tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55781332011-04-21T21:51:11.752-04:00ghost lightmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1127100238329578662005-09-18T23:23:00.000-04:002005-09-18T23:23:58.333-04:00so, i've started a new blogoprise. mascot kills mascot, wherin i pick the winners of the weekly nfl contests based on whose mascot would win in a fight. this will be at least a weekly post through january, so if you've missed me, that's where to go.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1089041641842892132004-07-05T11:23:00.000-04:002004-07-05T11:34:01.843-04:00yes, that's right, i'm posting.
(that sound you hear is the collective gasp of hundreds of readers around the world. ok, four readers around the world.)
some of you know the news -- in september i will be travelling to milwaukee in the great state of wisconsin to play antipholus of syracuse in the milwaukee shakespeare production of comedy of errors. the exciting part of this news is that i mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1073318734050964752004-01-05T10:59:00.000-05:002004-01-05T11:06:45.373-05:00interestingly enough, it's a new year.
not unlike a certain austinite, i am particularly glad to watch 03 go. i have been learning how to accept the fact that all the work i am doing will pay off in the long run. that now is about hard work. that later is about reaping the benefits. i am learning this.
i had a meeting with the associate artistic director of steppenwolf the other day. he mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1069802575772357392003-11-25T18:12:00.000-05:002003-11-25T18:23:26.640-05:00ok... so the mild depression continues, due mainly to the truly outrageous nature of the restaurant in which i work, but some new developments on the acting front:
a) on friday i auditioned for a commercial as a civilian rec specialist for the us armed forces. whatever.
b) i've been going to every equity open call for which i could possibly be considered.
c) the goodman called me yesterday to mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1069199037489355032003-11-18T18:34:00.000-05:002003-11-18T18:45:49.840-05:00ok.
so the whole nature of this blog has pretty much disintegrated, because i'm not posting anywhere near regularly, and it's because i'm having my soul sucked out of my eyesockets at rocky stream legendary steaks. (name changed to protect the innocent, namely me.)
this place is bad from the word go, and when i said that thing before about the money being sick? it was a lie. a lie i was toldmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1065749517472606402003-10-09T21:15:00.000-04:002003-10-09T21:31:57.173-04:00okay.
so i know it's been slow going in the way of posting, but it's because some things have been happening.
a) i've registered with another agency. this one seems more focussed on commercials, and unlike the first one, hasn't sent me out yet, but the agent i interviewed with seemed very positive, and impressed with my new york-ness, so there's a start. as for the other agency, i keep on mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1064417101099346252003-09-24T11:24:00.000-04:002003-09-24T11:25:00.900-04:00mattyspace has been updated.
mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1063904446294954832003-09-18T12:15:00.000-04:002003-09-18T13:00:46.426-04:00i'll tell you what's interesting:
although i feel like i have nothing to do here, because i still don't have a money job, the time, it flies. i mean, here we are, three weeks later. there's some art on the walls, only a couple of boxes yet unopened (mainly video-cassettes, thank you cable!), and i am actively looking for work. but in case you hadn't heard, the economy is, well, bad. mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1062728362525064192003-09-04T22:19:00.000-04:002003-09-04T22:19:22.516-04:00okay.
so it's been some time since last i've posted. but come on, i've moved to a brand new city since then.
yes. we are arrived. and we are well. see pinky's chronicle for details on the move. i will give you details on my derring do since arrival.
i have broadband at home now, for one thing. and for this, i am grateful. i was banging my head against the desk pre-move because of the mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1060190729661835022003-08-06T13:25:00.000-04:002003-08-06T13:25:29.896-04:00PART TWO: acting
so. yes, the main reason we went last week was to find an apartment. but we also wanted to try to get a headstatr on our careers in the big city, so as i mentioned earlier, i had done a mailing last month.
the only two responses i got from the mailing were one "don't call us, we'll call you" card, and one we'd love to have you audition call. (this doesn't count the mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1060111602468590822003-08-05T15:26:00.000-04:002003-08-05T15:28:39.146-04:00PART ONE: living
ok. i've been trying to write about last week since, well, last week, but have been foiled by time. more than once.
anyway, chicago is a great town. i love it there. it feels right there. and now i reside there. or i will in three weeks. yes. we have a new address.
as you may or may not know, the apartment lead we had before we left fell through, in a horrifically lastmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1058817585159649412003-07-21T15:59:00.000-04:002003-07-21T16:00:06.390-04:00more than one of you have asked, and i'm so excited to have more than one reader that i've decided to answer straight away, rather than make you all look it up.
Q. why "ghost light"?
A. to begin at the beginning. a ghost light is the light they leave on in the theater after all the lights have been turned off, it's that famous looking lightbulb at the top of a long skinny stand on wheels, mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1058462415401394462003-07-17T13:20:00.000-04:002003-07-17T13:20:15.420-04:00strangely, i've only recieved one self-addressed stamped postcard. now i understand that agents are busy and everything, but when nearly all of them asked for a self-addressed stamped reply mechanism, i thought that meant that they would use it...
hm.
on the good news front, it looks like an actor friend of a friend may have some useful contacts. more on that as it develops when i meet her atmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1058215922341944132003-07-14T16:52:00.000-04:002003-07-14T16:52:02.410-04:00carrie and i will be going to chicago for an exploratory trip at the end of july, and i thought it would be a good chance to get a jump on the job hunt. i haven't done this sort of thing this actively since i got out of school seven years ago (can it really be seven years?) so i needed some help.
i decided to get moving again on the artist's way. which i had done, well, seven years ago, when imattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578133.post-1058203238330597542003-07-14T13:20:00.000-04:002003-07-17T15:31:17.206-04:00I decided to start this blog as a way to chronicle my life as an actor in a new city.
as a new yorker for the past 11 years, i had a pretty good idea of how the system worked, and made my way in it... even if the path i chose was a little less than, shall we say, profitable. i went to the regions, i day played on soaps, i auditioned and auditioned and auditioned. my main work though, was mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.com