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    Friday, February 24th, 2006
    4:17 pm
    From Heaven Is Boring to Moonchildren
    It's been an interesting couple of weeks since Script Happens.

    I'm in Moonchildren! Hooray! Woot! And all those other phrases that indicates that I'm excited! I'll be playing as Ralph, a young man trying to pay his way through law school by selling encyclopedias. Last night was the first read through of the show. I think everyone that Bob picked is insanely well casted and I'm thrilled to be working with people I've been in shows before and the new faces that are in this. Just by the read alone, I'm even more excited to be apart of this and I know this is going to be a great show for people coming to see it. Tomorrow is the first blocking rehearsal which I'm really looking forward to.

    Styles Clash is coming along nicely. I still have to get Scott Thomas to record his lines for his character, John. He has been busy with his work for Sight Unseen, but he's up for this and wants to do this voice over thing as soon as he can. I've already gotten lines from some of the voice actors.

    Webcomic wise, I've written the first draft for the second chapter of the story. I've gotten some designs from Vanessah for chapter 1 and they look great. By the time Moonchildren rolls around in April, the comic will have been up for a bit and some strips from chapter 1 will be up as well.

    Until next time
    Sunday, February 12th, 2006
    6:37 pm
    When Script Happens
    Let's get the USS Juggernaut of journal entries started.

    First of all, I want to announce that I am starting a webcomic called "Life Study". After going through so many webcomics myself and becoming a big fan of the medium, I decided that I should give it a try. Life Study is going to be a very ambitious venture on a couple of levels, but I feel that this webcomic can work. I have enough confidence in myself as a writer to attempt this and faith in the artist's/co-developer Vanessah Howard has in her craft http://earthbound2.comicgenesis.com/d/20060206.html
    Stay tuned for more updates on this as it develops.

    Before I get into the events of Script Happens, which includes my list of personal favorite originally written second stage plays, I want to mention and talk about two webcomics I've recently discovered that are now my number ten and nine favorite webcomics, replacing Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Megatokyo

    10. Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicolas Gurewitch http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html
    A very absurd webcomic that I've grown to enjoy, mostly because it's so different from a lot of webcomics out there... well... at least what I read. Some of the strips are a bit edgy and at times offensive, they're are some really clever and imaginative strips that to be honest going through the strips, I laughed more than I did when I went through all of Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

    9. Stubble by Josh Mirman http://www.stubblecomics.com/d/20030815.html
    Talking about this webcomic is one of the reasons why I'm writing this entry today. First of all, Stubble is made by the same guy that does Punks and Nerds whose art style I'm becoming a big fan of. This is a comic Josh started in 2000. It's a coming of age story that starts with a purple haired angst junior in High School named Clint Wilson. What makes me a fan of this story webcomic is the blend of humor and drama. They go from funny to drama and drama to funny at the right moments. Unlike, Megatokyo, it's not hard or a chore to go through the whole thing from the start. Also, it's fun to see how the artist redefine his style over the years
    Examples:
    Year one: http://www.stubblecomics.com/d/20001023.html
    Year two: http://www.stubblecomics.com/d/20011024.html
    Year three: http://www.stubblecomics.com/d/20030131.html
    Year four: http://www.stubblecomics.com/d/20040225.html
    Year five: http://www.stubblecomics.com/d/20041203.html
    For anyone looking for a compelling and funny story webcomic to read, I highly recommend this one.
    Favorite character[s]: Clint, Lana, Jack, Josh, Timmy, Shane, Roland

    Where to begin about my time in Heaven is Boring? I know! I'll start at the uh.... beginning... heh... [ahem]
    An interesting piece of trivial trivia is that I was originally going to be in Fertilicorp in a non speaking role as Lawrence [Suzy Kimball's character] assistant that would pass things arounds to there Johnsons. Scott Thomas gave me a call on a Sunday, telling me that he was editing the script to include more characters and something he wanted to do was have an assistant that would be moving around and what not. Something that require a lot of blocking. I was excited about the chance to be apart of Fertilicorp, I'm not joking, I'm serious. Just from that call from Scott showing me how much energy he has for this and the new script that he was using made me really believe in it. It was a fun script to read and I couldn't wait for the first rehearsal.

    Later that day, I got a call from Chris Walsh [the director of one of the plays, "Heaven is Boring"]. He told me that someone he cast as Jesus had to drop out of the play due to some commitments the week of the show. I found that Chris and Scott basically made a trade for me to go from Fertilicorp to Heaven is Boring. My honest reaction was, "Sweet! A speaking role! But I still would have enjoyed my time in Fertilicorp if I didn't get traded." Everytime I saw a run of Fertilicorp I always get that thought of, "That would have been really fun to be in." But I was still excited to be in Heaven is Boring none the less.

    Rehearsals for Heaven is Boring, I'll remember as being very efficient and productive in a faster pace than most plays I've been in. For someone directing for the first time, Chris really knew what he was doing. He had his vision, but he also was open in letting the actors experiment, which as an actor is great. I always love experimenting with my characters and adding more newonces to delivery and body language.

    Sometime in the early stages of rehearsals, I pitched to Chris that I would mix the sound and music cues. I had some experience prior with my radio play version of Pants and other various projects. Chris gave me a chance and I knew I wouldn't let him down. My first idea of when I got to mix the sound was that I would bring in someone outside the theatre company to do the voice over line at the start of the play. I didn't have to look far. I instantly thought of someone who I met in the voice acting alliance who always wanted to be in something original like a second stage play and was a fan of second stage himself and that person was, Mustafa Jaffer. I am proud that I could get someone from the VAA to do the line to showcase talent that the VAA has to the theatre company.

    Getting into this role was something I'll think back of being a little bit easy than most roles. I realized early on that this character had a lot more likeable qualities to him than most of the characters I've had in second stage. Getting the lines memorized wasn't too difficult... well except the God names... but eventually it came to me and I can still recite them off the top of my head, all 27 of them.

    Working with the cast in this was great. Bob, Randy, Nathan and Kurt are four talented actors that really went above and beyond and delivered the goods. I hope to work with them again in the future as well as Chris and Tina. I can easily see Chris direct more shows in the future.

    I can say that all three nights, performances for all four shows were pretty consistent. Opening night we got around 30-40 people which is nice for an opening night. Friday night was around 90, and Saturday was 105, again, great turn outs.

    The cast party was fun, although it kind of went pretty fast considering that it started earlier than most cart parties. I can say that I may the only person that made it to breakfast, even though there were seven people left by around 6:30 AM. I figured, I could wait a few minutes in Market square until Reggie's opened.

