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