Coasting along Not much new has been happening lately, but I kind of like it that way. I mean, I have a tendency to get bored easily and I’m kind of always after some new challenge, but I also enjoy just layin’ around and doing nothing. In
Read more →Long but gratifying lesson My lesson today lasted about 2.5 hours and that’s a long stinkin’ time. The good thing is that the entire lesson was instructive and useful and I feel like I learned a great deal about the two scenes I was working on this
Read more →Revelation It’s no secret (especially here on the ol’ blog) that I want to be a professional actor. What is kind of a secret is why I want to be a professional actor. I mean, it’s clear that I’m not interested in sitting behind a desk, designing
Read more →Rough week, great weekend This was a tough week, mostly because I seemed to be constantly doing something. The worst day was Thursday, when I had my acting lesson. It was a great lesson and I learned a lot, but I was totally exhausted and the lesson
Read more →Working through the words Last night, I wrote about how tough it’s been working through a couple scenes from Devil’s Advocate. While that’s still true, I feel like I made a lot of progress tonight and I’m feeling much more comfortable with the scene. Heretofore, I hadn’t
Read more →Tough scenes So far, I’ve really been enjoying my learning experience as I work towards being an actor. Usually, I feel challenged and fulfilled as I work through a scene and I get a definite sense of fulfillment after we’ve shot something and critiqued it. This week,
Read more →Lazy weekend Normally, I’d say a three-day weekend is super and then I’d talk about all the great stuff I did to take advantage of my extra day off. Unfortunately, I didn’t really do anything to take advantage of the extra day off and I wasted most
Read more →Crazy week in Texas Monday was my last night house-/dog-sitting for a friend. Although I didn’t mind helping him out while he was vacationing, it was really nice to get home where I could sleep in my own bed. I didn’t realize how much I like my
Read more →I feel like I’m back in school This week, I was to find and memorize a new monologue (I part of a scene from Ferris Beuler’s Day Off), continue working on last week’s monologue from Good Will Hunting (it turned out to be almost 4 minutes) and
Read more →You’re 97, huh? Well, you have the right to remain silent… So, an old lady gets pulled over for speeding or something and then they throw ‘er in the slammer because of an outstanding warrant for her arrest. And of course, people are all huffed up about
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