Stuck Inside Your Head

It's been two weeks since my last post.

So here's the update:

Classes started. They all have their ups. A few have their downs (no puns on my last name please). Best ones: Acting Shakespeare and Stage Combat.

Shakespeare's great, because simply put: I get to work with Shakespeare for class. Every Monday/Wednesday. IT'S GREAT. And Stage Combat is a great workout - plus we get to learn how to trick the audience into thinking we're beating the living hell out of each other. Then we get up, brush it off, and go get a smoothie.

Audition week has occurred. Casting for Twelfth Night is posted later today and callbacks for Almost, Maine will be posted at the same time. Congratulations to those cast in Twelfth Night and "break a leg!" to those who have Almost, Maine callbacks to look forward to.

Also, I finished my first Dubstep/Mashup album for public distribution. It's pretty awesome: Titled "Alpha Lamb." It's pretty cheap too.

This is your reward for reading this post about my life:

New Semesters

I have officially moved into my new apartment at Virginia Tech - it looks awesome, and I couldn't have moved in here without the help of my mother, father, girlfriend, and friends. Thanks, y'all.

Next week classes begin, so this is the calm before the storm. However, there are several things I look forward to this semester.

History of Drama and Theatre: I am actually kind of a history buff (I get this from my parents, especially my dad) so I'm looking forward to HODAT... you may call me crazy.

Violent Political Change: Enough said

Acting Topic: Stage Combat (Unarmed SPT): I'll be furthering my stage combat knowledge this semester, and hopefully will be declared proficient in unarmed stage combat. This class should be very exciting.

Acting Topic: Shakespeare: This class, taught by an amazing teacher, will delve into acting techniques for performing Shakespeare's works. This is the class I most look forward to, as I am a Shakespeare NUT.

Combat, Violent Political Change, A little (fake) history, and Shakespeare all come together to form this glorious thing (shared with me by my good friend Alexis):

What's Been Going On?

Hey everyone.

It's been quite a while since my last post. Let's see, what's happened?

We closed Two Gentlemen of Verona at Agecroft Hall and with it the Richmond Shakespeare Festival. Great festival this year, and I can't wait to see other upcoming Richmond Shakespeare shows.

I was able to see a few of my old friends, and ended my summer internship with Richmond Shakespeare. Then?

I WENT TO NEW YORK. That's an entire post in itself, which shall follow post-haste. (get it, poste-haste? haha)

After New York, I got back and went to my first RVAlution at the Hat Factory, which was pretty kick-ass. In fact, I daresay it was fantastic. Next week's RVAlution theme is Zombies. Go. Please. I'll be moving into my new apartment at VaTech, so someone go take pictures for me. Or check out the awesome RVAlution shots at Dope On Plastic or RVirAl.

I leave you with this. Party on.



Oh and something's up with the stock market. Psh.

Is that a rhetorical question?

Funny story about Scene 2 of Where's Waldo - it's difficult to film at night. It's fairly dark (which is what we were going for) but it is difficult to simulate moonlight when there is no moon.

So we didn't try. As you'll see, when Austin (the director) goes to check on Chris, he leaves his headlights on. This is so that he can see exactly what is going on, and so that we could have some light to film by.

You may notice that it gets dimmer throughout the film... this is because Austin's car battery was slowly dying throughout the shoot. When we wrapped up the scene, we couldn't get his car to start. Note to all aspiring director/actor types: CAR BATTERIES DIE.

And, here is Where's Waldo, Scene 2.

Who is Chris Cage?

We all grew up with "Where's Waldo," and partaking in the live-action parody film has been a blast. I play the lead in the film, as movie star Chris Cage.

Chris is a hotshot movie star, making up for his lack of true acting skills with sheer charm and muscle. He's also a bit of an airhead, but a good-hearted airhead. He is playing the lead in "Where's Waldo" (the film within the film) as the character Mark Knight. So my challenge here was that I was playing several roles - Chris Cage, Chris Cage acting as Mark Knight, and (you'll soon see) Chris Cage actually being Mark Knight. It was a confusing spectrum - I hope you can recognize the differences in characters (I tried to make them obvious through Chris's level of acting talent.)

Without further ado, we at Remember Tommy Productions and Blue Ark Productions present: Part 1 of "Where's Waldo"

Where's Waldo?

It's a been a while since my last post.

Wait Until Dark closed on Saturday (the 23rd). What a talented cast - I learned so much working on that show, and gained invaluable experience. But the best part was the friends I made.

Monday, the 25th marks the release of the first part of "Where's Waldo?" This is the movie project I have been working on for the entire summer, come to fruition. My character, Chris Cage, is a self-important movie star, who's not the brightest and exhibits certain traits of bipolarity. It certainly was an extremely fun movie to work on.

Here's the trailer:

What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been.

Today was a strange day.

Started off with a forced cleaning of the basement. Nothing's really worse than being woken up to throw away childhood memories. Guess it had to happen. Managed to keep my Legos though. Love my Legos.

From there, I baked a pie. Random, I know. It was a lemon meringue pie. So delicious.

After that I went with my dad to help him dump stuff at the landfill. As we left, my dog's chain got stuck in the bumper (she wasn't on the chain, don't worry) yanked the chain from the trees it is secured between, and pulled the entirety of the chain (about 40 feet) behind me for roughly two miles before we realized.

We got to the landfill to discover it was closed on Tuesday. So Dad dropped me off at the gym where I got did too much cardio.

After the gym, I got home and played Left 4 Dead 2 (great game, by the way) and got online to check my Facebook. And sure enough, my friend Kristian Y. had posted something crazy from Tosh.0.

Your turn for the strange. Enjoy.