the popcorn. Last time we only tried it, this time, we actually bought it.

The sales clerk did a great job, he suggested the bulk, "buy three, get a forth for free." Each bag was about $6. something.

We bought: Cinnamon Bun, Chocolate Caramel and Caramel and our forth bag, (boring us) got another Cinnamon Bun since Christina really liked it. We tried a few of the others like Zebra Popcorn which was both dark chocolate and white chocolate, but white chocolate is a little too sweet for Christina and since this was her craving, we just went with the Chocolate Caramel.

This place is amazing. If you get a chance, try their popcorn.

Life or some like it

2009-08-18T10:56:00.000-07:00

My wife and I have been slowly packing up our stuff. Going though everything that we own, to see what we really want to keep. We have decided to move and try out some place new. This is going to be one big leap into the unknown, because we will have no friends or family there. I figure if it doesn't work out we can always move again until we find the place we can call home. That being said I am not giving up on my acting career, I am just trying a new avenue to achieve my goal.

I've been doing palates with Christina and it is amazing how sore it can make you feel. Of course I haven't been working out like I should be lately.

Work and Doctor Appointments

2009-08-13T09:00:00.000-07:00

There hasn't been a lot of acting gigs to put out for. I look at my email gigs that are sent to me in mass that I have to go one-by-one for in order to see if there is a position that I could fit in stature and age. A few years ago, the jobs kept pouring in. They weren't big jobs, but I had a chance to act and I was really enjoying the calls for auditions, the auditions and finally the call saying I had the spot. I can't believe how quickly the work dried up for me. I'm feeling in a rut and I really wouldn't mind doing theatre at this point, if my hours at work weren't so uncertain. I work during the days for some and at night for others. It's really killed the theatre work I could have gotten.

I received the picture last month, that I had taken for my acting photo. It turned out really good, though Nancy is a fabulous photographer. I'm very lucky to also have her as a friend. She's one of those people that just lights up a room. Her happiness is contagious and she's so full of life. Christina and I were supposed to call her this month and meet up with her since her schedule is slow in August. I also need to get these photos down to get my photo copy package to send out for auditions.

Also, I'm really hoping to get back into acting classes here soon. Live has been so hectic that there hasn't been time and we have been saving our money so we can move.

Now that the performance hall is working on furlows to keep up with the economy without firing anyone, it's getting a little difficult to work. There is no one trained for my position, so I have to make it to all the Performance Hall events. Now that the furlows have been issued, I'm supposed to have 8 hours cut from my schedule this week, which sounds easier than it is. There are orientations going on right now and I have to be at work by 7:30 a.m. at the latest and back home at 6:30 p.m. at the earliest. I have Friday off, though the event will be going on. My boss asked Christina to cover for me, and she's a little worried because she's never been trained for my position. I've been going over a few things that she just needs to remember, which isn't anything big and are the worst case scenarios. If anything else goes wrong, she'll just have to call.

Last time she did this, a lot of things went wrong, we had fire code hazards, people trying to sell liquor without a license, the list goes on. The first time I'm not at work and all these things happen on her shift.

Today we have our dentist appointments. I forget to call and book us an appointment because we don't have any issue with our teeth. We are way over due for the check up.

House Sitting, Dog Included

2009-08-12T06:02:00.000-07:00

We made it back from Arizona to find that we were needed in babysitting a home. I really enjoy the house sitting since there is a gym, a large television and a hot tub. It's just too bad that our hours at work are long. I'd like to at least be able to sleep instead of having to get up so early, but it is orientation for the freshmen. This takes two weeks.

We are finally getting around to watching our Netflix. We were about twenty minutes into: Blonde and Blonder before we both looked at each other and realized neither of us were going for it. It was really playing on stereotypes and even the stereotypes were hyped a bit so they could be outrageous. The beginning with the airplane was pretty funny and it has a great introduction leading into the film. The opening credits were great.

We started to watch the second film, "You Move You Die," which is a New Zealand indie film, but I started to fall asleep within the first couple of minutes. It had been a long day and the dark living room and comfortable couch didn't help. I tried to take a nap, but it just wasn't working out. It was nearly 10:30 when we were hungry enough to make a food run. I came back home with cherries. I love cherries, though I don't eat them very often.

Home and Working

2009-08-11T09:07:00.000-07:00

We left a little late on Monday to drive back home. It's about a 300 (plus/minus)mile drive home. Sunday night, I helped pull some boxes out of the garage for the ladies, since Christina and her mom were interested in getting things organized. I had time to dump one box of items for them before we all went out to eat at AppleBee's. It's one of our favorite places to eat, but the restaurant closest to us shut down and the nearest one isn't very near at all. It would be at least an hour drive to get to it. After dinner, I went home with my mom.

We watched three movies that night and I didn't get back to Christina's mom's house until around noon to find that Christina was still sleeping, which is unusual for her since she's up around 10:00 a.m. at the latest. She told me she stayed up till around 3 a.m. last night trying to get all the boxes organized. Her mom and her had made a system of it. I laid back down with her and woke up about 30 minutes before she did. After that, we packed up our stuff and the items my mom and her mom had been holding for us, and then we were ready to leave. It was a long trip and Christina kept me entertained by reading journal entries from her diary at the age of nine to thirteen. The diaries were pretty funny and we both laughed all the way to the mid-way point, Flying J's, where we filled up and were ready to go the second half of the trip.

We collect bottles so we can have a end of the year party for the ushers at the performance hall, and our families in AZ help with that, but we were just informed that it was illegal to bring back bottles from AZ into California. That was a surprise, we never knew that. It wasn't the check point guard who told us, it was Christina's mom. This was something we never knew.

Exhausted

2009-08-09T08:07:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I woke up early and just couldn't get back to sleep, though I stayed up until around 3:00 a.m. to watch horror movies on Friday. Saturday was a quick breakfast and then back to the house we left our stuff at. We picked up what we needed, then went to my mother's to pick up my nephew's birthday gift, but she'd already left the house. Luckily she took the present with her. It had been left in the far bedroom we had stayed in when we first got into town.

It was my nephew's 1st birthday and my brother's -- birthday. It was a good gathering that started with getting the food ready, eating, and then swimming. The gift opening was next and ended with cake. I took a slice of white cake and a slice of chocolate cake. We had such a good time visiting.

The day ended with visiting our closest friends. By this time, we were really tired, so we had to cut some of the plans sort, such as driving all the way back to Scottsdale to spend the night with family out there. We were both settled in bed when Christina reminded me that I hadn't done the computer log for the sleep study I'm in. I had to get back up, turn the computer on and get it finished. When I was done, she was already asleep.

Today is another busy day of visiting.

Water Park

2009-08-06T09:10:00.000-07:00

Tuesday didn't go quite as planned with the museum, but when my nephew got to the house, the museum became minute. He was a little fussy when I held him, but he quieted down. We were drinking out of colorful plastic cups and I made the mistake of putting it within reaching distance on the table. My nephew didn't mind that water drops were splashing my arm or his small body. He imitated the rest of us, but putting his lip on the rim, and then when he realized the concept of drinking in a cup and not a bottle was boring, he turned it upside down and ran his new teeth over the bottom. He soon found that wasn't much fun, so he squeezed the cup and enjoyed the loud popping sound. Luckily the plastic was held up. Dixie must childproof their goods.

I have video of my nephew and I spinning the cup. Actually, I was spinning the cup, he was screaming in joy and slapping his hands on the table. After a while, we decided to go to the mall to just get out of the house and I was given a chance to push the stroller. I like to believe I was giving my mom and sister a break, but I actually enjoyed doing this. We switched off pushing the stroller. Christina got into the candy store, a chocolate stand and finally a accessory store. We were surprised she didn't make herself sick with all the sweets she was eating. We will have to go to the mall and get a Cinnabun, but we opted not to get one yet, because we wanted to go out for Chinese food. It was a great day that ended with my mom and I going through buckets of pictures. Christina had two requests, okay, three requests. She wanted to see a picture of me in my Frosty the Snowman outfit, when I was given a chance to play Frosty in the school play. She also wanted to see me with braces and the third picture she wanted to see was me with long hair. It was the era, people. Hair bands were really popular and I had a drum set.

Wednesday morning, we had French Toast. My mom was going to make it the day before, but she didn't have the right kind of bread. The bread that she did toast for us was really good. We'll have to go to Trader Joe's and see if we can find some for ourselves. We ate, we got in our swim clothes, we took up the task of putting sunblock all over our skin, then I realized that I have really bad experiences with sunblock on my forehead. It always gets into my eyes, and I'm not real sure how. I had to wash it off my face.

We got all the way out to Wet 'N Wild, known to the locals of long ago as Water World, when we realized we were lacking a great deal of important things. Drinking water, water shoes and towels. We circled back and went to Walmart, which was the only place we could find and it was back up towards the freeway where I missed my first turn and had to go up further. We found what we needed and even picked up a small snack, then headed back out there. It was 12:30 by the time we got there. The tickets were $34.99 a piece. We decided to go ahead and splurge. It was such a great decision.

All the water rides were a lot of fun. I convinced Christina to try the Tornado first, and she was a little shaken up after that one. I could have went again, but we went on a ride she felt more familiar with, which was in the far back. These water slides, I guess, have been there since her childhood. I have never been to this park, so it was all new to me. We took a double tube and went down. At the very bottom, when we came out, the blast knocked me off the raft at the same time she jumped out, which sent the tube flying back over her head. It was pretty funny.

