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Saint Heaven

Well after I decided I wanted to keep a daily log of my activities and see if this speech recognition thing was going to work, I was cast in a beautiful project by the name of Saint Heaven. I had an absolute blast with everyone that was involved, and I'd specially like to thank the wonderful people over at village theatre. Village theatre has the size to accommodate large tours if they really wanted to, but they are only 550-560 seats. And because of their work with new musicals such as saint heaven, and other show I did a couple years ago called stand by the river. In its seventh season of doing the a new musical festival, they've generated lots of interest. Saint Heaven, for example, has a lot of fixtures from a New York musical theater involved in it. From Broadway stars such as Montego Glover who by the way is under studying fantasia in the color purple, and Darren Ritchie who was also seen on Broadway in Dracula, little shop of horrors, two wonderful producers such as Hilary Cutter, to Jeff Waxman the brilliant one eyed musical director. And all of the local people were absolutely wonderful such as Brandon Ivie, Tara Farrell, Susie, and Steve. And everyone from the local cast was wonderful such as Shanna Palmer, David Wilson, and Marlette Buchanan. Special thanks to Keith Gordon and Martin Casella for their wonderful musical score and book. You'll find in my art gallery a host of pictures from saint have and this week and everything is rehearsal nothing is from the production. But I have managed to make them look absolutely beautiful. I hope you enjoy.

Day 3

Well it's the end of the day and I'm about to go sleep. I had two shows of Joseph and the amazing Technicolor dreamcoat and I'm pooped. Looks like it's going on a beach date tomorrow, ocean shores on the Washington Coast. It is absolutely beautiful at this time of year. I'm bringing my camera so I hope to take lots and lots of great pictures. I'll check and tomorrow.

Oh and by the way, Microsoft is releasing a service pack to improve performance and compatibility across the board so I hope that everyone out there of upgrades. Oh and this is just for vista people. I've been having problems with an interface between my midi and my keyboard and vista ultimate.

And Laura says good night also. Pictures from the beach tomorrow...
Good night to all and to all of a good night...
EJ

Day 2

Well this is day two of my experiment. I'm still loving it, but it has taken some getting used to. As long as I speak clearly and correctly there usually isn't a problem it also likes to take its time a typing my words. So here goes...

Have a lot of stuff I have to get done today. I might have to go to beacon hill, Ive Gotta get some insurance thing straight with my sister, who I am not getting along with very well right now. And I've Gotta try and get Ahold of these people in gig harbor about doing Little Shop of Horrors. And I would really like to get into a movie or figure out some way of getting an agent to get me booked in Europe. Or Japan would be really cool also. Anyway, is not like I can't get these jobs. It is just sometimes I can't figure out where to look for these jobs. I've been thinking strongly about guest spots on cruise ships. The reason for that is, Laura, my significant other, the love of my life, the reason I live. I would prefer not to be away from her for that long of a time. If I were famous I could take her with me. But as of yet, I have not achieved fame and fortune. I hope to someday be there soon. But I need to make a concerted effort to get myself out there but I just don't like being away from home for that amount of time. I could do two months, maybe even three on the outside.

In the coming days I will let you know what my plans are for achieving such a thing. It is difficult to balance your acting career, the work that to do, the films that you make with your home life. This is probably the reason I don't have kids. I would have to share the little bit of time that did have aat home with the kids and Laura. And to be quite honest, I'd rather spend my time with her. Growing old and tired of each other.
Talk to you tomorrow,
EJ

The power of voice recognition!!!

I'm trying to use voice recognition software. This is the first time I'm going to try to do this. For the next few days or weeks I will be trying my best to report one thing a day using the software. You would think since I like to talk to my log entries would be longer. And log entries are usually very short yet I have the gift of gab. One would think that it would a natural thing for me to do.
When I was a young boy I was diagnosed with dyslexia. It's just one of those things that I never told anyone about as a young boy. As I got older and my father passed away, and as I became my own man, it the became more acceptable in my own mind. It made me a reexamine things, make things different priorities. It's probably what drew me to theater. The ability to work through your problems and have rehearsal before you go out and perform was very beneficial to me. I remember making the decision a long time ago that I would figure out a way to get past my dyslexia.
With this new software I may have found the holy grail. I can think of what I want to say and just say it and it will be in front of me before I know it. I'm very excited, as a matter of fact I think I may even be better than excited I might actually be able to do something, do more. Well, this ought to be interesting... - Ej