Blogger or Tumblr??

I'm conflicted at which to use. I have both. I've been slacking on both. But at this particular junction this one will have my most recent post, obviously. I have more followers on this one (a whopping 10) so I may just stick with it, or I may switch off, I guess I'll just be spontaneous.

I feel the need to return here now because of overwhelming concern for my lack of posts, and by overwhelming I am referring to the one time a month one of my friends asks me where my blog is. So here it is, for those who care to read it.

There are now less than 4 weeks of school left before finals start. 4 weeks of college left. EVER. The only word that comes to mind is WOW. I know it hasn't hit me yet and I don't think it will until I am in LA living on my own, something I am both completely ecstatic and amazingly nervous about, but I guess it's just another growing point in life (who knows, maybe I'll get taller too....ehhhh probably not). Either way graduation is approaching fast and it is an amazing feeling.

I feel like this blog will get more interesting once I'm out of school because I won't be stressed with the needs of class, I guess that'll change for the needs of real work, but those are needs that I can't wait to take on as I am very excited to become a part of the professional world on a full-time basis.

In other news Mannix and I played roller hockey last night which was probably my first time playing in 6 years and I've got the blisters on my feet to prove it. It was fun though and I must bring to attention the fact that out of 3 games, I was the majority victor!! For anyone who knows Mannix and sports they will know he is still distraught about this and is in fact weeping in his room as we speak (not really, he's watching the Master's). Fun times none the less.

I'm waiting to hear about a film internship that will take me until graduation which is exciting, but for now I am still counting on caterings as a source of not-so-constant income, but money either way.

Also for those who were involved I am still working on the FlipCam vids from LA and the Vegas, both great trips and both places I love, and hopefully I'll have them done sometime before graduation but you never know.

That's all for now folks I don't want to keep you from your busy schedules for too long. Shalom.

-Geoffrey

Blink 182 Concert and More!

It's been awhile, not surprising, but I feel I owe you readers a quick update.

Went to the FOB/Blink 182 concert in Tempe beach park on saturday with Christina, Gary, Berneat, and Lindsey. We left prior to FOB to go get some quick drinks at Cue Club for a few until the bands we wanted to see came on, we were there from about 5-630, and I had 3 long islands, which pretty much did me in for the rest of the evening. We got back in time for some of Slightly Stoopid's performance but I don't remember much. I decided to go in the pit for most of FOB and Blink in my drunken stooper, a fact I wish I hadn't done because my legs, and eye lid scab, are still a faint reminder of that painful day haha. It was definitely worth it though to see Blink, what a show.

I've also entered a contest to win a walk on role in the AMC show "Mad Men" and if you are so obliged feel free to register (it takes 2 minutes and an email address) and vote for me (which you can only do once)!! I would greatly appreciate it. The link is:

http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men-contest-2009/2009/09/ycbmm-09-geoffrey-mccarthy-don.php

Feel free to leave a comment while you're there if you'd like!

I also have just about completed the application for the Director's Guild of America Trainee Program. I am really excited about it but I won't know anything about acceptance until February, so that's probably all I'll say on that for now!

Also it is official, I will have the keys to the condo I'll be living in when I move to LA after college on or around October 9th!! Very exciting and I love the place!! I can't wait for everyone to see it and for us to hang out in LA!!

Also our flag football team the Chugglers won our first game last sunday!! 1-0!!! Hopefully we can keep it up and go all the way this year!!

Other than that I can't report much more, just school school school. Wednesdays normally aren't my favorite, today definitely wasn't any different. I'll be back when I can folks. Here's to hoping it's a bit sunnier tomorrow.

-Geoffrey

A Pretty Sober Weekend

Not that this happens super often for me, but I only drank one this weekend, and technically it wasn't even the weekend yet because it was Thursday night. We will call it the weekend for the purposes of this blog though because I have no classes on Friday.

Other than that I feel like I was doing work most of the weekend, literally, I'm not using that to mean something that it doesnt.

Between finishing up my first draft for my capstone (which happened about an hour ago) and working the usual catering and science center shift, I was relatively busy. Oh yea and the Bears just lost the season opener, to Green Bay, double dose of OUCHIE on that.

