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Wow. I've not updated in ages (again!) so there's quite a lot to share.
The basics first of all;
I'm still in London with my 2 housemates Pete and Christian. The balance with the 3 of us is working out really well, and to be honest, i've completely landed on my feet in terms of how lucky I am to be in a nice safe apartment with two fantastic guys in the centre of London and for it all to be affordable. I'm struggling in other areas, which i'll come to, but in terms of living arrangements and the general London experience- five stars all the way.
Workwise, has been odd. I've been doing mainly promotions work. I did a very short stint as a charity fundraiser. To my American friends, in Britain we randomly have people who stop you in the street and try and get your credit card details off you, so that you can invest in donating money to charity per month. The people doing it are notoriously happy, bubbly and persistent- and I was all those things. The people you stop are notoriously rude, abusive and wankerish- and so they were. So I decided to move on and look at other things.
Then, I landed with these promotions gigs. They range from handing out leaflets in the street, to demonstrating gadgets and gizmos at exhibitions, to modelling work and anything really where people need actors/dancers at short notice to be a marketable image for their company. The work is very irregular, highly disorganised and a pain in the ass at times. However, some of the jobs have paid me as much as £16 an hour- so it's more then enough to get by.
I also just got a 20 hour part time job at Xmas with Waterstones (USA- think a posher Borders!) and I start there in a fortnight, which should give an even more regular income.
On the acting side of things- nada. It's so hard and i'm really struggling. I haven't got an agent, and I've decided to try and do it by myself but it's so hard to even get a phonecall from casting peeps, nevermind an audition and a job seems a distant dream. However, i'm going to keep on ploughing through in the knowledge that something is out there. I have an audition for a crappy panto company on Monday, which even if i got the job i couldn't take because i would have to jack in Waterstones and i need the money and on top of all that, I won't even get the job anyway because you have to be a dancer, singer, driver. I'm going just for the experince and all that! Promotions has been extremely disheartening because all my colleagues are all drama school trained actors/dancers/singers who are all doing the same thing that i'm doing for a living, the only difference being they spent an extraordinary amount of money on training! Oh well. C'est la vie.
Some of the promotions stuff i've done has been mindblowing. Last week, I got to go to a party www.showstudio.com. I got paid a stupid amount of money, to just be a party guest. They didn't tell me who's party but I quickly realised we were talking A-List celeb party. All the supermodels of the fashion world were there, i'm talking everyone; Kate Moss, Jazelle, Pete Doherty, Vogue Cover Stars, Scarlett Johanson etc etc I did about an hours work and the rest of the time, I was just free just to party and enjoy the rooms. There was a ballroom, a fencing room, live cosmetic surgery room, a paparazzi room (Where they were all contained!), a band room, a cinderella room- it was the most surreal party ever. There was a free bar, but obviously being a non-drinker, there was only so long that could last me.
Love life; (beware of graphhic details!!) This has been majorly up and down.
Adam- the Californian Skateboarder got jacked in because he was majorly arrogant.
I met a lovely bloke called Kaleb. He was French and black and just a gentleman. We went on a couple of dates and I got excited....until I realised how negative he was about everything in his life, and his job and his family...and I just realised that it was getting me down. Next.
I met a guy the other day, who is a leading area manager of London GAP stores. We're talking an immense amount of money, and he seemed like a lovely bloke. I went to his house last night, for coke. I very naively thought this meant the soft drink. He had friends over, and they were all doing stupid amounts of cocaine. I tried to bail, but they talked me into staying- I obviously didn't participate. Before I know it, the aforementioned guy (who shall remain nameless) and a guy from Australia had me in a bedroom and were taking my clothes off. Now, I won't be self-righteous here and say I was completely in the right, because for about 3 minutes, a 3some seemed like a great idea. I was all ready to go at it, but as soon as I saw how coked up they were, the popers and the stupid amounts of lube, I tried to get away. They tried to stop me. It *almost* turned into a strugle, until I said that i would do *anything* i needed to to get out of this room. They let me go, and I ran off into the night. No money, and no way home. (again major error of judgement.) I walked home for hours, finally getting back at 5 this morning. Lesson learned.
Other random details; Fallen in love with 6 feet under. Me, Pete and Christian have regular watching sessions and we're loving it. I'm unsure about Torchwood for now, and I'm excited about the return of 24. I've made some American football friends, and we all hang out on Sundays to watch the Falcons play. Really nice having that in my life again.
It's my birthday on Thursday- have absolutely nothing planned, but it just feels crazy enough to be spending it in London really.
Still really enjoying London, loving the amount of people I am meeting every day and the same regular faces i'm starting to see. Have to admit a slight twinge of disappointment that we haven't made any real great friends yet, and everyone is very much an acquaintance but it's all ok. It just needs a bit of time.
I'm going to a drama workshop every Friday, very much enjoying that. It's mainly Commedia based- so that's all cool.
I met Jason, thingy ma jig who wrote the Musicals Parade and Last 5 years. Justin, if you still read these things, I majorly thought of you!
That's going to be it for now but i'll try and update more often. I promise.
