April 5, 2005 (Tuesday)

Today I worked my first day on the Teacher's Assistant training videos project at Columbia University.

 

 
April 6, 2005 (Wednesday)

Today I worked my second day on the Teacher's Assistant training videos project at Columbia University. The role was fully improvised with several different takes!

 

 
April 8, 2005 (Friday)

Apparently my episode of Law & Order: Trial by Jury is on tonight at 10pm EST on NBC!

I play Joey, I believe the son of the bank worker in the episode.

Below is the synopsis of the episode. I appear in a photograph in the courtroom--once in a football uniform, another time in a hospital bed. I think it comes up in the first half of the episode but don't quote me on that. I believe I am one of the main subjects of the episode--my father goes on a retaliatory rampage because of a drunk-driving accident that left me comatose.

BANG & BLAME
10pm 2005-04-08 ALL NEW!
GUN-SHOOTING BANK EMPLOYEE TRIPS UP KIBRE WHEN HE REPRESENTS HIMSELF IN COURT -- When a bank worker (guest star Jeff Perry) casually shoots a customer to death and wounds others, the seemingly mentally unstable man runs rings around an exasperated A.D.A. Kibre (Bebe Neuwirth) in court when he asks to defend himself and exploits his claim of extreme emotional distress due to the tragic death of his son. But Kibre and Gaffney (Amy Carlson) must regain their footing before the jury through old-fashioned detective work which reveals critical holes in the murderer's persistent claim that he has been victimized by everyone. Carey Lowell guest stars as Judge Jamie Ross. Fred Dalton Thompson, Kirk Acevedo and Scott Cohen ("NYPD Blue") also star. TV-14

UPDATE!
I did appear on the episode ... twice! My first appearance was about halfway into the episode, comatose, in a black and white photo. The second appearance was rather shocking. My dad in the episode is on the stand, and in a moment of panic he whips out the photo of me in a football uniform and quickly contrasts it with a color photo of me comatose. It's a shocking effort to get the sympathy of the jury. It almost does it, too!

I was alone in my room watching the episode ... I tell you, it was something else to see your photo pushed into your face through the television so passionately by someone claiming to be your father. Weird!

 

 
April 9, 2005 (Saturday)

Today I worked on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent entitled "The Unblinking Eye" (#E5424). I was supposed to be Matt Damon's photo-double--they even cut my hair to look like his! But in the end they decided they didn't want to do the shot. But I did work in one scene as an actor at an audition. Ironically, we were at Lynn Kressel Casting, where I used to work. I'm sitting on the floor going over lines after one of the principal actors leaves his audition. I'm near the garbage can where he throws away his yellow sides.

 

 
April 12, 2005 (Tuesday)

This afternoon I had a go-see for a Budweiser commercial, cast by Grant Wilfley Casting.

 

 
April 22, 2005 (Friday)

Yesterday and into the wee hours of this morning, I worked on the film Freedomland in Yonkers, NY. The stars in attendance were Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Samuel L. Jackson, and William Forsythe.

 

 

This evening I attended a general-semantics banquet and a lecture by Dr. Robert Carneiro entitled "From Autonomous Villages to the State, an Irresistible Trend in the Grand Sweep of Human History." The lecture was held at the Musuem of Natural History in NYC.

My interest in general-semantics began in college, when I stumbled across it quite by accident in the Otterbein College library. My interest in it has spiked of late as I continue working on my book and realize how much I've ingrained general-semantics into my thinking, without even realizing where I'd learned some of the things I believe.

I'm finding the ideas quickly and amazingly coming back to me. I'm attending an all-day seminar on it tomorrow.

 

 
April 25, 2005 (Monday)

This morning I had an interview to be Leonardo DiCaprio's stand-in on the film The Departed. It was the first day of shooting. In attendance were Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Nellie Sciutto, and Director Martin Scorsese.

 

 
April 28, 2005 (Thursday)

This morning I had an audition at Ripley-Grier Studios for the Caldwell Theatre Company production of Modern Orthodox. In attendance was Artistic Director Michael Hall.