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hiimachocoholic's Journal 
so its been a few days. Lifes been crazy. Started casting train track. Looks like its going to be an awesome cast, casting directors are lovely people. :-) Lifes pretty good for the most part, only missing a few things to make it as close to perfect as can be. I've gone back to my starbucks addiction, but its better than smoking I think, and i love starbucks so its worth it. The internet at my new place is very odd. It likes to not work most of the time which annoys me. And then when it does work it likes to stop working randomly which annoys me more. The only really bad thing right now though is that I think my wisdom teeth have to come out. Which is annoying for a few reasons. 1 it means i'll be out for a few days after my surgery. 2 it means i have to pay for the procedure which i can't really do but i think my dad will help for this. 3. it means i'll look like a chipmunk and not be able to eat solid foods for a little bit. and 4(and most annoying of all) my mouth feels like i tried to eat a porcupine and i wont be able to get the procedure for atleast a week. Luckily after this week I'm done with classes till september and i dont start shooting thesis films till august so i guess it could be worst ... i'll update you all with whats going down as i find out though. My friends are awesome! But tonights been an up and down experience ... tomorrow should be fun, but yeah. Sleep well all So I missed yesterdays update and now i'm sitting outside Ceciles audition room being a "greeter" but no one is coming, casting sucks without a casting director. So I'll update now. School was cool yesterday. I got to class late cause I finally fell asleep. So I got to class and helped with the lighting. Then went to my other class, directing actors with Paul Warner, who has in the last couple of weeks has become one of my favorite teachers here. I think its cause he says I do everything right when i'm holding auditions :-p. We held a couple of mock auditions with some actors from school, I had fun in mine. My favorite part of auditions i think is the interview, maybe i should be a talk show host. After school I played hackey with Mike, Cecile and Fausto. Then went home to finish cleaning up for my shin-dig. My shin-dig started out as a bust. A lot of my friends are sick :-(. And more of my friends had work or something to do so they couldn't come. But then Anna showed up and we hung out. Mike and Fausto showed up a little bit later and Mike had brought over some bicardi. SO he and I got drunk, fausto and anna got buzzed and we all went to see evan almighty. It was pretty cool. And I have to say that even though last night started worst than I would have liked it turned into a pretty awesome night. So i still haven't been able to sleep. So I decided to put my room together! And its awesome. Its a tribute to my utter Jonness and awesome in almost everyway possible. From my dork-hood to my film-hood to my intellectual-hood it is all there and then some. I'll try to get some pics of it up or else you can all just imagine. Lenny is also doing very well, I know starbucks argonaut has been wondering. He's got some new dino-friends and his new best friend eddie a lizard is one shelf down. And don't worry casi, he still wears his apron. ;-) Thursday ... yeah ... Ok so let me just start with the fact that my thursday really started yesterday when i was on the phone with my dad. I wont get into much detail but my dad and I were doing budget stuff and he figured that NYFA owes me 900 dollars and he wasn't happy with that and wanted to make sure that all go cleared up. Mike left last night right before I did my post then I got a hair cut, well really a trim. Then my dad called again, and he and i talked for about 2 hours. Then I was all worked up and couldn't sleep so I tried to clean up some, and I couldn't(i'll do that tonight). So I watched movies and finished my book and then went over to the school at 10. I waited for awhile until I saw the financial aid guy who told me to go print out the thing my dad had figured out. All the union square printers were busy so I went to soho, where i ran into my DC teacher and explained to him what was happening and why I wasn't on mikes set(mike knew I wasn't going to be there) Then I went back to USQ and had a big discussion with Tom where he started to be very condescending and was trying to brush me off or talk down to me, and as many of you know that doesn't go over well with me. But I was quite confused over all the numbers he was throwing at me cause they weren't the same my dad were throwing at me late last night and I was really being hit by my sleep deprevation at the time. So I told him that I needed to talk to my dad and he would probably be getting a call from him. And he said then tom totally brushed me off. Then I talked to John