Z
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The basics first of all;
I'm still in London with my 2 housemates Pete and Christian. The balance with the 3 of us is working out really well, and to be honest, i've completely landed on my feet in terms of how lucky I am to be in a nice safe apartment with two fantastic guys in the centre of London and for it all to be affordable. I'm struggling in other areas, which i'll come to, but in terms of living arrangements and the general London experience- five stars all the way.
Workwise, has been odd. I've been doing mainly promotions work. I did a very short stint as a charity fundraiser. To my American friends, in Britain we randomly have people who stop you in the street and try and get your credit card details off you, so that you can invest in donating money to charity per month. The people doing it are notoriously happy, bubbly and persistent- and I was all those things. The people you stop are notoriously rude, abusive and wankerish- and so they were. So I decided to move on and look at other things.
Then, I landed with these promotions gigs. They range from handing out leaflets in the street, to demonstrating gadgets and gizmos at exhibitions, to modelling work and anything really where people need actors/dancers at short notice to be a marketable image for their company. The work is very irregular, highly disorganised and a pain in the ass at times. However, some of the jobs have paid me as much as £16 an hour- so it's more then enough to get by.
I also just got a 20 hour part time job at Xmas with Waterstones (USA- think a posher Borders!) and I start there in a fortnight, which should give an even more regular income.
On the acting side of things- nada. It's so hard and i'm really struggling. I haven't got an agent, and I've decided to try and do it by myself but it's so hard to even get a phonecall from casting peeps, nevermind an audition and a job seems a distant dream. However, i'm going to keep on ploughing through in the knowledge that something is out there. I have an audition for a crappy panto company on Monday, which even if i got the job i couldn't take because i would have to jack in Waterstones and i need the money and on top of all that, I won't even get the job anyway because you have to be a dancer, singer, driver. I'm going just for the experince and all that! Promotions has been extremely disheartening because all my colleagues are all drama school trained actors/dancers/singers who are all doing the same thing that i'm doing for a living, the only difference being they spent an extraordinary amount of money on training! Oh well. C'est la vie.
Some of the promotions stuff i've done has been mindblowing. Last week, I got to go to a party www.showstudio.com. I got paid a stupid amount of money, to just be a party guest. They didn't tell me who's party but I quickly realised we were talking A-List celeb party. All the supermodels of the fashion world were there, i'm talking everyone; Kate Moss, Jazelle, Pete Doherty, Vogue Cover Stars, Scarlett Johanson etc etc I did about an hours work and the rest of the time, I was just free just to party and enjoy the rooms. There was a ballroom, a fencing room, live cosmetic surgery room, a paparazzi room (Where they were all contained!), a band room, a cinderella room- it was the most surreal party ever. There was a free bar, but obviously being a non-drinker, there was only so long that could last me.
Love life; (beware of graphhic details!!) This has been majorly up and down.
Adam- the Californian Skateboarder got jacked in because he was majorly arrogant.
I met a lovely bloke called Kaleb. He was French and black and just a gentleman. We went on a couple of dates and I got excited....until I realised how negative he was about everything in his life, and his job and his family...and I just realised that it was getting me down. Next.
I met a guy the other day, who is a leading area manager of London GAP stores. We're talking an immense amount of money, and he seemed like a lovely bloke. I went to his house last night, for coke. I very naively thought this meant the soft drink. He had friends over, and they were all doing stupid amounts of cocaine. I tried to bail, but they talked me into staying- I obviously didn't participate. Before I know it, the aforementioned guy (who shall remain nameless) and a guy from Australia had me in a bedroom and were taking my clothes off. Now, I won't be self-righteous here and say I was completely in the right, because for about 3 minutes, a 3some seemed like a great idea. I was all ready to go at it, but as soon as I saw how coked up they were, the popers and the stupid amounts of lube, I tried to get away. They tried to stop me. It *almost* turned into a strugle, until I said that i would do *anything* i needed to to get out of this room. They let me go, and I ran off into the night. No money, and no way home. (again major error of judgement.) I walked home for hours, finally getting back at 5 this morning. Lesson learned.
Other random details; Fallen in love with 6 feet under. Me, Pete and Christian have regular watching sessions and we're loving it. I'm unsure about Torchwood for now, and I'm excited about the return of 24. I've made some American football friends, and we all hang out on Sundays to watch the Falcons play. Really nice having that in my life again.
It's my birthday on Thursday- have absolutely nothing planned, but it just feels crazy enough to be spending it in London really.
Still really enjoying London, loving the amount of people I am meeting every day and the same regular faces i'm starting to see. Have to admit a slight twinge of disappointment that we haven't made any real great friends yet, and everyone is very much an acquaintance but it's all ok. It just needs a bit of time.
I'm going to a drama workshop every Friday, very much enjoying that. It's mainly Commedia based- so that's all cool.
I met Jason, thingy ma jig who wrote the Musicals Parade and Last 5 years. Justin, if you still read these things, I majorly thought of you!
That's going to be it for now but i'll try and update more often. I promise.
Z
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