People, the people

"whatever happened to that amazing blog by Kim & Madz?"-  The Internet 

I know guys, I know. People want da punch! We want da punch! Our boxing gloves may have been tied up for a while but thanks to Numbers & Data, we are back for Round 2 (ding ding!) which I am calling the "Rhonda Rhousey Roundhouse Punch"...round.

Is this a roundhouse punch? I don't know.

da PUNCH statistics show that more than 16 people have dropped by our site in the past 2 months (That's a lot of people, and way more interest than ever considering the last time we punched was around 2011 or so!).

On behalf of the two of us, we apologize with a "Sorry not sorry" for ol' Time's sake, but now we're back & here's an exclusive life update!:

Madz and I are still living together, but in a new apartment that is less impressive than our last, i.e. THIS

  

...but really, I would like to know who is living in that turtle home, if it truly exists or if it is a falsified photoshopped reverie, and if not, then is it perhaps for sale and when can i occupy it?

In all honesty though, we have a clear view of one of America's most famous big box grocers from our kitchen window, and often times, late at night, if we're lucky enough, the Drunks of Westside sing to us in their loud bellowing voices.  

Some may liken its unsightly building walls to that of a cement hellhole, but I know there are worse out there and the people are nice.  We have young mid-late 20's neighbors and one kid across the way is a violin aficionado, though at the tender age of 22 has told us he is too old to realize his dreams as a musical professional.   I recently watched a Jean-luc Ponty interview in which he states that pretty much anyone over the age of consent is too old to go pro if they haven't already.  How sad is that? In his defense, he's mostly referring to adults who are learning violin for the first time and mentions that "Hand Technique" must be learned at an early age.  But STILL. I hope this kid sticks with it and takes the piss on industry conventions though, because what's the point in living if you can't live your dreams or at least try?  Plus, by the adult age, I'm sure he's got plenty of hand technique experience that could potentially help in his future career.   

"The left-hand thumb can be a help or a hindrance. When kept in check, it orients our left hand within a position while providing a counter-pressure for the finger action (...) When it goes overboard it can cripple the left hand, leading to issues with finger accuracy and velocity, vibrato, shifting, and playing health. Since the thumb does not play any notes, it needs to do only what will support the other four fingers and their actions" -Liberation Movement

See what I mean?

Speaking of dreams, I recently met an impossibly cute AXOLOTL.  Let me preface this by saying I first learned of "axolotls" after watching a japanese anime where I saw the little pink guy floating around the lead anime girl's tank.  I thought it was just a made up animal, but the subtitles gave it a name so I decided to sleuth about the interwebz and guess what? 

Totally Real! Crazily enough, the aquarium guy I go to to buy regular "fish & frog" items just got 2 axolotls in for the first time ever!  Since seeing them live, I have spent every waking moment dedicated to daydreaming about my life with my pet axolotl (aka water dog).  After looking into it further, it appears they are definitely illegal to own in the state we are currently living in...but let's just say, if fate happens, I'm not going to stop it.  

truly, madly, deeply,
Kimberley

  

The Tiniest Mote of Dust

Hi dogs, dawgz, and doggingtons,

(can someone please buy me a french bulldog already so that i can dress him up as a dragon for halloween?)

the last few posts have been terrible. Like, Terri Hatcher terrible.

On account of the recent business going on in our lives...
Here's just an indy-sample of what's going on.

Recent News: our new apartment is rather large, has a beautiful pool, and is across an apartment that used to house the Lakers basketball players, according to our bizarre, but very awesome, artisticly-inclined Sag-unionized photographer/painter cum Landlord. We are living with Robert England, our best guy friend, and one Jovo V. who happens to look and sound exactly like Aziz Ansari. I'd say it's an altogether win.

More Recent News: Kimberley is in a show in which she's getting paid and housed to perform at. Madison is working on a reality tv series for her celebrity gossip blog real-life-writing-job.

Even More Recent News than That: It's OKTOBER, as the germans would say. Happy Oktoberfest mein freunde!

