Welcome to my blog! This is my first time dong something like this, and it may crash and burn if I've got nothing to say. Still, let's give it a shot.
I'm an actor, singer & musician who lives in Bucks County, PA, with my wife and daughter. For twenty five years, ever since I graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, I made my living on the retail side of the music business, first as a salesman for Sam Ash Music, then as a phone monkey for JW Pepper. I walked away from Ash in 1996 after they realigned the commision system, making it tougher to bring home a decent salary, and got fired from Pepper in 2009. After talking with my wife, we decided that I should finally try to make a living in one of the most famously insecure businesses in the world. So far it's been...interesting, to say the least. We've managed to survive, and I hope that we can start to thrive in the not too distant future.
What do I hope to accomplish here? Good question. Maybe a sense of completion. You see, my wife has for years told me to write down the stories of my doings on the various movie & television sets that I work on, rather than having to listen to them all of the time. A friend of mine around that same time also asked me what it was like to work with a fairly famous photographer; five pages later, I thought that my wife might be on to something. So I created a file that lists the gigs more or less in order and I tell about what happened on the days that I worked. Problem is, I rarely go back and finish entries, and I have a backlog from the past two years to enter into that file. So what I intend to do is 1) finish what I started, 2) comment on jobs as I get them and 3) be entertaining. The last I'll leave for you to decide.
By the way, if you're looking for a boatload of snarkiness here, forget it. Most of the people I meet in this business-hell, most of the people I meet in life-are pretty cool. I have no problem calling out someone if they're being less than gracious to work with, but I think that you'll find it's rare when I do. Generally, I have a good time when I work, despite the conditions and the hours and the pressure that everyone seems to feel on a set. I hope you have a good time reading this.
Here we go!
