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A brand new blog post and some exciting stuff! I’ve missed blogging and lets just say lots has happened in my personal life, my health, and my original reason for posting…my career…  I won’t let you down but you will need to stay tuned…

Party Hardy!

So this week has been quite hectic for me, I say this after spending my day at work, advertising and hanging up Eurydice posters all over Clark State’s campus. The posters look gorgeus, and the guy who did the work for them ( Ben, our fantastic photographer/ graphic designer) did an excelent job. But I’m quite tired. I slept like 10 hours and still feel like I could nap for the rest of eternity. You know the old saying there is no rest for the weary…well damn am I weary…

On Monday in addition to work and class ( both of which are going well thanks for asking) I had Eurydiec…yes I know what else is new? But we are starting to have off book dates, and blocking to memorize and lots of shit adding up….and it is just a LOT in a small amount of time, especially for this being my biggest role to date and I’m on stage by myself doing difficult monologues. It is just draining, yet at the sam,e time I want things like props and staging to play with and feed off of. I get so exciteted when I see the whole come together that it boosts me onto another level and I think once everything starts to gel I’ll be ready to rock this bitch… It’s a journey but a good one… a tiring one, but again … a good one.

I have also spent this week networking, I have opened a wordpress…yet have yet to use it… I hope that this will be my first blog on it… but I’m lazy and I get off work in like 15 minutes and then this computer is really Liz’s… it’s ok… I don’t begrudge her it… But I also myspace. uploaded some myspace pics, and I also have begun some other projects to help promote not only my career but specifically Eurydice. My hope is to invite evryone I’ve every had contact with to come to the show and get at least half of them to actually show…ambitious I know. But I’m on some of the publicity pics and they lok really cool, so I’m ready to rock n’ roll

Doing it for the fame…

So Eurydice staging has been an interesting experiance to say the least. I love the work Liz and I are doing (though at times we have our awkward turtle moments) I have worked with Liz enough to just be able to go on stage and work, we go there, and we have a fairly good relationship. But while I’m by myself the characterization has changed greatly from when I first auditioned and read for the part, to what I am doing now, it’s not that I’m not upset that we have changed our perception a little, I am just weary of the wrok I’ll have to be doing, it may involve some dangerous emotional recall, and the hardest part is that the emotions I’/m showing, I’m not showing to anyone really, as I’m going through these emotions in a monologue. Who said acting is an easy thing? HA! The thing is also that Theresa wants to create a monotonus bit of blocking, but in my mind this should be done in a totaly different way, but because of our rehearsal schedule and requirments I find that me trying to discover this blocking this way is a bit of a fail so I need to spend this weekend really discovering this body, and getting off book, of course. ( I’m off book for the first movement and most of the second movement, but some of the monologues scare me) Also in Eurydice news, we have begun promotion, and the poster looks really damn cool, Liz looks very neat clean and pretty on it, but Today Liz and I had a publicity photo shoot, we did it at Clark State’s campus, partially on a bench by their fountains and partially in this wooded area, I was able to convince Theresa to let me climb a tree, it was EPIC! I can’t wait to see the pictures! UGH! I’m stoked. I also got costuming information, I will be in swim wear ( possibly shirtless?) and then in a cool blazer and leather pants, then  my black hoodie and a black wife beater and dark jeans… lots of cool shit! I’ve also seen some of the pulls for others in the show and it looks kinda cool, I’ll have to see how heavily stylized the stones are to judge the final look.

In other CSCC news, I love my job, sure I could use more hours, and now that there is a temp woman here I have less to do, but I like having an artsish related job, waking up early does kinda suck though. The best part might be that I don’t think anyone knows that the office is open during my hours so the phone basically never rings.