-Kimberley and Madison (who is sleeping and has been since 8pm)

saving private ryan

that last post was prettttty dumb. but only because i ran out of things to say and thought it would be best to spew out blabber than keep things quiet on the western front.

we've been busy, needless to say, having various little projects to occupy our existences. if this were livejournal, we'd be complaining in true emo fashion about how Todd, the hottie next door never asked us to prom, how mom bought us a frockish shirt that looks ridiculous and should never be worn by anyone ever, or how no one cares about anyone else but themselves because we are egoists and please sympathize with me so we can bond over our livejournal entries and feel the internet connecting us in ways that make us seem closer to one another but which only lack that human interaction we strived for in the first place. it's almost hypocritical to write these blaggings in the first place. to blog. to have blogged. to blag.

a. writing
b. auditioning
c. performing
d. working
e. reading
f. painting
g. eating
h. sleeping
i. meeting
j. moving

this is all you are going to get until we get our ducks in a row.

frizzle day

The lot of you might be wondering lately "WHY DID MADI GET A SEPARATE TWITTER ACCOUNT?". what next? separate BLOGS?
and i'm terribly sorry...you'll have to ask madison herself.
we are still roomates. bffs. best gullies fo' lyfe...but the water is rising and our island of ridiculousthingsbestfriendsdotogether is slowly sinking. like venice...but heartshaped (she also threw out the matching bracelets i bought her so now half of the ship is missing..."friend" is floating in the toilet)

on My end, i will answer emosk8rkevin, 14 from Kentucky's question: "Who started it all anyway? Also where's the best place to buy sick trucks for my board?"

Well Kevin, I am the glorious creator/namer of both dapunch and of our twitter account . ... you're welcome.

KingCharles 54 of La Cienega asks: WHY kimberley? whyyy?

Good King Charles (if that is your REAL name) It was yet another lonely night in the crib waiting for maddie to come home. i was in front of old Dino, my pink vaio laptop, eating bitesized pizzapockets fresh from the microwave and wondering how many hours had passed since she'd left for work...that damned thing that makes you money. outside the sun seemed to instantly turn to moon. tired of waiting and in hopes of instant communication with the one i call DOG, i set up the JOINT twitter. then the JOINT blog. and my fascination with all things JOINT led to a bankaccount and the rest is history.

i mean TOTAL STRANGERS started sending large sums ($ well in the 1000's) to nondescript locations in black briefcases bedazzled with blood diamonds that spelled out "kimandmadz", it was as if the gods (we only subscribe to hephaestus, god of fire and juno, teen pregnancy character played by actress ellen page) were smiling upon us.

dogbonelover44 asks "are your feelings hurt?"

well dogbonelover--not really. maddie rarely tweeted, and when she did it was always about "dance class with somegirl aka not me" or "celebrity gossip" and "whatnot" so the only thing i'll miss is the anonymity joint-tweeting allowed us. now you'll KNOW it's me tweeting unless maddie happens to bombard the tweetstream with hobgob nonsense.

and strangely enough, our following went up by 1 twit after she left...so let's hope it's all uphill from hereafter!

that's all the time i have to respond to your questions today folks. it's been real. OH and before i forget, Kevin-- a good place to buy skateboard anything is at Flipside. I buy all my decks, waxes, griptapes, etc there...if you're close to Pacudah, Kentucky. and if you're single, there's bound to be an emogirl working the front registers for you...

PUNCH-ON
Kimberley

dont try to sell me that!

this is why you don't answer the door to strangers because on the other side will stand an out-of-breath highschool girl trying to sell you a subscription to USA Today and even though you explain to her that USA Today isn't a real newspaper she tells you that it will help her go to a school like UCLA one day so she asks if you would like to make a donation instead and because your parents made you go to church when you were younger this out-of-breath girl is making you feel guilty so you say hold on one minute and look for your purse but you don't feel that guilty anymore and you're not sure that you trust this out-of-breath girl, so you apologize and say you're going to close the door for a minute and you wonder if she'll think that you just found a way to get rid of her even though you are actually looking for your purse and you find your purse but you only have one dollar and you lost you checkbook 6 months ago anyways and you wonder if giving one dollar is worse than just keeping the door shut and hoping she walks away and this thought takes up the span of oh about 27 seconds and you say fuck it and go back out to the front door and the girl is still standing there beaming and she's not out of breath anymore and you say here you go and hand her the dollar and start to shut the door because the interaction is making you feel guilty again and the girl calls you "Miss" and that makes you feel old and then as you shut the door and head back to your room to continue reading the elitist memoir bullshit that you like to read so much you hear the doorbell of your neighbors house ring and a familiar voice chime out "Sorry to bother you but…"

-something that happened to me just now. the boring life of madi v.

