Walk Two Moons

Hello friends and lovers!

It has been two moons. I'm still stuck, but I felt like an update was essential as life out here is always changing!

Music has been successful! HOME played at the House of Blues on April 28th and rocked the house!!! Literally. There was an earthquake during our show. HoB asked us to come back on May 18th! It's a show you won't want to miss, but I won't be there :( I'm flying back to my roots to see my brother graduate from college :) It will be nice to go home!

House of Blues Parish Room Apr. 28th, 2014

Our show on Feb. 28th at Kulak's was a success. That was a pretty stellar night performance wise. After Kulaks and a little bit of Elvis...

I put on more make up and went straight to El Cid to sing back up for KULA's EP release party. (Check it out on SPOTIFY or freakin' buy it. It's very good. And I don't just say that) The show went so well and we had so much whiskey and so much fun. Performing is one of the greatest feelings I know. Life feels perfect after a great night of music. Thank you KULA and thank you HOME!

I am also a slight YouTube success. Search "La Vie en Rose Ukulele" and you'll see why ;) Do it! Now! Read the rest while listening!!

Acting wise, things are "slow." I was supposed to shoot my scene of a feature today and tomorrow, but they cut me down to just a half day tomorrow. Like most projects I am involved in out here, this one has been unorganized and very unprofessional *actor sigh* I put slow in quotation marks because since my day job rant, I have realized, out here, if you want it, YOU have to take it. So, acting wouldn't be slow if I was allotting more time to promoting myself/career/talents. Yet, I was offered a part in a feature from being in that MTV music project a few months ago. They sent me a script that does not contain the character they said I was granted, who is supposedly the lead...*actor sigh*

Right now, in attempts to move forward. I am looking into investing in a new computer/ video camera/ voiceover and music recording equipment, so on my days off I can work more on my brand :) Because I am a product now. And I have to sell. If you have any favorite editing software, computers, cameras, microphones, send their names my way! I'm in the research phase!

LAism of the Week:

No one cares you're here. People from all over the world descend upon LA in the thousands every month. They arrive and walk down the street, convinced someone will see them and *gasp* "You're exactly what I've been waiting for all my life. You are the next (insert famous person here)! I can't wait to promote you and make you a successful actor/musician/dancer/artist!!!" If you didn't think that could happen to you, then why were you crazy enough to uproot your life and move here? But, the reality is, not only does that almost never happen, no one really even cares you came here at all. You have to make people care. So go on. Get to it.

Actress Identity Crisis

Hello my loves!

Today marks my one year anniversary working at SoulCycle. With all the frustration surrounding the new website launch and me being stressed from working 7 days a week in general, I may have not seemed as devoted or excited about SoulCycle in 2014. Putting that aside, I am so thankful for SoulCycle. It has changed my body physically, but also the way I see myself in the mirror. A few weeks ago riding in Lindsay Buckley's class she said that perfection is not the result, but the effort we put in to achieving said result. In that moment in class, giving 100% and sweating my ass off, Lindsay told me I was perfect. My effort was perfection. These are encouragements I hear at SoulCycle so often, and not just in class. My Brentwood family listens to my boy problems, my money stresses, family events. My Brentwood family strengthens me as a human being and is the reason why LA has not defeated me. I love my Soul family. The women and men I work with are all working their butts off everyday in everything they do. You are all inspiring. Thank you SoulCycle.

In acting news, I had a few auditions last week. One for a book trailer. My first book trailer audition! I didn't get it, but I felt the audition went very well. I sat down and really used Margie Haber's techniques to prepare. It helped me a great deal. As much as my roommate was wondering why I was so sad when she returned from work on Thursday night since I was in the middle of living the life of a woman who's son was just diagnosed with leukemia. Emotional drain.

I also shot some hosting clips for an upcoming MTV YouTube station. I will post links to those videos as soon as I get them. I will have them in March sometime. It is called Anton MTV Music Television. 

In singing news, well there is a lot more music news than acting news. This Saturday HOME is having a concert in Venice at Witzend. Come see us!!! $10 and we're on the Westside, you westsideians!!

We tested out a new lead guitar last Friday night. He's sick! Come and see him!! D has also been posting a ton of videos from our last concert at Kulak's Woodshed. Here is the one of my solo moment!

AND one of all of us. A little taste of HOME

Okay geez enough videos.

I also jammed with Eric Fortier's third project on Friday called Mad Bear. Another great band in the making! I hope to be a part of that :)
Finally I am singing back up for KULA's CD release concert at El Cid on Feb. 28th. HOME has a concert that night at Kulak's Woodshed again at 8pm. Tune in, because we will be streaming live online HERE. Don't worry. I'll remind you.

So I'm working 7 days a week. I take class at Margie Haber's every Monday night. I have about one audition a week, sometimes more. I am in two bands and helping out a third. And I'm still walking those pups. Life has been a little stressful and busy. 8 days a week people.

LAism of the Week:

The dreaded day job(s). As many of you know, if you didn't skip everything I just wrote to read this brilliant section, I love my day jobs. Both SoulCycle and I am enjoying being the part time assistant at Margie Haber Studio. I have no time to create though. At least I like my day jobs, but what am I doing out here if I am not creating? EVERY actor I talked to before the big move warned me about money and falling into the day job spiral. And here I am. And it is extremely frustrating. I am too tired when I get home from my three other jobs to write a script, or make plans to start a hilarious viral YouTube video, or bust my ass on casting websites. Sometimes I'll nestle into a chair with my guitar or ukulele and play for an hour, but I do that when I'm home alone because I don't want to disturb the lovely lady with whom I SHARE a ONE bedroom apartment. I am not alone here. I'd say day jobs that drain artists is among the top 10 frustrations of musicians/actors/writers/fine artists. How do we fix this? I don't know. Work harder? I barely have time to eat and sleep.

Happy New Year Two Weeks Ago!

Happy New Year Frans and Lovers!

So a Christmas miracle happened! I finished my reel!!! WHAT?! Instead of leaving you in suspense, here it is!

Besides FINALLY getting that together, 2014 has been, well, quick so far. I've had a few auditions for shorts and such. I did the table read for the trailer/feature I booked in December. The script is really cute! I have an audition for a Romeo and Juliet themed music video tomorrow. Pretty stoked about that. I have been working my booty off though you guys. I was hired to do part time at Margie Haber Studio. I'm officially a personal assistant to Margie's personal assistant. You know you are entrenched in LA culture when you are a personal assistant's personal assistant. I work 5 days at SoulCycle and 2 days at Margie's. It's hard to get acting stuff done. I'm still taking classes at Margie's, my friend recently referred me to his agent, and I'm still submitting every day. Pilot season people. Let's get work in.

I don't make New Years resolutions. Or at least, I never really have in recent years. But this year, if I HAD to pick one, it would be to create more. Paint, write songs, make shorts, sew, anything and everything. I feel like that is the one thing lacking in my life that enriches me so much. I need to make time for it.

LAism of the Week:
The culture of success. LA is rank with it. (See what I did there) If you have not seen Wolf of Walstreet, GO. It's not my favorite. Honestly, I feel like Scorsese once again remade Goodfellas; just more boobs, less blood. The point Wolf is trying to make though is not to glorify this ultimate success --to be able to buy any house, any boat, any drug, any woman-- but to disgust its audience with the gluttony. LA is also a city of success. Everyone out here is climbing the ladder. That is why everyone is in their late thirties and has never been married or has kids, etc. Success is number one. Not love. Not family. This is not me being bitter. It is an observation. I'm right here in the trenches, trying to grab onto that bottom rung of the Entertainment Industry ladder.