We went on these slides where you are on these flat rubber mates on your stomach, holding on to plastic hand holds that remind me of flip flops. That was fun the first time, though Christina had to get use to it too. The child area was redone and a lot of adults were enjoying it. This was like a bigger, better version of the sprinkler system in your yard. The water was dripping from so many things. You could take tubes and splash people. Cones above, got filled with water and people up there could turn it upside down and splash people below you. Our favorite on this was the giant bucket that hangs on the very top like a bell in a tower, and when it fills with water, it tips and this water comes rushing down at a very high speed. It's quick, its wet and it's fun to catch if you are lucky to get the few seconds of hard spray.

We went on a green ride called "Super Bowl," though I heard kids in the line call it the toilet bowl. It's fun. We noticed that most people went around two times before they got sucked down the drain, we went around and around, I counted four times before we got sucked down.

We also went on a ride that was a lot like a roller coaster. It had very steep downs and very steep ups. Jets of water propelled you back upwards on it. We went on this one three times. The line was a hour long so it wasn't something you could just run back and do again.

The only slide we didn't go on was the one that goes straight down and then sends up half way up a wall. Christina didn't think she could handle it and I needed at least three people to go on it with me.

Long Day Ending in Arizona

2009-08-04T12:13:00.000-07:00

We had to be up early so I could get the oil checked in the car and then I went to have the car cleaned. I had a choice of air spray, so I chose cherry. It smelled really great.

After the car was taken care of, I came back home and we packed. Didn't take too long, and we threw that stuff in the car and went to work.

Work was from 12 p.m. I had a number of interviews for the Performance Hall. I will probably hire everyone that came in. Most of them are music majors and techs for the theatre.

The orientation was from 2:00 p.m. to about 8:00 p.m. so we were on the road after that without dinner. We had dinner at Denny's, one of our favorite spots. If you're curious, our favorite is Lumberjack Slam. Denny's gives a lot of food. The server separated the food on plates for us, since we always share. I drink ice tea, now that I'm staying away from soda. Christina always gets strawberry lemonade. We hardly deviate from the master plan.

We didn't get into town till around 2 a.m. and decided to spend the night with my mom and stayed up talking for a small bit. She has a new cat that she found at work. It's name is Spencer and it really enjoys playing.

Now that we slept until about 10:00 a.m. we're all going to the Phoenix Art Museum. My sister and nephew are going to go with us, and my mom, Christina and I. This should be fun.

Yosemite Hiking

2009-07-31T22:07:00.000-07:00

I always said I wouldn't mind being a little more physical. We planned to go to Yosemite with Christina's aunt. We had gift coupons to rent a place in the area, but we just couldn't find the time. When her aunt said she was heading up that way, we thought it would be nice to hitch a ride. The drive was about five hours. We passed tons of wineries, though Christina slept the whole way up so she probably didn't get the same view that we did. About an hour from our destination, we stopped for breakfast, which I can always go for.

Right in the park, we decided to stop and take our first hike. We took a very long winding trail and when we got to the top of the steep hill, the women decided to take the cart back down. I wasn't exhausted so I could have kept walking. We made it back down, got in the car and stopped at a resort that Christina's grandparents had stayed at. It's very clear that you can either get cabins or rooms with bathrooms or you can get one without a bathroom and you have to make your way to a shared bathroom.

We stopped along the way to get Popsicles. It was a very humid and damp day. Water was okay, but it just wasn't cutting it like a frozen treat would. We stopped to snack. Later that day we watched, "Because I Said So," on Christina's computer. We have so many Netflix that we barely have time to watch, so we enjoy these vacations.

We were going to go rafting, but the line was huge. Christina pretty much made up her mind on wanting to bike and since it was something I hadn't done in a while, it sounded nice. I got to carry on the water and food on my back, as you can see. We found ourselves biking in a circle, but the downhill riding was worth all the up hill hassle. It would be nice to own bikes and just bike more often.

The horse back riding was the last thing we did on the trip. We had planned to do it the day before, but found out that you had to call a day in advance, so we scheduled for the morning of the following day. Morning had been a good idea since it gets really hot pretty quickly.

Ugliest Sugar Bowl Ever

2009-07-26T23:01:00.000-07:00

We've been going through our storage for the better part of a week. When we moved we had help from a lot of people since Christina was going to University and I was working full time at the Performance Hall and had many shows on the weekend. We had so many things packed that we weren't really sure what we owned.

The first couple times we tried to get in storage, it was a mess. Christina's dad did a lot of the packing for us and every taped up box said "kitchen" so we thought her dad might have written "kitchen" on everything if it went in the kitchen or not. When we opened the boxes, we realized we owned more stuff for the small kitchen we had then anything else in the house. Sadly, we had to get rid of some of it. I'm not sorry to see my college dishes go, and Christina's and my first apartment dishes were also put in the sale.

We had tons of wine glasses. Some of these were from our wedding. We had a set of twelve plan wine glasses, four hand painted flower wine glasses and six white frosted with black vines wine glasses. We also had some martini glasses, which we got from Christina's aunt, the same aunt we went on the hiking trip with. These had chocolates, though I don't remember ever getting to try one. Christina is pretty territorial with her candy.

There were tons of dishes and other kitchen things to go through. Some of those things brought back memories. When Christina and I started dating, it may have been before we moved to Flagstaff to go to NAU for our degrees, we went to a pottery shop where you can paint your own pots. We found it buried in one of the boxes and couldn't decide if we really wanted to keep it. As ugly as it came out, I think we agreed that we really wanted to keep it, so it went back in a box marked "kitchen" and that was the end of that.

The storage looks a lot better. We organized and decided what we really wanted to keep and what we could do without. A few days before we left to go to Yosemite, Christina and I sat in the garage until midnight listing all my books on "librarything". The books were one of the many boxes we had to go through and we did. I decided what I wanted to keep and that went back into storage.

The entire family helped out with the sale. Christina's Uncle and I manned the money box and helped people out. We sold a great deal of small items and a chair that was hard to get rid of. We sold that chair for $1. I wish I had taken a picture of it.

Yes I am still here

2009-07-16T11:47:00.000-07:00

It has been a very busy last couple of weeks. METN was in the theater last week and that was seven days straight of work with them. The week before that we we were getting ready to have a yard sale. Most of our stuff was in storage, so it was a lot of digging around to figure what we wanted to get rid of.

Movies

2009-07-05T11:37:00.001-07:00

I watched six movies in four days. "Boy Eats Girl" (zombie flick), "Planet Terror" (zombie flick). If it feels like there is a theme, I can almost promise you there is a zombie fan in our home. "The Ex" (comedy), "Run Fatboy Run" (comedy), "Slaughter" with was part of the 8 Films to Die for and I would give a very low score to. There were interesting concepts, but the lead character made so many bad decisions that it was difficult to feel sorry for her. "Dragon Hunters" which I would recommend to everyone. It's a feature length animated film, the music is wonderful, the art is fantastic and detailed and the characters are easy to become attached to.

It's nice to finally get a few days off from work. We're going through a number of boxes that were in storage, trying to decide what we really want to keep. Christina is taking pictures of everything she wants to remember but has no interest in keeping anymore. She's great when it comes to organizing, so she's been helping me list all the books I own on librarything. I am getting rid of my text books from college, though she is to. It's funny how you think you want to keep things like this from the "college years" and then so many years later you realize you forgot you owned them or that you were never interested in looking at them again. I finally have about 50 books listed on my librarything, though I will have far more books soon once we get that far in storage. I can see why she likes Librarything, because it keeps everything more organized than our book shelves tend to be. We always pile the books on the shelves and seem to forget what we own.

Nothing new in the acting front, though I did find the books I had on making movies, literally. We had even bought a camera so we could do this.

To Much Work

2009-06-27T12:33:00.000-07:00

I have been to busy to do anything but work these last few weeks. The only thing it is not on acting it is for my day job. I've had a couple of auditions last week and I think that they went well, but there was no call back for them.

This has to be a short one, because I am at work right now with a dance show going on. Will write more next week. After I get a little bit of much needed rest.

Stung, Literally

2009-06-10T19:56:00.001-07:00

The day started early with phone calls and errands. We dropped the little white Neon, Christina's first car, off to get the smog test. We're selling it. It was Christina's first car and now will be a first car to someone else.

While the car was getting checked out, we stopped by AAA to get paperwork to sale the car and while we were there, look at vacation packages. Unfortunately, we are going during hurricane season, so I hope we get a good clear vacation. I'd hate for it to be cancelled last minute when we waited so long for this.

Then I had to drop off a file to our Realtor and that's when it happened. For a dreary day, I was driving with the windows down, getting a little cool air. While stopped at a light, I felt buzzing wings by my ear and swatted it away, only for it to actually have lost its balance down the collar of my leather jacket. I swatted it and sent it spiraling to Christina, who wasn't too happy about that, when it landed on the floor by her purse.

Her being such a nature lover, the bee got a little more love than me, but unlike the bee, I was able to enjoy the affection a little longer. She put the bee in the grass so it could die peacefully and not get stepped on. Bees being in such a poor state right now, with them mysteriously dying, we both are against the needless killing of them. However, I didn't mean to swat it, it was stinging my neck, which made it a little late to save it once it lost its stinger.

I had to drop by work, which meant we had to drop by Walgreens to pick up work pictures and then drop by work, then I had to go to an appointment, which left Christina in charge, then I came back in time to grab her to pick up the car and now I'm back at work. It's a very long day. I might end it with a Netflix movie.

Commercial Agent

2009-06-07T22:27:00.000-07:00

I received a little bad news yesterday. My commercial agent has decided to drop me. I am actually a little surprised that they did not drop me earlier. I have probably been with them for a little over a year. I still have my theatrical agent which is really good. I know that things will be picking up for me soon.