    My last thought on Script Happens in general: a lot of fun, a lot of laughs, a lot of great memories, new friendships made, and once again, looking forward to the next one.

    Ryan's list of personal favorite originally written Second Stage plays
    I've been meaning to go through this list for months, but I decided to wait until after Script Happens to decide which plays from that show to put in the list. Pretty much all four of them made them. Now, I want to make something clear, the plays that are not listed on the list are not plays that I hated or didn't enjoy, far from it. Since I started with Second Stage, my opinions on all the plays are that I through ally enjoyed pretty much all of them. Well, I will be frank and blunt to say that the only SCRIPT I hate is the script to Sports Desk. When I watch it, I enjoy the performances, not the writing. Some plays not on the list that I still find amusing and entertaining like Entropia or Sausagoos I still like because they accomplish their goal of telling a story. As comedies, they got big laughs. Same goes with the dramas like Solitaire and Through My Fat Eyes, they have a thought out story that the writers wanted to tell. This list is basically plays that have resonated in my mind ever since I first saw them. Of course, I have yet to seen some of the early works like Journey With Dad, Three Burglars, Table for Two, etc, but I would like to someday.

    Also, this is a list of the originally written plays, not the outside stuff that I always felt were plays that's really divided by the audiences. My take on that occurrence is that people from this city who are not die hard theatre fans, but go to the shows to see something different from a movie or a TV show, are more enticed to stories written by people in the same area more easy than outside material. Not to say that I personally haven't enjoyed any of the outside stuff like Penguin Blues, Sure Thing, Trout, Ourtown, etc, in fact if I had to list some of my all time favorite plays of all time that I've seen in Second Stage: I would include a lot of them. but the outside plays, to me, don't have the same impact that these locally written plays have on me.

    Onto the list:

    10 1/2- Coconut- Written by Dan Culberson, Directed by Jay Rawding- When Brian first showed me a copy of the script, I was scratching my head and finding the script a bit ridiculous. "Why does this guy like touching coconuts?" "What's the meaning behind that?" But, wouldn't you know it, when Brian, Julie and Dee performed it, people laughed, they enjoyed it, and so did I.

    10- Fertilicorp- Written by Jon Forward, Directed by Scott Thomas- A very energetic piece that had a very energetic director behind it. The cast delivered a nice sharp pace with the dialogue and the slides were an assortment of great visual jokes that I calculated that probably at least half of them had that kind of shocked surprise at the first and then laughter. A great way to open Script Happens.

    9- The Playwright- Written by M.C. Nini, Directed by Jenn Mabey- This was actually a play I had some trepidations going into, because I didn't know if people would easily accept the repartee of it, but to see it and how the actors delivered it in that upper British way was a real treat to see. This was also a play for some reason I could relate to. Clovis as a struggling writer getting notes upon notes on things hits home with me.

    8- Death and Babies- Written by Dan Culberson, Directed by John Mazerolle- I've heard a lot of, "That play was a bit dark" from a lot of people, and I'll admit, it's a tad bit more dark than some of Dan's other scripts, but it's definitely one of his best. I found the characters engaging and in the case of Willow's character, adorable. It had some of my favorite offbeat and bizarre lines that come out of nowhere and make me chuckle every time I think about them.

    7- Heaven is Boring- Written by Anthony Stuart, Directed by Chris Walsh- It's very hard for me to say much about this one considering that I was in it and didn't see as an audience member yet. But I can shed some light why I still would put it on my list. First of all, this is a nice take on what could happen to people when they enter heaven. If things weren't exactly what we imagined they can be, then we would very much like Mike Touche: very confused/shocked at first, but eventually ease into things once you realize that it's still paradise. Second, the script itself is both humorous and touching at the same time.

    6- The Red Glove- Written by Bet O'Toole, Directed by Andrea Arbour- A tour de-force of vignettes with different sets of characters ranging in different ages. My favorite piece in it was actually the non-speaking music piece with the homeless man and bag lady. The two dialogue pieces with the married couple and the young man and women had that sense of reliability in it which is something I believe can really sink an audience into getting the story more. If you can relate to the story, you are on board with everything and any jokes that the characters say, you'll react to, because you're already on board with it. The God/Satan exchange was very funny and had lines that I quote a lot.

    5- Doomsday Clock- Written by Scott Marshall, Directed by Andrea Arbour- This was a play that I remember thinking, "Wow, this is a fucking great play." Not just because it had two women kissing in it, but it also had great dialogue and relatable characters in it. I'm going to echo something John Mazerolle put in his blog when he made his list of second stage plays by saying, "Wish I'd thought of that."

    4- Coelacanth- Written by David Brooks, Directed by Andrea Arbour- Third time in a row, that Dre's directing is on my list and that's certainly one reason why I enjoyed numbers 6, 5 and 4. Dre is a very committed person that her love for theatre really shows with the plays that she directs. Now, the play itself just from a script had a structure that I really liked. It had two scenes in it. First scene was set in a fish market that had many characters on stage at once and the second scene had back and forth dialogue with two characters that starts calmly and then builds with intensity and hilarity. This had a lot of funny line readings in this that are just gut busting hilarious when the actors perform them. Two of my all time favorite lines [which might be another list to make in the future] come from this play. Doug the fishmonger going, "Hey, not in front of my stand." and Mabel going, "You think he's on drugs?!".

    3- Pants- Written and Directed by Dan Culberson- Ever since I first started with Second Stage, I kept hearing about this play called, "Pants". I didn't see it when it was staged back in 2003. So for months, I kept hearing people telling me, "Oh, you should have seen it! It was really funny". So, finally a few months ago, second stage had a screening of a few previously staged plays. Some I've seen before. Some I haven't seen like The Author's Voice, Sausagoos and Pants. So, here I was sitting there watching Pants for the first time. I had this feeling of, "Man, I really wish I would seen this live as an audience member back then." I was really enjoying this piece even as a VHS quality video on a screen. What I'll remember most from that night was after we all watched Pants, Josh Landry turning around to everyone saying, "That was messed up." and that phrase getting a huge laugh. Pants has some of the best examples of what I like about dialogue in a play.

