It's Summertime

Four months have passed, Imma talk about it.

Interning with The Rock Vol, 2: Summer is Coming

I meant to write another blog right after I returned home from LA, but clearly, that didn't happen, so I'll sum up those last few weeks briefly. I went to Six Flags, slinked around Disney's creative headquarters, had no more success with voice acting, and can now say I was technically creatively involved with a song produced by Dwayne Johnson and Jean Baptiste (he wrote a bunch of songs for The Black Eyed Peas). When I say that, I of course mean our director/one of the writers asked me what I though of the lyrics and the song and I gave input. I helped!

The song is appropriately called "Song of the Summer", you can check it out on The Rock's Youtube channel, it's not hard to find. It features YouTube vlogging sensation Logan Paul and some crazy guy named Desiigner. Oh yeah, also Desiigner invited us to one of his shows in Orange County after we shot his part of the music video. someone made fun of my shoes but I rolled up and got in the to VIP section for free. Showed him.

I got to go into Disney's creative campus which was insane, but I can't really talk about. I met DJ again (that's what his friends call him, we're basically best friends at this point), and also got to meet Alex Daddario. I met some more cool people through my classes, sent out my demo reel (with not many replies lol), and made some friends I'll hopefully get to see again soon. Some other stuff happened as well.

LA was awesome. It wasn't until I was packed and heading for the airport that it really felt like I had been at a party and the party was over. I think it's not a matter of if I go back as much as it is WHEN I go back. In my line of work, I think it's kind of obligatory to go out there if you actually want to make a decent living. The whole time I was out there, I thought of my return to finish my degree as apart of my hero's journey, the premature return to the known world before completing my final act, but now that I've been back for a while, I've realized how much I would be leaving behind here, and I'm not sure when I'll be ready to do that. We'll just have to see what happens.

Summer Time, Super Nice, Everything Better with Dunkin Ice

Anyways, I'm living in Boston for the summer working for BU as an Events and Conferences room attendant. I'm basically a glorified maid, I clean toilets and make beds. But with a free summer apartment and $40/week for food on top of our pay, I'm not complaining. It's made things a lot easier for me given that my family has just finished moving recently.

Speaking of which, it's still kind of weird for me to think that I no longer live in Walpole. My corgis are no longer the Walpole Corgis (but you should still follow them @thewalpolecorgis on Instagram right now). For personal reasons, I think it's for the best for everyone involved, but it has definitely shaken up my own sense of security on the home front. Kind of a nice wakeup call to get my shit together and figure out a career path, something that I'm slowly progressing towards (at least I hope)

I got the directing job for BU's thesis film class! The directing job is pretty tough to get, as everyone wants to be the head honcho, so I'm really excited that my screenplay (and in turn, my creative vision) was picked! Real talk, I spent six months stressing in the back of my mind about what my thesis screenplay would be about, and everyone knows that creative people do cool stuff when they're relaxed. I was not relaxed, and had a means case of writer's block for a majority of that time. I settled on an idea and wrotie the screenplay about two days before the deadline :P I honestly did not think it would get chosen, but it seems like I thrive under pressure. Many great songs were written overnight: among them, The Who's "My Generation" and The Legend of Zelda theme. Fun facts. I'm hyped for this short film, I'll be bringing to life a character I've had in mind for a while, and with the right people around me, I think it has the potential to be a really fun time. The thought of how I'm going to do it terrifies me, but we'll see what happens. Early stages.

I've been having a lot of twenty-fun this summer too, which probably for the worse, has taken me away from creative projects I wanted to work on, like some screenplays, and two albums I'm working on. Tryna pick up the slack now, but I think a break from art to have a little fun was needed, I like to do other stuff too.

Anyway, I think that's all the new I got for now. In case you're one of the two mysterious people who regularly look at this website, I promise  I'll start posting more stuff soon.