Soph year wrap-up, HOW YA LIKE ME NOW?!?
So my sophmore year at UHartford is over. The phrase "it's been fun" I think goes without saying. I met a great bunch of people, who turned out to be the greatest people I think I'll ever meet. I never thought I'd be the kind of dude to have a "crew" or "gang" or "posse" or "group" of people you hang out with almost exclusively. It's weird cuz when the year started I picked up where I left off last year, chillin with whoever I knew, wherever. Not tryin to make myself out to be a bigshot, but I know ALOT of people, an i'd spend my weekends bouncin from party to party to house to house jus having a good time. As the year went on I started chillin with a certain group of people, and that number grew until before I knew it, I was part of a "group", and we had a "house", and we had "followers" and then before WE knew it, we started a phenomenom.
It's gonna be fun pickin up where we left off this September. In any case my Acting is great, I've learned a lot about my craft and about myself. There isn't a moment this year that I regret. Every role helped me and pushed me that much closer to being the Actor I want to leave UHartt being. On stayin out of drama, I did my best an succeeded for the most part. Unnecessary bullshit drama didn't really touch me, and I didn't touch it. Now that I'm home this summmer I'm doin what I always do when I'm home: workin my ass off, workin it out, an gettin ready for the next year. I'm only home till late July, cuz I'm in a show "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that's goin up in September I think. I can't wait to be in it not only cuz it's the first thing we'll be in at Hartford Stage, but it's my favorite Shakespeare play; other than the Tempest.
One thing that's been pissin me off lately is the lack of showmanship in ANYTHING anymore. I jus saw the season finale of Saturday Night Live featuring Usher as musical guest. Now, anyone who knows me knows that Usher is one of my favorite artists, so really I was looking for a great show...NOPE. Usher did one song that absolutely butchered ANY respect for him I had as a songwriter or a singer, then he did the abomination known as "Love In This Club". The performance was horrible, the extra girls that pranced and grabbed on him onstage didn't help things; his SIGNATURE USHER DANCE MOVES didn't help at ALL, though he did try...
Usher used to be his own category of music to me. He used to be unique and different. NOT ANYMORE, when I heard that one song he did, or even when I hear "Love In This Club", I don't hear anything different than what I hear on the radio, which is all SHIT nowadays anyway. It took me reminding myself that Usher's got at least three other albums which are stellar (My Way, 8701, and Confessions) to keep me watchin this shit on a stage in New York; which depending on the subject, could mean ANYTHING.
Long story short the performance sucked, and was not at all the Usher I grew up listening to, watching, and admiring. I really don't know what to think about it, because it's just reminding me of everything we see and hear nowadays, and how it's either a repeat, or some nonsense that some rich douchewipe decided to put on the air because he knows it's horrible enough to make money, and that some moron somewhere, sometime will hear it and say, "HEY! I can make a DANCE to this!!"...and thus was born...Soulja Boy...
The only thing I have right now in terms of music I have my own mixed cd's, and until somethin better comes on the radio, that's what I'll be jammin to. On a lighter note, if you haven't already, check out the video on my facebook of me doin Thriller. If you know me you know it's one of my biggest accomplishments, and it's also one of the only things keepin me going. Michael Jackson that is.
It's gonna be fun pickin up where we left off this September. In any case my Acting is great, I've learned a lot about my craft and about myself. There isn't a moment this year that I regret. Every role helped me and pushed me that much closer to being the Actor I want to leave UHartt being. On stayin out of drama, I did my best an succeeded for the most part. Unnecessary bullshit drama didn't really touch me, and I didn't touch it. Now that I'm home this summmer I'm doin what I always do when I'm home: workin my ass off, workin it out, an gettin ready for the next year. I'm only home till late July, cuz I'm in a show "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that's goin up in September I think. I can't wait to be in it not only cuz it's the first thing we'll be in at Hartford Stage, but it's my favorite Shakespeare play; other than the Tempest.
One thing that's been pissin me off lately is the lack of showmanship in ANYTHING anymore. I jus saw the season finale of Saturday Night Live featuring Usher as musical guest. Now, anyone who knows me knows that Usher is one of my favorite artists, so really I was looking for a great show...NOPE. Usher did one song that absolutely butchered ANY respect for him I had as a songwriter or a singer, then he did the abomination known as "Love In This Club". The performance was horrible, the extra girls that pranced and grabbed on him onstage didn't help things; his SIGNATURE USHER DANCE MOVES didn't help at ALL, though he did try...
Usher used to be his own category of music to me. He used to be unique and different. NOT ANYMORE, when I heard that one song he did, or even when I hear "Love In This Club", I don't hear anything different than what I hear on the radio, which is all SHIT nowadays anyway. It took me reminding myself that Usher's got at least three other albums which are stellar (My Way, 8701, and Confessions) to keep me watchin this shit on a stage in New York; which depending on the subject, could mean ANYTHING.
Long story short the performance sucked, and was not at all the Usher I grew up listening to, watching, and admiring. I really don't know what to think about it, because it's just reminding me of everything we see and hear nowadays, and how it's either a repeat, or some nonsense that some rich douchewipe decided to put on the air because he knows it's horrible enough to make money, and that some moron somewhere, sometime will hear it and say, "HEY! I can make a DANCE to this!!"...and thus was born...Soulja Boy...
The only thing I have right now in terms of music I have my own mixed cd's, and until somethin better comes on the radio, that's what I'll be jammin to. On a lighter note, if you haven't already, check out the video on my facebook of me doin Thriller. If you know me you know it's one of my biggest accomplishments, and it's also one of the only things keepin me going. Michael Jackson that is.