June Business

2009-06-04T22:16:00.000-07:00

There are a number of events happening at the Performance Hall and a great deal of changes taking place. This job had been convient for auditions, but lately there hasn't been much to audition for. I'm thinking about getting back into theatre, but the job is in the late afternoons into the late evening. There isn't much space to do theatre. I really hope that things pick up for me. We have two Netflix movies in, which are normally horror. One is "Ice Spiders" which is supposed to be a tongue and cheek movie like "Eight Legged Freaks." We watched a little bit, but it got late, so we put it on pause. The other movie we have is "Kettle of Fish," which looks like a romance. The funny thing is, half the time I don't remember what is on the NetFlix counter, because we have 200 movies on the list and we forget by the time it shows up in the mailbox.

Audition and Background

2009-06-03T19:42:00.000-07:00

May wasn't a very busy month. I did get a day of audience work which gives us a little money to put in our travel fund. So far, an actor's paycheck doesn't get one very far though I'm sure Christina would agree about the same thing with writing.

I'd work the show again. The people on set were high energy and there was singing and dancing. It ended up being a really great day. In between shots, there was a great deal of audience participation which scored people candy, shirts, a few minutes of fame, and a great deal of entertainment. During the second show we sat through, the Master of Ceremonies wanted us to sing with the music. The person who yells "Mony, Mony" the loudest was able to win a shirt. Christina wanted the shirt, so I gave it a shot. The host liked it so much that he gave me a microphone and I sang the rest of the song. I also won her the shirt she wanted, that has now, strangely ended up on my side of the closet. Maybe she just really wanted to have the concept of winning something. I won her a lot of chocolate that she was really grateful for, though I wish she would have shared with me. Love her, but when you give her chocolate, she has it swallowed before you can take a piece.

I had an audition for a bartender role. Wow, that brings back memories. I use to work as a bartender at twenty-two to twenty-three. I can't drink too much now, without having a horrible hangover in the morning. When I was young, I never had hangovers. Now, I regret that last drink if I wake up feeling horrible the next day. I went to Vegas with my brother and came home feeling pretty sick. It took a few days to sleep it off. What I learned was that: A. I can't out drink a group of Germans and B. I can't keep up with my brother when it comes to liquor.

They haven't called me back for the role, so I probably didn't get it. I'm not getting auditions like I use to, but I'm hoping to change that this year.

I had Monday and Tuesday off so we ran errands and went to see the new movie, "UP" which Christina really wanted to see.

News and Updates

2009-05-10T09:49:00.001-07:00

Once again, we were a few days from moving into our townhouse, and again it doesn't happen. This place needed a lot of work, but we were given a number of suggestions that really helped and would save money. We're both disappointed because the townhouse was pretty big for an L.A. home and it was right next to the pool area. We could just skip right over and hop in the hot tub. So now we're back to the drawing board.

I've been sending my pictures out, but no phone calls for auditions, really. I had one audition for a game show, and I did well enough to be in round two. I didn't get much further, because some of the questions I couldn't answer because I wasn't fully knowledgeable on Country Music. I've been listening to it off and on on the radio the last couple of days, in case I did get called to be on the show.

Every time Christina and I go to the mall, we get stopped to do studies. I have a feeling these women get paid per person they can bring in, so we both agreed to do it. This is the second time I've made $15 for giving my opinion. Christina made $6 and $5 for smelling perfume and giving her opinion.

I'm still having such a hard time sleeping. The last week I've been up till 3 am or 5am. I have to start working out for health reasons. The "this can happen if you don't" routine the doctors give you, really scared me into action. We'll get a special cook book and start making home cooked meals that are okay for me to eat.

Books and Voice Over and Cookies

2009-03-05T13:42:00.000-08:00

I'm looking into Voice Over classes and to get a sample of my work to post on the casting sites and to hopefully gain some roles in cartoons and other aspirations. I found a voice over class that won't interfere with my work schedule. At each class, you learn how the business works and you get to work on professional samples that you can take with you. For a long time now, people kept insisting that I should look into Voice Over work, so hopefully this year I'll get some luck with that.

Also this year, I'm making time to start working out and really looking after my health. I haven't seen the doctor in who knows how long, so I finally made an appointment. I've also got an appointment with a sleep study for Friday. I'm really hoping someone can help me because I'm up to three sleeping pills a night and those don't really help. A few nights ago, I stayed up all night and had to be at work by 7:30 am. I got home around 11:00 a.m. and thought I could squeeze a few hours of sleep in before being back at work by 3 p.m. It didn't work. I just couldn't sleep. It will be nice if I can be part of a study and actually get help.

At the library book sale, I picked up two books, "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins, which talks about the arguments of the creationist theory, etc. The second book I picked up was "Life on a Young Planet," by Andrew h. Knoll, which is also about evolution.

This must be the season for cookies. Two volunteers brought in cookies and then my grandparent-in-laws, gave us a box of cookies. I'm trying to lose weight and stay healthy, so I have no idea where Christina has hidden them, though I do know where she keeps one stash of her goodies. I found peanut M&Ms, Cadbury Eggs, Twix, and a roll of cookies. I'm assuming she ate all the other things she brought home, though they might have their own hiding spot too.

When we had a bunny in Flagstaff, it's name was Cadbury. We felt bad keeping it because our apartment was small and with the carpet, having a rabbit was a bad idea. At the time, I was working the night shift as security and going to college during the day. One of the guys I worked with had a family and they were thinking about getting a pet. We have him Cadbury and from what I heard, his family really loved the bunny. It had a yard to play in and the family treated him very well. What more can you ask for when it comes to giving a pet something more? I wouldn't mind having another one as a pet, when we get our own place and he can enjoy a yard instead of a cage.

When we get our place, we're going to be fit with pets. We're thinking about adopting two dogs from a shelter, then we're probably going to buy a hand fed bird, because Christina is fond of birds and she really misses her pet that passed a few years back. Her family and I are encouraging another bird since they made her happy. She wants a concur and finches. So we'll have two cages of birds. I wouldn't mind having a rabbit. That's not it with the pets. She wants a turtle and we both want tropical fish for in inside tank. She would like a pond in the backyard for koi. You'd think this was it, but she wants one more pet. She would like a chameleon.

Nothing else is really going on right now. Just trying to get this busy month over with so I can focus on more casual things.

Busy Weekend, Busy Week

2009-03-03T22:00:00.000-08:00

It was a busy weekend for us. Besides working, we looked at the latest selection of townhouses and condos. We're actually in the market for a townhouse. We don't want anyone living above our heads, playing their music and stomping about when we're trying to sleep. We keep odd hours, but we're quiet people and we want to live in a quiet community. A friend of ours said that when he first moved into his apartment, that he was surrounded by retired people. He lives across the street from the university campus and said that all the retired people moved. "I just can't take it anymore," he said, about the college students that moved in around him. "I want to know where those retired people moved too, because that's where I want to go." We keep fairly quiet friends too, it appears.

After signing paperwork and looking at more places, I had a date with the blood bank. I donate blood when they come around, but this time I donated the red cells and the rest of the blood was shot back into my arm. It took about ten minutes longer than usual and it was cold going back into my arm. It made the rest of my body cold. The snacks afterward, weren't bad and there were tons of people at the single table, waiting to donate or just resting afterwards.

Stocks suck. I keep getting statements in and it just kills me to see how much we're down. I'm currently reading a book, "Start Late, Finish Rich" by David Bach and trying to live with the advice. We're doing really well, all things considered, though we have two cars that are a little unreliable at the moment with the way they clatter and hum.

I told everyone that I'd bring donuts tomorrow. It sounded like a great idea, but considering how early we have to wake up, it's going to add another ten minutes to our early wake-up call. It's hard enough going to be at a "decent" time when we're both use to staying up so late. We meant to go to bed early yesterday, but we couldn't figure out how to save our progress to the Lego Batman game and ended up playing another 30 minutes before we had to admit defeat and shut it down.

Ode to the Stinky Dog

2009-03-01T22:11:00.000-08:00

oh dog, how you stink
and think
you should be up next to me.

thank you! thank you!

Busy Day

2009-02-22T22:25:00.000-08:00

Woke up around 11 this morning and had breakfast while reading the newspaper. It's one of my favorite morning rituals. Today was going to be busy because I had the extra work to do and Christina was going with me. We had to be there at 3 p.m. and it was getting close to 12 before we left the house.

My first stop was to get my hair cut. I was told by a few people that I had an Elvis haircut. I know that guy was popular in his time, but I don't want to be an Elvis knockoff at these gigs. I get so very few, though I've been putting out for more extra work.

After the haircut, we went to Best Buy to get our toys we had been saving up for the last two years to get. Our last video game system we bought was PlayStation. I can't remember if we bought that in Flagstaff or when we moved to L.A. Considering money has been so tight, both of us being artists and working hard on our craft, we decided to start saving all our gift cards. Our family gives us a lot of gift cards. So it took a while, but we ended up saving enough money to not only buy Wii, but to get Wii Fit, and a set us up with a few games and some equipment.

I've been an extra to quite a few things, so this wasn't unusual. We were going to go to the grocery store and pick up some apple juice boxes (Christina is on a health kick at the moment, because I would have went with soda), some fruit and anything else we could snack on. We would have also brought some books, but we got home and had to get ready and go. It wasn't bad. There was a lot of waiting, which is usual, and it started to get cold. Shia LaBeouf was the director. Christina has more written on her site about the whole experience, through her perception. This was new to her.

