Summer Solstice

Venice, California. Angelenos enjoyed the longest day of the year and the first day of summer this past weekend in the midst of an intense heat wave. In addition to triple digit temperatures in the valley, the longest day (and in my opinion the best day...) of the year correlated with a full moon and grunion runs on the beaches. I hit the town with some of my Venice buddies and only realized later that all of the guys in the group had names starting in A - Aaron, Andrew, Adam and Arlo. The video clip below is from our solstice outing in the long twilight. Also included is a picture of buddies Aaron Miller and Jen Tharler at a recent showing of The Quick Six, the band continuing to provide the best of music to west side venues!

On the work front, this has been another busy week. Earlier in the week, I worked two nights at the Rose Bowl for a promo that I'll leave nameless. Check out the picture here of the stadium with the mountains behind. With this kind of view at a football game, and not to mention the usual perfect weather, can you blame people for wanting to live in California? Anyway, the promo featured the lovely country singer, Faith Hill, who proved to be engaging and gracious. Unfortunately, this production decided to cut corners by not feeding the extras at all the first night, and only provided chips and water as craft services. This treatment came to Faith's attention and she responded by buying us all pizza. We thanked her profusely for her kind hearted act and I let her know that I knew "a Mississippi girl don't change her ways... "

Later in the week, I worked as an upscale Los Angeles diner on the second episode of the new series, The Starter Wife. The series stars Debra Messing of Will and Grace fame. Finally, this weekend in the midst of solstice madness, I worked as a New York library patron on a pilot called The Meant to Be's starring Amy Smart and Ioan Gruffudd (known best as Dr. Reed Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four films).

As this coming week begins, I have a couple of very exciting, but top secret feature film projects that I am getting started on. In one on these, I will be working for the first time as a photo double for a celebrity actor and I am looking forward to it!

On a wrap up note, it looks like my IMDb Starmeter hit an all time high this week - - 29,289! Cool beans...

The Secret Adventures of Mr. Grant

Los Angeles, California. Last month I reported on the release of the 3 minute version of Santiago Tapia's The Secret Adventures of Mr. Grant. At that time, I was unable to embed the video here. However, it now seems to work just fine. So, please enjoy the video along with a great frame grab of my fellow secret agents and me.

This and That

Los Angeles, California. I have been a little behind in getting postings up on this Blog, so I going to give you a really quick run through to catch up. Things have been busy and I have been working my butt off on sets here and there. We did another day of shooting on the Hitler documentary and I have posted a spoof Hitler PSA from that day here along with a few pictures of my fellow actors and I clowning around on set. While up in San Francisco for the shoot, I enjoyed attending the Bay to Breakers race and have included a picture of Laura Bauman, dressed for race day.

In addition to Hitler, I have been playing cop roles with increasing frequency and have included two shots here - one as a tactical weapons officer on the set of 24 and the other as a Pittsburgh police officer (carrying an automatic) on the set of Back to You. I have also landed a couple more larger roles in feature films, playing various agents of the law, and will keep you posted as these develop.

On other fronts, I have recently been doing stand in work and have had a fun time standing in for William Baldwin, Lee Pace, Jimmy Kimbel, Jorge Garcia, Kevin Dunn and Luke MacFarlane. Last night, I worked on an all night shoot for one of my all time favorite television shows, Entourage. I played a Beverly Hills parent and the episode should air around October 23rd of this year (Season 5, Episode 03). Finally, today, I attended the first table read for the Star War's fan film, The Mandalorian Legacy. The production team has a great cast assembled and it will be exciting to watch this develop.