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These ladies here rock my world!
.. width="425" height="350" ..The people I would LIKE to meet are Nicole Kidman, Butch Walker and Gene Simmons. I have met Gene and Butch and am well on my way to meeting Nicole. Now I just have to figure out how to say NO when she makes a pass at me. Which she will...I mean...even SHE doesn't have three capitals in her name!!
This is a short film I directed, co-wrote and co-starred in for the 48 hour film festival. Enjoy...
[Joey just got ordained via the internet so that he could perform Monica and Chandler's wedding] Joey: Hey, I started working on what I'm going to say at the ceremony. Wanna hear it? Monica, Chandler: Yeah. Joey: We are gathered here today on this joyous occasion to celebrate the special love that Monica and Chandler share. [Monica and Chandler look impressed] Joey: It is a love based of giving and receiving as well as having and sharing. And the love that they give and have is shared and received. And through this having and giving and sharing and receiving, we too can share and love and have... and receive. [later] Joey: Okay, you guys, I've got a little more written... are you ready? Chandler: Yeah, yeah. Okay. Joey: When I think of the love that these two givers and receivers share, I cannot help but envy the lifetime ahead of having and loving and giving... and then I can't think of a good word for right here. Monica: How bout receiving? Joey: Yes!- excerpt from an episode of "Friends"
Your future is not determined by your personality. In fact, your personality is not even determined by your personality. There is no genetic code in you that determines who you will be. You are the thinker who determines who you will be. How you act is who you will become. Another way of seeing that might be contained in these related thoughts from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy: "Spock had a big, big effect on me. I am so much more Spock-like today than when I first played the party in 1965 that you wouldn't recognize the old me. I'm not talking about appearance, but thought processes. Doing that character, I learned so much about rational logical thought that it reshaped my life."You'll gather energy and inspiration by being the character you want to play. I took an acting class a few years ago because I thought it would help me deal with my overwhelming stage fright. But I learned something much more valuable than how to relax in front of a crowd. I learned that my emotions were tools for me to use, not demonic, uncontrollable forces. I learned that my emotions were mine to work with and change at will. Although I had read countless times that our own deliberate thoughts control our emotions, and that the feelings we have are all caused by what we think, I never trusted that concept as real, because it didn't always feel real. To me, if felt more like emotion was an all-powerful thing that could overcome my thinking and ruin a good day (or a good relationship).It took a great acting teacher, Judy Rollings, and my own long struggles with performing difficult scenes to show me that my emotions really could be under the complete control of my mind. I found out that I could motivate myself by thinking and acting like a motivated person, just as I could depress myself by thinking and acting like a depressed person. With practice, the fine line between acting and being disappeared.We love great actors because it seems like they are the characters they play. Poor actors are those who can't "become" the part they're playing and therefore don’t convince us of their character's reality. We don't buy into the sincerity of their character or the story. We call it bad acting. Yet we don't realize that we ourselves miss the same opportunities in life when we can't "be" the person we're wanting to be. It doesn't take authentic circumstances to be who you are and want to be. It just takes rehearsal.- excerpt from Steve Chandler's "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself."
Psalm 37:23-24 If the Lord delights in a man's way, he makes his steps firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.- excerpt from "The Bible"