    2- Photoshop Time- Written by Scott Marshall, Directed by Jay Rawding- For about a year before I was in the stage production, I was completely obsessed with this script. The first time I read it was at a gathering with people like Scott, Lisa, Dre, Brian, John, Dan, Kristi, maybe a couple of others and maybe not all of those people I listed even read parts, it's a bit sketchy. All I remember was reading for Burt. I read for Burt again at a public reading at the loft months after that first reading. So for the longest time before I got the role of Burt, I would at some time or another read this script and taken back/laughing my ass off at the antics of these characters, getting into the story of Neil and Carmen. Thinking how much the friendship of Neil and Alan reminds me of my friendship with Ed. When I worked at a call center for about a month before Christmas, I brought a copy of the script to read during those long stretches between calls and sometimes those stretches were pretty long. I had grown really fond of this script and when Jay called me to tell me that I was going to be Burt, I couldn't be any happier to be apart of it. Terrific and believe characters. Quotable quotes with the lines, and a funny and compelling story that is like an exciting roller coaster to watch. This and Chain Reaction are my two favorite Scott Marshall scripts.

    1- Ashes- Written by Anthony Stuart, Directed by John Mazerolle- This took me awhile to decide whether Photoshop Time or Ashes would get the #1 nod on my list and after a long time of consideration, I decided to give that nod to Ashes and when I think about it, out of all the plays I've seen in Second Stage, Ashes truly is my absolute favorite. I loved it when I saw on stage and my love for it got even bigger as I put more and more work as a director/producer for the radio play version that I'm working on [it'll be done someday, trust me]. Jimmy is my favorite Gilbert Boyce role. Him and Tammy had terrific chemistry with their characters and how they interact with each other from the tiniest of detail. There's nothing I like more with the pacing of this play than good back and forth conversation that's melded with great story telling of the speeches by Jimmy about the adventures him and Buck had.

    There you have it, I hope this list doesn't invoke any ill feelings to anyone and any play I didn't mention. I'm not trying to start a war of worded opinions about the plays. These are just plays that I enjoy a lot. I'm sure there are people out there that have their own personal list and probably have different variations as well. If they make their own list out I would like to read it and see what they have to say about plays they've enjoyed.

    End long post
    -Ryan

    Current Mood: accomplished
    Current Music: Night Train by the Bouncing Souls
    Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
    10:21 pm
    Stay Tuned
    Stay tuned for Sunday. I'll have a long and interesting post about Script Happens, my top ten originally written second stage one acts, some more webcomic praise, including some new ones that are on my top ten list and much more!
    Friday, January 20th, 2006
    12:03 pm
    I am slack
    I've been meaning to post an entry on here but I've been busy with some things.

    Since the last entry, I've gotten a role for the upcoming second stage one acts. I'll be playing Jesus [that's why I've been growing the beard incase anyone was wondering] for a play written by Anthony Stuart called Heaven Is Boring. I've had a couple of rehearsals so far and last night was our first run of getting the blocking down. This has been a lot of fun so far and it's great to be back doing some stage acting after all these months writing and what not.

    http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/showthread.php?t=10643 something I did using my improvised writing method

    Here are some links that EVERY Simpsons fan should check out

    http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?t=51876
    http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?t=53574
    These are some Q&A threads with two former Simpsons showrunners, very informative and funny

    http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content?040119fr_archive01
    An extensive article on long time Simpsons writer, George Meyer

    Tomorrow I have another rehearsal for Heaven is boring and I'll be going to the improv show at the Gothic Arches.
    Sunday, January 1st, 2006
    5:46 pm
    killing the boredom beast with a little thing called journal entry writing... aka the new years post
    Here we are the first day in the new year. I won't bore you with an extensive "look back in 2005" type of post. I can sum up 2005 in one sentence: It was a better year than 2004 for me for the most part.

    During the holidays I finished [at least a couple of drafts] of a script called The Pizza With The Intellect Of A Raisin, using a method I'm developing called Improv writing. It's a script that's a bit more wild and random than some of my recent stuff, but it's something I'm glad I wrote and proud of.

    New Years Eve was fun, a nice get together at Chris and Suzy's place on Duke. A laid back party for the most part.

    Now, onto the progress on the progress of the production of Styles Clash. I have the female roles cast and I'm starting to get more and more auditions and I'll be getting some auditions from people in my area as well. The deadline for auditions is only days away and there may be need of an extension but who knows. Right now I'm getting more and more excited about this project. It'll be interesting to direct a 15 plus cast for something like this.

    I am looking forward to the auditions for the next evening of Second Stage one acts. From the plays that were read a couple of months, they have a good assortment of scripts to choose from.

    Now, onto something I promised on my last post, webcomics. I have a top ten list of my favorite webcomics. Let's begin.

    10. Ctrl Alt Delete by Tim Buckley http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20050420
    I'll start the list with a comic that does what a lot of webcomics base their content on, Video Games. Video Games in general is something that's a no brainer to have in your comics to talk about, to satirize, etc. Most of the people that view webcomics are video game junkies anyway so they'll get the humor. Ctrl Alt Delete is number ten for me because even though I enjoy it for the humor and the characters, it doesn't have that instant appeal to me to always check for the latest strip. Basically I can just leave it alone for a month and enjoy seeing the strips that have been uploaded during that time.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Lucas

    9. Megatokyo by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=336
    Now, I want to get something off my chest. Here's my 2 cents on anime/magna/what have you. There are times when I enjoy that style depending on what I'm seeing. If the often outrageous poses fit with the character and story, then that's fine with me, but if happens just for silly reasons or for no reasons, then I just hate it. I also have an opinionated opinion about some of the voice acting that goes into it at times, but that's something that be discussed on another post. The comic itself is probably the more complicated ones out there. It's widely popular, so much that it's one of the rare webcomics where the creator can make a living profit off of it. Originally Megatokyo followed the gag a day format in the vein of a Penny Arcade, Ctrl Alt Delete, but when Rodney Caston left the strip in 2002, it became a more romantic comedy/drama type of comic, which is fine by me because it let's itself grow more than just your usual gag a day comic about video games. But even in it's early stages, the gag a days were apart of a story, a story that continues to this day. My real problem with it and you can get a good closer inspection of what I'll say here: http://www.websnark.com/archives/2004/08/you_had_me_and.html I put this link up because it shares pretty much the same opinion I have with the comic, but the difference is, I still give Megatokyo a chance. Here's my opinion: The story... is... a ... very... slow... story... and.... really... slowly.... progresses and this is coming from a writer who overwrites. The design for the characters, particularly the female ones are confusing and hard to pick out whose who for the most part. I have a theory that character should be indefinable in silhouette so you can always pick them out from a crowd. For new readers, you have to basically start from strip number 1 to get the story and that's basically what I consider annoying in webcomics. But I still give Megatokyo a chance. I bought some of the books to get into the story more and to get a better understanding of it, but for new readers, unless you're a big fan of anime/magna, don't waste your time on it.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Piro, Largo and Seraphim

