ha.

It has been 2 years since my last post.

a month ago i broke up (she broke up with me) with the girl i was with in the last post.

we were living together. still lived together until last night, when i packed up my things and shoved them in my car (my new car since the last post)

it's really strange to think about all that's happened in two years.

- graduated from college
- drove across the country
- worked at a radio shack on the west coast
- traveled from east coast to west and back 9+ times
- got fired from that radio shack
- got a job at office depot
- started an internship at a production company
- got hired at that production company
- moved into with my girlfriend in van nuys
- got a kitten, audrey
- moved to burbank with my girlfriend
- went to south africa, hawaii, vancouver, miami, chicago, boston, dallas, oklahoma city, las vegas
- saw my name on screen as a production assistant
- saw my name on screen as an associate producer
- didn't work at all for a full month
- worked on a shitty commercial
- learned how to produce, operate a camera, and plenty more
- got fired from that production company
- got dumped by someone i could have seen myself marrying
- got hired at a new company as an associate producer on a great new show on AMC
- moved into a new place

so that's that.

quite a pair of years.

makes me wonder where i'll be in two years. though, as i was thinking recently, i don't want to know. i wouldn't have wanted to know a month ago that i would be in a COMPLETELY different scenario. because that's the best part about life - that anything can happen.

here's to another two years.

it is 4:40am in providence, ri.

at 7:35 i will be getting on an american airlines direct flight to los angeles, ca, to visit for the second time. this time to find housing and to experience it once more.

i will be in los angeles until saturday, July 18th.

!!

this post coming to you straight from my new imac!!! i know, i know, luke you go through computers like underwear.

but this one was a really good deal and it's really nice and bright and great great great. it's big and 20 inches and it's glorious.

i just caught up on lost on here, actually. hd lost mmmmm. it's been hard to catch the episodes due to my sched and rehearsals and whatnot. but i'm doing what i can.

here's a picture with my new isight camera in the imac! lookin' sorta artsy! and the mess of my room behind me, haha.



i had my first read-through of the play i'm directing today. it went really really really well. the gal who plays hattie, who is a boisterous and loud and funny character, hit the nail right on the head today. i was very pleased with my casting. and i have jolie as the other main gal character and she's great for the role and she's excited and it's a great energy with this cast. the gal who i cast as amy lee is a freshman and she's also really good. looks the part as well as reads the part quite well.

other news! i heard today that a friend of mine who graduated last year, got accepted to cal arts (from what i hear), which is located in Irvine, CA, which is just south of los angeles! so i could have a buddy out there already for when i move there! that's pretty exciting music cause it'd be really nice to have at least one person i'm familiar with out there. if i don't that's cool too, but it'd be a nice added bonus.

i hope peeps visit me a bunch when i'm out there. early on'd be nice, and after that too, like when i'm an established and awesome hollywood dude, i'd love visitors then too. maybe i'll fly peeps out cause i'll be so loaded all the time, haha. we'll see.

tha's all 4 now.

i cast my show last night (wednesday night) and i'm pleased with it.

i'm directing a show called 'laundry and bourbon' and it is a three woman cast that's funny and real (well, hopefully it'll be real.)

the foreigner is going pretty well, the blocking and the look of the show is really great, the only weak part at the moment is the actors' lines. they're a bit on the shaky side, but that'll be remedied soon, i'm sure.

i was cast in the merchant of venice, the final show of URI's season, as solanio. it's a smallish role, but i do get to say 'what news on the rialto', which is a pretty famous line. also i get to act in a mainstage and it'll really wrap up my senior year nicely. then it's off to california. oh, california.

i said i wanted to film more and i have filmed nothing. well, i filmed myself singing black balloon but that was no good so i have filmed nothing. i need to. even if it's just me doing stupid little things i need to. need need need to.

also, i'm an idiot.

just sayin'.

man, titanic is a great film. and an even better soundtrack.

i'm just sayin'.

i should shave.

it's been a month.

today i was walking out of yet another ridiculous mass media class and it struck me that 'intro to mass media' is more or less a pop culture philosophy class.

and i hate philosophy classes.

i took one two semesters ago (one? no, two. yeah two.) and hated it. it's so... intangible. there's no right answer, there are just opinions. and that's good! i mean, it's good cause people should have their opinions and that's wonderful, free will, whatnot, but it doesn't make for a very fun class. it's weird cause i come from my RIDICULOUSLY easy math class that has concrete answers (and a shitty teacher) to my mass media class which has absolutely no answers and a decent teacher. and the freshmen/jersey folk/other douche bags just answer classes in the least intelligent way possible and i sit there in my corner and shake my head. occasionally i attempt an answer to a question but the teacher either completely disregards it or it's silently received by the rest of my silent class. it's sad, most times, because the teacher will ask a question and NO ONE will offer a response. NO ONE. so we sit there. finally a shaky hand rises six inches and the person quietly offers up their soon to be devoured and destroyed opinion.

it got me thinking, though, today. inadvertently, perhaps, but still thinking. and i got real bummed. i've been thinking quite a bit about who i am as a person, what my character traits are, my flaws, my strengths, etc. and it hasn't been very fun. and i think about friends of mine and their lives and old friends and the prospect of new friends and all of that. and what do i really want? out of life?

this past month has had some real ups and downs. more than past months. much more.

i'm not afraid of moving out to california. i'm really excited. i can't say if i'll be more afraid when i get closer to the time, but right now, i'm very very excited.

and now i have a headache. workin' overnight at target tonight... not excited. workin' til 6am then i have work at radio shack at 10am... then i'm driving up to Fitchburg, MA to hang out with my fellow uri theatre blokes.

and that's about it.