January 2012
57 posts
Looking to the new year.
What show should I spec next?
Parks and Rec? Modern Family? Up All Night? The New Girl?
Ugh, EVERYONE’S spec-ing Parks and Rec and Modern family though… and who knows if Up All Night will be on another season? And I think The New Girl just tries way too hard! and The Office and 30 Rock both have a bazillion seasons under their belt and they’re awesome! How can I live up to...
Las Vegas prostitute takes steps away from life of... →
Begging for a screenplay.
Maybe a Halle Berry project.
December 2011
45 posts
Yayy 4 movie tickets for $24!
Not bad.
From Fandango.
Just watched...
8 episodes of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER in the last 2 days. And I’m only on Season 4, so that means there’s 16 more episodes in this season alone… gah! Catching up feels so daunting right now. But I gotta keep pushing on!
the New Year
I’m going to start timing all the hours I spend actually working on my acting and writing career. I’m going to use a stopwatch and really time when I’m “on the clock” and when I’m not—for example, writing, watching Netflix, editing, submitting, designing postcards, sending out mailers, being in class—and it WILL add up to 6 hours a day dangit.
First writing fellowship deadline coming up.
…and it’s Nickelodeon. Starting Jan 2 they will be accepting submissions! I’m going to wait to get a few notes back from people, and I’m going to continue watching HIMYM (just finished Season 3, next goal is to get through Season 4 by Friday!), and after I finally catch up I will send off my script.
The odds are completely astronomical of getting through these fellowships...
Good or bad thing?
I get the most work done on my acting career when I am procrastinating from writing.
How I Met Your Mother.
There need to be more TV couples like Lily and Marshall. It’s not gay rights that’s ruining the institution of marriage—it’s the media and its horrible portrayal of women and relationships and aging.
Just saw...
Puss in Boots.
So much fun! I loved it!
However, I could really do with a lot less Zach Galifianakis in this world.
First voice over gig!
Yay, I just booked my first voice over gig using Voice 123! It’s $75—not bad considering it’s my first one ever! Now I just have to make $315 more to make back my investment on the whole voice acting venture.
And I’m planning on signing up for classes at Kalmenson & Kalmenson starting this January. They are very expensive but I’ve heard great things about them....
bbatugo replied to your post: Just watched…
but the stewardesses are soo pretty!!!
LOL. Yes. Yes they are.
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Just watched...
the Pan Am pilot with Amazon Prime Instant Video.
Not bad.
But man, do we really need another period drama?
Why I hate period dramas
Yet another television series glorifying this idyllic America that never was, celebrating white Americans and their history but completely ignoring other narratives. I’m not saying we should never have period dramas about white America, because...
25 clever ideas to make life easier →
Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes.
Gotcha! Find tiny lost items like earrings by putting a stocking over the vacuum hose.
Mind boggling.
First time tutoring.
FACT: I was more scared of the 7th graders than they were of me.
Two churches located across the street from each...
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wizasaur:
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ultraball:
paranoidrobot:
…Do the Presbyterians think Rocks are animals?
ALL ROCKS GO TO HEAVEN
CONVERTING TO CATHOLICISM DOES NOT MAGICALLY GRANT YOUR DOG A SOUL.
WOW. EPIC CATHOLIC WIN.
I LOVE THIS.
Catholics are the OG Christians.
6 Things I've Done in 2011
1. Been in the longest relationship I’ve ever been in (2 years and 7 months and counting!), and managed to stay together despite the last 7 months being long distance. LOLOL. so much for that.
2. Got my first 3 TV credits.
3. Graduated from UC Berkeley with high honors and gave the graduation speech for Southeast Asian Studies.
4. Completed my SNL packet, my first spec, my first full...
Plans
JANUARY
begin submitting to writing fellowships
write pilot and shoot promo
HISYC and agent
iO level 4
EWP voice class
finish UCB 201, sign up for UCB 301
Margie Haber?
FEBRUARY
Lesly Kahn
audition for Second City Conservatory
write second spec
**will finish this later
Reach for the Sun: solar energy and the... →
charchar4o8:
This semester I took a class at UC Berkeley: International Area Studies 120, International Reporting in the Digital Age. Our final projects were to build a multi-page website on a topic of our choice. Mine is on solar energy and how it can/has/will affect a number of issues in the Philippines. It is a running blog so I plan on keeping it updated with news on the issue. Check it out...
Life of a writer.
I run through ink cartridges like water.
And I’m just about to print 8 copies of a 70+ page script. High time to switch from an inkjet.
Love is...
smoothing out his furrowed brow as he’s sleeping, as if it could erase all his problems when he wakes.
Dear Writer's Block,
Stop it!
Love, Joy
FINALLY FINISHED MY SPEC.
It’s horrible but at least it’s done. Now to get comments on it.
“Will Arnett: Wanna do it real quick?
Christina Applegate: No, I don’t...”
– LOL. Up All Night. You slay me.
Duties of a girlfriend #427
Going shopping with your boo and picking out clothes for him.
It’s fun picking out shoes, shirts, ties, little things here and there.
Then there are the really long lasting things you pick out for them—like glasses. Your mark, every day, for months, maybe years.
Gaano kadalas ang minsan? How often is once?
Once is enough.
Also, why is it so hard to be productive in pajamas?
2 hours after I started,
I am finally caught up with my inbox.
Oh, the behemoth that is email.
Now I need to get cracking on writing. I was super bummed to miss out on the historic Filipinotown meeting about the mural, but man I really need to write and do work today. I feel like it’s finals week almost—it’s crunch time. Two readings and I haven’t even finished either of my scripts! Kill me now.
“Love is being vulnerable.”
– Alan
Hollywood Shooting Rampage: Police Kill Gunman Who... →
A gunman on foot firing randomly into traffic near the intersection of Sunset and Vine, the heart of Hollywood, was shot and killed by police officers this morning.
Witnesses said it appeared that the man was just firing randomly into the air, into traffic and into parking lots near the busy intersection of Sunset and Vine where there are restaurants, high-rise condos and the Arclight...
note to self
Stop ordering t-shirts and dresses from Frederick’s. They ain’t never gonna fit—even the XS hangs on me.
le sigh; problems of a petite girl
Aghhhh,
I feel like poop.
But in other news, I have my very first audition for a series regular on Friday. Hooray for my first pilot season!
“Is there anything in the world sadder
than a train standing in the rain?”
– Pablo Neruda
Nothing on TV is real.
That is something I’m realizing more and more as I go deeper into Hollywood.
The “teenagers” you see on TV? They’re all pushing 30. Glee, all those kids are 28. Heck, I’m 22 and I’m on the low side compared to everyone I’ve had scenes with.
Even the “real” teenagers who play teenagers on TV? The ones who are actually 17 or younger?...