    8. Shortpacked by David Willis http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20050706.html
    This is a webcomic that really makes me smile and is always a treat to go through the archives. It's about a group of people working at a toy store and the jokes and some of the story threads in it revolve around toys and it gives me a nice nostalgic feeling when they discuss the toys from when I was much younger. It also gave me inspiration for a webcomic that I had cooking in my mind before I decided to turn the idea into a cartoon [stay tuned in the next little while to learn more on that]. Actually, I feel Shortpacked would make an interesting animated series. The dialogue between these characters just cracks me up because of how serious they are when they talk about toys.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Ethan, Robin

    7. Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break by Jin Wicked http://crap.jinwicked.com/?comic=208
    A series of sketches/gag a days that is basically satire on everything politics to pop-culture. It was originally as the title details, strips that the author made during her lunch break at her day job and also the comic is a story about the life of the author in a humorous and cynical way.. I do recommend new readers to go from strip 1 to the current. My favorite thing about this comic are the poses for the drawing, just take the sample strip I put by the name. Very expressive on the faces of the character and body language.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Jin

    6. Loserz by Erik Schoenek http://loserz.scribblekid.org/index.php?id=82
    I don't have a lot of stuff to say about this one compared to a lot of the comics on this list but why it's on this list and at number is basically that I enjoy how relatable it is and in some way, takes me back to my High School memories. The only thing I hate about the strip are the antics of two animal side characters that are I believe the scrabby doo of the comic.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Ben, Eric, Jodie

    5. Punks and Nerds by Josh Mirman http://www.punksandnerds.com/d/0049.html
    Incase you were never aware of it, I am a big fan of when characters dissect pop culture and this webcomic is full of that. What's great about Punks and Nerds is at times the strips will have some animation to it, like the one I put by the name and the fact that the poses are so outlandish and outrageous but they fit so well with the lines that it makes a punchline funnier. Highly recommend going through the archive if you're a big geek like I am when it comes to people talking about TV shows, Movies, video games, etc.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Mike, Brad, Jade, Bruceman the Stupendous

    4. Sore Thumbs by Owen Gieni and Chris Crosby http://www.sorethumbsonline.com/d/20040705.html
    The title on the main page says it all: Insane Political Gaming Manga-Type Comics. One of the best story comics that is really fun to through the archive. The story and characters are so crazy and absurd that you'll enjoy how crazy and absurd everything about this comic is. For example, the main setting of this comic is set in a video game store but I would say the content is at most 15% about video games. The real humor in this is how right wing the character Fairbanks is. But he's a great character that even though he's very upfront on his view on things that can be annoying and overbearing he actually has a lot of depth to him that you'll find yourself enjoying and laughing out loud at how opinionated he is.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Fairbanks, Harmony

    3. Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques http://questioncontent.net/view.php?comic=341
    A webcomic that has influenced me in my writing. Your basic story webcomic, where it's more character interaction than most. A lot of the strips, the punchline comes through a sequence of dialogue than just your basic, set up and then punchline. Also, it's not just one punchline a strip, hell they come in 3 and 4 deep. Joke after joke basically. It's almost like a Kevin Smith movie... but in webcomic form and the characters talk about indy music instead of Star Wars.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Marten and Faye

    2. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/26
    Oh, Penny Arcade, does your genius knows no bound? With your quote able quotes and crazy antics. That's why you're #2
    Favorite Character or Characters: Tycho and Gabe

    1. Player Vs Player by Scott Kurtz http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20031002
    Why is this #1 you ask? Well after much thought and going through a lot of the strips in these webcomics, I decided to give the #1 spot to Player Vs Player. As someone who grew up reading the funnies in newspapers, I dig the style PvP that the author himself is influenced by. Like Penny Arcade, PvP has been popular and successful enough where the author can make a living profit from his work. Now here's the real deal why this is my favorite webcomic... it has the bext blend of humor and emotion that I have ever seen in a webcomic. It's both a gag a day and story thread comic where if you go through the whole thing, you'll never have to intake so much like a Megatokyo. You get a week of gags and then a week of a story revolving around the characters in a situation both professional and personal. The characters have so much depth to them that you'll find yourself either relating to them or have that feeling of, "Oh I know someone whose exactly like so and so". I'll say this now, PvP is like the Simpsons of webcomic, they talk about almost everything pop culture based. I highly HIGHLY recommened anyone reading this to check out the comic and buy the prints.
    Favorite Character or Characters: Cole, Brent, Jade, Skull, Francis, Marcy


    That's it for now. Stay tuned next time for more about Styles Clash and other webcomics that didn't make my top ten but still worthy of a mention.
    Friday, December 23rd, 2005
    1:47 pm
    two days before Christmas post
    I've been meaning to write something in this thing about webcomics but I'll save that post for another time.

    Nothing much to really write about in detail. It's been pretty dull, with the exception of going to the 10th PSX and watching some kickass wrestling.

    http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/showthread.php?t=9488&page=10&pp=10
    I did a recent interview on the VAA forum. Check it out and other great interviews.

    That's it for now, happy holidays everyone!
    Thursday, December 1st, 2005
    5:10 pm
    Work and Write
    The title right there says it all. That's pretty much what I've been doing for the past few days, working at ole' Radio Shack and then coming home to work on the script for Styles Clash... hmmm... that's a good segway to lead into...

    The progress on the progress of the production of Styles Clash
    After going through the archives for two webomics I discovered the night before, I finished what I hope to be the final draft of the script. This is the draft that I want to lead into production with. I'm getting designs left and right from the animator. Scott is very close to giving me his designs. They've both pitched some jokes and sight gags, which make me smile and remind me why I wanted to write this in the first place, to make it a collaboration and to hear ideas being thrown around. I was going to have a table read for this the other night but due to some circumstances, I decided to cancel it. This script has been one of if not my most favorite writing experience.

    So tomorrow, I'm going to be working on some mixing for one of my radio sketches. I won't tell you which one, you'll just have to wait and see what it is.

    Looking forward to Sunday for the public reading for scripts that have been submitted to Second Stage.