about my deposit return, johns the housing guy and much cooler than tom. Then I went back to Soho and onto mikes set and turned into the goffer boy. The rest of the shoot went well, I walked back and forth from the school to behind the school a lot. I got a call from my dad, and if you think I don't take being talked down to well, my dad takes me being talked down to much much worst. So my dad and I are all cool again(we were a little upset with each other after last night) and things are being figured out. We wrapped the shoot. And Mike saw that there were monologue presentations and wanted to go to scout for actors. He asked me to come so I did. I actually had some friends performing in it. AND I was pleasently and happily surprised that unlike a lot of NYFA actors my friends in this class and this class in gerneral was rather good. I saw some people I might want to use for a later project(they wont work for my thesis nor will there schedules.) And Mike saw someone he wants to use for his thesis. THen Mike Fausto Cecile and I hackeyed some. Then we parted ways and Mike came over so we could watch films and maybe work on his script, I'm acting in that one and I'm trying to make my part a little bigger :-p, I'm also AD, its going to be a crazy week shooting his, I'm happy its after mine. And now we're watching a move and I'm making dinner. I plan on cleaning up the apartment tonight cause we're having a "Chillin' at" tomorrow and this time its ".. at Jon's" so yeah. Ok water is boiling over. bye all! Food came out good ... and i still haven't slept ... wheeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok yesterday I dropped two biggies on you and today I'm starting to write these at 1:30 am and I'm pretty tired and have a sort of big day tomorrow? SO today was cool. I woke up, got to sleep in some. Then bummed around my apartment avoiding unpacking or cleaning up. I had a meeting with my producers at 5 but I went down to school around 3. I had to do some banking stuff at HSBC and wasn't sure how long it would take. I got down there and low and behold my banking took all of 10 minutes. So I went over to the school. My classmate paulo was there so I talked to him some. Then set myself up at a table and tried to figure out my "Gadzooks" issue again ... didn't fix it today either. Mike showed up, we hung out. I called my godfather. 5 came around and then I was pleasently surprised by my casting director. Apparently my producers had set up for her to come by so we can square away her schedule. My producers weren't there yet, but she and I talked stuff over. Nadia(one of my producers) came and said Maria(my other one) couldn't make it, oh well. We finished figuring out the casting schedule and I should be fully cast by the end of next week! I'm excited. :-) Then Nadia and I talked over stuff ... and lets just say I love my producers. My meeting was over and Mike and I headed to my place to watch the silent films I had rented so we could do some style research. I then called my godfather again and we're going to meet about my thesis next time he's in NYC. Then I talked with my dad while mike went looking for shots from the films. Turns out NYFA owes me 1000 dollars?! Then we went to dinner with my friend Anna. Then Mike came back to my place and we watched the second half of the Lord of the Rings:Return of the King extended version dvd. And yep that was it. Good day, and now good night! The start of a new age! And that is the rebirth of my almost every day daily blog! I realized while at dinner tonight(thats the story and main subject of this post), that I have been a horrible person. Seriously depriving many of my friends of the goings on in my life. And I just cannot live with that any longer. I am living in NY, this is probably the best and greatest time I've had in my life, but there are so many people out there who I love and care about who aren't here to enjoy it with me. And I can't stand thinking that you have no clue what is happening with me. I barely have time to talk to people from home online, I only really keep up with people through live journal or their facebook/myspace posts and they with mine. But up till now I have no facebook notes really(nor do I think I will start that at this point, one step at a time.) My myspace posts tend to be months apart and my LJ posts are sporadic at best. But not anymore! A new dawn is here! *tahdah*(i think i spelled that sound wrong :-/) Anyways down to buisness. I'm at film school and loving it. The new profile pic is of me operating a panivision 35mm camera for my classes 35 mm workshop, thats the same kind of camera that most feature films are shot on and I was the camera operator(for one scene and Director of Photography for all the scenes in my section). It was a lot of fun, the camera is one of the new loves of my life! But too much has happened for me to back track over