"June is busting out all over"

I'd like to start this post off with a "Hello there. How have you been? It's been awhile hasn't it?" I've been reading up on a few different bouquins...mostly old plays that I once performed aka "The Heiress", "Steel Magnolias", "The Dining Room", and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", and more specifically, I've been reading them aloud.

That is to say, if one were to happen upon my room en route to the "main" bathroom, they would hear me speaking in different accents, voices, and characters. I'd seem a bit schizo to the passerby, but it's good to get into a groove and read the words of the playwright in the way they were supposed to be read.

I am also reading Tina Fey's "Bossy Pants" (which finally got to me, as Madison originally made the purchase and the book made the usual "roomate rounds" and I was last out of the four of us to receive it)--you can tell how poor our apartment is when we start to ration our book time. I'm also slowly getting through Marlon Brando's autobiography "Songs My Mother Taught Me", Marcel Proust's biography "Monsieur Proust" en francais, and lastly, a book that I absolutely love yet have been trudging through due to various external activities that have taken up most of my time, "What's Mine is Yours: Collaborative Consumption". You can guess what that one's about.

In regards to the telly, it is all "internet" and "my usual British shows" (aka The Inbetweeners, Misfits, Skins, Shameless, AbFab, Posh Nosh, Doctor Who) or the ever so classy "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" ...the latter being influenced by my girly roomates.

I've also started (now featured on Hulu.com) "The Book Group", an English comedy about a small book group that gets together and discusses whatever book they've chosen for the week--aka their messed up personal lives. So far it seems decent, though i've only watched the pilot episode and you-know-how-that-sort-of-thing-can-go.

Job-wise, Madison is now working at a gossip blog. She's finally putting the pen to the paper and though it may not be the wga-winning script she'll one-day write, it's a great start. And she's good at that "pop-culture, gossipy stuff". I would never have known about Blake Lively and whatshisface from the Titanic if it weren't for her. Oh. Leonardo DiCaprio. That's right.

On my end, I am about to travel to France for the third time in my life. I've quit my part-time serving job to pursue my full-time acting job, but i've kept my other part-time job at the Academy so that I can make some money while traveling this seemingly suicidal yet only worthy career path I have chosen for myself. Call it insanity, what you will, my plan is to finish up the play I'm in (oh yes, I'm also in a play which ends early July), go to Paris and truly live for a month, and then come back to L.A. and commit myself fully to get what needs to be done, done.

June gloom has been exiled from our apartment. It's all about the June buchachi, referring to the title of this post as this song lyric is not so subtly perverse. Yes, Rogers and Hammerstein, i'm talking to you! This was a real nice clam bake until you riddled your entire musical with sexual connotation...Polliwogs never turning into frogs?... My Boy BILL?--please tell June, from me, to stop busting out all over the meadow and the hills! It's disgusting and frankly my darlings, I could do without it.

Come see my play this weekend and the next, as posted via our joint twitter account that I secretly set up a few years back against Maddie's wishes, but which she now secretly enjoys because she gets the perks of tweeting without all of the responsibility . If not...I'll see you when I get back from France, if I do not end up staying there for the rest of my life.

A+++
Kimberley

The main differences between college and not college

Earlier in 2011, Kimberley wrote a humbling post about the trials and tribulations of doing this whole "following-your-dreamz-being-an-adult-thing." So now, it's my turn. In true to Maddie fashion (i.e. avoiding having emotions, turning something serious into something silly) here's my attempt at the "meow-here's-my-feelings-on-post-grad-euphoria" blog.

I give you, The Main Differences between College and NOT College.

In college you might hear this conversation on a Thursday night.

Person A: "It's Thursday. Wanna go to Bruco?"