Gift Cards

2009-02-21T11:08:00.001-08:00

We've been collecting our gift cards hoping to buy something we really wanted, or something, in the long run, that we just needed. After playing Wii for the greater part of our Christmas vacation, that was one thing we've decided we'd like to spend our gift cards on. We were saving up for a flat screen television, so making priorities is a little difficult. Really want that Wii. Really want that flat screen television. Also really want a Bo-Flex. So many things we want. We love Wii, but we might also need to get a Playstation because Christina loves the zombie games. Actually, love doesn't cover that addiction she has for zombies. When I met her, the only game she would play was Zombies Ate My Neighbors, because I think that was the only zombie game she ever got her hands on. We watch a lot of zombie movies, so we need a zombie game for her. Wii is supposed to come out with House of the Dead. That might be enough, though she wants to play Dead Rising.

A few gigs have floated my way. It's not enough to make me feel like I've made any progress. I need parts in films.

We've just bought two super hero movies: The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man. We still need a great list more. This is a comic book super hero house hold.

I've been trying these pills for my insomnia: Sleep Two. The recommended dose is 1-2 pills, but it wasn't helping me sleep, so I've been trying 3 a night and I've actually slept better than normal. Last night was an exception. We stayed up till about 3 a.m. watching a Sundance film called: Waitress.

I've been trying to make time to read more. We're going to try and find some time this week or next, depending on the weather, to go to the beach to read and time to go to Disneyland.

Happy Belated New Year

2009-01-12T11:50:00.000-08:00

What can I say, I really suck at writing on this blog. Happy New Year everyone, I hope that all is well with y'all. That's right I said y'all. I had a great vacation, and now it is time to get back to work, which includes my day job and the exciting work of auditioning. I know this year will be better than last year, but on to other things right now.

I have been reading more, and it has really shown me what I have been missing. I used to read all the time, but for some reason I stopped and and it has really been a chore getting back into it. I just finished the book "Godless" by Dan Barker, and I would recommend it to any religious, or atheistic person out there.

I will write more at a later date.

Vacation Coming

2008-12-18T11:50:00.000-08:00

For the last couple of days it has been rainy and cold. I heard that it's snowing towards Vegas and it's a road we'll be taking to get there. I am counting those days down. From Vegas we'll be going straight to Arizona. We did the last of the shopping yesterday when it was so cold that people were literally running from their cars to the mall and back again.

I had my commercial class last night. It went well, but there will be some major work ahead of me if I want to do commercials. I feel that I will need more training in that area. I'm also thinking about what acting classes I'd like to invest in.

We've been cleaning today, getting ready for our long vacation ahead of us. Two weeks of being out of California. The real vacation is not having to show up for work for two weeks. My position has some benefits.

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-29T21:50:00.000-08:00

This is a late wish, but I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I spent these last four days with family and house sitting, dog included. The family likes to play card games and domino's. I've had my share of both playing eight rounds of each.

Nothing real eventful happened. It rained, which was probably a relief to many Californians. The fires and smog were starting to get thick. A lot of people have lost their homes in such a small amount of time. It's terribly sad on top of the economy problems and the holidays being so close at hand.

Despite the cold weather the last couple of days, today was surprisingly warm, getting up there in the high 70s.

I watched "Halloween" the Rob Zombie version. Our rent list is still up there in the 200s so we try to get them watched and sent back. Some movies come in that Christina and I can't figure out who ordered. It's not something I'd watch and I know it's not something she'd want to watch, yet we have it. We watch them anyway and try to puzzle it out why such a movie would be on our rent list. It happened when we got two different movies both called "Broken" or something close to that. They had the same title, both were really weird. We couldn't finish one just because it didn't hold our interest. The second one we sat through but I was still bored with it and drifted to the computer while Christina sat in her chair and typed. I think she actually watched most of the movie. It was strange and didn't seem like something either one of us would put on our list. We have a lot of these little movie mysteries.

We skipped on Friday shopping. I heard there were some great sells, flat screen televisions and laptops for $300. I also heard there was a lot of shopping problems among the stampedes of peoples. We still have people on our list to shop for, but this week or next, we'll probably start wrapping the gifts we have.

Can't wait for our annual Vegas trip.

After the audition

2008-11-23T22:13:00.000-08:00

This has taken a week longer than what I was planning on, but here it is.

I go up to the fourth floor of the building, and walk through the door. The sign-up sheet is on a desk at the back of the room. I walk in back pick up the pen with the flower top(they all had flower tops), and sign in. I fill out the rest of the paperwork and sit down on the couch to wait. After a couple of minutes a guy comes out and calls my name and gives me a number. It turns out to be my lucky number forty. He then has me and two other guys go into the next room. He has us get into our underwear(ladies cover your eyes), and one by one we got to the mark. With a white background, he had us stand like we were getting our mug shots. "Look forward"(click click), "turn left"(click click), "and turn right"(click click). "Thank you, next." I put my cloths back on and walk out the door. Hopefully the pictures don't end up on the net. I was unfortunately not called back for this one, but the next one I get, I have a good feeling about.

Agent booking

2008-11-14T23:22:00.000-08:00

I just got my first audition through my agent. It has taken awhile for it to happen, but I am more excited about it than what I thought I would be. It is a good feeling. I will let everyone know how it went on Monday after 2pm.

You did Whaaat?

2008-11-05T20:44:00.000-08:00

Okay now that I have your attention.

YEAH for Obama. I hope that he is able to get this country back on track for all Americans.

BOO for prop 8 passing, What a fucking shame for the state of California. I hope someday the ones that voted yes, will see that it is unfair and wrong to deny two loving ADULT persons a right that they themselves enjoy.

Game show 2

2008-11-01T12:43:00.000-07:00

Well... lets just say the game show audition didn't go as well as it could have.
We received twenty some odd questions very rapidly. Now I know I am not the smartest person, but I usually do very well with trivia type games. The problem I have is that it takes me a little bit of time to reach in my brain and find the right answer, unfortunately they don't give that time to you. The good news is that I still might be able to win in a different way. It won't be as much money, but it sure is a lot easier to do. In fact it is almost like free money.

As some of you might be able to tell I have been trying to write more on the blog than I used to, and so far it has happened. Yeeeeaaaah for me! I have to be honest, I have had some help in doing this great feat. My wife, who is out of town at this time, pursuing one of her great passions. Thank you for what you have helped me to do. It may be a small accomplishment, but it means a lot to me.

Game show

2008-10-26T01:01:00.000-07:00

I received a call Friday to audition for a game show this coming Thursday. It would be nice to win a little money. I don't know a lot about the game so I was going to see if I could find something about it online. If I do get on it I hope that I don't look like an idiot.

We went down to the Farmers Market in Hollywood for the kick off of NaNoWriMo. If you didn't know, my wife is a writer, and she is going to join the festivities this year. I think it is her third year. We had a really good time and met some cool people. Had some Orange Chicken while we were shooting the you know what. Conversation was great, but the food was only so-so. I am not really much of a writer, but I think I might try and write in this challenge this year. It won't really be a story, it will just be like a journal of weird thoughts that I have(don't worry they are not like a scary weird).

Late Night Snacks

2008-10-22T16:28:00.000-07:00

I've been hitting the gym and walking. I'm trying to work out twice a day, though when I have to work early in the mornings, that breaks up the routine. Right now the weather is still nice enough to try to walk or jog. We keep with our three mile walk, but we are hoping to be able to jog three miles straight, soon. I'm also looking into taking cycling classes at the gym.

I watched two Highlander movies that I had rented on NetFlix. One was a anime and Hell Boy was advertised on it. It has the voices of the original cast, at least from what I noticed.

We had cinnamon rolls last night. Christina craved them, so at 11 pm, we had three a piece which was more than filling, and not at all on the diet plan.

Disneyland and Movie

2008-10-17T09:55:00.000-07:00

We went to see Quarantine, but couldn't sit through the whole thing. Knott's Scary Farm had a haunted house based off that movie and Christina said she saw a really large dog that looked like Cujo in behavior in the haunted house, but we couldn't figure it out. We thought these people were maybe zombies, which really lifted her spirit because she loves zombies. The truth of the matter is, I just couldn't watch the movie because all the swinging of the camera made my stomach ill. She had to drive home, but we did stay long enough to figure out what was going on in the film. The bad thing is, I hate just walking out. It's not a bad film like a few we sat through and later wish we actually had walked out of. We're going to rent this when it's on video. Hopefully that will keep me from being sick, watching it on a smaller screen.

Disneyland was such a split decision. We had been talking about it, but we weren't really sure we were going to go. Monday night we just decided to pack up and go down to Orange County to escape the fires that were done here. The Santa Anna winds were horrible and kept forcing the car over, which was surprising because the next day at Disneyland, there really wasn't any gusty wind. I can't even really remember a wind at all.

Disneyland closed at eight, but we were able to hit both parks and do what we normally do. California Adventure opens up for tricker treaters, which is a good idea for children.

This small factory in California Adventure makes tortillas for both parks. They make both corn and flour though flour is my favorite. Across from this factory is a bread factory that does the same thing, providing bread for both parks. It's a fun experience and I love dropping by to get myself a sample.

The decorative sugar cookies looked good, but I didn't want to risk that they were pumpkin flavor. I'm not a fan of pumpkin in any form so we went with a rice crispy treat, which is one of Christina's favorite snacks.

I've been busy. In a few months when things slow down, I'm going to start looking into acting classes. I've started back at the gym and so far we've been a little better at going. I'm really trying to get things in order with my new head shots, which I finally went through, chose the ones I liked and sent back to the photographer to put my name on and do what she needs to do with that. Nancy is a great photographer and easy to relax with. If you're nervous, that comes across in the photo so I'm glad she was our photographer because we had such a great time with her.