    That's it for now.
    -Ryan
    Thursday, November 17th, 2005
    7:44 pm
    More writing my thoughts down
    Just before I start this, I just want to give a shout out to the people involved with Christmas Carol. Break a leg, best of luck with the run of the show over the next couple of days. I wish I could have gone to see the show, but this unpredictable schedule I get at ole' Radio Shack...

    Anywho...

    Thanks for the comments, Jessica and Lisa. I'm still putting my head around that fact that Eddie Guerrero is gone. That's the feeling that a lot of people in the business have right now. I watched the first Eddie tribute show WWE is doing this week, and man... talk about emotion... I still get teary eyed when I think of the "Thank you, Eddie" chants that the crowd gave. A lot of them, during close ups to the crowd, they were crying... and how the roster during the ten bell salute and their interview segments on their memories on Eddie were breaking down in tears, especially my all time favorite wrestler, Chris Benoit, who was one of Eddie's best friends. Who wouldn't get a little choked up during something like that?

    Tonight is part two of the Eddie tribute on Smackdown

    Now, onto other things

    I've decided that during the course of the production of Styles Clash that I'll write a lot of the progress of the... production... yes...

    So, first entry on the progress on the production of Styles Clash, at this point I have an animator and two character designers. We're aiming for a December start to hold auditions. December first will also be my deadline to finalize the script. Jay, the animator has some suggestions for casting and a lot of suggestions he's made, I agree, but I want to hold auditions anyway and not precast... although I have pre cast myself as one of the characters that shows up in the chat room scenes. Jay, also mentions that the people that he would like to see cast have read the first draft of the script and want to try out, which is a cool thing to hear as a writer.

    Talking to a friend of mine at the mall one day during my one and only break from work each day [that lasts roughly 30 minutes, if I even get an option to have a break, depending on what kind of shift I get] has given me an idea of what one of the main characters should sound like, I even offered the guy a role, but he declined. I won't mention his name at this point, but I can tell anyone interested if they ask me through e-mail, off the record off course.

    I've seen some character designs from Jay and still waiting for some from Scott Marshall, but we're not rushing this. When I post auditions on the VAA board, I'll send an e-mail to everyone I know in the theatre company that are big cartoon fans/would be great to do something like this and might have an interest to do this.

    At work, when I'm not busy doing work, which is an off and on occurrence whenever there are no belligerent, surly, stupid, moronic, chatty, etc customers coming in or being condescended to by a co-worker of mine who has the "advantage" of being an employee just 3 weeks longer than I have, and therefore believes she's my supervisor... anyway, during those quiet moments, I write down notes on my notebook about some ideas for this cartoon. I'll go on right now and say that Radio Shack has given me ideas on a couple of scripts I like to write in the future. It somehow charges my batteries to handle the hours and talking with customers with more sincerity and with a more pleasant voice than my co-worker/"supervisor".

    Stay tuned for the second installment of "the progress on the production of Styles Clash"

    -Ryan

    Current Mood: creative
    Current Music: A NES cover verison of "Eye of the tiger" if you can believe it
    Monday, November 14th, 2005
    8:46 pm
    Been awhile... some good news and some sad news
    I figured since I have some time to kill before watching RAW tonight, I'll write in this journal.

    Still getting use to the job at Radio Shack. Someday's are good and I make a lot of sales, other days, I make one blunder after another.

    Probably the only big thing to talk about it is the fact that I having one of my scripts being made into a 3 part animated mini-series. I'll get into more detail about it soon.

    Got some really depressing news yesterday that one of my favorite wrestlers, Eddie Guerrero passed away. He was only 38... when I first heard the news about Eddie's death... I could barely move. As I type this, it's only a couple of hours before RAW where they are doing a tribute to him and I still can't believe that he's gone. He was one of the greatest wrestlers to ever wrestle. He was one of the greatest performers to ever perform. He came from a long history of wrestling in his family. His dad, the legendary Gory Guerrero was an institution in Mexican wrestling. All of his Eddie's brothers wrestled. Each of them had some success, but none didn't reach the level of fame that Gory had except Eddie, and some would say that Eddie was at a level of fame higher than his dad's. Eddie had that incredible gift of being loved by the fans one second and then getting their boos and taunts the next just by simple gestures of doing something underhanded. There are two matches Eddie had that stick in my mind: His ECW farewell match with Dean Malenko back in 95 and his IC title defense against Rob Van Dam in a ladder match on May 27, 2002 [my 17th birthday]. But Eddie had many more great matches besides just those two.

    Eddie had a lot of personal demons in his life... but he is a living example that you can overcome and bounce back. His death was a heart failure. He had told his nephew, Chavo, who is also one of my favorites, that he has been living clean for 4 years now.

    Dave Scherer of PWInsider said it best, "I still can't believe he's gone..."

    That's what a lot of people who either knew Eddie well or enjoyed his work must be thinking about quite a lot since this happened.

    RIP Eddie
    Thursday, September 29th, 2005
    6:38 pm
    New Found Job
    After a long period of time, I have finally found a job. No more sleeping in, no more 24/7 effort on my writing and radio plays, no more feeding my slacker lifestyle with lounging around-oes. It's time to make some money and earn a living. Oh yes... I forgot to mention where the place I'm working at is... I'm working at the Radio Shack/The Source out in the Lancaster Mall on the West Side.

    In other news, I've gotten some work done on the Photoshop Time radio play. I got act 2 mixed, although I'm going to ask for some retakes on lines for that Act but also some other lines for the other acts. Parkbench'95, I've gotten lines from half of my cast and I'm really impressed with their work.

    That's it for now, I'm considering starting an actual blog site, something like, "Crap I Wrote on My Lunchbreak" sort of a ohmage of the webcomic, "Crap I Drew on My Lunchbreak"
    Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
    12:03 pm
    Sing the Praises of Pants
    Hey guys, a week since I got it produced but I'll put the link for anyone who wants to listen to my first produced radio play: Pants
    http://www.voiceacting.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=7886

    I've had some time to think about everything surrounding this radio play. While I'll admit, more time should have been made to make the mixing more smoother, for a radio play mixed within a 24 hour period, it's actually not that bad.

    So, I'll deem the project a moderate success in my eyes. There will be people who either love it or hate for whatever reason, but you can't deny that Pants is something original.

    Just another quick shout out to the cast, who some of them are going to be apart of the Entropia radio play that I currently have fully cast and when I get started mixing Ashes and Photoshop Time, I'll work with the actors on that as I work with the actors for a radio play I wrote myself called Parkbench '95. Regarding the stage version of the script for that, I was going to submit it for Second Stage but a friend of mine is interested in having it staged for something he's starting up, so I gave him the script. I was thinking of writing something else for the calling of scripts by Second Stage, but with work on these radio plays and what not, I don't have enough time or energy to do something like that. Well, there is always next year.

