My last blog entry for 2017! I will see you in the new year! But for now, I am here to give an arrogant goodbye to 2017. Arrogant as in “claiming for oneself” and “pride”. I have so much pride in the wins I’ve had in 2017 and I’m going to share just a sampling of them. I’m tooting my horn. As should you. What were your wins in 2017?
Cause at the end of the day, what’s a horn for but to toot it?
Here we go!
January 4th: Audited a scene study class at Jame Franco’s acting studio
January 13th: Celebrated my birthday with friends, drag queens, bottomless mimosas and twerking
February 5th: Celebrated one year anniversary with Chris
February 6th: Attended “Assassins” musical fundraiser at Rage to support my fellow Richard Lawson Studios members
February 9th: Imported the rest of my relationship map into Insightly
February 10th: Took a wonderful trip to Seattle with Chris
February 24th: Had a kick-ass audition playing a character like Huck from “Scandal” in the PDP 3.0 class
February 25th: Shot new headshots with Marisa Leigh
March 7th Made final payment to company and got rid of an outstanding debt
March 24th: Co-hosted the first of 13 viewing parties for Season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race
March 27th: Took a picture with my favorite drag queen: Bianca Del Rio
April 13th My blog entry, “Sending The Elevator Down”, was accepted into the Huffington Post’s Thrive site
April 13th Had coffee with one of my favorite actors and people, Justin Huen
April 17th Signed with the Paradise Group for commercial representation
April 18th Participated in the LA Law charity event (our group raised the most money in the history of the event)
April 21st Did a kick-ass cold read audition as a doctor in the PDP 3.0 class
April 29th Attended the inaugural Wearable Art Gala wearing a custom-made metallic gold mask
April 30th Attended Drag Con and took pictures with Alyssa Edwards, Nina Bo’nina Banana Fofana Osama Bin Laden Brown and Karen From Finance; received video shout out from Shangela. Also attended a handful of wonderful panels.
May 6th Attended “Assassins” musical in Silverlake to support my fellow Richard Lawson Studios members
May 13th Attended The Bougee Party in Woodland Hills
May 13th Attended screening of Chinatown at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Chris, Lindsay, Jordan, Sarah and Ryan
May 19th Did a kick-ass procedural audition as the CEO of Caster Industries in the PDP 3.0 class
June 1st Began Round 1 of social media campaign for my James Franco feature film project
June 2nd Had a meeting with Oakley Entertainment about my James Franco feature film project
June 3rd Wrote the first draft of my movie pitch
June 4th Posted my 100th blog entry
June 5th Was a reader for a feature film that Kim Hardin was casting
June 10th Attended screening of The Wizard of Oz at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Lindsay
June 17th Attended Danielle Eskinazi’s workshop and did a kick-ass read during the workshop. I had a commercial copy from a Honda spot
June 20th Did a kick-ass cold read audition as a fashion consultant in the PDP 3.0 class
June 23rd Sasha Velour won Season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and represented Vassar College beautifully (Sasha was class of 2009)
June 25th I attended first Richard Lawson Studios teachers meeting
June 26th Email sent by Oakley Entertainment to one of James Franco’s producing partners
June 30th Shot a computer hacker scene with Lindsay, Lauren and Kenny
July 2nd Final cut completed of Human Revolution short film (a film I executive produced, co-wrote and co-starred in)
July 3rd “Curtsy, Mister” became an HBO finalist at MVAAFF (in addition to 15 other film festivals it has already been accepted into. This is a feature documentary film I acted in and also was the first assistant director on)
July 5th Signed with the Paradise Group for theatrical representation
July 10th: My weekly blog, Chasing The George, turned two years old
July 18th: Shared the computer hacker scene I shot with Twinkie Byrd, Danielle Eskinazi, Monika Mikkelsen
July 19th: Lindsay shared computer hacker scene with various casting directors on Twitter
July 24th: Dropped off cream puffs and James Franco script with Reed to Rabbit Bandini Productions
July 25th: Did a successful on-camera audition from The Librarians TV series in the PDP 3.0 class
July 26th: Oakley Entertainment reached out to Laurie Holden’s people for the lead female role in my James Franco feature film script
July 26th: Successful production meeting for phase two of the Human Revolution movie
July 29th: Started window shopping for office furniture
July 30th: Did research on 10 film festivals Lauren gave to me and I reached out to them via email for premiere requirements
July 31st: Intention without hesitation. Back to back actions on:
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- Emailed top CAA agent re: Human Revolution (HR) submission to Vassar Film Festival and drop off to James Franco’s production company
- Followed up with Jessica re: HR viewing
- FB message to Ryan and Sarah re: Princess Bride screening and mini-golfing
- Tweeted computer hacker scene link to various CD’s of Mr. Robot, Fear The Walking Dead, etc.