Knott's Scary Farm

2008-10-09T19:56:00.000-07:00

I had an audition Wednesday morning so we spent the night in Orange County. This is one of those moments when you're really grateful to have family all over the place, at least that's what it is in our case. The audition went well, I think. It was a little hard finding it because I thought it would be like the buildings in Los Angeles, but this was actually in the strip mall. I didn't get my sides, so I was a little anxious about auditioning, but in the end, it was fine. I think I did fairly well, but it will be a long drive back and forth if I actually get into this youtube webasodes. There's benefits, but with gas the way it is and my work schedule, I'm not sure if this is something I should just pass on.

We made it to Knott's Scary Farm by 12 pm and went ahead and checked in. We were going to see if there was a movie we could watch until 3 pm, when I thought check in would be, but they let us go ahead and get set up with our t-shirts and package. Look on Christina's page for the t-shirt picture. We had a quick meal at around 1:30, something that we both shared because dinner would be between 4-8. The park opens 30 minutes early so we went with the early dinner, which was at 4:00. The buffet set up had really great food.

After we ate, we went back upstairs to drop our coats off. It felt really hot and we didn't want to get in the park and be miserable, though in California you can never tell if it's going to just drop off into the 50's. It's done that a few times, but it was such a hot day and the night was equally hot. We walked to the park from our hotel at around 5:45, so we probably got there around 6-ish. We were scanned in and our tickets were taken and we got into the back of the park where we had to wait, so we did a few things to amuse ourselves, like look at the map and figure out what we wanted to do first.

The masked predators came out early. The costumes and makeup were really professional. They do this thing called "skating" where they rush at you, then drop to their knees and their knee guards scratch the cement making a really gritty sound while it sparks. All this noise really scares people.

We got in early enough to see all the haunted houses without the massive lines. Some of them were fairly intense with the music and the makeup and the extent of the design.

When Christina was taking this picture, a masked man walked up behind her. I'm caught staring just to the side of her, waiting for her to see that something was standing right over her shoulder. She didn't even notice it till it snorted in her ear, then she jumped and dashed, not very far, but far enough to get enough laughs from people watching. Some young women took pity on her and asked how she was after that. They had gone through "Corn Stalkers" with us and had wanted to make sure she was okay after that small event. She was fine, she did better than she normally does at haunted houses, though we'll see if that still stands when we go to Universal Halloween. That might be next year's trip. I'm booked this month with projects.

Knotts have "scare" areas where there are no lights at all. The fog machines don't help much, but this was great. Christina took this picture then took off because she saw something coming towards us. There are three parts of the park that are "scare" sections where there is little or no light, a bunch of fog machines and a bunch of people walking around. We had such a great time, but really didn't pass through these sections too much because we were trying to make good timing and make it to as many shows as possible.

We got to see "Fangs" which was a musical vampire event. Christina keeps telling me that she's had three nightmares about vampires now, and it's probably from last night. We took a nap this afternoon, which counts for her third nightmare.

It was a great night and I really can't wait to do it again. Christina has more photos on her blog and she has some really funny tape. She wanted to film for her blog and suddenly a clown comes up from the side. It caught her off guard, which was pretty great. She didn't run though, so I give her credit for holding her ground.

Celebrations and an Audition

2008-10-07T09:58:00.000-07:00

Sunday we had a family celebration. There were a few of us with birthdays this month so we got together at a relatives house to have dinner and cake.

They had an antique gambling machine that is popular in Japan. I had someone show me what to do. Apparently if you get the silver balls into certain places within the game, you get more silver balls. It was a form of gambling, and it's easy to loose, but I kept getting it in and winning more balls. It wasn't plugged in, but when it is properly plugged in, the lights start flashing and you get a huge production.

I guess there was a joke earlier today going around because every time I opened a present, my cousin-in-law kept laughing. She's sixteen so young enough to find everything funny, but she only laughed when I was opening gifts, so I knew something was up. The process was a little slow at getting to the full joke. Each person got to open one gift, so they saved this for close to the last gift. When I opened the blue birthday sack, I first saw a leather coat and was amazed, then when I pulled it out, I realized it my my own jacket. Apparently there was a mix up at the house. My mother-in-law had gotten me a coat, but no one was sure where it was except for Christina and then they found the coat I had gotten from my mom a about nine years ago and wrapped that. Christina told them that it was not the gift, but let them do it anyway and that's why everyone was having a hard time keeping a straight face. It was funny and Christina has more pictures on her blog about the party. It was fun and the new coat is actually really nice. It's black corduroy on the outside and has that lamb fur on the inside.

The last couple of days have been crazy at work. We had a lot of things going on, then yesterday and today we need to help move equipment. I have to work tonight and then tomorrow we're going to Orange County. I have an audition, the first of very few this year, and it's been so long since I've had an audition. After that, we have reservations at Knott's Scary Farm for dinner, then to get into their haunted theme park, then afterwards we get to shack up in their hotel. It was a special deal they had and we took them up on the offer. It will be nice.

New Head Shots

2008-10-01T15:15:00.000-07:00

On Monday I had finally made arrangements with a photographer friend to visit her in Long Beach and get my head shots done. Her place is amazing. She lives on the ninth floor right on the ocean front. Her place faces towards the city, which is beautiful from that view point. Her balcony was decorated like a port, which we found out her husband use to be a sailor so the decorations really fit their personality.

I had brought a great deal of clothes from my closet and ended up getting about three different shots. Christina had some pictures taken separately and then we had our pictures taken together. Those came out really good.

Afterwards, we hung out on the beach, walking down towards the docks and grabbing a bite to eat. After that, we walked through the stores, which Christina, having a sweet tooth was more than ready to get some candy for the trip back home.

It was a long, but nice day. We left with our pictures, got to visit with our friends and had a really great day out at the beach. Next time we might bring books if we go back up that way. Santa Monica Beach is a lot closer to us and we have the little fair area on the dock out there. The rides are never open when we go, but it's still fun to hang out down there.

We saw "Eagle Eye," which was pretty good. We like to go during the week and early in the day to avoid crowds. In LA everyone talks on their phone especially during movies. To our disappointment, it must have been a day off for kids because the place was packed with teenagers.

Workshop

2008-09-20T15:33:00.000-07:00

I am taking a workshop with a Casting Director on Tuesdays. The first one was last week. She had us do cold reads from a movie called "Notting Hill". I felt pretty nervous going up there and it showed. To be fair about it, it has been a long time since I have had to do a cold reading. In fact it has been a long time since I have done really any acting. I am going to start back to classes soon. I just have to find a class to join, and the money to do it.

We saw Igor a few days ago. The movie was actually really funny. There are a lot of famous actors and actresses that did the voices to these characters. Christina and I were constantly laughing. I really liked the suicidal bunny.

We also saw "Burn After Reading." The story really juggled all the characters pretty well. I thought that Brad Pitt was really good. He played such a great idiot, it was nothing like any other characters that I have seen him do. Of course George Clooney did a great job too.

Also watched "Ghost Town," which ended up being as great as I thought it would be. I know not everybody likes the comedy of Ricky Gervais, but I think that he is a comedy genius.

We still have another free movie ticket from all those movies we watched down in Moorpark for the pre-screening, so we'll probably see another movie sometime this week or next. Yes, I keep up with a lot of movies. At a lot of these pre-screenings, we try to check out the crowd to see if the actors showed up. In "Sex Drive" which is coming out very shortly, the young actors in that movie had been present at the screening, which was pretty cool. Ricky Gervais showed up to his movie's pre-screening. That was pretty great. If we could bring cameras in, I would have gotten my picture with a few of these movie stars, but since you are frisked pretty well before going in, there is no way I could have gotten a camera to have my picture with these stars and I wouldn't want to bother them. They probably get tackled enough as it is living in LA.

Am I watching to many movies?

audience member

2008-09-11T15:20:00.000-07:00

I worked two days last week as an audience member for a game show on GSN. Doing work like that is always easy, just have to be exited about everything that happens. On this show the audience is able to win money, which I won exactly none of it. I don't have the best of luck with games of chance, but don't feel bad for me, because I have luck in other parts of my life. Both days were about 7 hours each day with cash at the end of the day. Cash in the pocket always feels good.

Not going to happen

2008-08-27T20:34:00.000-07:00

The shoot Friday is not going to happen, but I will just keep putting out, so something will come up I am sure. Just today I put out for 5 jobs off of LA Casting that looked like they fit me. I have been wondering if I should get new head shots. Since I put up my new ones the work has went down drastically. I was told by one casting director that I took a workshop with, that they looked unprofessional and too glossy. If anyone wants they can give me their opinion just go to my LA Casting site and take a look. The link is on here somewhere.

I am really exited just 2 days till I see my nephew, and the rest of my family. Of course I will also get to see some friends that I haven't seen(you know who you are).

Tis all for now, will write more soon.

Possible Job

2008-08-25T00:32:00.000-07:00

I was called about a possible job on Friday. It's a scene for a music video, but today I got a call saying that it might not happen because they needed two older actors and can't get a hold of them. I was really hoping this would work, but it still might.

This week I'm working Monday-Friday so I can have the weekend off and visit family in Arizona. My nephew was born about a week and a few days ago at 9 pounds 1 ounce. I want to get some pictures.

Call and Run

2008-08-12T10:57:00.000-07:00

Monday I received a call about four-thirty in the afternoon and it was for this new crime reenactment show( I will let everyone know when and where as soon as I can). They told me that the actor that they had hired was a no show, so could I make it and how soon. Needless to say since this has been a realllllly slow year for me, I was very exited about booking a job. Even if it was only because some other actor flaked. I told them that I could be there in 20 minutes. Gathering up my wardrobe, kissing my wife, and running out the door I was off. Then I looked in the rear view mirror and noticed that I had not shaved in about a week(Yes, sometimes I am very lazy, and I don't shave for awhile), so I pulled back into the driveway jumped out of the car, ran back inside, and got my shave on. About two minutes later I was back out the door. I think it was the fastest I have ever done the deed(get your minds out of the gutter). Twenty five minutes later I was there at the shoot, which was good, because they were just finishing their meal break.

