Movin' on up, to the East Side

Actually, I have absolutely no desire to live in East LA.  I'm perfectly happy where I am, thank you very much.  You can keep your DE-lux apartment in the sky.  

Straight Thuggin'

Hello again.


Due to popular demand (Jordan) I'm back with even more awesome tales of life in the bike lane (p.s I think I just found a name for my new biking blog).


So last week I informed you of new developments in my life.  Namely that of my new apt., job, and getting an audition.  Following that, there's not a whole lot more new stuff going on, except that that first audition turned out to not be a complete fluke, in that I have gotten several more since then.  So far I've had 4 auditions, all for very small, indie features and shorts, and student films.  I also have 3 more coming up this week.  I've only heard back from one of the films I auditioned for, and I did not get the part.  I'm not too terribly disheartened by that, since I've heard that if you can book one in every 10 auditions, you're doing really well.  And the fact that I just started auditioning a week ago and still haven't really made the transition from theatre to film yet makes a big difference in my being able to make a good impression on directors/casting directors/producers.  But that's only going to come with practice.  It does make perfect, after all.  

Gettin Back in the Swing of Things

Alright.


Again, it's been too long since I've gotten on here to relate my wondrous experiences to you lovely folk.  Surprisingly enough, quite a bit has happened since we last spoke.  Alright, let's see, there were three major things:

• I got a job
• I got an apartment
• ...I dunno, I'm gonna say, EPA?

The End of the Sabbatical

Hello again Folks!


How ARE you?  I know it's been awhile, and some of you might be feeling a bit abandoned.  A little left out in the cold, wondering where your (mostly) regular fix of all things Tinsely went during these warm summer months.  


Well as you may or may not have known (but probably do because I think the only people who read this are also in regular communication with the author), I just got back from my second stint working on board the Crystal Serenity, which just hit a milestone by being voted the BEST CRUISE SHIP IN THE WORLD for 16 YEARS IN A ROW.  That's a long time to be at the top.  Which is why they hired me.  Yeah.  What.

2 month update

I've had a lot of people ask me what kind of acting I'm looking to get into.  Do I want to do television?  Film? Commercials? Theatre?  Am I focusing on drama? Comedy?  Dramedy?  Horror?  Let me just set the record straight. 


I will do anything.

Blindness

It's pretty crazy though, being out of school and whatnot

because for so long, it was just "take this class so you can take that class which leads to this other class, which leads to this degree..."

everything was planned out for you, and now there's just infinite possibilities.

and absolutely no roadmap.

The Reeling: Part II

So it was pointed out to me by a great guy named Peter, that many of you out there in Readerland might not know all the lingo that I'm spouting on a weekly(ish) basis.  In the interest if keeping all y'all well informed, I thought I'd start by explaining the purpose of a reel.

The Upsides of Unemployment

So as my loyal readers know, I am between jobs right now.  I've been papering this town with my headshot, resume, coverletters, and anything else that may help get me gainful employment.  Now some of you might be thinking, "Packing up your entire life and leaving the security of your parents house to move across the country during the worst recession in decades?  Not to mention moving to the most bankrupted state in the union?  And trying to break into one of the most competitive, backbiting and all around nasty professions in the world?  Well that's plain silly.  Stupid, even.  Mind-numbingly bone-headed.  Just bafflingly moronic.  Putrifyingly..."  Yeah I could just keep going on all day with those.  Bottom line, I don't have a job anymore.  But that's okay.  Because there are some real perks.

Waaaaaaaa!

Okay, I know that this has been a bit of a barrage of posts in the last 24 hours, but bear with me.  I guess I've just got a lot to say.  I went to audit an acting class tonight, Acting the Truth with Steve Braun, recommended to me by my friend Antosia Fiedur, who is an actress trying to make it in Vancouver.  You can check out her blog here: http://missantosia.wordpress.com/

The Reeling

Well, I finished working on my acting reel and it is officially up on Youtube.  There's a link to the video after the jump.  I know the quality is sub-par, but deal with it.  That's the problem you run into when you're editing together several different videos shot on different cameras at wildly different resolutions.  Compared to some I've seen online, mine is looking pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty, pretty good.

One Fantabulous Day

It's always a nice feeling when you're talking online to someone, and you say you have go, and once you've said goodbye, they immediately sign off.  Like they had stayed online just to talk to you a little bit longer.  


So I was writing a blog post Saturday night about being in LA for a month, and looking back on it, it was pretty angry.  I'm not sure what exactly possessed me to write it, but in a way, I'm glad I did.  I'm not going to post it immediately, but I still agree with a lot of the things I wrote.  It was good for me to get some stuff off my chest.  

Midnight Ponderances (sp?)

So people who have talked to me for more than 10 minutes have some idea how my mind works.  Some.  You may have heard me quote various tv shows (simpsons, arrested development, scrubs to name a few). On several occasions people have asked me to explain how (or more importantly, why) it is I do this.  I've tried, and I've failed.  The simplest explanation is, I don't know.  All I know is, it's what I do.  I remember these things.  Whether it's tv shows, comic strips, movie quotations, odd factoids, you name it.  Generally if it has some sort of comic merit and I've seen or heard it at least once, I can probably recite it back to you.  


While I'm still not sure why my brain works this way, I just had a moment that I feel truly captures the essence of my little comedic nugget-hoarding ways:

Alchemy

Well.  I've now been here two weeks.  Half a month.  Yup.  Everyone keeps asking me if I've been getting auditions yet.  Really?  Is that how people seriously think this business works?  Two weeks?  If I were a surgeon and had been working at a new hospital for two weeks, would people be asking me if I had performed open-heart surgery yet?  Well, probably yes...people probably have just as limited experience with what surgeons do.  That didn't really help my case at all.

The Mileiest Stone Yet

Well Friends, as of yesterday evening, I have officially been in Los Angeles for ONE WEEK.  Pretty crazy, I know.  Strangely enough, a lot has happened in those seven short days.  Let's go down the laundry list:


-PA'd for a short film
-Checked out an apartment in Burbank
-Went grocery shopping
-Made new LA friends on the Book of Faces
-Went out to a bar in Hollywood for St. Paddy's day
-Got a job interview
-PA'd on another short film
-Will shortly be appearing as Cult Member #5 in said film 

The first 72 hours

Within 12 hours of arriving in Los Angeles I was driving up to the desert to help out with a short film my friend is working on.  I'd say that was a pretty good introduction to this town.


So for those of you who may not know, my name is Eric, and I'm an ASPIRING ACTOR.  Huzzah.  So that means that a week ago yesterday, I packed my car up with my entire life (which amounted to a surprisingly, almost depressingly small pile) and drove all of the 2,000+ miles from Chicago to LA.  I figured it might be a good idea to record my thoughts and experiences in this brand-new place, you know, for when I'm super famous and in real movies.  Ha. Ha...oh jeez.