Summer II (One year later)

A year. Its been a year. I won't apologize for not writing, I think it just means that I have been busy enough to keep my mind from needing a place for the excess. 

 Where to start...in a nut shell this year = Into The Woods (Baker) dream role, blast. 21st birthday, old man! Oklahoma (Will), amazing production, hudge step for the program, top notch direction. Now, I'm in South Carolina finishing up the month long run of the US premier of Monkey: Journey To the West at the Spoleto Festival, written by the Gorillaz. The people here are so crazy punch drunk fun. I love the asians, the food, mafia, drink after drink after drink haha. heading to Forestburgh Playhouse after this on June 8th to start my summer stock contract there, can't wait.

SUMMER

So, it has been a very very long time since i have written. I apologize for lack of up-datage but i have been reeling and now i finally have some time to settle down. So i met a great great person, someone who is so alive and fills me with so much hope and reason. its been amazing, i feel heightened and exhilarated and new and all that washy stuff. Its indescribable and clear and transcendent. that's all.

So Liz and I managed to scrap together a very decent production of The Last Five Years and we raised a good amount of money for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. Rehearsals were rough but I was very happy with the outcome. It was by far one of the most challenging roles that i ever approached. So much depth, not to mention the insanely difficult score but i definitely grew as a performer and i think as a person as well.

Now I am doing summer stock in Maine, playing more specifically Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors. I am having a blast with this role, exploring his growth and the music is just fun to sing. The people here are great, and watch out for my Audry, Mel Beck is going to work so soon you wouldn't believe it, she is truly and inspiration and a talent that makes me stop mid-scene in awe. Im working, i'm happy, im in love, and i have friends. what more can i ask for?

i haven't forgotten either about the new school last summer, not a day goes past that i don't think of all the people and the lessons learned and apply them to my life.

Hope all of you are enjoying this sun, and the water, and the feeling of summer.

:-)

Spring Break or bust!

Heading to the house in laguna tomorrow...i need that sun, and more importantly i need that space, the distance from everything that is "here". I am gonna miss my friends though and i wish they had been able to come with but...this will be nice for me.

i have been thinking so hard lately that it has been hurting, like actual pain in my head.

am i missing something...? or is something missing me. All i know is that it shouldn't be this much work.

And another hundred people just got off of the train...

I feel like I'm in constant motion recently. Like I'm in a crowd and I'm being pushed from place to place, kinda like that feeling you get when your on the cross walk in the city...in between avenues. I guess its ok and I'm getting a lot done so there are positives. Not so much room for expression... but I guess that will come with performance.

Had a really fun weekend. Met some kewl new people and ran into some old friends. It's funny when you run into people that you haven't seen in months/years, go out for some coffee, and all of a sudden you feel like you had seen each other just the day before. The game of catch-up seems to get more simple as i'm getting older.

working now, on stuff from every class.

wishing i was outside in the snow...or maybe inside watching the snow w/someone...someone who hates the snow but would watch it with me anyway because they are awesome.


my new creed: rider people aren't so bad :-)

We will find another way to dance...

Woah, i feel like i was shot into this semester through a magnum and have been reeling ever since. I am sooo insanely busy this semester. Two shows, dance, Phi Mu officer, 20 credits its insane....but i love it. When I was in Cali over the break i had so much time to travel and think on my own. It was incredibly relaxing and for a while i feared coming back to school with such a hectic schedule in place would deprive me of my personal time. It's proven to be the opposite. I like being busy. In the midst of my constant motion I'm finding solace. I'm slowly discovering little bits of me in my activity that are actually kind of exciting.

I start Hip-Hop next week, haha can't wait.

watch me across the floor 5 6 7 8

;-)

Californication


Its beautiful out here. Danny and i flew in the morning after new years. Hang overs and altitude don't mix. still can't look at a coors light. Spent the first three days at my parents house in Laguna beach. No, i don't see the people from the t.v. show. Yes, its hot. Danny and i drove up to LA, went to Universal Studios an so on.


Left for Mexico on Thursday, spent some time in Tijuana, stayed in Ensenada. Good people, really good food. Met a bunch of twenty-somethings in the hot-tub. A Brother and sister from British Columbia. A group of mexican girls celebrating their friends birthday, and a cool guy named Robbie from South America. I ended up having a great night with all of them. We got lost in the beer and the cigars and the talk. I think we were in that tub for almost three hours. Conversation was varied...sex, marijuana, trailers, birthdays, capricorn vs scorpio, spanish slang, college, writing, travel...it was one of those nights. One of those nights where you realize the extent of the world haha even when the people your with seem to be the set up for a bar joke.


Drove out of mexico, waited at the border...let us pass were good people. Torn up mustang, mother, her baby in a sling around her shoulder with a styrofoam cup...but let us pass.


Stayed at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego for a couple nights. The picture of class. It's where Marilyn stayed. Old Hollywood feeling. Gorgeous room with huge balcony. Danny and i went to the beach one night. Stood on the edge of the shore. There's nothing better than the smell of Ocean air. It's healing, and i really do believe that.



Back in Laguna now, here for another two weeks. Liz comes out on Tuesday. Can't wait to see her. I miss those curly locks. indeed.



Current Track : Sunshine Matt Costa

Working on it...haha im workin on it.


the days are blending, moving in and out of eachother since I've been home. It's not a bad thing it's just a little disorienting at times. I'm looking forward to going to our california house next week. Ill be there for almost a month. I need that sun...


feelin good, feeling strong, feeling sure


my brain is fried right now from hours of endless Nintendo Wii playing at ray's.


heres for the winners in the dives and the losers in the best bars...



CHEERS!