It wasn't all bad though.

Christina and I had our 10 month this weekend, which may not seem like a lot to most people, but to us it is, although I mean that in a good way because it has flown by. To celebrate I decided to expand my cooking knowledge from poptarts and melted (yes melted) cheese sandwiches and took a page from her mom's cookbook, again I mean that one seriously. With that recipe I was able to successfully prep and cook some Chicken Divan, which was still delicious when I had it for leftovers tonight with Brazda and Burry. So props to Mrs. K for giving that one too me.

Today was also a lot of fun because after work Brazda and Burry helped me shoot a short little one shot acting monologue so I could submit it to a contest to have a walk-on role in a season 4 episode of "Mad Men." I'm excited about that for sure sure and I am waiting for a link to my clip on the AMCTV website because YES folks believe it or not you all matter in whether or not I get picked as a finalist. Meaning that once my clip is on the site I would love for you all to watch it and vote for me!! This is because the top 20 ppl with the most votes when the prelim period ends on OCT. 16th get into the final and out of those 20 the creator and exec. producer will pic the winner!! Since you are reading this I'm assuming you support all of my worldly endeavors so when I post the link I would be more than grateful if you went and voted!! Ok enough plugging.

We had fun shooting, Brazda took cinematographer duties (on the FlipCam) and Burry was nice enough to give us his shoulders and half the left side of his face so it would look like I was at least talking to somebody during this...Fun times haha.

Other than that, I wish I was able to go to NY for the VMAs this year but couldn't because it wouldn't have been worth the money it would take to get me there and room there for three days but turns out the show was amazing even without my presence behind the scenes haha.

ALright folks thats all I have for now, gonna go watch "Knowing" with the roomies, even though I've already seen it and wasn't super psyched. But I'm a sober driver to the ladies tonight (by choice yes) so I need something to do to pass the time. Have a good one, talk to you soon.

-Geoffrey

9-9-9

I totally spaced on the fact that today is a date that many of us will never see again! Unless we make it to 9-9-99, but they'd have to invite some sort of long life syrum for any of us to still make that, but hey you never know. I'll stay optimistic.

I just had to have a blog stating this date because it is a once in a lifetime thing and I want to be able to look back on it, even though this day hasn't been any different than others haha.

I'm already less stressed than the last post, but it still sucks that I have two more classes today (Wednesday is my long day), but either way I have one early tomorrow and then the week is over so I really can't complain. Alright later!

STRESS!!!

Ok so maybe it isn't completely worthy of an all-caps title, but yes at the moment I am feeling a tad bit stressed. All in all it's about the movie I need to make for my capstone filmmaking class, I have been running ideas through my head for the last few weeks and have even written some stuff but the only problem is I need to make the story something that people will be able to feel. Oh, and I need to get the script done by a week from today!!! All in all, I'm feeling the heat. Not to mention Mannix is crappin on me for not writing in this for awhile, and said he will no longer read it as of now, so yea, we'll see if that holds up once I let him know I got this one down.

In a quick digression I will give Emilio a shout out since he's sitting next to me in capstone right now and I know he'll read this haha.

I'll go back to my film stress purely to say wish me luck over the next 7 days and cross your fingers that I can get my script done, which I will, but it may take some heavy frustration.

In other news, Mario Kart has had some sweet representation in my life over the last few weeks. Call it the game of the month if you want but it definitely has made for some fun and friendly competition. In fact, I have spent some good hours unlocking characters and tracks in the game which has been sweet. Although I must say the game's replay value isn't really the best, I feel like once I play a track twice in a day I'm over it, but lucky for the game there's 32 tracks so I guess that gives me a good amount of play time.

Hmmmm, so much has happened over the last two weeks but I don't like holding you guys onto this blog for too long because even I know that I run out of interesting things to say.

I did some catering work this past weekend, which was great since I am quickly running out of money, but it was fun because I get to work with friends. Mannix was on the first catering and Polski and Kremmel were with me on the second and time always flies when you work with friends, which everyone knows.

