It's the black lung, Pa...

I emerge from two days of the flu.

The good news: Not Swine Flu.

I think.

Well, I'm all better now. I think my illness was mostly because of my ridiculous schedule the past few weeks. Between "Slice of Life," work at the restaurant, and to top it all off, trying to negotiate a new part time job for some extra money, I think my body pulled a Roger Murtaugh and decided it was too old for this shit.

But I'm all better now, which it good because I have things to do and people to see.

Things to do: ActorFest on Saturday. Badge still hasn't arrived in the mail, but I have my email confirmation, so I'm not too worried.

People to see: Myself in the art exhibit in Brooklyn. It's only running till the end of the week, so I better put some stank on it.

Hope they let me take a picture. In case they don't though, I found this totally bitchin' photo online. Check it out:

Sweet.

Inventory:

Okay, good things about life include the following:

"Slice of Life" is going great. Yesterday's road trip to Jersey was fun, if you don't count the three hours it took us to get there after getting lost three times, and the massive traffic on the way back. But there were Nathan's cheesy fries and a surprising mix CD made by our driver/Director of Photography Lucas.

After we got back to NY they filmed the scene where the pizza boy sees my film poster on the wall, and Partick sent me a picture of it:

I'm kind of really glad I wasn't there while they were shooting it. I saw the poster when Louis first picked it up.

My face is huge. You can kind of see how huge it is because Lucas is standing next to it. It's huge. I can't deal with my face being that huge.

Seriously, it freaks me out a little bit to see my face lying around. When I give out my business cards, if the person doesn't put them away right away, I have to ask them to turn it over.

There's just something very unsettling to me about looking down and seeing my face just lying on a table or something.

Guh.

Something else good, (and oddly enough, having to do with my face lying around): The art exhibit that my headshot is in is currently running in Brooklyn. I'm going to try to get down to see it sometime in the next week. I'll definitely blog about it, so keep the eyes peeled.

Good thing number three: ActorFest is in ten days! One of my workshops got cancelled, which kind of sucks, but it opened up a slot so that I could register for another workshop instead. I decided to take the voice-over workshop, since I've been becoming more interested in voice-overs lately. Mostly because I've been watching a lot of Family Guy.

Feeling pretty good, despite having no money. Lost a few shifts this week due to filming, I'm going to have to do some doubles this weekend to make up for it. I'm game, though. Gotta eat.

Good thing about working in a restuarant though, they have to feed me. Free food.

And now, on to dishes and laundry and all the mundane household things I haven't been able to do in the past few days becuase I've been so busy I haven't even had time to watch all the TV I DVRed.

How goes the filming...

The hours are long, the pay is non-existent and the activity is repetitive, but man, it's totally worth it.

I've been filming "Slice of Life" this week, at this absolutely gorgeous loft in SoHo. It's been so much fun!

One of my Alpha Psi Omega brothers (theatre honor society-fraternity type thingy) came to stay over last night and got me to thinking about college. New Paltz was a really fun time and I miss it some times, but ultimately I'm glad that I'm out and working. But it's been kind of a rough two years.

The first thing I did out of college was a student-produced production at Queens College. It was being done by some friends of mine, and I stepped in as sort of a favor because one of the students involved got sick and they had no understudy. Success.

I did the reading of "Cherry Smoke" with the Clockwork Theatre, at an Off-Broadway theatre, and helped to develop a new play, which was then produced Off-Broadway the next year. Success.

I was not cast in the actual production. Fail.

I got into "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" but shortly thereafter quit because the headache wasn't worth the payoff. Fail.

I got into "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" but quit for some of the same reasons. Fail.

So after all that, I was a little worried that maybe I didn't have the drive. Maybe if I didn't love the art more than I hated the work, I wasn't really meant to do this for the rest of my life.

But this film has really convinced me that this is what I want to do. I mean, it's just a thesis film for the New York Film Academy, but it's a higher level class and has a bigger budget than the other films I've done with NYFA. The crew is made up of fun people and I'm having an absolutely wonderful time. Even though I was there for the past few days from 9:30 am (and up at 6am) until 7pm (home at 8) and I was running basically on coffee and enthusiasm, I loved every single second of it.

I can't wait to see it all done. That's the great thing about doing a student film. They have to hand it in, so you know it has to be done by a certain time. I think Louis has to hand it in in December, so I'll have it by next year.

I think I only need one more short film to have a pretty decent reel. Huzzah.

But this is also making me feel like film is the right genre for me, which makes the move to LA all the more iminent. Scary.

I have two more scenes to film before I'm done. Tomorrow we're filming at a nursing home in New Jersey. Field trip!

Question:

I'm 99% sure I'm coming down with a cold and I'm working a double tomorrow.

Is having a glass of wine before bed a good idea or a bad idea?

I've also taken a Zicam.

I'm either about to have an intense reaction or sleep through all of Sunday.

Audition Log: 10/1/09

Even though I got home from work at 1:30am last night, I dragged my ass out of bed at 6 in the morning to go to the Equity Chorus Call for "Catch Me if You Can"

And was typed-out

But I went. And THAT, my friends, is the point.

Next Audition:
The Princess and the Frog
Tomorrow at 10am