- Sent film festival update to HR producing team
- Tweeted Twinkie Byrd about collaborating
- Researched and sent literary inquiry letters to Heroes and Villains Entertainment, Rafterman Media, Original Artists & Society Entertainment
August 3rd: Chasing The George was included in Vassar’s “In The Media” July 2017 round up email which is sent to graduates all over the world
August 4th: Submitted Human Revolution to the Vassar Film Festival in D.C.
August 8th: Sent Julia (my agent) my DOIN’ (aka my business plan) and she loved it
August 8th: Human Revolution submitted to SXSW, Atlanta Film Festival, Slamdance
August 9th: Submitted Human Revolution to Taos Shortz Film Festival
August 10th: Followed up with the literary agents I submitted to on July 31st
August 15th: Emailed Julia and asked her to do an intro for me to the casting director of Gente-fied.
August 16th: Received another IMDB actor credit for a feature film called Zombie TV that comes out in 2018
August 16th: Sent Tady link to HR
August 17th: Sent FB message to the creators of Gente-fied
August 17th: Sent literary inquiry letter to The Mission Entertainment
August 18th: Sent email to Kelly Edwards re: HBOAccess program
August 19th: Sent Travis link to HR
August 20th: Participated in a career administration panel at the WACO Theater Center
August 23rd: Submitted Human Revolution film to Sundance, Sarasota Film Festival and the Utah Film and Awards Festival
August 26th: Celebrated 15 years of living in Los Angeles
August 28th: The Huffington Post’s Thrive section published a second blog entry of mine, “What Is A Win?”
August 31st: Worked with a private client who wanted to start learning an approach to acting
September 2nd: Submitted Human Revolution to the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival
September 4th: Posted my 10,000th tweet
September 5th: Submitted Human Revolution to the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
September 5th: Emailed the casting director of Gente-fied and received her response on September 6th
September 9th: Did a self-tape audition for the feature film, French Fries
September 26th: Did cold stand up comedy in the PDP 3.0 class and rocked it
September 26th: Outlined a new short film script in 32 minutes
September 30th: Took above outline and wrote first draft of script in 1 hour and 25 minutes (which became The Doppleganger)
October 10th: Auditioned for Criminal Minds and received a callback 5 minutes later
October 15th: Did my second ever video blog and had a lot of fun
October 17th: Registered my script, The Doppleganger, with the WGA
November 7th: Co-taught the PDP open class with Kelly
November 10th: Co-taught the Audition open classes with Lindsay, Kelly and Beth
November 10th: Had first read through rehearsal for my film, The Doppleganger
November 12th: Posted third video blog
November 15th: Had second rehearsal for my film, The Doppleganger
November 17th: Had first rehearsal with Courtney for scene from The Out of Towners
November 22nd: Had third rehearsal for my film, The Doppleganger
November 23rd: Celebrated Thanksgiving with Chris and friends
November 26th: Shot a self-tape audition for the PDP 3.0 class
November 26th: Shot another self-tape audition for an exciting top-secret project
November 28th: Did cold stand up comedy in the PDP 3.0 class
November 28th: I was offered the role I auditioned for in the exciting top-secret project
December 3rd: Shot the role in the exciting top-secret project
December 3rd: Had a scouting and production meeting for my short film, The Doppleganger
December 7th: Had a final rehearsal for The Doppleganger
December 10th: Shot The Doppleganger (a film I wrote, executive produced and co-starred in)
December 11th: My feature film script was emailed to James Franco’s manager
December 15th: Had a great audition for an untitled Noah Baumbach feature film which stars Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern and Merritt Wever
Recurring wins:
I taught the PDP 3.0 class several times
I was a guest DJ several times for the Richard Lawson Studios scene study class
I posted a new blog entry every Sunday morning
Overall happiness and health
Constant give and help to others in my community
Chasing The George 