boring actor updates

Ok so things are definitely different now with Covid, but finally having representation, specific guidance and feedback, and a good plan thanks to my manager and stuff have really helped. I feel like Covid reset the entertainment industry and it is less competitive! At first there weren't a lot of opportunities but now that things have opened back up in general across the US, especially in major cities where they shoot (like LA and NYC) things are better.
I'm cautiously optimistic, and I while I know nobody reads this, it's nice to share that hopefully, with the Vaccines, and less aggressive mandates, everything can be normal. I know, they say this is "the new normal", but I kinda hope the rest things in the world get a lil more normal eventually :/

The Talent Spot ROCKS

Hi all!
It's been awhile since I posted anything about my journey in entertainment, but I came across an interesting opportunity with this group called The Talent Spot and wanted to share my experience! Things have been crazy trying to act with Covid,I've been trying to accelerate my acting career so to speak, and was trying to figure out how to get a manager, agent, or even more feedback on my work. After some googling I found this company in Los Angeles called The Talent Spot! I wasn't able to find a ton of info on them (but this is pretty common for an agency, which I guess these people arent?)
But what they are is they help scout talent (I guess I scouted them first lol) and connect them with potential industry reps and stuff. They had a lot of different offerings, and given I already have some entertainment experience I didn't think I needed a ton of help. I moreso just wanted to workshop some of my commercial acting as I really don't like commercial work and thought maybe getting a commercial agent would be the easiest thing for me. And well, after working with them and getting some more in depth coaching on a specific commercial they helped me pick, I ended up performing it for one of their industry showcases for agents and managers, and well, I have some exciting news to share, I actuall got a manager out of the process! I can't share much more because I don't want to jinx thingsm but I am super pumped and excited to see where things go from here!!

Working On Cartoons

To look back here and see it has been over two years that I have posted an update of any kind, is rather a disservice to myself and anyone interested or following what I do! With that said, it has been such a whirlwind tour of sorts, that this hasn't been a priority, I've been too busy creating!

The Hampshire EP

I am currently recording an 8 song EP to be released later this year which should feature old and new songs all written and recorded by yours truly. I have 5 songs currently completely recorded with only polishing and slight tweaking needed to be done, with two more that should be finished by the end of next week. There is only one song that will be a challenge because I will have to get access to a full fledged recording studio versus my own home studio that is quite suitable for what I am doing at the moment but difficult for a full band. This album will be mostly acoustic in nature focusing on soundscapes and vocals, with subtle layering of environments and little hidden gems of tasty sound that should leave you quite interested and happy. I will begin posting samples when I get closer to mixing and mastering. Track list: 1.) An Introduction To The Problem 2.) Alone In The Library 3.) The Boy Who Caught A Crow 4.) Silence This Voice 5.) Be Patient 6.) Classical Blues 7.) Paves The Way 8.) An Instrumental Exit For The Solution

Happy Holidays

This is a short placeholder for me to recall that which I am thankful for and my overall joy that is important to be both reminded of and to reflect upon during the holidays. It's easy to get caught up in day-to-day nonsense and drama and the unimportant problems and shortcomings, losing sight of the big picture, than it is to truly be thankful and appreciative both for this gift of life and the living of it.

Understanding this isn't thanksgiving, but closer to a new year, and I cannot wait for the end of 2009. Not to focus on the negative as previously stated, 2009 has not been very good to me, but to quote Nietzsche strength comes through wounding, what doesn't kill me makes me stronger, ah yes!

I will get back to improving this but the importance of sleep supersedes all else!

Happy Holidays

(Random holiday party of a friend, felt its worthwhile posting!)

I wish I could express the beauty I see and the hope I hold. I once told someone my love for humanity is the reason I am alive, and what I meant by that is life isn't worth living unless you have something worth living for, and I would quickly say this is my love of my family and friends. And yet here I sit in front of a metal and plastic device, artificially conveying a digitized means of communication that is completely devoid of actual emotion or humanity, save what one can discern from these words. And if I do not count the several people I talked to on the phone today, or the clerk at the grocery store, the only face to face interpersonal relations I had today were between my Roommate and one of my professors.

Under normal conditions, such as my previous semester at school, or if I was living where I grew up, my encounters and interactions would be much different. I will say that my current situation I exist in is representative in terms of it being an outlier, not representational of a normal day, week, or month. But regardless it speaks volumes about how some of us live, as a greater degree of my contact is through the realms of social networking or online communication. I do not see our new degree of interconnectedness and ability to communicate as a positive thing. I believe our contact is watered down through impersonal implementations that remove the humanity from talk. One can have enjoyable, engaging conversations on the phone, and the barrier produced by the plastic wireless device isn't the worst. However the ease at which we can IM, facebook, myspace, or blog our lives away with people we'd normally make efforts to see in person, waters down normal contact in favor of abnormal means to placate our desire for social interaction.

We live in a fast-food era of communication, in which services like Twitter, Facebook, and our constant interconnectedness report the mundane

they don't give you time to actually think of something worth saying or talking about, you are constantly bombarded with the pointless and useless information.


Now the tables have turned on who screws who with social networking!

hypocrites oath

I have become a character in a play, a caricature of myself, the outlines cast along the outside of my shadow making lines that are hard to follow-

and impossible to read. Yet someone keeps writing them.

So this tragic hero, seems what I have shortly become. A sad shell of myself, in the sense that I have become the antithesis of so much of what I speak for and against, I say this knowing that time will solve this, will resolve, will absolve, and I must have the will and a way, but it is time, that is the greatest healer. It is in this recognition that I realize, so I rise above.

I have become a victim of my own identity, of my desire to create my own self-hood, the isolationary practice just making me distant from others. I can escape this, circa survive, on letting go. It is sort of a personal mantra, I used to be so impossibly strong, I used to not need anyone or anything, save close family and friends. I used to have an unbreakable will, there was a point where I can say things were perfect and I had overcome greater loss than this, but this is a different kind, and not a choice I made alone. I made mistakes and for that I am sorry, but it was a grand culmination, and flashbacks of the past, that made it impossible for me to handle.

But I've risen before, I can't say I am the phoenix but I sure can emulate her, feigning my death and resignation as "the selfish purveyor of the truth", only to come back when I'm good and ready. It just takes time to heal, and to rebuild. Again I used the term selfish, I mean that in the sense of self-providing and self-reliance, autonomous. Too many people are not, I try to figure everything out on my own, only so that I can share it and give back to the rest of the world. That is how I see it.

Too often do people get mixed up, tangled in the lives of others, like broken tree limbs on telephone wires, a web of information and support, closer still to pull themselves and each other down. Because they weren't strong enough to stand together, many aren't strong enough to stand alone, but in time you can get that strength, and when you have it, you can take on the burden.

It just seems many are not ready, and some will never be.