Let me also say that if I DO forget something cool that happened over these past two weeks and if someone reminds me about it, I will make a separate blog about it, but mainly it has been me having stupid worries about homework which I for some reason decided to start stressing about in my last year of college.

We had our first flag football practice for the upcoming season last night and that's always fun. I think we're gonna make the championship this year as long as we don't have to face the horse tranquilizer women team again haha.

My future LA condo is pretty much in my hands (or I guess I should say my moms) and I am REALLY excited about that. I promise pictures once I get official word but I guess at this point, according to the realtor and my mom, it's pretty much a done deal. And since I just brought up my mom I must bring up a story that just happened yesterday that I thought was quite funny...

I usually talk to my mom at least once a day on the phone just to chit chat and banter about life, but yesterday started out a little different. I must prequel this story with the fact that my mom is now in what I will call a relationship, although I don't know if she and the guy would consider it "Facebook Official" yet, but I don't really want to know all the details anyways so I will say that they are "hanging out." Because of this I am no lnger the only guy that talks to my mother on a normal basis. I hope most of you can see where this is going already. Anyways I called my mom yesterday for our usual banter and to wish her a safe trip, but when she answered I noticed a usual chipper in her voice along with some comments about closets and what not, and at first I thought she may just be talking to him while she was on the phone with me, but NOOO, she quickly realized that I was in fact her son and not her guy and we had a hearty awkward laugh and just one more story to tell. Oh well, I'm lighthearted and so is she and that is definitely not the most awkward story that my mother and I have with each other, but it's the only one I'll divulge for now.

Anyways my class that I've been writing this in is over so I'll end this piece now, and hopefully will be back before two weeks from now haha. Stay safe chillins'.

-Geoffrey

Just Because I Slacked So Much...And a Minor Edit Already

Yea two in less than an hour what do you know!

Anyways Mannix already informed me that he wasn't on stage at Big Bang with the rest of us....Like I said, I was pretty Deezed. That means that it was even more of a mystery than I thought! haha, oh well I'm not getting paid so I can extend the truth, so thanks for calling me out Mannix.

By the way I saw "Inglorious Basterds" and if you haven't seen it then do so because it is one of Tarantino's best in a while! We saw it with a group of about 18 and it was a blast, we even got into a nice awkwardly tense situation in the parking lot after the fact, but I'll keep that story to the people who were there haha.

Tonight I'll probably check out Mannix's team's first softball game, hopefully they don't suck but you never know they do have Mannix...haha

And I started a script today for my capstone film course that I am really excited about. I have no idea how long it will be but I feel that it is definitely an original student film and I am excited about the concept and will keep you all informed as I progress with it!

Keep it real homies.

-Geoffrey

Its Been Such A Long Timeeeeee!!! (and Mannix's Special Day)

...Think I should have blogged more!!!

Sorry I was going with a little Boston Remix there I had to keep it going. Anyways, sorry it's been so long, I can't use the excuse that I have been busy since most of the people who read this also live with or near me so they would refute that excuse, so I will pin it on laziness. None the less, here I am for another edition of the blog that barely is but hopefully someday will be!!

We last left off at Kon's bday and frankly folks, that has long since passed. Since then we have had Polski's 22nd Birthday!! As well as some fun experiences on Mill and, surprise, we even had a pretty successful house party at our place. For those who don't realize it, house parties are in short supply now that we are all 21 and older so it was nice to revert back to our roots and get the party started.

I specifically remember (but not clearly) that we had a great time at Mill on the night prior to our house party, but have no idea why. We kept it with the usual amount of crowd but it was double fun because Brazda finally came back and brought his older brother along for the ride for his first weekend back in the land of the sun! By the time those two got to Big Bang I was pretty much out of it mentally but I do still remember a bit of it, mainly through pictures.

The part I partially remember the most was one Christina got Mannix, Burry, Brazda, and myself up on stage at the Big Bang!! Of course we were all very excited about this because having four dudes on stage anywhere but a theatrical play, especially a bar, is pretty much the most taboo thing that can happen. But because Christina and her friends are on a first name basis with the bouncers and piano players at the bar we were fortunate enough to get the VIP treatment and had a good 30 second stage dancing session to ourselves before the players finally announced "alright lets get some ladies up here!!" or something along those lines. As the aforementioned pictures show, a crowd quickly gathered and fun was had by all, although I wish I could remember the song we went up there too but oh well, I'm not perfect.

