Shadows cast from the band "Sunny Day Sets Fire" at the American Teen
premiere at the Ford Amphitheater last night.

I have been in a really good mood all day. I saw the LA premiere of American Teen last night. My friend Jordan produced it and another friend Greg was the field producer and I just loved it. It's been getting a lot of play and I think it's going to be a big hit when it opens nationwide. I couldn't be more excited for them. If you haven't already checked the trailer, do so, asap. Super fun. Makes me really happy I am not a teenager in this day and age!

It was a great night, a band called Sunny Day Sets Fire played before the movie (they are pretty fun, check the link) and then the teens that appeared in the film said hello and then we watched the movie under the stars, with the cheering crowds from the nearby Tom Petty concert leaking into our heads every once in awhile. There were several hundred people in the audience and we all just went bonkers throughout the film, groaning, cheering and laughing throughout. Then we went to the after party at a terrific bar called Delancey and hung out with the producers and the cast until 2...really fun night. I am quite tired but whatever, it was an absolutely epic night.

The audition, by the way, went extremely well. It was a pretty intense audition, in a way, because in just a day's time, I had become very...close to the character. I don't really know how to else to explain it. I had dug in deep on an emotional level and I really wanted this character to exist, you know? It reminded me of how I feel when I am writing the screenplay I am slogging through: I like those characters, I want them to succeed. My character's last line is a plea, a totally silly plea (from the audience's point of view, it's a laugh line), but it's extremely heartfelt, it's all the character wants, it's totally and utterly what he needs. In my head and heart, I added some coloring to the effect that his/my plea was to exist, to let me be the one to bring him to life. Crazy, I know, but that's how it works, that's all I can do, is to use everything that I have to bring to the role to bring the character to life. After the first reading, the casting director told me a I had a great grasp of the character and the gave me two little adjustments (increasing the emotionality of two lines) and we did it again. But I had done the work--she recognized that I understood the character, that I had made him my own. And that's all you can ask for in an audition, that's all you can do, is bring the character to life in the way only you can do it.

I have not heard anything, I have no idea what will happen, but I know I hit all the notes that I worked on with my coach, that I had delivered what I intended. I had done my best, and, in the end, that's all you can do. Your best is all you have to give.