I went to my doctor today for the first time in about 6 years! I guess everything is in working order, he seemed pleased. ( I say this like he would know my history even though this is the first time he has ever met me) But anyway(s) right before I was about to go in some dude came out on a strecher…lets classify that one under scary. Yeah but I talked to him about my diet and exercise and he had me piss into a cup… ( to see if I was dropping protein) and everything came back ok, he did have a red flag raised when he foound out how many eggs Ieat a week for breakfast ( honestly 3-4 every morning so about 15 a week for the past two week but I have to bulk up for Orpehus which is going pretty well btw) and he also wanted to knwo about my previos weight and health issues, and I donb’t remeber covering this in here so I will…

Last year around December I was going through some very VERY hard times and things were rough. I found a lot of comfort in food and relied on it as a crutch to make me happy, and of course around the holidays food is very abundant and flavourfull and not the best for you…Needless to say I Balloned up to 190 pounds, witrh little to no muscle tone to speak for, and then whne the new year began I decided to deal with my new weight issue and I started working out eating right and loving myself, I did it healthy this time ( I had battled with various eating issues that I still don’t feel comfterable enough to comment on, but my body and I are always at battle) so by April of this year I was down to about 155 pounds with not a whole lot of muscle but I was lean and I liked the way I looked, then people around my world started throwing very unfair and scary words around me like eating disorder, lipo, and drugs ( first of no, No, and NOOOOOOOOO!) I was doing everything right and still got crituqed negativly, people would rather see me fat and personally un happy then slim and happy because of their perecptions of me, I was a boy in high school who could just never win, so I gave up the diet and just chilled and I gained sooem of the wieght back but not enough for it to bother me or garner anyone’s attention, but when people start saying you are obsessed with your weight and you don’t eat, sometimes the best way to shut them up is to throw back a few doughnuts right in their face. So I did, and this past summer I really lived up and enjoyed the summer food and fun and cared less about what people thought, but Now the cool thing about Orpehus is that he is bulky but with muslce tone, a look I had only aspired to be but never have had the drive to acheive but now I do! I have the part and this is character building and I have three weeks to change my look entirly and I’m doing it! And DAMN I hope I get to go shirtless and show what I’ve done… ( I’m having my Taylor Lautner guy who bulked up for Twilight) experiance and I am very happy about it, I feel like I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in and I’m doing it healthy, but the doctor was concerned about me getting too high cholesteral from all the eggs and protein sop he might want blood work done…YAY?!?!? ( which reminds me I’m gonna be elidgable to donate blood here in a few weeks and I really love to do it because it is a simple way to give back to the community, but I wonder if I could get them to hang up a Eurydice poster?)

So The student Theatre Guild is rolling like Proud Mary down a river we keep having mmetings and talking fundraisers ( SMECILS 4EVER) and we have decided to do Pizza building kits and shit, YAY?!?!, I’ll need to make a choise on if I want to go which make me nervous because I also have some shows I would like to do possibly for The Dayton Theatre Guild, but KCACTF would be fun, right? But I’ll need to schedule and make a choice. Also the STG has started moving forward and it looks as though We’ll be doing the Velvatine Rabbit here soon!

I recently got cast in a movie! YAY!!! I’m very stoked about this, though the script is a little…ehhhh…the role is Demetrius in a dead cast of Midsummer Night’s Dream and I get to be not only dead but I get to haunt, and I have some funny ass lines, sounds like a time to shine, aslo it will help me to do a film( I have appeared on film since my days in high school Videography/ Applied Communication) but I love film acting and it is my real passion, though stage theatre is growing on me. But filming begins in November and I’m ready to haunt mother Fuckers!

I need to think of a list of Five plays that I want to email to the Dayton Playhouse to consider directing ( no I don’t think I want to direct for the rest of my life, I like being on stage too much ) but I’ld love to get my hands dirty and mount a show with my vision ( I have some really good ideas) Thus far my list includes- subUrbia (Boogosian) The Merchant of Venice ( Shakespeare) A Doll’s House (Ibsen) and The Producers (musical by Mel Brooks) I’m also gonna look at a show suggested to  by Jim Hudson ( guy who is seriously like my God Father) called Greater Tuna…I’m stoked for this oppurtunity, I don’t know if they’ll pick either me or the shows but now that I’m stage managing Corpus Christi, I’m very stoked to just put myself out there.

I feel like a bad Tumblr author…

It has been a while since I wrote out my feelings and emotions on this social site, a lot has happened.

