Summer ends with a Bang

Every summer deserves a visit to the beach. This summer i’ve only been to the beach once and it was only for a couple of hours. Now i’m not a huge beach buff, but I should cap off the summer with some sort of exciting beach action. Why not go to South Beach, Miami. (said “beach” 5 times) Yezzir, this Thursday i’ll be flying down to Miami for a few days to soak in some sun and sip on fruity drinks with my shirt off lol. The initial reason for this blog post is not about the vacation so much but my style of travel.

This is the first trip i’ve taken in years with a group of people. I can’t really find the motivation to get excited about that part of it. Most of you know that I love to travel & travel alone. It’s not about the people i’m going with because they are all fun people but when I vacation I like to relax as much as I can. When you go with people it’s pretty much peer pressure to do something every night such as clubbing and lots of dancing. When I go somewhere I always realize that there's not a place to go where you can’t do exactly the same thing in NYC. Now I know it’s a completely different place but my type of “fun” differs from others. Some people don’t realize that fun for me can be laying around reading a script and listening to La Roux as opposed to going to a packed pool party and spending $15 on each drink. That’s the only problem I have with going away with groups.

It’s funny that i call this a vacation even though I know i’ll be working on several projects. I just can’t ever seem to get away from it. Taking me away from my work is like taking chocolate candy away from a savage baby. In any case I know i’ll have fun regardless of what I do and one thing I do know is that I will probably be intoxicated the entire trip but maintaining control so I won’t waste all my money on important things in life such as “women & drinks” hahaha

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I Love Me Some Tasty Food

If you are friends with me on facebook, you may notice the frequent picture posts and in that case you notice the food pictures I post. Clearly I love food and I love to eat out...at restaurants lol. For some reason it’s the toughest thing for me to go an entire week without going to a random restaurant. Usually I plan to eat in a different neighborhood at least once a week. Since I am frequently location scouting I take the liberty of checking out restaurants that look cool in general areas. At that point it’s time for me to jot down the name and address then head straight to my Zagat guide and see what the place has on the menu. When the time comes to eat and I have a craving for a certain kind of food...BOOM I look at my list and then I venture out. I don’t know if its 100% the food I love, but it’s fun being at new places. I always notice the looks from the regulars, probably thinking “what is this dark black giant doing here” haha but i’m in there for a new/different taste of the city.

No Beahz?

This month, and this month only ladies and gentlemen i’m on a mission. A super challenge of which many don’t believe I can do. I will go the entire month of august without drinking a beer. Yes I’ve said it, the man who loves to have a beer with any meal (including breakfast) is giving it a month off.

Now this isn’t any typical challenge because beer is something that I love. It’s social abilities, the taste and the cool names and the ways I can hold them lol. It will be one of my toughest personal challenges to date. Usually i will challenge myself to weekly bearable things but I want to one up myself and see if I have enough self control.

There are pros and cons about this event. The good thing is that I will surely lose some weight because beer is a huge huge part of my untamed diet so that's a good thing. The cons are that I will either not be able to hang out in beer drinking groups nor will I be able to respond to the comment “what kind of beer is ya havin mr. black” in any sufficient way & of course no beer pong :( I can go with my old school response and just say “I have an ulcer” but then drinking straight vodka wouldn't cure that lol.

This month will surely be entertaining to see if i can keep up with the task. Of course I told my friends about what I was doing and all of them said NO WAY it’s possible, but those two words put together to me just transforms into “Watch Me” haha, well stay tuned till the end of the month when i give my true results.

Next entry i’ll be talking about dedication to friendships, old & new.

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How Sweet It Is

Oh man, oh man...I’m back everyone. It’s been a little while but if you didn’t know I was clinging to some tropical liiiife for the past week. I recently returned from St. Thomas and Tortola of the Virgin Islands. Now I say I was there just for filming but it was a trip initially for a family reunion. Of course I had to roll my solo course with my camera and take in the sites so that’s exactly what I did. I took the 7 day opportunity to film a short documentary called “How Sweet It Is”

It’s amazing how much more you appreciate things as you get older. When I think about how many things i’ve seen and done I didn't really see it as “wowing” moments at that time, but when I was on the islands just taking notice of the culture and scenery it just stops me in my tracks to catch my breath.

This documentary will be similar to that show “Life” that airs on the discovery channel. It will be many video sequences with music and my narration of my experience there BUT here’s the twist...after I put all the footage together i will freestyle the narration portions after and/or during a night of heavy drinking. It seems unorthodox but it’s the way I do things and in filmmaking there are no gotdamn rules lol. I’ll finish this film before the end of September so be patient. The next blog i’ll be talking about my challenge of not drinking beer for the month of August

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