Happy halloween!

hi!

The most challenging thing about having my weekly article going at iFanboy is that it cuts into the amount of time I have to write my own stuff here. Apologies.

Anyway, I didn’t get anything back from my awesome-ass audition that I had a few weeks ago. I am okay with it, but I will admit to being a but more bummed that usual. No matter, there will be more, eventually. I actually auditioned for an independent film earlier this week and am supposed to hear back one way or the other by the end of the week. That audition was a lot of fun--the filmmakers are from Sweden, and since I have been to Sweden, we talked about...Sweden. I had a blast, it was fun, life is good.

I am in a good mood, though I have every right to be cranky. My day is opening and closing with meetings, and I just have been getting hit HARD from allergies this week. I am constantly yawning, constantly fighting off sleep. It’s just strange. I had a good acting class last night, my teacher gave me a nice comedic scene that I was able to bite into, which is is always nice. Comedy is my biggest strength, so most of the scenes I get tend to be more dramatic, just to let me stretch a bit. But last night was a nice return to form, holding for laughs, trying to time a line so it builds right on top of the laughter, making them laugh harder, etc. When you are doing comedy in front of a crowd, you are almost in two places at once; you are performing your character and doing the work, but you are also listening to the audience and adjusting your performance to fit within their reaction. It’s fun, but if you mess up, oh man, if you mess up, it just becomes a trainwreck. I actually had a nice roll of laughter going and I went just a half-second too early with the followup line and I knew, as I was saying the first syllable of the sentence, that I had mistimed it. You just feel the audience having to stutter down their laughter a bit to make sure they hear the next line.

No matter. It’s a gift to get a chance to tweak these things anyway.

I am having a good time configuring my iphone--I got the software update early and have been playing wtih applications; very cool so far. I will be writing a little review on the Norton forums later this week or early next.

The iFanboy articles have been really challenging as of late. I have been really trying to do something different with my pieces, and am getting some really good feedback. This week’s piece might have been a bit of an overall misfire, if one were to judge by the (lack of) comments, but it’s cool, I am still learning what works and what is too much (actually, I take that back--there are more comments today). But, as they say, too much is never enough, and if I can get people to have different kinds of discussions about comics, then all is good. It’s a great opportunity and a lot more work than I ever imagined (800-1400 words a week is a lot), but it is making me a better writer, I think..I hope.

All right--told you this would be short.