    In movie news for the indy movie I'm in. All my stuff for the movie is filmed, so I can rid of the side burns I've been sporting for the past little while. I'm looking forward in seeing some of the footage we shot and of course a well deserved wrap party for all the hardwork from every side of this production, the directing, producing, acting, crew work, etc. I want to mention at this time that the character I played, Ben is probably one of my favorites and if I ever update my website, it'll definitely go on my top five favorite roles I've ever had.

    As I write this, I'm waiting for the lines from people for radio plays like Ashes and PST, it's the deadline time, but they assure me they'll send me their lines as fast as they can. No rush. Hopefully I'll have something to work with very soon.

    That's it for now
    -Ryan
    Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
    11:35 am
    Radioplays to Movies
    It's been pretty much a month since I last wrote in this faux-blog called Blurty. Things have happened since then, still no job, and no completed first radio play, but at least I got several others cast including special guest voice actors that I'll reveal when the Ashes radio play is produced.

    Incase you're wondering what the list of radio plays that I plan on producing, here is the list:

    Ashes
    Photoshop Time
    Pants
    Journey With Dad
    Chain Reaction
    Just Me
    Parkbench'95
    A scene from Uptown [maybe even the whole thing if I'm crazy enough]
    Entropia: A Tell-O-Vision Pilot
    The Red Glove
    Death and Babies
    Anytime But Now
    Table For Two
    An Other World
    Reality on Terra

    This isn't the exact list of the order I'm producing, hell, a lot of these I'm already working on as we speak, and I wouldn't be surprised if I find myself adding more to the list. Quite a list, huh?

    I don't know if I mentioned this before on this journal, and I'm too lazy to go check, but I have a part in another indy movie, "As The Sun Cast No Shadow". I play Ben, a prudish little brother figure in this completely fictious western like setting. I have to mention, that even though this is a western, I don't have some cowboy like costume. My costume is pretty spiffy, but enough of that. The progress is coming along nicely. We got some of the scenes filmed on a Sunday and it was great to work with Jason Ogden again. I was actually surprised that we actually had a crew and a dolly.

    Phil and Nathan, the directors/producers are planning on getting some scenes filmed this Saturday. That's fine by me, since I'll be in town anyway to help out with Theatre on the Edge, which I'm really looking forward in seeing the plays they have for this year's edition.

    I've applied for a position at GameZilla, and I'm crossing my fingers that I get the job. I already had the interview... which by the way I was waiting an hour for the guy giving me the interview because he was an hour late arriving, but as Brian Taylor always says, "that'll happen".
    Speaking of ole Brian Taylor, I finally saw that movie he, Alex Goldrich, Gilbert Boyce, Mark Driscoll and Greg Springall were in, Boston. It was an enjoyable 16 minute movie, and seeing and being involved with these indy movies have inspired me to write my own screenplay.

    Hopping on Band Wagon Time

    Timeline

    20 Years Ago- I was a couple of months old as my family and I moved from a small apartment in the North End area to the home my Dad grew up in over in Ketepec. I lived in that house for 17 years.

    15 years ago- Going to kindergarten over at a school called St. Joseph, which has now been closed up for quite a few years now. My most frequent memories back then were bringing my Leonardo [from TMNT] action figure and having a TMNT backpack. Also, sometimes after school, my grandparents would take me to the Arcade a couple of blocks away and I would play the TMNT arcade game that was later ported onto the NES as TMNT 2.

    10 years ago- Being in the 5th grade in Morna Heights, acting like any other 10 year old. It was around this time or maybe a year later that I was tutored for Math by none other than Johnny Mazzer.

    5 years ago- 10th grade at HVHS and this was the time frame that I first discovered acting, going from backstage crew to actor, and evening doing a monologue of that process with Josh "CSIS Agent #1" Landry as my sidekick.

    1 year ago- Being stage manager for War Mongers at last year's TOTE, and working at Saint John Energy. Those two things collided when I got interviewed by here magazine in the dungeon known as the Saint John Energy basement.

    1 month ago- holding auditions for the Photoshop Time radio play and casting for several other radio plays.

    1 week ago- doing what I do quite frequently these days, lounging around

    Yesterday- working on one of my scripts that I plan to make into a radio play and submit to the Theatre Company, and mowing the lawn

    Today- Doing the same thing, except no lawn mowing
    Monday, July 11th, 2005
    11:27 am
    It's journal time, it's journal time [an homage to Nicolas Picoloas from Video and Arcade top 10... damn he's annoying]
    I feel like I'm in a eternal loop of starting my entries with "Boy, it's been awhile since I wrote in this thing." but when the slacker in me kicks in, it really kicks in the sense that it kicks my ass that I sit on for days on end.

    Anywho...

    I've been done the workshop for awhile now. I did a monologue from one of Doug Fillmore's scripts that I'll be making into a radio play in the future called, "Journey With Dad" which got a nice response from the crowd at the performance night. It was doing that monologue that I realized that I have improved since I started with Second Stage and I'm ready to try something more in terms of having a bigger part, to try something challenging and test out some of the stuff I've learned and been inspired to do from my time in the workshop classes.

    Actually, the same day of the performance night, that afternoon, I went to UNB for a movie audition which I felt I did a good job and I'm anxious to find out if I got a role or not. The directors/producers seem like good people. In fact, one of them I remember seeing at the last 15 minutes of fame.

    The Ashes radio play is coming along nicely. The Voice Actor's are recording their lines as I get some of the mixing started. I'm also holding out auditions for Photoshop Time, which I've gotten more auditions in a span of a couple of days than I ever got for Ashes. I've also got some of the roles filled for Pants. So there's some good progress on my first line up of radio plays. I'm considering after production of Pants, I'll produce one of my own scripts that I've written and then jump into the next line up of past second stage scripts which I think will be [in no order of production at this date] Journey With Dad, Entropia [which will be staged at this year's Theatre on the edge], and Anytime But Now. I decided to go with these three for various reasons, two of them aren't as big length wise as the scripts I'm working on now and they each really stand out from each other that I like to have with a series of scripts to work on.

