It's a very peaceful night for me tonight. In the city where I'm at right now, they celebrate Independence day on the 3rd instead of the fourth. So I'm out on my back porch, in the perfect weather, chillin on a rocking chair and enjoying the sights and sounds of this summer night.
Fireworks and firecrackers and bugs. Lots of bugs. June bugs. I never heard of those until I moved to LA. They're beetles that only come during summer time, so everyone loves junebugs because everyone loves summertime.
So hey!
I haven't written in a while, because nothing is new. Well, besides some AMAZING things that a lot of people are confused about.
My movie became approved by SAG. The little webseries that I'm working on called Real Vampires, we submitted our script to SAG so that we could say that our production is a SAG production. Well, they approved it, and now our deal is to fill out a bunch of paperwork. And once that is done I will officially be a producer, writer, director, editor and star of a SAG film. I'm writing this from my point of view, so I haven't mentioned the other people who are part of this who are just as important in making Real Vampires. They're there. So remember that ahha. Once I fill out what's called a "Taft-Hartley" form, I will be SAG eligible!!
What's that? It means that I'm able to be a part of The Screen Actor's Guild. All I have to do is pay a whole bunch of money and then I can get legitimate acting roles in movies and other cool things.
I wish I had more to tell you. Like how I'm going to celebrate Fourth of July by being on a fuckin' BOAT. But my mind has been so stuck on this project that nothing else is even THAT cool to talk about.
I'm still working at Starbucks and I'm writing things. I'm focusing on my health and reading books. I've discovered that being true to myself means staying home a lot of the time and being creative, rather than going out and being around "LA phonies" as I've come to call some people out here. I've also decided my next big step NEEDS to be to take an improv class. I miss it far too much. I miss the people. I miss witty comebacks for all of the lame things I say. I miss being surrounded by super dorky/super awesome funny people who all secretly want you to like them.
Don't get me wrong, normal people are fun too ;)
Oh. Here's some more cool things I did: I went to Knott's Berry Farm with my mom as well as the Fashion District in Downtown LA. And last week Chloe and I went to the beach at some place where I keep forgetting the name. It started with a B.
Junebugs! Stop flying by me!
The beach was fun, but cold. So we went to Disneyland instead lol. Chloe didn't know that there was such a thing as Downtown Disney, which is completely free for 3 hours. So we hella went there. Then we came home and did some graphic design type stuff for Real Vampires.
Filming the last parts on the 9th and 10th of July. Then editing. THEN you get to see what we've been up to!
Once again, happy 4th of July everyone. Whatever that means for you. Whether it's "enjoy time with your family!" or "have fun blowing shit up!" Either way, this one'll be a good one I know it.
Night!
Very cool, Amber!
ReplyDeleteJust remember, though, once you join SAG, you can do ONLY union work (including TV and stage). Kind of limits you, so don't join too early! Good to be eligible, but better to wait until you really can't get by without actually joining. Especially good if you can wait till a project needs you enough that THEY will pay the initiation fee.