The only time I find time to read is at night, and lately I’ve been falling asleep to a little book called Sudoku. The last book I read was in Maine this last summer. I also read some book about What Your History Books Don’t Tell You or something like that.
It had the TRUE stories from history like the Wright brothers weren’t first in flight, they just had the PR. I like ACTUAL FACTS, but my reading tastes are more along fantasy. I also recommend Musashi…a five book series about the life of Miyamoto Musashi.
But currently it is Sudoku or blogs. I’ve been reading a lot of blogs by the people working on cruise ships for second city. Who was your mentor growing up and why?
Yikes! That is a good one. My dad always worked a sort of malaise job that, like any office job, would leave him in a sullen mood at the end of the day.
I guess my mom. She was my mentor humor-wise. She is almost always positive and has a lot of weird mannerisms.
Plus she was my practicing ground for comedy. She couldn’t get mad at me because I would always make her laugh. I wasn’t funny enough to break through the fog of a 9-5 until I got older and more refined.
I was sort of my own mentor which I guess is why I went through life like I did. I figured a lot of things out on my own via TV (learned how to tie a tie by watching some Tom Selleck show (feel like it was Three Men and a Baby) or later the internet. I did get my creativity and all that from both of my parents.
There was always some sort of craft being done in our house. My dad is where I learned most of my photography. What is your favorite cereal and why?
I barely ever eat cereal anymore because I’m mildly lactose intolerant. Some might say “just don’t drink the milk.” Well…I haven’t told you my favorite cereal.
You get snap, crackle and pop, and when you’re done there is chocolate milk! How can you NOT drink chocolate milk? Also, I try to avoid high fructose corn syrup now and that cuts out the cereals that deserve to be favorites.
Who was your most influential improv/acting teacher in Chicago? There are different people for different reasons. One is Mick Napier, who is probably the standard answer because he is just good.
Let’s forget, for a moment, that he takes the time to remember your name…which shows me he’s invested in the class he’s teaching. The whole Annoyance string of classes was good for me. That combined with the knowledge of the art and the business that Mick gives is priceless.
Another is Paul Grondy. I had Grondy for level four at iO and that is when I reallllly GOT how to do an opening of a Harold. For me, it clicked with him.
The other is TJ. Duh, right? It doesn’t hurt that he’s such a nice person, and add to that he’s very good at what he does.
I had him for level five at iO and would easily retake that class again just for the fun. If you were to have a second life to live, what would you excel at? Art form, sport, you name it brother!
The best gift I ever received was confidence. I didn’t have it for a long time and I didn’t really start to find it until my first time at Outdoor School. If I lived a second life with confidence from the get go?
Watch out. I definitely would be more physically active as a kid and stick with a musical instrument. I’m really good with music, meaning I can learn by ear.
I’m also impatient and it’s hard for me to learn correctly. For instance, I learned how to play the beginning of moonlight sonata by listening to it, but I can barely read music. I had lessons at five but stopped around 6 or 7…I would keep up musically.
I’d be more confident with ladies. Now that I’m confident around women it doesn’t matter because I gots a girl! Look at her finger!
Mmmmmmmm(waves hand in a “no you di’int” fashion). I would also…since I was physically active as a kid the second time around, be awesome at Martial Arts. I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and have since lost the flexibility to do much of it.
If you had to stay one age forever (Tuck Everlasting, anyone?) what age would it be? Please expand The only time I find time to read is at night, and lately I’ve been falling asleep to a little book called Sudoku.
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