Person B: "omigod I haven't been drunk since Tuesday. Yessssss. Hold on, I need to buy an American Apparel slut dress first."

In NOT college, you might hear this phrase on a Thursday night.

Person A: "It's Thursday, what are we doing?"

Person B: "Well, I have to be at my fake job (i.e. waitressing) tomorrow at like noon, so I kinda need my sleep..."

Person A: "It's ok. I know a bar where we can wear pants and not have to talk to anyone. We can also not even drink and go home at like 11.30pm"

Person B: "omigod. That sounds sooo goood. I'll not drink and drive all of us!"

In college, a normal diet consists of:

-LA Waters

-Those loaded steak fries from buck fiddies.

-Animal crackers from vending machines.

-soy milk.

In NOT college, a normal diet consists of:

-nothing

-popsicles

-waiting for popsicles to melt and pretending to eat.

-expired soy milk.
kim: it should be noted that on more than one occasion, we took midnight runs to the local Ralph's to buy boxes of various-flavoured popsi's.

In college, every friday morning at 10am I made this phone call

me: "Hi, manager of Bubba Gumps? I'm sick (i.e. hungover) again and cant come in to work today. Thanks"

In NOT college, every friday morning at 10am I made this phone call

me: "Hi, this is Madison from Tower Energy group (i.e. the oil company). Your 401K investment portfolio has changed and I wanted to make sure your pay period deductions were correct. Thanks"

Things that are important to you in College:

-Running into one of the cast members from Entourage while you ate at Urth cafe on your lunch break from your internship at that production company.

-Having lots of campus "activities" and internships on your resume so that you'll have a job lined up right when you graduate. hah.

-Telling family friends about your "plans for the future."

-Not worrying.

Things that are important to you in NOT College:

-Listening to your mom's friends talk about "the older Vanderberg girl. She's living in LA? trying to be a writer? Comedy? What does she do again? I thought she went to college? What a shame."

-Working less than 25 hours a week and making the same amount of money as people who work 40 hours.

-wishing your parents never let you go to art high school or ever uttered the phrase "follow your dreams."

-NOT having to ever write a paper ever again that includes the words "socialization" "adolescents" and/or "early traumatic experiences" F*$# you UCLA sociology department.

Happy birthday 'Merica. Your welcome. <3Maddie

Much like Fondation Cartier's "Né dans la rue" exhibit in France, MOCA's "Art in the Streets" is all abuzz in the greater Los Angeles bourge. Graffiti in the museum, graffiti on the museum, tags, street art, pochoir, the whole 9 yards (though personally, i'm hoping for more). If I could study graffiti for the rest of my life, I would. If anyone would like to read my 50-page thesis on the globalization of graffiti, well, let me get it published first. We'll be punching about later this week, 'round thursday (cuz it's free after 5)!!! Stalkers welcome. Catch ya on da flip side!

-Kayberlay

p.s. anyone wanna cop some spray for me?

judging you

If you watch "American Idol"...

...You are someones mother. You also refer to Steven Tyler as "Steven Tyler

from American Idol." Your facebook profile pic is of a dog wearing
sunglasses.

If you watch "The Voice"...

...You are a dog wearing sunglasses.

<3 M

2011

it is the start of yet another year and we, at da punch, feel as though the life has been drained out of us.

life is a constant attempt at finding our true interests and desires in the simplest actions and experiences... so we run. we run toward whatever we can and searching for peace and self-happiness, if not freedom from the unhealthy bits and the unfortunate events and interactions we might come across.

some of us run every day while others sleep in and dream... we do both.

it's a kind of a sort of a silly attempt to find "joie de vivre" and balance.

yet we cry, laugh, and smile about it taking in and letting out little breaths of it all, the incomprehension and the excellence. and if we can't do it alone, we get help from friends and fam, or we let edith -who never got a break- take care of us. No, we regret nothing:

a sadder post for november

moche adieu a boot new thing.Mumbai, India

-Kimberley

Maddie's tips for fine living.

- When searching for an apt, the most important item is to see if there is a bar nearby that can be traveled to by foot. Second in importance, is there a walkable McDonalds that is located between said bar and apartment. If you can satisfy both these conditions, then you can move into your new apartment.