all the equipment and my past NY adventures. Just know that I am very into lighting and camera work now and though I fully plan on becoming a very successful director very quickly I'm starting to put together a cinematography reel as a back up. (go look at my my space or these pics http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu So on to todays adventures. I got to school at around 9:20 because I had directing actors and I had to act in that class today. We were practicing auditions but no one had planned for actors to be there so all heads turned to me since I'm the only past actor in the class. I've been acting a lot for my class lately, last week an actor bailed on us at 35mm so instead of grabbing another actor from the school I ended up playing a bum, but what a bum I was(see my pics ;-)) Well I got to school at 9:20 and I was one of the first ones there. I hung out and got bored and ended up sitting in a chair watching all the timezone clocks ... according to the NYFA clocks Mexico City and Tokoyo are onlye 1hr and 55mins apart, I think they might be off by a bit. Then my teacher Paul Warner showed up and he asked me where my actors were and I said they were getting screen tested ... I got a casting director for my thesis and he knows this so we had a laugh at that. And then he asked if i could print out sides so if no one else wanted to practice I could and I did. Then 5 minutes before class was going to start I was still the only one there and it was odd. But by the time class started there were 5 of us and my friend Cecile "auditioned" first. I acted for her but it was tough cause the character i was auditioning for was far from the usual physical or comedic characters I used to play. BUt i made it through and so did the rest of the class. And then we did one of my scenes, my friend fausto really got into auditioning for me which was awesome. Later that day we had a PW prep with our directing teacher and cinematography teacher. My friend Mike is directing and his script is crazy, I love it. That whole thing culminated in French(thats my nickname for Cecile, she's french) and I "arguing" she was trying to make fun of me doing Jew jokes and I was giving her a hard time of it and refusing to take the insult :-p it was fun! After classes we had a big hackey sack game. My crew and I are really into playing hackey sack, it gives us something to focus on other than work for a change and its a big stress reliever on and off set which is really really important and good, and we're somewhat good at it, at least for novices. We've even gotten teachers and TAs into the game. We're cool with anyone playing, its just for fun after all and we always give each other a hard time. After that Mike, Fausto, Cecile and I went out to dinner. We walked around SoHo and somehow ended up going to little italy again, even though last time we were there we were screwed over AND it almost happened again, though we went to different restraunts. When we got our check they had added on an 18% gratuity which isn't that bad if we had money and weren't poor film students who all had thesis films to pay for I wouldn't care much, but the check was about 69 dollars without the added on 18% and somehow it jumped to 81 dollars. Now I still wouldn't mind that if the waiter had done anything but take our order, but thats all he did, he didn't even bring us our food another waitress did. They had said on the check that gratuity was added so I figured that it was probably on the menu somewhere so I asked to see a menu. Sure enough at the bottom it said "For parties of 5 or more an 18% gratuity will be added." Ok cool, wait! Me ... Fausto ... Mike ... and Cecile ... ... THATS FOUR. and we're poor. So I called the waiter over asked him about it he got the manager, the manager was very apologetic saying that it was only suggested and trying to cover for their mistake. It was all cool. And we left the guy with a 11 dollar tip all the same. But for some reason it was a great end to an awesome dinner with my friends. We got Cecile a cab to take her home and the Mike Fausto and I took the subway to union square, we started talking about our films then, mainly mine cause somehow we got to talking about voice overs somehow. Mike left us to go back to brooklyn, fausto and i headed up town fighting over cameras and now I am here. All in all today was a pretty awesome day all around ... I wonder what tomorrow will bring?! Current mood:  happy.
I'm homeless right now and staying at my friends anna and gretchen's until i can move into my new apartment tomororw/thursday. And the person who is subletting gretchen's room is a basketball fan. So we're watching basketball right now. Moral of the story: Basketball makes me miss hockey, :-( The ducks fucking suck! but yay for getting a casting director ... fuck you ducks |
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