The shoot consisted of three different scenes, all of which I was on the phone. Not to be bragging or nothing, but I really know how to use a phone, so I nailed the scenes. The director, and crew on set were very quick with moving from scene to scene so it took only about an hour and a half to get it all shot.

My first job of the year, so let this be a beginning of many more jobs this year. I raise a toast to all. May your dreams come true, unless they're nightmares, then don't let them come true.

Cold is Finally Gone

2008-07-14T15:20:00.000-07:00

My cold is finally gone. I still have a stuffy nose, but the worst is over.

We saw three movies this week, but one of them was free and due to the prescreening rules, I can't really talk about it. I like to stay after with the focus group, which use to happen often, but lately we haven't been asked to do focus groups. We've seen tons of movies before they came out in the theater, and "Traitor" is now finally coming out which was one of the movies we saw.

Once in a while after the focus group, the movie stars were actually present. A few characters from "Sex Drive" had shown up. Trudy from "Reno 911" also showed up for the "Reno 911" movie. Now it's always a must to try and see if movie stars showed up to the prescreening.

We saw "Journey to the Center of the Earth." It came out Friday and got great reviews from the movie critics. I was a fan of the original so I wanted to see what they did with this one. It was good, but now I'm curious what the 3-D version was like. You can tell as you watch it that it was set up for 3-D gimmicks. It was great. There was a portion in that film that made Christina jump, actually a few things.

We had went to Borders before the movie and spent a few hours looking at books. She bought a few research books, and there were a few books I wanted to check out, but decided to wait on. It's interesting what you can find when you browse shelves.

Visiting with Friends

2008-07-06T18:31:00.000-07:00

We went to visit some friends that volunteer at the theatre that I work at. Most of my volunteers are retired people. The woman we visited with today hasn't worked for about two years now, since she broke her hip in Russia. She admitted to Christina that when she reads books from authors in other countries, she has a need to visit that country and experience what she's read. That fateful book was by a Russian writer and while in Russia, she tripped and broke her hip so she's been staying at home for these two years just catching up on her reading.

We were given about four boxes of books. We are keeping the ones we want to read and funny enough in that pile of books was a book that I remembered reading when I was young, "Watership Down." I'm keeping this copy, though I don't think I've convinced Christina to read it yet. There were a number of books in there that she saw for her own research collection. She loves having books that she can use as research.

After we visited, we went out to eat and dropped off some books to her aunt's house that we think her aunt and cousin would like to read. Now we are back home and I'm ready for a late afternoon nap.

Hope Everyone Enjoyed the Fireworks

2008-07-05T22:37:00.000-07:00

We spent 4th of July with relatives. Someone thought it would be a good idea to take the dogs swimming, but Theate is not really a water loving dog. He'll tolerate his baths, but he gets grouchy if the bath goes on a little too long for him. We were told that it would be good for him to learn how to swim in case he fell into a pool, but the house that he lives at doesn't have a pool and no one takes him to houses that have pools so the fear of him falling into a pool is baseless.

We normally go watch fireworks in Porter Ranch at Shepherd of the Hill, but this year we decided we really didn't feel like walking that. The past couple of years we've walked it, which has been tiring. Coming back is almost just as bad because everyone wants to beat the crowd which leads to less than friendly personalities.

This year we came back to the house and watched two of our Netflix movies that have just been sitting around for the better part of the month. We've been really busy and haven't had a chance to watch movies, which is unusual for us. We'd watch full seasons in two days straight. We did that with "Dead Like Me," two days, a few boxes of popcorn, candy and sugary drinks and we were set. I recall it raining a lot which might also be the reason why we sat around for two days not doing much.

There were fireworks going off outside our window and not the legal or interesting kind. These ones were the firecrackers that just make loud popping sounds. We did see teens playing with Roman Candles last year and that was amusing.

Tagged

2008-06-11T15:59:00.000-07:00

Christina tagged me for the Six Unremarkable Things Meme.

The rules are:*

Link the person who tagged you.*

Mention the rules in your blog.*

Tell about six unspectacular quirks of yours.*

Tag six bloggers by linking them. (They shall be "it")*

Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs letting them know they've been tagged.

It has taken me a little bit of time to get started on this, but here it goes:

1) I procrastinate a lot! I don't know why I do this, but as you can tell i do it all the time. It has almost taken me a month to get this up and done.

2)I don't talk very much. I would rather listen to someone than talk.

3)I get Claustrophobic at the weirdest times.

4)I like to drink tea. I would rather have tea(hot or cold) anytime, than drink any kind of soda.

5)I have to drink a glass of milk before I go to bed. It taste so good and I think it might help me sleep at night.

6)I channel surf. Even if there is nothing on tv I will surf up to an hour looking for something to watch. I know that I should and could find something better to do, but I don't.

Chain Letter

2008-06-02T18:59:00.001-07:00

I was just sent a chain letter. I don't recognize the guy's name and have no idea how he got mine. It's written back and front, three pages.

"AS SEEN ON OPRAH & 20/20 MAKE $250,000.00 IN WEEKS.

Opera Winfrey and ABC's investigation team 20/20 also prove it can be done."

It goes on and on trying to sell you into this. The page actually states: "This is not a pyramid scam."

$6.00 paid to the names on page 4.
$45.00 for 200 peal and stick address mailing labels.
$11.00 for envelopes.
$55.00 for 200 sets of copied letters.
$84.00 for postage.

Your estimated total investment is $201.00.

Please Read All of the Pages, Before Making your decision. (Yes, they put a comma in the middle of this highly lucrative sells pitch. If they can't spell right, can we trust they can add right?)

Two pages of testimonials and another page convincing me this is not a chain letter. You need to send $1.00 to everyone on the list and request your name be on the list... (If I have to request my name to be on the list even after I send the money?)

I'm wondering if the police handle scams and if it would do any thing giving them this email so they can deal with it. I really hate to think that 800,000 (give or take) people naive enough to fall for this. I got this number because of how they sum it up at the end.

I found these tips hilarious on the chain letter:

1. After receiving your mailing list, mail the letters as soon as possible while the list is still fresh.
2. When you handle a lot of letters, an electronic opener is great!
3. File your responses alphabetically to keep track of your earnings.
4. STAY COOL... Keep your job until you have time to plan your next step.
5. Sow 10% of your new income to charitable contributions. (THINK ... You reap what you sow!) What would Oprah Winfrey do?)
6. Put 20% into savings; set aside 10% of your next project; 10% for bills, 30% for taxes and 20% to play with.
7. Note when you send out these letters, you are in the mail order business; see title 18, section 1302 and 1324 of the U.S. Postal and Lottery laws.
8. If you have had a system before and it failed, it was probably because you mailed them to your friends... NO kidding! This time purchase the mailing list labels.
9. Be honest and this will work for everyone. Thank you!

The sad thing is the fact that people are going to fall for this. There is no such thing as easy money. Whoever sent this off to us is going to lack their $1.00 and so will the other five people on the list. I hope it was worth their stamp, their paper, the ink they used to send off the letter, the label our address cost them, etc. If we said no to some old lady whose dying and has no one to send her 1,000,000 dollars to except us two extremely lucky people she found over the Internet, than we can say no to this. We aren't buying these scams.

I'm tempted to send this guy a, "You got had" letter. I keep picturing this to be an older man, in which, I feel sorry that he got tricked. The people in charge of this are parasites.

The letter says it's completely legal due to title 18 section 1302 & 1342 of the U.S. Postal and Lottery Laws found on the Internet. They also give you an address so you can pay by credit card, debit card, check or C.O.D. for people's names to send off more letters. Part of me wonders if you aren't paying this company for labels.

Movies

2008-05-16T00:34:00.000-07:00

Finally saw Iron Man a few days ago. It was well done. I'm a big fan of Marvel, so I expected as much from them and got a comic hero movie. The graphics were great and the drama was pretty believable. About six months ago, I rented Iron Man cartoon. The cartoon and this movie had a lot of the same points to it and had a few big differences. I can't list any of them just in case people haven't seen the movie yet. It's worth the money. In California it's $9.75 - $10.25 a ticket.

Saw this movie in the same week as Iron Man. It lived up to the previews, though at the end you get a little glimpse into an inside joke. It makes the movie a little more funny. You get a few previews, then you get another funny scene. Hollywood is tricky, they have some extra shots either during the credits or after the credits. I just wait around to see if there is any more to the movie. I learned the hard way, hearing that the last Pirates movie had a special editing at the end of the credits. Damn!

Acting Classes

2008-05-15T11:11:00.000-07:00

I've been going to acting classes on Tuesday. It's a workshop with Meg and Sunny to work on auditioning for film. I didn't feel like I did as great as I could, but I also know that as actors, we tend to judge ourselves a little more harshly than others would.

It's been a slow couple of months. I have a commercial agent and a theatrics agent, but haven't been sent on any auditions. I've also dropped off my head shot to a casting director earlier last week. It's a long process and at the moment, very slow.

We went to see Ironman on Monday. We were out shopping around and decided to see "What Happens in Vegas," on Tuesday.