-If you listen to Lil Wayne's "Sky's the limit" on repeat, I guarantee you will run the perimeter of UCLA in record time.

-If you stop eating dairy products, you will loose 10 lbs.

oh hi july

happy belated
canada day
and 4th of july

from the two punching champs!!!
-Kimberley (& Madison who has been incredibly M.I.A. lately, ahem!)

Ladies And Gents, Dogs and Cats...

put your hands and paws together, for I give you....
The AYE AYE LEMUR!!!!


As I started the trend back in may, of animal months, I decided to keep up with it and look up creepy June-appropriate bat-looking creatures (there is no logic behind this statement). I thought it would be cool to make June "Batman's Cave Month" combining my love of superhero comic books (HIDDEN GEEK ALERT) with stalactite/stalagmite crystals. Imagine Bermuda. Now imagine a beautiful, dark, natural crystal cave with water puddles and sharp crystal protrusions. That's an image straight out of my childhood, mang(s)!

This Gollum-like creature takes the cake though. Don't call him ugly, he's just scraggly, tiny, rat-like, and has the heeby-jeebiest of all bulging fluorescent green eyes. A rat? nay! A bat? nay! This rainforest-dwelling creeper hails from MADAGASCAR, so it's as cool as any cartoon like character shaking it's behind and singing "i like to move it, move it".

On a more awesome note, according to trustworthy site Wikipedia.com, the Aye-aye is "often viewed as a harbinger of evil and killed on sight. Others believe that should one point its long middle finger at you, you were condemned to death. Some say the appearance of an Aye-aye in a village predicts the death of a villager, and the only way to prevent this is to kill the Aye-aye. The Sakalava people go so far as to claim Aye-ayes sneak into houses through the thatched roofs and murder the sleeping occupants by using their middle finger to puncture the victim's aorta.^[5]"

Can I just say that any animal who knows how to point its long middle finger at you must be pretty BADASS. What a rebel!

In all honesty, I just stumbled upon this little guy and... He spooks me!

More completely reference-worthy facts from wiki-what!: "the name was also hypothesized to be of European origin, with a European observer overhearing an exclamation of fear and surprise ("aiee!-aiee!") by Malagasy who encountered it. However, the name exists in remote villages, so it is unlikely to be of European origins. Another hypothesis is that it derives from "heh heh," which is Malagasy for, "I don't know." If correct, then the name might have originated from Malagasy people saying "heh heh" to Europeans in order to avoid saying the name of a feared, magical animal"

FEARED. MAGIC. ANIMAL. Aiee! aiee! I think that about sums up everything I've been looking for in an animal friend.

Heh-heh,
Kimberley

Oh, I see what you did there

Feast your eyes on THIS beauty. That's right, may is husky month, as of now. Happy MAY everyone! Make sure you buy me presents ahead of time, so that when the 24th hits, i can unwrap my huskies and they will be as gorgeous as this pup!


If that doesn't work then I will settle for a slushpuppy. swampflavour please.


If that doesn't work then I will settle for a blue beanie.



If that doesn't work then I will settle for this creepy guy.


If that doesn't work then I will settle for the felt hat.

As you can see, I just successfully pulled off a Zach Galifianakus. Who? This guy:


I'd like to also point out that yesterday, at our dear friend Phil's birthday at the Gas Lamp, Madison got hit on by a MORE HAGGARD, MORE OLD, CREEPIER version of ZACH G. GROSS. She should really slut it up less at the club, is all i'm sayin.

If that doesn't work then I will settle for Best Wingman ever,
xo Kimberley

What your TV show says about you!

I do these alot, so here goes.

WHAT TV SHOWS YOU CHOOSE TO WATCH AND WHAT THAT SAYS ABOUT YOU!!!

If you watch MAD MEN:
-You go to or have graduated from a four year university. You read blogs on the internet and might know a thing or two about html code. You're probably waiting in line for an ipad right now. You check rotten tomatoes before seeing any movie, and you considering going to film school at some point in your life.

If you watch TWO AND A HALF MEN:
-I have no idea who you are. Who are the people that continue to watch this show? Seriously though.

