This video has been floating around the internet for awhile but I never got around to watching it until recently. It's quite the comedic gem. Enjoy!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Pointless Blogging
I always felt like there had to be some grand purpose to my blogs. I felt that there had to be a POINT. Whether it was an interesting video, movie review, or a memoir I wanted my blog to have a purpose. I didn't see the point in writing something that didn't have, well, a POINT.
But I realize that I can also treat my blog as a journal and use it to document the current "going-ons" in my life. If somebody reads my blog and finds that interesting, then great! However, if they don't, then that is fine too. Sometimes I just need a place to talk about myself and/or vent about current situations, and I feel that this is just the place for that.
With that being said, I don't have much to vent about. Nothing extremely special is going on in my life. I'm currently working in Rock Island, IL where I'm performing the show "Ring of Fire" at a local dinner theatre called Circa '21. You can visit their web page here.
The show has been getting great reviews and the company of actors/servers/management/etc. are all very nice people and easy to get along with. So my life is pretty good right now, regardless of the fact that sometimes I just wish I were considerably more productive.
I'll be turning 30 in about 3 months. I'm not necessarily dreading the infamous, landmark age; however, I definitely am also not looking forward to it. 30 is when the body begins to deteriorate and building muscle and staying fit gradually becomes more and more difficult. That is why it is so important to exercise and build muscle in your 20's. All that exercise will carry over into your 30's and help slow the aging process. I also always felt that by the time I turned 30 I would be a little more accomplished than I am. Or, rather, I was hoping to be.
One of my goals when I started in the theatre business was to become consistently employed, and I feel that that goal has been accomplished. However, I still have yet to do a national tour and a cruise, two jobs that I have wanted to do for awhile. There have been a couple opportunities to do both of those things but I was always unavailable at the time and had to let the opportunity pass me by. I also have some standards that is blocking me from doing those two things. I don't really want to work a cruise for much longer than a couple of months (standard cruise contracts are 6 months to a year) and I don't want to go to the Caribbean (standard first contract cruises are to the Caribbean).
My only real desire to do a cruise is based on the fact that I just want to explore the world. I've only been to Canada, that's it! How lame. How amazing would it be to land a cruise gig that explored the Mediterranean and the contract was only for a couple of months. That would be the ideal cruise for me. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Touring on a bus and truck with a national tour just sounds dreadful sometimes. Most of the non-equity tours traveling our nation today go to podunk cities such as (no offense Lisa) Portsmouth, OH. While I love Portsmouth, I don't really want most of the cities I travel too being cities such as Portsmouth, OH, staying a day, then getting up at 6 in the morning to load a bus that is traveling to Muncie, Indiana - or worse, somewhere in Iowa. But national tours are very reputable things to do, they look great on your resume and they are definitely stepping stones for your career. It's just unfortunate that the travel process can be somewhat grueling at times.
I'm not trying to be a whiny McCOMPLAINerson here. With the current state of our economy (God, I haven't heard that one too many times lately) I am fortunate to have a job and to be consistently working. I am very thankful for that. But we can all dream sometimes and set goals for ourselves, and then complain if we don't accomplish those goals fast enough! Haha. My ultimate dream, however, is to win an Oscar for anything. Maybe it'll happen someday.
But I realize that I can also treat my blog as a journal and use it to document the current "going-ons" in my life. If somebody reads my blog and finds that interesting, then great! However, if they don't, then that is fine too. Sometimes I just need a place to talk about myself and/or vent about current situations, and I feel that this is just the place for that.
With that being said, I don't have much to vent about. Nothing extremely special is going on in my life. I'm currently working in Rock Island, IL where I'm performing the show "Ring of Fire" at a local dinner theatre called Circa '21. You can visit their web page here.
The show has been getting great reviews and the company of actors/servers/management/etc. are all very nice people and easy to get along with. So my life is pretty good right now, regardless of the fact that sometimes I just wish I were considerably more productive.
I'll be turning 30 in about 3 months. I'm not necessarily dreading the infamous, landmark age; however, I definitely am also not looking forward to it. 30 is when the body begins to deteriorate and building muscle and staying fit gradually becomes more and more difficult. That is why it is so important to exercise and build muscle in your 20's. All that exercise will carry over into your 30's and help slow the aging process. I also always felt that by the time I turned 30 I would be a little more accomplished than I am. Or, rather, I was hoping to be.
One of my goals when I started in the theatre business was to become consistently employed, and I feel that that goal has been accomplished. However, I still have yet to do a national tour and a cruise, two jobs that I have wanted to do for awhile. There have been a couple opportunities to do both of those things but I was always unavailable at the time and had to let the opportunity pass me by. I also have some standards that is blocking me from doing those two things. I don't really want to work a cruise for much longer than a couple of months (standard cruise contracts are 6 months to a year) and I don't want to go to the Caribbean (standard first contract cruises are to the Caribbean).
My only real desire to do a cruise is based on the fact that I just want to explore the world. I've only been to Canada, that's it! How lame. How amazing would it be to land a cruise gig that explored the Mediterranean and the contract was only for a couple of months. That would be the ideal cruise for me. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Touring on a bus and truck with a national tour just sounds dreadful sometimes. Most of the non-equity tours traveling our nation today go to podunk cities such as (no offense Lisa) Portsmouth, OH. While I love Portsmouth, I don't really want most of the cities I travel too being cities such as Portsmouth, OH, staying a day, then getting up at 6 in the morning to load a bus that is traveling to Muncie, Indiana - or worse, somewhere in Iowa. But national tours are very reputable things to do, they look great on your resume and they are definitely stepping stones for your career. It's just unfortunate that the travel process can be somewhat grueling at times.
I'm not trying to be a whiny McCOMPLAINerson here. With the current state of our economy (God, I haven't heard that one too many times lately) I am fortunate to have a job and to be consistently working. I am very thankful for that. But we can all dream sometimes and set goals for ourselves, and then complain if we don't accomplish those goals fast enough! Haha. My ultimate dream, however, is to win an Oscar for anything. Maybe it'll happen someday.
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