Wednesday, October 14, 2009
checking in.
I find it so interesting how I have encountered so many people with what I thought were similar goals & dreams to mine, and how they have completely & comfortably let go of them. Am I the crazy one?? I mean, of course not, but it might appear that way. There are so many people in LA who move out here saying they want to be actors and it's such a phony thing. I too am guilty of that. I don't think I really want to be an actor. There's nothing very fun about acting like other people. Sometimes playing a character is fun, but mainly because you are making people laugh. I didn't move to LA, or grow up for that matter, to pretend to be someone else through acting. I did it to look inward & expand outward on the person I really am. I think that's why I am so drawn to stand up comedy, because you are just YOU YOU YOU. and you're trying to make people laugh, which is the most fun thing ever. it's just like playing. being funny is like playing house. but 'acting' is so serious.
it's one of my philosophies in life that we are often times trying to chase our childhoods. i think that's part of all the LA movie star thing.
im grateful because since being in LA im really starting to enjoy other people, which is something i never got to really do in college. boy i hated college. what a yucky weird thing. as medeoker as it gets. in no way do i bash education, because i love reading and learning and working hard. i just feel like i love learning so much, that i dont need an institution to tell me what to learn and when to learn it. blahblahblah, its just a rainy day and i feel yucky because of the rain AND because i ate a little more cookie dough that i should have. and im waiting for tony to come home so we can enjoy each other.
it's one of my philosophies in life that we are often times trying to chase our childhoods. i think that's part of all the LA movie star thing.
im grateful because since being in LA im really starting to enjoy other people, which is something i never got to really do in college. boy i hated college. what a yucky weird thing. as medeoker as it gets. in no way do i bash education, because i love reading and learning and working hard. i just feel like i love learning so much, that i dont need an institution to tell me what to learn and when to learn it. blahblahblah, its just a rainy day and i feel yucky because of the rain AND because i ate a little more cookie dough that i should have. and im waiting for tony to come home so we can enjoy each other.
a note about how i left school
hello hello... this was originally meant for facebook but i got shy so here it is on my blog::
so to my family members and friends that are confused, here is a quick little update.
i was in school at the university of illinois. 2 hours south of chicago. my parents made me go there. sort of like boarding school.
half way through my junior year, right after a vacation to mexico with mom& dad, and a few months after i started stand up comedy, i decided, declared really, that i was leaving school to move to los angeles. so on my 21st birthday, i moved home, started a job and loving on my mom and dad for six weeks before i was moving to LA. it was actually a really fun and cool unique time. the biggest question, what did your parents say? well, it had been a long time coming. and there's always gonna be a lot more to the story than i can put here, but my dad just finally accepted that i was miserable at school and my moms support followed shortly after. (basically they hate me.) just kidding. i do think if they had their way i'd be a writer for playboy magazine & i'd live at home with them. forever. that's sort of my fantasy too.
so, one of my roommates from college who already was in LA flew in town & we drove back together in my dads car. well actually, he drove the entire way.
to be continued...
so to my family members and friends that are confused, here is a quick little update.
i was in school at the university of illinois. 2 hours south of chicago. my parents made me go there. sort of like boarding school.
half way through my junior year, right after a vacation to mexico with mom& dad, and a few months after i started stand up comedy, i decided, declared really, that i was leaving school to move to los angeles. so on my 21st birthday, i moved home, started a job and loving on my mom and dad for six weeks before i was moving to LA. it was actually a really fun and cool unique time. the biggest question, what did your parents say? well, it had been a long time coming. and there's always gonna be a lot more to the story than i can put here, but my dad just finally accepted that i was miserable at school and my moms support followed shortly after. (basically they hate me.) just kidding. i do think if they had their way i'd be a writer for playboy magazine & i'd live at home with them. forever. that's sort of my fantasy too.
so, one of my roommates from college who already was in LA flew in town & we drove back together in my dads car. well actually, he drove the entire way.
to be continued...
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Pilot
Tony & I are working on a very special project that we are excited about. I know that just about everyone living and working in Hollywood says that all the time, so it's hard for that to really have any meaning. No matter what happens, we are going to have a very special little 30 minute pilot episode of a hilarious television show that is brilliant and wonderful. It's so exciting for me because it's an opportunity for me to display a character that I have been grooming every single night of the week on stage late night at the comedy store since I've been living in Los Angeles. So for me, this project is extra extra special, because it's my body of creative work, something that I created and came 100% out of my little half jewish half regular brain. Anyone who gets to see the episode will truly know its the character I was born to play. I can only say all this because I know no one will see this blog!
Malibu!!
a couple weeks ago we spent the night at benji's house in malibu...the next day we made a bagel sandwich with eggs and spinach. we hollowed out the bagels so we dont get fat. but of course tony left his bagel regular since hes a skinny little supermodel.
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