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 Friday, June 19, 2009 I dont know if I'm going to watch family guy anymore as funny as I find it. I just saw an episode on Hulu where Brian convinces Meg that there is no God by making fun of her body. Its a funny show, but Seth MacFarlane has issues. Wednesday, June 10, 2009  I think there comes a time in every man's life when he realizes that Skeletor was pretty awesome.  I LOVE my new google phone. MMmmmmmmmmm....Googley.... Thursday, May 28, 2009 Last Christmas a buddy of mine in norman had a google phone and I got to mess w/it while we were all at a O'Connells. It seemed to be the beautiful, bastardized love child of an iphone and black berry. Like a dejected child who makes his/her own way in the world and meets a bunch of really cool friends with magic powers and stuff, and then at the end realizes they're really the king or something. Sunday, May 24, 2009 I am very thankful to God for my new apartment and job. Monday, May 18, 2009 Well my parents are leaving tomorrow and I'll be in my new apartment. Half of it was a really fun visit and the other half was rather chaotic. The problem is they insisted on coming out to assist me as I switched apartments. In the past I've said no, and they've just come afterwards which works out better. That way its not as stressful, and they do not surface in organized chaos (which is how my moves usually go). But this time I foolishly relented, mostly because I'm rooming with a married couple and we didnt think it would be Kosher to have my folks stay over at the house with a married couple. But long story short they came out, it was organized chaos for part of it, and they left feeling stressed even though we had a lot of fun also. But now they're leaving thinking my life is really unorganized, and my mother said that they think my hair is too long and that I'm not dressing nice enough. And my hair is pretty long and I don't dress up that much. But its California! People wear flip flops to weddings out here. Also I'm pursuing acting, so my hair length can be longer. I can understand if I was trying to be a serious litigator or something. =( OH well, perhaps I should just listen to the lecture and take what I need to take out of it. I do need to be more organized, and I probably should think a bit more about my appearance. But alas, what will become of all my super hero tshirts?? We also had fun, we went to a Scottish pub where they was a Celtic Band Playing. My mom loved it, she drank and we had fun=) Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Swing and a miss. Monday, May 11, 2009  Its giant squid time! Friday, May 08, 2009  For those of you who ever wondered what the crew of the Enterprise would look like if they all had eating disorders. Thursday, May 07, 2009 Sometimes I feel like I'm in over my head. I need to become a stronger swimmer. Tuesday, May 05, 2009 So Saturday I'll be moving my bedroom furniture (hereafter known as 'My furniture' since that is all I will be taking) into my new apartment. I dont have to be out until the 19th but might as well move the heavy stuff on over. I'm getting rid of my couch. Anyone want it? Uhoh, I'm out of watermelons to make my watermelon juice. It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find Legal work. I hope this means I'll be a working actor soon. lol. Monday, May 04, 2009  I'm eating a salad made of spinach leaves and strawberries. The strawberry taste almost completely overpowers the spinach. I like spinach, so its no harm no foul. But if you don't like spinach, and want to eat it anyways, adding a bunch of strawberries to it might help. Blueberries have dethroned Strawberries as my favorite fruit. It's kind of weird. Like when Zeus defeated his Titan father Kronos. Or even when Kronos dethroned his father the sky god Uranus. Legend has it Kronos castrated Uranus, threw the remnants into the sea, which then magically became the goddess Aphrodite (which is why we have The Birth of Venus painting by Sandro Botticelli). So will some super hot woman arise out of the defeated strawberries? Perhaps I should ceremoniously throw them into the sea, and then some hot woman will mysteriously arise and sexy adventures will ensue. That reminds me of the 80's movie Weird Science when those two horny teenagers accidentally create Kelly LeBrock. That was a cool movie. I dont know if the blueberries would go as well on this salad though, hmmm. So I've ditched orange juice and have been making my own watermelon juice which ROCKS MY SOCKS OFF. Step 1. buy a watermelon Step 2. cut portions of it off Step 3. blend those portions in the blender Step 4. Awesomeness Actually you should let it chill in the fridge for a few hours before drinking it because it gets all foamy and foamy watermelon juice isn't as good. Man- this is the most blogging I've done in months. I need to find a fun video game to play. Oh, and a job. So my new place is this cool 2bd/2bath I'm sharing with a married couple at church named Sam and Naomi. They're really nice and Sam is from Oklahoma and went to OU which sweetens the pot, people to watch OU football with, hurray! Also they're renting me the 2nd bedroom and bathroom for a awesome rate. They have a female cat and I have a male one- here's hoping they form some sort of truce over the upcoming weeks. I hope they dont kill each other. It will be nice to go back to carpet from hardwood floors. HW floors are just too much work for me. I'd rather run a vacuum than sweep any day of the week. OH- and Sam has a PS3! Swwweeeettt. I feel like a really immature person by the fact that him having a PS3 makes me so happy, but oh well. It's weird all my Oklahoma and Miami friends are married and buying houses, and I still get excited over PS3s, lol. I feel that I'm in a really different place (lifewise and lifestyle wise) than alot of my friends who live elsewhere. I know MDs, Architects, Veterinarians, and Attorneys and none of them can afford to buy a place. Literally the avg. cost of a 3bed 2bath in a okay area is between $400,000- $700,000. LA is just a strange place. I have to say that it has grown on me. Negative things about LA: (I'll exclude traffic because that sucks in every big city and it actually moves along here). 