Serendipity!

So I rediscovered this today. It was a movie that I distinctively remember renting every single time we went to blockbuster when I was 4-6. Wow. Lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSIsDRiuTw

Beyond Therapy!

This production contains strong language and adult content and is intended for mature audiences.

So tomorrow I start rehersal for Beyond Therapy! I am very excited! Although this will add a huge chunk to my schedule for the next two months. Please come see it! I am playing Prudence, the lead. Also, get your tickets soon because they're already selling out!

http://www.gwctheater.com/

Rapport Leadership International

Rapport Leadership International was a sort of camp that I went to last summer. Recently I'm remembering all that I learned and experienced there. The awesome instructures that we had, Mr. Zed!(top right) Mostly though I am missing all of the friends I made there. From breaking wooden boards with our fists to sharing our most intimate vulnerabilities, you are all heavy on my heart lately. We have the key to set us free! Team 1003!

Affection Quota

I have found that it can be deteriorating to ones soul to have affection for a man in your life who doesn't return it. To have even just one man in your life that does not share the same or more affection for you that you do to him can be truely disasterous to ones self confidence. So be careful ladies. I know I need to be. I don't know if it's the same for men. But all I know is that some people can't see or aren't ready to see the greatness in us and and show us the affection we deserve. So we shouldn't, and won't settle for that. We are far too strong to allow it. :D

A Young Perspective on Getting Older

Last night I had a really good conversation with my Dad. He told me about a time in his life when he was really lonely and depressed because among other things he was single. I explained to him how I don't think being single should be any reason to be lonely or depressed. I have a theory that if you're not happy being by yourself and are not able to have fun just being you then you're not ready for a relationship. The same goes for people who are insecure in some way or another. How can you be expected to handle somebody elses feelings and happiness if you can't handle your own?
I have a good amount of friends of both sexes reaching that settling down and having babies age, late 20's early 30's. They are so concerned about finding that one person soon that so much pressure is put on anyone new they meet. They also end up being very sad and depressed about being single right now. But how do you fix that? If you know what you want and you're reaching that age of "expiration"(not at all my term, but somebody elses) how are you suppose to be ok with being single? It's a slippery slope, I agree. My remedy? Just be happy. Accept what life is giving you and is going to give you. Accept the alternatives. You want a family by age 32. Then just be happy being yourself an be ok with an option of adopting and raising a child on your own maybe. Or find a job that you love. Or find a way to travel. Find a way to fullfill your life to make you happy in other ways. Settle for some things, but don't settle for a psuedo love. If you're happy in other ways of your life then a true love may come along. It may not. Maybe we're just suppose to be ok with that. Your thoughts?

The Very Rev. Alan Jones

So when I was in San Fransisco my dear friend Travis Kennedy took me to Grace Cathedral. The service was as lovely as the building. Today I'm remembering a sermon given by The Very Rev. Alan Jones. My favorite part begins about 9 min. in if you'd like to skip to the good stuff.

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gracecathedral.org%2Fmp3%2Fsermon%2Fser_20090111.mp3&h=0fd64dfe3b625764b9c50c43822b4da8

Welcome Back, Potter!

I'm in a show! "Welcome Back, Potter" is mix of a movie spoof and a melodrama. I play Herniny ;). Here's the REVIEWS! Come and see it if you have the chance! It really is a lot of great fun!

March 07, 2009
James Scarbourough
Downtown Gazette

"Welcome Back, Potter," The All American Melodrama Theater and Music Hall
Why bury your head in the sand when you can gambol in a music hall that overlooks a lighthouse?
“Welcome Back, Potter,” written and directed by Jeff Tucker for the All American Melodrama Theater and Music Hall in Shoreline Village, offers pure escapism.
The tale isn’t just family friendly because it’s so over the top, because the staging is so jack-o-lantern fun, because the dialogue is20so witty and, I think, at-times improvised, or because the ac ting is so empathetic, it also bridges the popular culture icons of a couple of generations.
What a pairing, the cinegenic boy wizard Harry Potter and the sitcom premise of Welcome Back, Kotter. They go together like an iPhone and anything wonky and extravagant from its App Store.
Larry Potter (Ren Lescault) - yes, “Larry;” apparently Ms. Rowling watches over her franchise like an Owl - has recently graduated from wizard school along with his chums Hernniny (Amber Luallen) and Won (Paul Villano). Hernniny and Won decide to stay on and teach; Larry opens a rustic bed and breakfast.
Guess what it’s called?
The Pottery Barn.
Trouble is afoot. Of course it involves Waldemart (Michael Bailey), the lease to the school (and the future of educating young wizards), a quidditch match (of course it has to be called something else here), Larry’s triumphant return, a broom as well as one of those floor cleaner thingamajigs with the disposable cleaning sheet, romance (Hernniny has a twin sister – twins! – Jenny with a J, not to mention some levitation, some co njuring, and some prestidigitation.
The cast aced their roles. You find yourself yay-ing Lescault’s Larry because he’s so forthright and foursquare. He’s got an earnest voice, a full head of hair (An often overlooked physical requirement of melodramatic Heroes is their wholesome head of hair. Could you with clear conscience say yay to James Carville, Telly Savalis, or Dr. Phil?), and a posture like a ruler.
*Luallen’s Herninny and Jenny with a J have a face that could not only launch a thousand ships but steer them back home again. She’s the perfect match for Lescault’s Larry: virtuous without being all damsely, funny without being hapless, and a distillation of maidenliness.
And, ah yes, Villano’s Won. A delightful dork, a perfect scaredypants of a sidekick, and the missing link, literally, to this troika of magical alum.
Speaking of Oakland, Gertrude Stein may write that there’s no there, there. Here, though, on that dinky stage in the Long Beach Harbor, there is a there, there. A lot of fun, a catharsis. You think you’ve got it bad? The school’s something-like-quidditch team has been turned into an audience at a Long Beach melodrama. The school itself is going to be turned into a reta il outlet that undersells neighborhood merchants and blights the community.
Oh, the mellow drama!
Performances are 7:30 PM, Fri, 4:30 PM and 8:30 PM, Sat., 2 PM and 7PM, Sun. The show runs until May 3. Tickets are $14-20.The Theatre is located at 429 Shoreline Village Drive, Suite E. For more information call 495-5900 or visit allamericanmelodrama.com.


*I highlighted the most important part ;)

Actor/Lover of People/Student of Life

I try to embrace the controversial belief that people are essentially good. I also believe in judging the intent and not the action. Even then I try to understand someone’s intent. I believe at the very core of somebody’s intent is something good and something pure. If that is true, if I am right, then forgiveness is never impossible. If. This isn’t easy for me to try and believe when there are such things as war, murder, unfaithfulness, etc. in the world. But I strive to understand people. And within that understanding of them, find a way to sympathize with them.
My outlook on people I think is what helps me as an actor. Every character I attempt I apply the same understanding. My work is so special to me because I love to layer my characters with many things and still at the core have them pushing for what they believe to be good. To understand why they believe what they’re doing is right. This is possibly a really obvious statement. But anyways, that is how I make my work truthful. I have yet to tackle a truly evil character, such as Monster, but that challenge will all be in due time. I am learning. I am still a student of acting and of life. I will always be. There for, all my thoughts right now are elementary and will grow with time. Please feel free to disagree with me, disagreement and discussion what will help all of us grow.
Welcome to my blog. That was just a little bit about me. My passion is acting and people. My profession is student. My dream is to make a living acting and then move into politics. Here I will seek knowledge by putting what little knowledge I have out there. I will also shamelessly promote whatever I happen to be working on at the moment. Yeay!