these are not connected to each other, but are worth mentioning cause they've either happened to me recently or i've been thinking about them...

1) Ron Paul called me yesterday. He asked for my vote in the upcoming primary. He requested that i register as a republican and vote for him. i asked him how he got my number but he just forged right ahead, talking about the need to get all our troops out of Iraq. i told him i agreed but i really wanted to get back to how he got my cell phone number, because that's kind of a private thing ya know? but he just kept talking, right over me, about how he's the only true conservative that can reverse the damage the current administration has inflicted. again, i agreed with him, but since he wouldn't tell me how he got my number, i asked him how some one so obsessed with personal liberty could also be against letting people privately love whomever they want and not be discriminated against or receive the same benefits as other people in love. well i really nailed him on that cause he switched topics and went on about how the IRS needs to be abolished. i told him i agreed but if he wasn't going to address any of my issues with him i wasn't going to vote for him. he thanked me for my time and hung up.
i think i got to him.
if i voted for a republican it would be ron paul. he is right about a lot of things. and i hope people listen to him. but holy crap if he isn't really really wrong about a few things. aside from writing descrimination into the constitution he's a little kooky about all the governmental programs he would abolish...like the department of education.
anyway, tomorrow i am going to march down to my precinct and vote for barak obama. i was an edwards guy, but now being forced to choose between the two remaining, i choose obama. he is inspiring...even if i think he's too good to be true.
if you don't vote tomorrow i think you're dumb, unless you're not eligible to vote. this is too important to be blazee and apathetic about. go vote. even if it's for ron paul.
how the hell did he get my cell number? i never get telemarketing calls.
2) the people that deny evolution are the most monkey-like people alive.
denying evolution..."primitive" thinking at its best, no? plus i saw ted haggard throw his poo at a jew one time...
i'm friends with people that deny evolution, but it is still utterly ridiculous...and one is running for president. and he won iowa. congrats iowa, you've moved up my list of worst states in the country to just below mississippi.
3) jack of all trades...master of none. unfortunately i think this may apply to me. i'm trying to fix that. my friend peter has a business card. it says "purveyer of many services" and then lists 3 services that he can actually claim to purvey at a professional level. can you list 3 services you could purvey to people and list on a business card? my 3 would probably be acting coach, political analyst, and tennis instructer. and i'm not sure i've earned those 3...this is a great exercise for all of you...try it. what services would you honestly purvey?
4) "still waters run deep". i've frequently been accused of being unemotional or cold. some say it's because i'm an aquarius. those people believe that because my parents had sex in late april 1981 i have trouble opening up. ok astrologers, i guess you can think that when my parents get busy affects my personality. but anyway, i love this expression. it's a perfect analogy for how a person's calm exterior often conceals great depths of character, just as the deepest streams often have the smoothest surfaces. i don't claim to have great depths of character, but i know people i'm close to that do...and they get accused of the same thing.
5) my book is almost done. we've got people that are going to read it, but i keep making changes, and then getting feedback and making more changes. we had a fairly successful writer/producer read it, and it was freaky. i think it's because i'm a little scared about having "professionals" read a book that my writing partner and i wrote...because we aren't "professionals". but at some point, i just have to say "fuck it" and put it out there.  that point is very near.
6) I HATE TOM PETTY. there, i said it. get over it. his voice is terrible. he can't sing for shit. his songs are not interesting, and they are always overplayed. i'm so sick of feeling like everyone loves him and so i should too...after i heard "last dance for maryjane" i swore him off forever. he sucks. can we please move on?
7) i hate reality TV with a fiery passion. it's drivel. it's cheap, requires no thought, strips jobs away from real actors on real shows, promotes fame whores, promotes generally stupid people, and strips jobs away from real writers on real shows. and it's still all completely staged and fake. i wish it would go away for ever. can you imagine all the potentially kick ass shows we would have if "hogan knows best" or "whatever-the-sex-tape-kardashian-bitch's-show-is-called" or "simmons family jewels" or "lame-model-competition-show" weren't on the air? the occasional competition based show gets a pass, because it rewards people with actual talent.
8) i'm getting old. life happens fast. it went at a snail's pace in colllege, and then holy shit i'm 26. no one at my college would know me, save for maybe 6 professors. i have these weird moments now and then were i'm thinking "i'm alive. i am a living thing that is living and is alive. i exist. i am breathing and living on earth. i have a life." and so on. it's weird. maybe i'm just a freak, but those moments of cognizance are strange...i don't know if i described that accurately, but it's like instead of just living, you start thinking about how you are actually alive, living a life....ugh...nevermind.
9) it helps to remind yourself that everyone has issues. most of the time many people go around feeling like most people have it together and they're hanging on by a thread. but we forget that all we're seeing from most people is the exterior image of together-ness, not what's really going on underneath. and that's what they see of us. you're not looking at the inner shit that they are dealing with. if you were, you'd either run far away from them, laugh and feel better about yourself, or cry at their pain. remind yourself about that and it's comforting.
"everyone's crazy except for you and me, and i'm not so sure about you"
10) confidence is intoxicating. arrogance is nauseating. the two are so close to each other, but the effects are opposites. what a fine line to walk. i bet i've made people nauseous.   

that's all for now. and for those of you who made it all the way through, thank you, and here's a law of life for your pains...


LAW OF LIFE 3  -- If you are a professional, have a professional email

maybe it's weird of me, but i look at actor's resumes when i'm at auditions. if they have it out, i stare at it and compare it to mine. i also look at all the email addresses when people send me mass emails. i appreciate that i'm weird. but i'm always shocked by the number of people that use the worst email addresses for professional, thousands of dollars at stake, real world employment type situations. how can you expect a casting director to take you seriously when right at the top of your professional acting resume is the email address "mylittlepony1982lol@dipshit.com"? it's fine to have a stupid old email address. we all do. but for christsakes, get one for the big-boy world. this happens at my restaurant too...people are applying to work at an upscale beverly hills restaurant, and we can contact them at "sweety_sunshine_rainbows_unicorns_i'm 15-years old and not cool@hotmail.com"
act professional in a casting room or job interview. have a profesional resume. act like an f-ing professional if you want people to think of you as one. that includes having a normal, business related email.


peace out,

~b