1. The city itself is planned poorly and is kind of ugly. 2. Housing costs 3. Sub par Public transport for a city this size. 4. Too many crazy people. (literally and figuratively) 5. Everyone here is afraid of PETA, and I'm like 'PETA', seriously? Positive things about LA: 1. Great Food 2. There's always something interesting to do (lots of art galleries, shows, concerts, etc) 3. Its where I can pursue acting. 4. The Christians here are super cool. 5. There are lots of Jewish people...I like Jewish people. 6. I've found a great church that I'm really involved with (www.westsidevineyard.com) It's kind of strange that I'm so involved with church now days. Back in law school and the later years of my undergrad I only went to church for worship and then I would leave. Here most of my social activities revolve around church or my friends from church. I love it. I'm excited to move into my new apartment. 1. Its close to my church. 2. Its on a nicer side of town. 3. It SUPER cheap, I'll be paying 1/3 of what I'm currently paying WOOT WOOT! A friend and I have a deal that when they reach a certain fitness level I'll cut my hair. I wonder if she knows that we never specified how much hair I will have to cut?  It has been a little over one year since I've had a hair cut...and I like it. Wonder if I'll get offered a role in this production of 12th Night.... I don't know what it is but I'm really enjoying this Japanese music. So I had an audition with an agent today. I think it went pretty well, but you never know until they call you back. It was for commercial representation, which is good but the goal is to get rep'd theatrically (then I can go to cool tv/film auditions). For the audition they gave me some sides (meaning script) with a series of short bits from different commercials. I had to do the one for a partnership for a drug free America. It was a junky talking about how being addicted to drugs should be treated like having a disease. I did it once and they like it, said I really looked like I was going through drug withdraws. They had me do it again like I was simply giving speech. They also had me do a monologue in a British accent. This caught me a bit off guard BUT luckily I had been practicing my History Boys monologue (its a British play and film of note) and I think that went ok also. Last summer I spent a good deal of time with a dialect coach learning an Upper Crust British Accent. Soooo we'll see what happens. I hope they call me back. They told me to send my reel in to the theatrical department if I wanted to be considered there. So I need to remember to do that and also to send them a thank you card. I normally dont do that, not because I am impolite (even though I am a little), but because it does not particularly matter. Agents will hire you if they think they can make money with you, not based on bedside manner so to speak (unless you're super rude or something, then you're in trouble). Friday, May 01, 2009 Hmm, it looks like Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring. So my scene in acting class last night was from this movie (forget the title) about four guys who live in a college town in Pennsylvania. They're not students, but they were born and raised there, and they work in the stone cutter quarry. The scene revolves around them hanging out in the swimming hole of the quarry, musing about life, and being generally depressed that they've ended up where they are (i.e. young stone cutters when they wanted more out of life, etc...) My character was a guy named Cyril, who seemed, for lack of a more polite description or person, dumb. I ascertained this because the script says that after his college entrance exams he was unable to procure admission even into a community college (in the scene he expresses disappointment about flunking his college entrance exams, I can only assume no college took him, even community colleges). SO we do the scene and I play him like he's ambitious but dumb. The other characters are brighter but lack ambition. But we do the scene and the instructor gives us notes. My note was that I should play the character not as dumb, but as a reasonably smart fellow that has been told he's dumb most of his life. My response is that I can do that, but I do not think it is true with the text (i.e. this guy flunked his entrance exams so badly he could not go to school anywhere). The instructor then said that people who are told they're dumb end up believing it. My retort was 'yea, or he's just dumb'. Class offended. It is then explained to me that the more interesting choice, the choice with the most pain in it for the character, would be to play him smart but told he's dumb. I scraped my knee up pretty badly chasing a grey rabbit after seeing the rocky horror picture show last week. Yea..... I think I may have inadvertently offended my entire acting class last night. Ever bake salmon and have to deal with the gross white stuff? I hate the gross white stuff. Sunday, April 26, 2009  I got a green ipod nano and I love it. Sunday, March 29, 2009 I need a new mp3 player, what should I get? Hmmmmm... My vet buddy Tania thinks a komodo dragon could beat a wolf in a fight. I hope the wolf would win.  My mp3 player of the last 5 years finally broke today=( Jobeth hated it but I loved it. It actually broke because I dropped it. Thursday, March 12, 2009 So I'm in an acting class on Tuesday, and the instructor asks why we want to be an actor. So I think about it and I gave my answer. My answer was: because I think it is interesting to be able to get small glimpses of what it is like to live other lives. I.e. most of us choose a path, a profession and that is our life. But a character actor, or any actor really, can see what it is like to walk other paths and live other lives. And I like that, I think its interesting and exciting. Also I think its fun. Her response is: good Joseph, now say it again from the heart. ? I dont know how to respond. She asked me a question, I thought about it, and I answered it honestly. I had no new information to give her. She then questions me for 5 minutes, tells me I'm 'thinking' too much, and lets me go. At that point I get a bit frustrated, and when I think about it I get a little frustrated as well. Just because I didn't get up there and sob or get super bent out of shape when I gave my explanation doesnt mean it wasn't honest or true. |
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