hrrrmuum
So I've known for about a month that I'm going to be shooting a new series. I still can't say what it is because the official announcement hasn't been made, but I can tell you I'll be a French Canadian Sous-Chef and that the little bits of script and story I've seen sound really cool and really fun. I start that late September.
In other news I went to Calgary with Ali and saw my dad and half brother for the first time in ten years... that was pretty cool. It cemented both aspects of nature vs nurture for me. I have the same interests in learning about odd, foreign, and dangerous things, as well as a general respect for people, no matter what their situation, as my dad, as well as the pragmatism, drive, caution, and humour of my mom... it was quite bizarre. An example, I recently read the Koran for interest purposes... My dad read the Koran when he was also 23 just to know what Islam was all about, and like me with no desire to actually convert or anything, just purely to understand it and the cultures it's shaped... weird. My brother was funny too... 14 years old and 6"1... taller than me.
It's also odd that my dad looks like what I'll probably look like in 30 years, while my brother looks like a handsome Blackfoot warrior (he's metis... half Native, half white, for those who don't know). So that was pretty interesting. Unfortunately, while Calgary has the coolest bars, that seems to be the only thing in Clagary to do... really though, coffee shops closed on Saturdays and Sundays? Wha???!!!!
The drives to and from were fun... we drove through forest fire territory, with ash falling from the sky in a town called Merrit while we sat and drank coffe. We camped in the stupidest place we could.. Glacier national Park... beautiful, but cold.. duh, "Glacier". Saw small BC towns, drove through places that were on the map, but nowhere in sight (Donald, BC, where are you?) and marvelled at the natural beauty of the mountains, lakes, and emerald coloured streams.
On the way back I drove straight through... no camping, nothing. It was cold and rainy, and damned if i was going to pay $27 to set up my own tent and sleep on the ground again... I'd have done it for free, but $27 buys a lot of thing more pleasurable than sleeping on a slowly deflating air matress in freezing downpour. Bah! Bah I say!
So yeah, I'm looking forward to my new show, which I'm sad to say people outside of Canada most likely won't see on TV itself. (Not that there won't be other ways.)
I have been lazy with shaving though, and have grown a pretty decent beard for a guy who normally looks 17 at the oldest.
In other news I went to Calgary with Ali and saw my dad and half brother for the first time in ten years... that was pretty cool. It cemented both aspects of nature vs nurture for me. I have the same interests in learning about odd, foreign, and dangerous things, as well as a general respect for people, no matter what their situation, as my dad, as well as the pragmatism, drive, caution, and humour of my mom... it was quite bizarre. An example, I recently read the Koran for interest purposes... My dad read the Koran when he was also 23 just to know what Islam was all about, and like me with no desire to actually convert or anything, just purely to understand it and the cultures it's shaped... weird. My brother was funny too... 14 years old and 6"1... taller than me.
It's also odd that my dad looks like what I'll probably look like in 30 years, while my brother looks like a handsome Blackfoot warrior (he's metis... half Native, half white, for those who don't know). So that was pretty interesting. Unfortunately, while Calgary has the coolest bars, that seems to be the only thing in Clagary to do... really though, coffee shops closed on Saturdays and Sundays? Wha???!!!!
The drives to and from were fun... we drove through forest fire territory, with ash falling from the sky in a town called Merrit while we sat and drank coffe. We camped in the stupidest place we could.. Glacier national Park... beautiful, but cold.. duh, "Glacier". Saw small BC towns, drove through places that were on the map, but nowhere in sight (Donald, BC, where are you?) and marvelled at the natural beauty of the mountains, lakes, and emerald coloured streams.
On the way back I drove straight through... no camping, nothing. It was cold and rainy, and damned if i was going to pay $27 to set up my own tent and sleep on the ground again... I'd have done it for free, but $27 buys a lot of thing more pleasurable than sleeping on a slowly deflating air matress in freezing downpour. Bah! Bah I say!
So yeah, I'm looking forward to my new show, which I'm sad to say people outside of Canada most likely won't see on TV itself. (Not that there won't be other ways.)
I have been lazy with shaving though, and have grown a pretty decent beard for a guy who normally looks 17 at the oldest.