The Redeem Team and Other Things

What’s good?

So I haven’t written in a minute and I really don’t have much excuse. What have I been doing?

I’ve been working with this guy for his feature film where he is trying to be the next Wong Kar Wai; basically developing a movie out of characters that the actors make up and improvise.

I’ve had two meetings with him and now he’s gone away to develop a script. He tells me he’ll be in touch in a month or two. Counting down the days!!!!!

Not really.

I’ve auditioned for another student film where the guy never got back to me… he thought he was the next wong kar wai as well… why, why do these people try to do exactly the same thing as someone else and think it will be impressive, I mean, just ask Kobe.

what else… not sure what I’ve been doing… oh yeah

I’ve joined a new acting class where we’re studying Stanislavsky method, its good stuff but really really depressing. Picture being stuck in a group of grown people pretending to be birds in a  back room in the middle of the night and it does not begin to describe my feeling of “what the hell am I doing here?”

I should give that producer who was interested in my tv show a call, I’ll do it tonight.

Oh yeah, I also entered a video for the Fanging It Competition on the ABC. I was happy with the video but I didn’t get picked as a finalist. From what I saw looks like the show will be Big Brother meets The Great Outdoors

My buddy and I are also trying to organise a short film to be entered into a Comedy Channel Competition. Logistically and based on the commitment of the people I will potentially work with, I don’t think its going to happen.

I’m sorry about the gloomliness of this entry, it is 2:20pm on a monday, I’m tired and just want to get the hell out of my cubicle…

I’ve had a revelation as of late: My philosophy was always this: Be professional, do good work, do a lot of work and one day it will come. I’m starting to think this is not the case. From now on my motto will be: Pursue Excellence. I don’t have to do everything and stretch myself in crappy projects, but everything I do decide to do, I should do it the best I can so that I can be really proud of it.

I also can’t depend on anyone except myself. I’m going to have to find a way to shoot, cast and produce my own stuff.

I’m going to stop auditioning for every student film/crap projects and just focus on turning my 50 page pilot into a movie, get a literary agent in LA and sell it. Shia Labeouf will play the lead and I will be a supporting actor/cameo in the movie.

That’s my grand plan.

I am also looking for a new job.

I’ll talk about the Redeem Team in the next post, can’t be bothered right now, I’m too lethargic and supercilious