Vegas For the Weekend

2008-05-05T15:15:00.000-07:00

I had to work Saturday before we could leave for Vegas. Normally things are pretty uneventful at the performance hall, but I noticed there were bees in the main bridge. There had to be about fifty, roughly counting. I called maintenance, who had already been called once for the same issue. In the end, the stage manager and I used a vacuum to collect them, then released them back outside. The sad thing was that a good number of the bees were already dead. They may have gotten into the building on Friday and got stuck since no one came in till Saturday. It's sad because bees are dying in the wild and there is a scare that we might loose them altogether. Bees are responsible for so many products, medicines and foods. I really hope we can help them. There's no telling if this is something humans did a long time ago that is finally catching up on us.

We went to Vegas for Danne's birthday. It was a late night getting up there and once up there, I played a few slots. I'm a fan of the nickle slots so I put a few dollars in and played for a while. Right before I lose everything, I tend to win most of it back if not all of it and plus some. The bad thing is that I had a cold when we got up there. It was the start of a cold which is always the worse, so with a slushy to freeze the throat pain and a hamburger to quench the hunger, I think I fared pretty well.

We hit a really thick fog driving home. I've been sleeping on and off trying to get rid of this cold.

Theaterical Agent

2008-04-25T20:35:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I just booked a theaterical agent.

Audition and Drop Offs

2008-04-12T17:44:00.000-07:00

I had an audition yesterday down at Santa Monica for an Internet commercial. Since Friday was also the day I was going to drop off head shots to casting directors, we got an early start on the road. The audition was at 3pm and we left the house around 1pm. It was hot all the way down there with the temperature measuring 92 degrees in our car. We have one of those temperature measures in our dashboard. The minute we curved off the main freeway heading towards our turn off, Christina noted that the weather dropped about eighteen degrees. Literally, it was 74 degrees down by the beach.

My first drop off wasn't successful because there was no one at the desk to take it. This building had two different casting agencies, so I thought I'd get lucky and submit to two places, but the other one was currently busy with an audition. It was a suit and tie occasion, so we went to our next drop off. This next place was a post office. In the end, I was a little bummed. I talk with a few of actors who do drop offs. My first attempt lead me to two empty seats and a post office. I had about twenty that I need to mail off, because I heard that commercial casting agents might not mind personal drop offs but casting agents for sitcoms and movies do mind the personal visit.

We stopped at a restaurant to eat and then Christina opted to stay in the car while I went to audition. I think she just wanted to go down to Santa Monica. I promised her we could go down to the beach some time this week and do a little reading. Hopefully it doesn't get any hotter, because the sand reflects the heat and it can be really uncomfortable. We saw a cafe called: The Novel Cafe, and it looked like a bookstore and food joint. We didn't stop this time, but maybe we will later this week when we go back down there.

I think the audition went well. I had to do some improv and when I did a little piece for Christina, she thought it was really good. It was meant to be funny and she laughed so hopefully the directors liked it too, but as I've learned in this business, you never really know what's going on until you get that phone call.

We finished watching a movie called: Audition, which is about this casting director who holds an audition to find his next wife. Christina had put it on our rent list because she heard about it through a theater friend. Two years later and we finally watch it. It was okay, but about twenty minutes before the ending it went abstract so it was a little hard to follow. I had to fast forward through one whole scene,because it was making Christina gag. It got a little too much for her.

We started renting the 8 Films To Die For, and so far have seen about three of them. Other than that, nothing else is really going on with us.

Samuel French the Actor's Bookstore

2008-04-09T14:23:00.000-07:00

With some persuasion from Christina, we went down to Samuel French's which is in Hollywood. There was a lot of books to chose from and it is worth going back to when we have a little more time.

This week I'm looking for casting directors that I can send my pictures to and possibly looking into agencies. I also bought a book on SAG so I can learn a little more about it. I'm really hoping to join SAG this year and get a few National Commercials. I wouldn't mind getting back into theater. Christina talks about that a lot as a possibility for me. We just saw Phantom of the Opera which is another reminder of how great theater is.

There were books on publishing at Samuel French's which didn't draw as much attention from Christina as a book on writing and producing a horror movie in three days. She really likes her horror. I have to agree with her that there are some really great "how to" books. I just need a little more time and then maybe I would pick up a few. Producing a horror movie might be fun.

I'm also trying to look into acting communities. I would like to be part of some of these independent films going to festivals. I met a woman this week who did a documentary on nuns. She put it together and filmed it herself, setting it up for television. She says that she had sixty hours of tape that she cut down into fifty-two minutes so that it would fit television. She's having trouble getting it into film festivals because of the play time.

This is all interesting, so I'm hoping to learn from people and keep progressing with my own hopes.

April Weather

2008-04-03T12:56:00.001-07:00

This is going to be a busy month. It already started out as such, we have so many shows coming to the theater. We just finished the production of "Mame" we have symphonies, Hooked on Swing, Jam Fest, Secret Garden and the Evolution of Rock. I'm not much of an office sort of guy so when I have a chance, I like to help build sets with the stage crew.

Christina and I went to Vegas last month. We were able to get some pretty good pictures of us. We saw three shows this time, Penn and Teller being one of my favorite. We started watching the "Bull Shit" season a few years ago when her teacher got her addicted to it. As far as Vegas went, I had bad luck with the machines, but Christina just sat down and kept winning. We lost our pictures to the Monty Python set we had taken when we were in Vegas a year or so ago. We were both extremely disappointed in that because we had some fun pictures on the disk, but the CD-Rom was rewritable and the computer froze when we were putting new pictures on it and lost everything altogether.

I'm tempted to go back on my diet this month, but there are going to be a lot of things going on and I don't want to go off the diet for a day just to start it back up again. In general, I've been sending out my pictures to many audition notices but haven't heard back from anyone as of yet.

Audition in Beverly Hills

2008-03-22T10:33:00.001-07:00

My first audition in who knows how long. Friday the call time was between 9am-6pm. I was going to wake up early and not leave the house till around 11am to miss LA traffic on the 405 which crawls and at times just sits. What ended up happening is that I didn't leave till around noon because we woke up so late, than Christina needed to go pick up a book she ordered at the library. We were going to leave from there, but half the driving directions were missing and I concluded that it was back at the house in the printer, so we had to stop to get it.

Bad thing is, I didn't miss traffic at all. Maybe it was lunch time, though Christina noted that many of the cars had luggage, so these people were getting out of town for the holiday. If that wasn't enough, it took forever to find this place. We drove around Beverly for a good thirty minutes and though it is easy to fall in love with this area it is extremely crowded. Traffic was horrible both cars and pedestrians.

The audition felt like it went well. It was a father role and there was a script and then a little improve. The ladies seemed to like it, but you can never tell how it really goes until they call you back to actually give you the role.

Movie America

2008-03-18T21:52:00.000-07:00

Christina and I went to eat at Pick Up Sticks today. I'm off my diet and have lost around 30 pounds give or take a few pounds. I'm ready to just maintain the weight before I try to drop the next ten pounds. My personal trainer really works my muscle hard, but I'm getting a lot of compliments from Christina so it's worth it.

If you read the picture below, it's a commercial shot for Del Taco It was rather funny. It had us wondering what Del Taco would want to tape in front of Pick up Stix.

We went by my work a a few days ago and there was a really large film crew in our parking lot. I didn't catch the name of the film that is being filmed on the campus.

Business as Usual

2008-03-15T13:44:00.000-07:00

The writer strike is over, which is great, now if there would be auditions like usual. The business with my photos are done. They are up at LA casting so if you look there you can see the photos that were chosen to represent my image. That means that everything is ready for my agent to start putting me out there.

I am taking a workshop at act now, which has been very informative and a lot of fun. One of the things that I have to work on is auditioning, and workshop is all about doing just that.

The diet is going well too. I've lost about five to seven pounds, but it is harder this time then it was the first time. I am however getting to where I need to be. I don't know how much more tuna I can handle, but if no one else likes the way I am starting to look, at least my wife is loving it.

Cameras

2008-02-28T11:41:00.000-08:00

I have an interview Friday with the agent so he can go over the head shot pictures and decide which ones are the best. From there, I'll get bigger prints. This is a good year. I'm back on my diet and have lost three pounds so far.

I'm also thinking about getting my Masters. It depends on what happens this year for Christina and I.

We were given many free movies to watch this week, but the only one we saw so far was "Traitor," which was not in the normal genre of film we watch. It had great actors though and it was interesting. We had to go down to the Topanga Mall. The Promenade is across from it. It's almost like two malls right across from each other. This is in a nice part of the city, very high class.

A few nights ago we watched the new Rambo that came out. Curiosity was getting the best of me. I wanted to see what Sylvester did with the film.

And So It Starts

2008-02-11T12:56:00.001-08:00

The film crew has started gathering. Christina noticed the group of people outside first, going over what was probably scripts and directions. We left for the gym so she snapped this picture on our way out. Tomorrow will be the big day. The entire street is blocked off and the side streets are also blocked off. I guess they are expecting a really big crew for all this.

I'm getting ready for my photo shoot, which YES, it is on Valentine's Day, but in the morning. There will be plenty of time to go celebrate with Christina. It took a long time to go through all these shirts to find something that would fit and Christina picked up a little something too. After great debating, we decided that a hat with the outfit would be too much.

Filming

2008-02-08T17:36:00.000-08:00

There is going to be filming on our street. Living in California, it is almost impossible going anywhere and not seeing movie vans parked along the street, along with film crews and police. There was a scenery scout on our street last week, but we finally got a blue notice saying that there was going to be filming. Where I took this sign, you see the yellow house, which is the one that will have the film crew around it. That's the house that was chosen, though there had been a small conversation on using a line of houses which would have included ours. You can see the back of our car in this picture.