    Well, since Grand Prix canceled their show in Saint John a couple of weeks back, my prays have been answered for some indy wrestling in this city with Pro Wrestling United coming to the Quispamsis Memorial Arena on the 18th. The SJ fans won't get to see Lance Storm who will be making appearances starting the NEXT day for PWU, but at least we get a show with some great talent doing something I haven't a whole lot on TV lately.... wrestling!

    So that'll about do it for now. I'll make an edit in my friend link section for Chris Walsh's new blog.

    Until next time
    -Ryan

    Current Mood: bored
    Current Music: A song I'm considering using for the opening/closing for the Pants radio play
    Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
    9:41 am
    It's journal entry time once again
    Believe it or not, some interesting stuff has been happening since I last wrote in this.

    The Ashes radio play is starting to get some progress. I have casted two people for the project, but I'm still looking for auditions for Jimmy, so I am extending the deadline for that character to the 30th. That'll give people who have e-mailed me saying they are interested but have been busy time to do an audition.

    Just incase you're wondering, here's the list in no particular order of radio plays that I plan to produce: Anytime But Now, Photoshop Time, Journey With Dad, Pants, Death and Babies, Table for Two, a scene from Uptown, An Otherworld and maybe a rp version of one of my scripts.

    Right now I am debating on which one of those will be my second project. It'll either PST or ATBN, but I haven't come up with a final descion on that.

    Acting class wise, pretty good. I have actually gotten over, somewhat of my fear of fucking up. At least if I fuck up, I'll learn from it from the notes Steven gives me, and at least I won't have him and the class chanting, "You fucked up, you fucked up". Sorry, I'm still excited from the ECW Pay-per-view, One Night Stand, that the surreal ness of the event is still going through my mind. I'll get to that in a minute, but right now Steven is thinking of having the last session on the 30th, which I hope happens because I want to go see the Grand Prix Wrestling show that'll be in Saint John on the 28th.

    Now, the ECW pay-per-view. It's been quite awhile that I've watched a "wrestling" show, I put the word "wrestling" in quotations because lately on WWE TV, I've seen nothing but soap opera pieces of crap with Triple-H hogging TV time. So to actually sit down and watch a wrestling show that has actually wrestling, given most of the matches were hardcore matches that were boarder lining on being garbage wrestling to some people, but at least it was something different. To be honest, I really wasn't bothered with the WWE's involvement with the show. I thought about the fact that if they're there, they'll be people that the ECW fans can give those jerk-ass style chants that they do.
    My favorite chant of the night in that sense was definitely, "Fuck you Smackdown". I would have liked to hear a "Fuck you Triple-H" but thankfully he wasn't there.

    I really like the matches to be honest. I've heard a lot from people who thought the matches were short and needed more time and I agree with them but at least they were entertaining matches. Ok, the big moment where I marked out more than I did throughout the night, when Taz came out to his ECW music.

    So, in conclusion, it was a great show to relive some great memories. Who knows what the WWE will do with ECW after this point but will have to sit and wait and see.

    Until next time
    -Ryan
    Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
    1:22 pm
    First entry of the month
    [In full Triple-H impression] I'm-ah finally 20 years old-ah.

    and I have been for about five days now.

    I didn't do much for my birthday believe it or not. I think the only did was go to a party on Saturday for a couple of hours, but other than that, just lounging around. [Gives a shout out to Dre for a nice "happy belated birthday" on her site as well as reminding me that I should update more often]

    I have decided to make a series of radio plays and they are radio play versions of originally written second stage one-act plays and my first one is Ashes by Anthony Stuart. I thought that since Theatre on the Edge is in a couple of months, I figured I could get a radio play version of it done by the time the TOTE starts.

    The progress on the Ashes radio play so far: I've only received 2 auditions. The deadline for auditions is two weeks away, so I think that's enough time for people who are interested. If you want to check out the information or audition the link is: http://www.voiceacting.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=7461

    Procrastination is sometimes my worst enemy and it decided to sneak up on me during the time between acting classes when I had some assignments to work on. I know with the extension I got for my basic object exercise because we ran late last night, I'll certainly take advantage of the extra week of work I can do on it as well as improve on some vocals for my chorus speaking exercise.

    Speaking of vocals, I spent most of yesterday recording lines for the Family Guy radio play and auditioning for other radio plays and in that time I got messages saying that I'm now in another radio play and even a video game. This voice acting stuff is really fun to do and I hope that in future projects I can talk to my other cast members and maybe even go over the script together as well.

    That's it for now. Until next time [hopefully I'll upload some scripts by then]

    -Ryan
    Monday, May 16th, 2005
    11:55 am
    Journal entry title that's a modified song title #5681c
    I've been meaning to write in this thing for awhile now about some recent stuff, but the laziness in me once again took over. Now it's not so threatening.

    I decided to take some acting classes. I really want to improve. Well enough to go from my specialty of walk on roles with a few lines to actually act. When I heard about Steven Tobias' workshop, I figured why not. I'd be learning from someone who has a lot of experience and knows his stuff. I've had only one class and the next one is on the 24th, but so far, it's been worth the 125 dollars. There some familiar faces in the class like Tina and Christie from Our Town, and Ann, someone I've seen at the cast parties and some theatre company gatherings. There are also people I've never met before and that was one of the reasons why I decided to take the classes was to meet new people. Looking forward to the next class.

    I don't think I mention this previously, but I got a role in a radio play. It's a Family Guy fan project called "Family Guy: The Broadband Connection" it's basically about how the family gets broadband for their Internet connection and the hilarity that goes with it. I'll be playing one of the celebrity characters, Fred from "I Love Lucy". If you want some information about the radio play, go to the voice acting alliance message board. You can find that link on one of my link pages.

    It looks like the Maritime wrestling scene is experiencing a rebirth, ECPW just had a couple of shows which have gotten great reviews so far and I'm looking forward in seeing the Maritime Cup on TV. Also, Grand-Prix is starting up again with a impressive roster. Hopefully one of these promotions come to Saint John. They would do pretty impressive numbers. Wrestling does well in Saint John, I believe.

    Right now, I have a few hours to kill before a job interview for a call center. I really would like a job. After all this time of lounging around and not doing anything starts to get to you.

    Until Then

    Take Care

    -Ryan

    PS: If I'm not lazy this week, I'll post some scripts on the site
    Friday, April 29th, 2005
    5:06 pm
    All The Right [Journal entry]
    One month since I last wrote in this thing. I have a very good reason why that is.... I haven't done anything that is journal entry worthy. Basically my usual "lounge around/working on scripts/occasionally looking for a job".

