Hypeman!

Here's a video written and directed by my buddy Danwise, featuring some good friends of mine as the actors: Wayne Walsh, John Gallagher, Danwise and Brandon Lara.  Dan and I edited this video for the Renopocalypse comedy show, and it was a blast! They did such a good job, and just the raw footage was cracking me up. Also, can we just take a moment and appreciate the walking/running shot at the end? AAAmazing.

 

(X-Posted at alyssapants)

Lent!

I decided that this year I'm going to take part in Lent. For those of us who are not particularly religious, it's a great opportunity to challenge ourselves mentally. This year, for Lent I decided that I'm not going to buy any "stupid crap." "Stupid crap" just referring to my awful habit of buying clothes and shoes all the time. Which is a huge bummer considering I saw these beauts while shopping for a costume piece for Renopocalypse the other day...

Damn you, Forever 21! Anyway, I'll tell you know how I'm doing...and in the spirit of being thankful for what I have, I'll post about some nice pieces I've already owned for a while. :)

Here's to a rough time until April 5th! I'm totally not doing the cheat days, so wish me luck!

Cat Calling

All of last week I was consumed by preparing for our first Renopocalypse show. I spent entire days sitting in a computer lab/editing dungeon working on videos for the show. I just uploaded the first videos to the Renopocalypse YouTube page.

The first videos are called Cat Calling. It's a short film my friend John Gallagher wrote and directed. This was his baby. During the editing process, however, I feel like it became my baby as well. Here they are in order! Enjoy!

This was so fun to edit. I was laughing hysterically while sitting in the lab working on this. 

Also, I want to give special props to Nolan Fleming for a fantastic job as the crazy guy. We had at least 20 straight minutes of footage of him fighting a stuffed cat. Not a lot of people would go balls to the wall like that, and he did a really great job...and he was super creepy!

(x-posted at Alyssapants.com)

Thanks, GPS: My accidental trip through Yellowstone.

A few months ago I had to drive from Billings, Montana to Fallon, Nevada in order to get a show. My father told me that the best way would be to stay on I-90 then take 55 and 41 at Whitehall, MT. I took note of his advice then followed my GPS, seeing the map and assuming that it was the same way my father suggested...and it wasn't. 

I was routed near Yellowstone and my car actually got stuck in the snow for a little bit at a gas station. (I've had a ton of practice getting my car unstuck from snowbanks, thanks to living in Reno and being a colossal idiot.) It cost me an extra two or three hours in what was already going to be a 15 hour drive. On the bright side the drive was really pretty, and I can tell people that once I was in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada all in one day.

Early on in the trip. Here I am thinking, "It'll clear up soon. It looks sunny."

"Oh those mountains are pretty. I wonder what they are."

"I'm pretty sure I saw signs to place called 'West Yellowstone.' Oh shit."

Oh the way down the hill on 20.

I didn't take any pictures of the gigantic snow banks and snowmobilers near Island Park, ID. For those of you who know me well, you probably know that I was probably too close to vomiting at the thought of being outside during that kind of weather to stomach looking at snowmobiling activities for too long.