First Les Liaisons opened and closed. The show was really well received, I really grew to love the cast and crew, and honestly we became like a family. Our director “daddy” even sticks with me as someone I wish to work with in the future. We got three heavily positive rave reviews. All the reviewers came on the first night and enjoyed the show very much. We did have drama through out the run, we had awful chairs, we had sword mishaps, we lacked lots of lighting, and we had to survive the H1N1 virus that a damn asshole actor was carrying, but all in all, I loved the cast, we seriously didn’t know how much we would get along till we let loose and started rocking the show, and we rocked that bitch. I will forever have a special place in my heart for the show.

She Stoops to Conquer also opened and closed since my last blog, the crowd got into it but we had a bumpy 3 shows. Needless to say I loved some of the people and the idea, but I was not shy about writing an awful nasty email to the man in charge complaining about how the experience was soiled by the lack luster director, with whom I refuse to work with again.

I also started school, I like my classes, nothing too hard, in fact I only focus on my theatre classes and the other gen eds just kinda happen and I don’t learn anything because I already understand the material…CHALLENGE ME! the cool thing about being back in school is seeing the people and shit like that. I don’t like seeing everyone from high school because HS was a bitch, but oh well, I’ll ignore anyone who is unmanageable.

The Student Theatre Guild and Student Senate have all started up, and I love the guild but the senate are annoying fuckers who I could care less about. The guild has also begun the process of mounting our first show, we think it will be The Velvatine Rabbit directed by Garry whom I worked with in both Fuddy Meers and She Stoops to Conquer.

In other Theatre news I was cast as the male lead in my college show Eurydice… I play Orpheus Eurydice’s husband who company’s and follows her into the underworld to get her back, the show’s best feature is the use of an elevator that rains and  the use of water on stage…I get to be a part of that! YEAH!

The conflict of this show was that it runs around the same time as Corpus Christi the show I was slated to Assistant Direct at the Dayton Playhouse along side my Valmont Mike Boyd, whom I love and respect very much. But after having the director of Eurydice ( Theresa) talk to Mike we came to the agreement that I should Stage Manage CC which will be very fun, because I’ll still get to be a part of the show and meet the people ( including Jeff Hare a dreamworks guy) and many other talented people and also I’ll get to work with another company.

Also in a theatre-y way I got a paying job to be the receptionist for the Performing Arts Center’s Theatre Arts Program…the hours are rough but I get paid to anwser phones and when *I’m not reading I’m facebooking or reading my text books, so I get to multi task. The job pays 7.50 an hour and I get 7 and a half hours a week.

Finally in life I’m starting to bulk up. I need to focus on this because Orpheus is well built and will be very under dressed during the show… so Protein bars and weight lifting for me…YAY?!?

Oh My Dear I’m The Tool King!

So I went to Bucher’s Beat, early in the morning (actually thanks to Duante for help keeping me awake, and also my PBJ sandwich for my energy boost, I never went to sleep…HA!) and I felt out of place, as I was the only cast member who was asked to be there who showed (aside from Mike and David, who were asked to fence, which they did and kicked butt at, good jobs boys!). Here is the deal, I didn’t think we would be live and there for two and a half hours but we were, also I was never asked about talking so I just stood and smiled and laughed, it made me look like a tool…a pretty faced tool. ;)…. But there was tons was tons of Drama with director Greg and President Carol…and it was uncomfortable and awkward and I kind of wish no one told me anything about it…It was a hot mess…see the video for evidence.

Then at 9:30 I stopped by CSCC picked up a Dayton City Paper, talked to Sue  (possibly for the last time???? WHAT!) Found out some job info, then got TC to cut my hair. (HE IS A GOD SEND!) Then I went home and took a nap…about three hours before trekking out to She Stoops the LLD.

The rehearsals went well, they all seem a blur now because of my lack of sleep, but She Stoops was hot, and long, and LLD was wet and messy (but the guild looks fucking epic!) Anyway I need some sleep…I think I’ll post a pic of the haircut I got (my wig looks better now) and LLD opens in less than 24 hours!