ACTING IN BACK, SUMMER IN FRONT
July 1, 2009
I am happy to report that the sun is back out and shining brightly! Therefore, I think it is safe to say that “June Gloom” is behind us and summer is in full swing, especially since temperatures reached 90 degrees in the valley this past weekend! Plus, there have been lots of people at the pool and barbecuing hot dogs and hamburgers in my complex. This always provides me the feeling of summer, and takes me back to when I was still in school, growing up. Summers were filled with travel, playing outdoors, swimming, and lots and lots of barbecuing on the deck with my family.
As you may have noticed, I have been a bit MIA, as they say, the last couple weeks. Although I have been keeping super busy with friends in town, jury duty, birthdays galore, events, and charity events; the acting front itself hasn’t provided anything really worth reporting. That said, I didn’t want to leave you all hanging for too long!
Right now, I am just happy to have my fabulous family in town visiting, something I always look forward to most and simply love! My extraordinary parents arrived in LA on Monday night and my oh-so-fun younger sister and her fiancé arrived on Tuesday evening. We all headed up to Santa Barbara this morning for more wedding planning, menu tastings, and overall good times! We all always have so much fun together, and there is never a shortage of good laughs or silly pictures, which always become marvelous memories!
All in all, I am sorry for not having more things acting related to report, especially since this is supposed to be a blog from The Actor! It seems that all things acting have taken a bit of a back burner for me in the past couple months, and I am at a place in my life where that really doesn’t bother me so much. I think the best way to express it is that things are evolving for me, and my wants and needs are slowly changing. Now, as to what these wants and needs exactly are, is still questionable.
So, as I continue to find my way, evolve, learn, and change, I hope all is going smoothly for every one of you on your own personal journeys and adventures. Also, I want you to know how much I really do appreciate each of you who takes the time to read what little old me has to write. I hope you all enjoy a summer clear of any shortage of sunshine!
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook
Liesl will be a household name someday. I have faith that people all over the world will soon be mispronouncing and misspelling her name. is it LIIIIIESL or is it LEEEEISL or is it just Lisa and her parents spelled it wrong? I know this because as I was writing The Suicide Flowers (link below) I wrote the part of Isabelle (the wife of a man dying from cancer) for a slender blonde, with more love in her eyes than blue in the sky. Isabelle conveys very intricate feelings through her eyes, but when she speaks the love in her heart comes out naturally and when she smiles it’s infectious and the audience becomes one with her because we all know what it feels like to really hurt way down inside. You know that feeling that you get when you are truly hurt? It comes from somewhere between your heart and your throat and when it’s there it’s not easily suppressed. Edit after edit and rewrite after rewrite I can truly say that the characters in my story are real to me. I love them as if they were real and though I know the course that their (fictional) lives take, I always feel strong emotions when they are tested. Several years after I wrote the first draft of the story I was introduced to Liesl and I realized that it was for her that I had written my story about. So, even though she has little to post about regarding acting, there are those of us who believe in her and are working hard to help get her name out there (read: seeking financing).
So, check out one of the films (I hope it’s the film that breaks her) that this future star will be a part of in the near future.
http://suicidalflower.com/suicidal_flowers_synopsis.html
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