Wow. 13. It’s been a minute.
Six months to be more or less precise. Which I try to be. More or less. i’m starting writing this again in the full knowledge that I will probably stop again in a few months. It’s just who I am, and it is a part of me that is so low down on the ‘to change’ list, that it’s who I will be for some time. You try being a person in this world. I’m sorry that the tone of this is slightly brusque, but I have spent the morning dealing with the American healthcare system (I’m fine, thank you) and it has got me riled to say the least. I won’t go into details, but I will leave this here - America is a broken, third world country, masquerading relatively efficiently as a first world nation.
I guess that’s where you find me. I think I remember saying somewhere in an earlier missive that someday the rose tints will wear off and I’ll stop being in love with everything that I see here. I won’t check, it isn’t important. But the tints are off. And it’s a strange feeling. It’s a strange world - everything is so beautiful and so sun soaked, and the people are generally so duped by it that they can’t see that the city, the state, the country, is falling apart around them. Since my last blog, there have been hundreds of school shootings, Roe vs Wade was overturned, and interest rates have soared, so now I’m paying eye watering amounts just for a sandwich; other groceries are available (I understand that the latter is of much less consequence than children being murdered). The result of these earth shattering and awful events? Absolutely nothing. The news machine keeps turning, Capitalism keeps marching, the NRA is arming more and more people each day, politicians are playing dice with the lives of their populations, and we are closer to nuclear war than at any time during the Cold War. According to some news outlets. But hey, if you’re going to watch the world burn, the Hollywood Hills are a pretty great place to see the flames.
I don’t want you to get the wrong impression - I’m doing great - more on that in a couple of sentences. I just had to get those things off my chest. If you disagree with anything I have said then please contact me and I will explain how you are wrong. Anyway. On to me. The last few months have seen me get a scholarship to school, blow my own creative mind wide open, reach levels of performing I hadn’t yet reached, go on the holiday of a lifetime in a ‘Stang, and generate some of the most beautiful relationships I could ever hope for. Big up Henners. I finished last Friday and I guess that’s why I felt like starting this all again - I’m keen that you all come along for the next chapter of my life: trying to become an actor in Los Angeles. So far we’re doing okay! I’ve written a short film and we are going to be filming it in August. It’s a delightful coming of age piece about a blind boy who believes he will become a superhero. Charming, is one word I would use to describe it. We are looking for funding (c. $2000) so if you know a rich person, tell them they’re needed on the West Coast. I have a second round audition for a play in Santa Monica that runs August through September - fingers crossed for that. Call me on Tuesday if you want an update. I also have a self tape which I’ll be sending off in the next few days. I’ve been doing some headshots too which is such a wonderful creative outlet, I’m having such fun developing another artistic part to myself. There isn’t a huge amount more to say to be honest. Well, there is a huge amount more to say but so long has passed since them, I’m operating a ‘you had to be there’ policy. There are some honourable mentions -
Road trippin’ with the boys and Stangley Kubrick up the coast. California is unspeakably beautiful. San Francisco is super cool. Yosemite is better than any heaven that any dumb religion could make up.
RIP Richard Simon Brooks, and David Johnson-Morgan. Gone, but absolutely never forgotten. You are forever etched into my heart.
Learned Tai-Chi. I am the crouching tiger and the hidden dragon.
Corrected someone’s use of the phrase ‘horse-back riding’.
Peace and love ✌🏼