    Last night Gilbert and I went to Doug's brother's place out east to do some close ups for the trench scene for "Own Worse Enemy". I was very happy to do it and it helped put my mind at ease. It meant a second chance with the dialogue and doing a little bit more to improve things. I saw some of the other footage from the movie and was blown away at how great it looked. I can't wait till it's completed.

    Today, hair cut, buying stuff at Gamezilla. Won't be able to make it Lisa's first night doing karaoke.

    New link: Voice Acting Alliance in other. Sign up today and audition for something.

    That's it for now. I'll probably post some scripts on the site. Most likely the Triple Threat scripts and possibly the Ego-Ville ones too.

    Final note: R.I.P Chris Candido [1972-2005]

    Current Mood: geeky
    Current Music: All The Right Friends by REM [which sounds an awful like ElecMan's stage in MegaMan I]
    Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
    9:44 pm
    Sweet [journal entry] of Mine
    What time is it? It's Vader time! Uh... I mean time to update the journal and site, yes!

    Some good stuff to write about since I'm in a writing mood. Last night I had a very nice Italian dinner at Suzy's. About 8 or so people were there and it was a great meal and a nice side dish of interesting conversations and stories to say the least.

    As I write this, I just got back from the reading of "Up Town" a modern take on "Our Town". Up Town was written by David Deaton, he was Sam Craig in the Second Stage production of Our Town. I've been wanting to read the script since the public readings a couple of months ago. This was a great play to have performed on the spot. I liked how one part was completely breaking the 4th wall and then out of nowhere becomes this serious story about two lovers and then goes back to breaking the 4th wall.

    Everyone gave great reads with the characters they had. My character was a heckler who didn't want to watch the show and really wanted to leave. Since this was performed like a 15 minutes of fame kind of thing rather than just a group of people sitting and reading the scripts, this will go on the list on my site.

    By the time we finished the script, I had that feeling of wanting to see it actually performed on stage like when I first read Photo shop Time. A lot of people I've worked with in the pasts read parts.

    So overall, a great night of script reading and looking forward in the View and Chew on the 4th of April.

    -Ryan

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: Sweet Child of Mine by G&R
    Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
    2:04 pm
    [Journal Entry] Wizard
    Just want to say right now to the people involved with Evita that I wish them a great show! Have a blast!

    The weekend was like any other weekend for me lately... lounging around, working on some script, looking for a job.

    Yesterday was quite memorable. Gilbert Boyce and myself were walking around town killing time before we filmed the trench scene in Doug's movie. The day started off with Gilbert picking me up at my place at around 10 AM, he dropped me off at Brunswick Square while he did some errands. I ran into Suzy and Chris during that time. I also went into the Internet cafe. At around 11:15, I met up with Gilbert and we had to wait until 3:30 for the shoot. So we walked around the up town area, went over the lines many times. Basically anything we could do to kill time.

    We went to Java Moose and went over the lines and we take turns doing the French lines for Peter's character. We did them so many times that we found ourselves remembering the French lines, although we both knew that we probably didn't pronounce them correctly. At around 3, Martine came into Java Moose. The three of us talked for a bit until I left to buy a ginger ale to help with my somewhat queasy stomach that was bugging me all morning. When I got up to the loft, I noticed the set and was quite impressed. We had to get things done quite fast for a couple of reasons: Peter had only about 2 hours and so did Martine, and Peter had to get the laytex make up on his face like I did at Saint Joe's, only difference was that it took an hour to to get that ready on him compared to the two hours it took to get it on me.

    We filmed, and I thought it went all right in my opinion. I was happy with it and it was great to work with Gilbert and Peter. Can't wait to see it when it's done and ready. All my stuff for the movie is done and over with so now I just have until they finish with the last two scenes in the movie. I just want to say, thanks to Doug Fillmore and his brother Donnie for a chance to be apart of this great project and I hope to work with them again in the future.

    Today I went to the Job Fair at Harbour station with my sister Laura and my brother in law, Jason. The three of us brought ten resumes each and we got most of them handed out to potential employers. Hopefully I'll hear back from at least one of the places I gave my resume.

    Final note: episode 2 of Smark Adventures is up on armpitwrestling.com check it out at http://www.armpitwrestling.com/Entry8.htm and comment!

    -Ryan

    Current Mood: cheerful
    Current Music: Pinball Wizard by the Who
    2:03 pm
    [Journal Entry] Wizard
    Just want to say right now to the people involved with Evita that I wish them a great show! Have a blast!

    The weekend was like any other weekend for me lately... lounging around, working on some script, looking for a job.

    Yesterday was quite memorable. Gilbert Boyce and myself were walking around town killing time before we filmed the trench scene in Doug's movie. The day started off with Gilbert picking me up at my place at around 10 AM, he dropped me off at Brunswick Square while he did some errands. I ran into Suzy and Chris during that time. I also went into the Internet cafe. At around 11:15, I met up with Gilbert and we had to wait until 3:30 for the shoot. So we walked around the up town area, went over the lines many times. Basically anything we could do to kill time.

    We went to Java Moose and went over the lines and we take turns doing the French lines for Peter's character. We did them so many times that we found ourselves remembering the French lines, although we both knew that we probably didn't pronounce them correctly. At around 3, Martine came into Java Moose. The three of us talked for a bit until I left to buy a ginger ale to help with my somewhat queasy stomach that was bugging me all morning. When I got up to the loft, I noticed the set and was quite impressed. We had to get things done quite fast for a couple of reasons: Peter had only about 2 hours and so did Martine, and Peter had to get the laytex make up on his face like I did at Saint Joe's, only difference was that it took an hour to to get that ready on him compared to the two hours it took to get it on me.

    We filmed, and I thought it went all right in my opinion. I was happy with it and it was great to work with Gilbert and Peter. Can't wait to see it when it's done and ready. All my stuff for the movie is done and over with so now I just have until they finish with the last two scenes in the movie. I just want to say, thanks to Doug Fillmore and his brother Donnie for a chance to be apart of this great project and I hope to work with them again in the future.

    Today I went to the Job Fair at Harbour station with my sister Laura and my brother in law, Jason. The three of us brought ten resumes each and we got most of them handed out to potential employers. Hopefully I'll hear back from at least one of the places I gave my resume.

    Final note: episode 2 of Smark Adventures is up on armpitwrestling.com check it out at http://www.armpitwrestling.com/Entry8.htm and comment!

    -Ryan

    Current Mood: cheerful
    Current Music: Pinball Wizard by the Who
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