This is the Film L.A. Inc that will be doing the work. It will be from 2/12-2/14 from 7am-10pm. It's going to be interesting getting in and out of the house at these hours, considering how much I'm in and out of the house throughout the day. It's going to be odd having all those vans on this small street. I'm not sure how many people have seen movie vans, but it comes equip with its own circus ring. It's exciting, but also a very busy moment. There will be makeup vans, clothes vans, equipment vans, there have been tents set up at the school when they film at CSUN, so there is no telling if there will be tents on our lawns for the crews. I'm hoping we can get out and take a picture of the vans and everything, hopefully we won't be in the way of the filming if we do this early enough.

I'll be getting my photos done next week.

Promising Start

2008-02-06T13:40:00.000-08:00

The updated news with me is that I had my second interview with the commercial agency and was told that I need new photos. One of my photos worked for them as a theatrical print, the other one they didn't like at all. I need to get new shots, which I was planning on doing, but this actually makes me have to do it faster. I'm not sure if this means they want me, but after I get the photos done, I need to go get prints and then return to the agency to see which ones they like. I think this might be good news, meaning they are going to sign me, but I seemed to miss that part of the conversation, if it was mentioned at all. I'm really happy about this. Things are really looking up. This is my year.

I missed my weight goal by two pounds, since I'm ending the diet tomorrow, but hopefully by tonight it will only be a pound off. I'm excited about this. I've made a list of things that I really missed eating, but I'm going to have to limit myself, so Christina and I are going to eat out tomorrow and then I'll probably try to retain some of the diet into my regular eating schedule. So what have we decided to eat tomorrow as my celebration? It's either down to AppleBee's or On the Border. That is however, if we don't go to Disneyland. That was the plan a few weeks ago, but then Christina got sick and now I'm feeling a little under the weather.

Great News

2008-01-25T18:24:00.000-08:00

I have had some amazing news the past couple of weeks. At Christmas time I found out that my brother and his wife are pregnant, and just today I found out that my sister and her husband are too. I just want to say Congratulations to the Four of them. They are all going to be great parents.

On the acting side of my life I have had a couple of auditions, but no call backs yet. A commercial agent asked for a hard copy of my headshots and resume. Now I am just waiting to hear back if they want me to come in for them.

I started back to eating right and exercising and so far I have lost 8 pounds. That leaves only 19 more to go. Unless my body looks the way I want it before that weight.

Happy New Year!

2008-01-07T00:01:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone and Happy New Year. I know...I know that it is already the seventh day into the New Year, but everyone knows that I'm not great at writing in a blog everyday, or even every week for that matter.

Like I said in my last blog I had a lot of books to read about acting. I wasn't sure which one to start with until Bonnie Gillespie left a comment on here. I figured why not start with hers, and I am so happy that I did. The name of her book is "Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to Show Business". It's very informative and worth keeping on your shelf as a guide.

I've lived in California for three years now. Getting this far has been a challenge. I've taken advice where I could get it, starting with the most obvious, getting BackStageWest, becoming a member of LA Casting, and IMDB. I am remaining hopeful and sending out to not only student films and non-union films, but also for AFTRA and SAG, though I don't have a SAG or AFTRA card yet. You can only ask for advice when situations come up, which was nice about the book, because it gives you information for the situations happening now and the situations that will happen later in my career. There were a number of suggestions in, Gillespie's book that I wish I had known the first year I had come out and started my career, but now that I'm aware of this I'll take advantage of this new knowledge. Now that its a New Year I am now on a new and clearer path for my acting career.

I am now reading "Agents on Actors" by Hettie Lynne Hurtes, and of course my wife's book, which will hopefully be published soon.

Acting Books

2007-12-31T11:43:00.000-08:00

It's finally slowed down enough to get my life together. We're back home now, and trying to find room for all the great things that the holidays have brought... including the weight, though we are going to start exercising today.

This was an amazing trip back home. There was time to see everyone, and there is a lot of great news going around, but until a few things get confirmed with the family, I won't be sharing anything. This was my niece, Lana's, first Christmas. There were a few new people at the open house party. Christina has a new camera, so we have a few pictures, though we'll probably have to ask the family who took more pictures than we did, to email them to us.

One of my acting friends in Arizona, Danne, gave me some books on the field. From the large stack, these are the titles that I've pulled out to read this month, "Inspirational Hollywood: Reflections on Life, Love, and the Art of Filmmaking" by Ronald Warren Deutsch, "Agents on Actors;" by Hettie Lynne Hurtes, "an Actor Prepares," by Constantin Stanislavski and "Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to (Show) Business," by Bonnie Gillespie. On top of reading these, I need to read book 2 (DD) for Christina. I'm her beta on this second book of her (C) series. Lots to read this month and I'm happy for it. I need to get back into reading like I use to.

I will end this with one of the quotes from the Inspirational Hollywood book: "First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent." Michael Caine

Holidays are Bless

2007-12-29T15:23:00.000-08:00

Since Christina and I have been in Arizona, we've seen a movie just about every day. We saw Sweeney Todd, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Golden Compass. Today we were going to go see National Treasure, but my family had some time off so we decided to just visit. There might be a chance we're going to go catch Zoolights. It was mentioned, so we have to see what everyone feels about doing it. It seems this has been a horrible month of sickness. My sister was sick, then I felt sick and Christina felt sick, some of our very close friends weren't feeling real well, though we did manage to get some video game playing into the mix. Can't wait to get an XBox, but we need a place to put it and room is tight at the moment.

This has been a relaxing vacation. Nothing new has come out for auditions.

In other news, I saw "I Am Legend," earlier this month, which was pretty good and "Charlie Wilson's War," is finally out. I haven't watched it yet to see if I'm visible in the background work on that one.

VidiGREET

2007-12-25T11:02:00.000-08:00

I shot a little greeting card for VidiGREET last month and it is up on their site. I guess you could say it is a little naughty. It was a fun easy day when we shot it because it only took about thirty minutes to do. The pay for it is deferred, but if I get paid for it it will be the most money I have ever made in thirty minutes, except for that one time....at band camp....

I just started a workshop with Chris Game, who is a casting director for commercials. He's a really nice, laid back, funny guy. It's great to be back in a class after so long being away from doing one. This year I will be taking a lot of workshops and classes. I will also be getting new head shots and business cards.

It is Christmas today, so I just want to say,

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year.

shoot with Isabelle

2007-11-28T12:57:00.000-08:00

Last night we started shooting a scene for The Random Acts, which took longer than what we thought it would. At least I think it did. I'm not sure but I think we will be finishing it up on Monday of next week and then hopefully it will be up a few days after that on You Tube. I think that it will probably turn out pretty good. It has been a lot of fun shooting the scene, it is just to bad we have to start so late at night to do it(curses jobs).

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Christina and I went back to Phoenix for about 4 days. We were able to see both sides of the family, but it still seemed a little rushed. There were just to many people to see and too little time, which is the way it always is when we go back there.

I would post some pics but I don't know how. Maybe I can get my wife to show me. Check back later and I will try to get some on.

Have a great Wednesday.

This mornings shoot

2007-11-19T17:25:00.000-08:00

Well it has been a bit busy as of late, which for the most part is really good. It hasn't been all about acting but some of it has and that has been the really good parts of being busy.

I made an audition tape for a movie called "The Gauntlet" and put it on Yippi.com. Anyone can do it so if any of you would like to sumit just go to Yippi.com and check under the get discovered tab under actors. In that there should be like a banner for it. Then if you deside to join come back to this link http://www.yippi.com/ewr/join. It should be pretty easy to do.

It wasn't so much of an audition as it was interview. They put up something like ten questions up for you to answer, and you have to pick four or five of them to answer. The audition tape has to be up by the end of November because then they end this and go on to the next round of auditions, which I guess would be another taped thing. I hope that it is the real deal, but I don't know. The movie is listed on IMDB.com at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067773/. Now on to other things.

ThursdayI auditioned for a non union job and was called Saturday and booked a role. It wasn't the one that I auditioned for but it was just as good. We shot it this morning and it was a real quick shoot. After makeup and hair was done it probably took about 30 minutes to film. The crew and director were very cool. I want to tell more about it, but until it comes out I can't really talk about it. Lets just say that it is something that I don't think has been done before in this type of medium.

If I don't write anymore before Thursday I just want to say Happy Thanksgiving.

So much time so little to say

2007-11-08T17:45:00.000-08:00

I haven't heard anything back from the callback I had the other week, but no matter what it was a definite learning experience for me. I could not believe how nervous I was when I went in to do the scene. It was like the first time that I ever auditioned. Maybe it is because I haven't been able to take classes for the past couple of months, or maybe I am just a little weird.

I went to audit a class with a couple of friends last Saturday and I really liked it. I have a feeling that I will be joining but I have to wait until after the holidays, but who knows maybe I can figure out how to do it sooner.

I am doing a scene with the same friends that I went to the class with, but I had to postpone it for a couple of weeks because of something that came up sooner than what I thought it was going to. I just hope that they are not to upset that I had to do this.

Call Back

2007-10-17T21:30:00.000-07:00

I just received a call back for a pilot that I auditioned for a couple of weeks ago. I auditioned for a different part in it but on the call back I am going in for one of the leads. This surprised the hell out of me. Not that I don't think that I could be a lead character, but I didn't think that I was right for this roll. What the hell do I know... right? The call back is coming up this Tuesday, and I printed out the sides today, so that gives me more than enough time to learn the lines. I will be reading with a woman. They told me that they were pairing people up. I find it easier to do a scene with someone else, because you then have someone to play off of. Unlike when you just have someone in the room reading off the script.

On another note I am thinking about putting in an application for Deal or no Deal. I first have to find out if any of my family or friends would like to be on the show as my groupies(or whatever they call them, but I like the word groupie, it makes me sound like a rock star). If I get on it I think it would be a blast even if I only received $.01. It would still be more than I came with.