Now as I have told people in person, the stage at Big Bang is pretty much the last thing I remember about that night, almost. What I understand though based on spectator accounts is that following the stage Brazda bought a few shots of Whiskey for us, and he, Kon, and myself, and maybe more people, took them. Bad idea for myself, but when I am drunk, I don't really stop until I can't go anymore (don't worry mom I won't kill myself!). Needless to say the Whiskey was my donwfall, as it usually is, and all I remember after that was getting back to Christina's and sitting with my head around the toilet and she consoled me for my outstanding drunkenness. After the fact I learned that I got a ride home with Kon, Justine, and her mom, and apparently Kon and I were screaming the whole ride home, as well as yelling and singing once we got back to Christina's. All in all, just another successful Friday night. The following night was what I can only refer to as a successful return to the house party genre.

Saturday came, and let me mention this was our last Saturday of summer because we started school this passed Monday. Since we had company we knew we had to do it big, and since we all barely have any money and even less of us have jobs, we decided we would try our luck at a house party. We decided our place on Pebble Beach would be the venue and we pretty much texted as many people in town that we knew as we could to try and make the night a fun last party of summer before we start our senior years (well most of us haha).

I must admit that I thought it would be a bust. But in the end it really came together. We started with some beerpong on our custom made ASU football themed beerpong table in our outside back room which brings me to the second heading of this post about "mannix's special night," and that is due to the fact that our little buddy brought over his new "friend that is a girl" I'll call her. I was worried because he had been in a slump but when I met Tasha I was very happy for him because she had the same spirit for the sport of beerpong that he does, except with less swearing. Frankly I don't think many people could have that. Either way, I approve (if my opinion even has any clout). She was friendly and open which was cool on her part because she walked into a place full of people she had never met and held her own, so bravo Tasha, bra-vo haha.

Ok off that subject and back to the party. More props to Big Brother Brazda for getting the inside of the house partying with a new game that he introduced to us. Much like the game "Javier" that we learned last year, this game, "beer dice," was new to all of us at the party and was an instantaneous hit so props to Jim for that. I also have to give myself and Kon a nice pat on the back for our efforts in Beer Dice because although we sucked terrible in beerpong that night (1-3?), we rocked out at Beer Dice, winning our first four games ever and only losing our 5th to the creator and his brother himself. I blame our drunkenness because by that time is was about 230 in the morning.

I must also squeeze in a side note here about the party, or after it. We finally decided to hit the sack after a good run and after Brazda, Burry, Belmont, and a few other folks decided to go to Riva's, a mexican taco place that is terribly great when hammered. But back to what I was getting at, I decided to hit the sack and was under the impression that Kon was gooing to crash on our couch in the family room. I thought this mainly because it was 4 in the morning, but either way, I went to sleep.

Upon wakening in the morning I discovered that Kon had disappeared. I became slightly worried since I know he is prone to bad hangovers so their was no way he had woken up and left, but was slightly reassured because his fiance Justine hadn't called me worried about him. I let it go for a couple of hours but decided to text him to see what had happened to him and was shocked when he told me.

Turns out he laid down for a good ten minutes and then decided, in his severely drunken stupor, that he didn't want to crash on the couch and instead wanted to go home. Note that his house is a good 2 and a half miles from mine. But either way, he did it, drunk and at 430 in the morning he decided to run home. I couldn't help but laugh when he told me. He said he should just start working out drunk though because he felt no pain after sprinting the whole way home, so if anyone else who reads this tries that out, feel free to let me know the results.

Ok well that's about all I want to put in this post, sorry for the extensive delay I will try and keep with it, but school is back and thus many freedoms have disappeared, but like I said, I will try! Hope this has been a nice comeback post for those of you reading and I look forward to bringing many more interesting life tidbits to you shortly! In the words of Kremmel "Here's to staying positive and testing negative." Cheerio folks.

-Geoffrey