An Actor’s Decemeber Weekend Comforts = A Good Read, Heavy Blanket, & a Warm Scented Cologne

Following my challenging trip of filming out east last week, it’s a welcome distraction to receive an order of cologne from independent Portland based perfumer Slumberhouse and to have a great book to read over the weekend. The scent I ordered from Slumberhouse is called Rume. A spicy rendition that brings to mind the visits …

Funny Audition Requirement: Beautiful Feet Bottoms

This weeks audition has me competing for the role of a male who is described as having “beautiful feet.” The photo is from the audition. Acting is one of the few industries that’s required to actively hire people according to their race, gender, & public opinion of their beauty. It’s understandable. If a script calls …

Pre De Provence Triple Milled Soap, Sensitive Skin Soap Holy Grail

So excited today to introduce you to guest blogger & my good friend Kathryn Vento. (@KathrynVento) She’s a fellow actor who shares many of the same interests as I do, and many of the same zany quirks. I asked her to do a guest post for me about the triple milled Pre de Provence Soaps. …

7 Good Gift Ideas & 1 Bad One (I learnt the hard way)

My eyes have been feasting on all the great gift guides around. Seriously, I need to remind myself that I don’t need ALL of it. I just want ALL of it. So, in classic mimic-style, I’m sharing too. Most of these are items from independent artists I’ve come across. I like indie artists, certainly because …

My Heroin Horror Film Screening At Underground Film Festival

Saturday December 3rd, Director Elijah Woodcock’s thriller Dope Sick screens as a part of the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival during the segment Themes of Horror Shot Film Selections. The film has Todd Parker (played by Paul Cram) in a Heroin addled haze, lost in the maze of a run down hotel where he encounters sexy …

I Was Wrong Justin Bieber You Don’t Smell Bad

Why is it whenever I turn my nose up to be snobby that I inevitably have a big green bugger hanging for all to see? I laugh with friends over Justin Bieber releasing a perfume fragrance called Someday. Feeling so much more enlightened than all the masses of consumers being duped into another celebrity cash …

Grateful This Week for People that That Craft Beauty

This is two-fold. The first being those people that make beautiful objects & things; like writing a song or making a wonderful cologne. The second being people that use objects & things to make beauty; like decorating one’s home for guests. While I certainly agree that the best things in life aren’t things, my heart …

Got Busted After Being Plastered, Now It’s Up To Movie Special Effect Artist to Work His Magic

From left: Wearing bald cap as prep for plaster. Drying out. Finished bust of head & neck. Photos courtesy: Crist Ballas Special effects artist Crist Ballas molds my head, neck, and hands. Using the mold, he makes a plaster bust. It’s all for an upcoming project in which I play an Alien, filming down in …