If you watch HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER:
-You probably also watched "Friends." This is probably the only comedy you watch on TV. You mostly watch for NPH and you liked him in "Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog." You like popular internet videos like "Key Board Cat" and "Charlie Bit Me." YOu also thought that "The Hangover" was legitimately funny. You like small dogs.

If you watch 30 ROCK:
-You are the best kind of person there is. You watch SNL religiously, even though you know it sucks. If you are a girl, you think Jason Sudeikis and a Jon Hamm hybrid would make the ideal man. And if you are a man, you think Tina Fey would make the ideal lady. You find Jimmy Fallon funny somehow. You were lame in highschool but were pretty ok in college.

If you watch 90210:
-You are still in highschool or maybe someone from Mission Viejo. You think this is the greatest show ever because you never watched "The OC." You like guys like Channing Tatum and you still wear Juicy Couture sweat pants. You like Victoria's Secret and SUV's.

If you watch DANCING WITH THE STARS:
- You are someones mother or you live in the midwest. You aren't a dancer at all. You liked Twitch from SYTYCD. You like shopping malls.

im tired.

<33 madison.

7-up free publicity

it's april!!! whoop-whoop! once again you can thank madison for leaving DAPUNCH hanging!
maybe if enough people send her hate mail, my counterpart will finally get off of her royal dog pillow and write.
today is dedicated to Fido and Cool Spot.
Remember all of those old video games with the red dot guy and Fido Dido, of 7-Up fame?

I was never one of 'those people' who purchased the paraphernalia , except for maybe the occasional cereal-box watch or "lucky charms" bracelet...but just check out that shirt! brings back the old nostalgia! They, being probably Coca-Cola corporation (I'm almost certain over 90% of sodas are owned by them), should let these cartoons make a comeback...because they are just fantastic.

take me home, country road

You may be feeling deceived, screaming in anger "WHERE HAS JANUARY GONE?"
I too am quite ashamed that we let it slip by. What happened to all those empty promises about the new year being ridiculously awesome, and those fun-filled blogs and the free cookies and cakes?

We made extra cookies from scratch the other week (which was in January): White Buttery Chocolate Chippers, that turned out a bit too cake-y (someone put too much baking soda in the batter). No, no picture. We're not photojournalists here...just...blaagherzz

In this blog, you will read some, but you will also see some. ...commercials. This is my fav airplane safety video:

January, January... in a few sentences, summarizing what we WOULD have written (had Madison taken the time to type up Something. We should all complain about That!)

1. Taylor swift took all the grammys and still looks strange. Perhaps TSwift is no more than another "BRITNEY", manufactured by the music industry. obvi. Yes...yes...be critical of everything young Jo-Bros/T-Swift Lovers. Kimberley, Why didn't you use the word "teenybopper" here in lieu of "lovers"? Why? I absolutely cringe at the word. It's like some mother of 4 in her late 30's created such a word, thinking it was HIP and would catch on...as it has. But NAY! I refuse to subject my blog to the social / literary wants. Just as I refuse to say "HORSEY SAUCE" when I'm at Arby's...which hasn't happened since High School.

2. The Los Angeles rains were deadly. Car crashes. Deaths (probably, we can't verify this). Severe Wounds.... WORMS. 'Nuff said. At least we had "DineLA" to look forward to. Ends this week (in February), so it's kind of a cross-over as to what-we-would-have-written.

3. I gave in and watched LOST-now back and more confusing than ever!... yet another ABC time-sucker. I still don't like watching it because it seems absolutely pointless, cult-like, and at times boring. I want resolves, man! Resolves!!!


5. Looking forward to FEB 14, our annual "let's go out and have us a GIRL'S VALENTINE'S DAY!" featuring myself, Sapna, and (new to our tradition as of last yr) Madison and Mariel! I think we're gonna watch that horrible-looking movie featuring 20+ celebrities and then search the town for some fun. I was asked to write an article on the Upright Citizen's Brigade Feb 14 show, but alas MIDTERMS, so that's another option for the night. Also, shout out to my improv theatre, "The Space". Our team "Token Boy" will be performing at IO West on Vday. And my team Hot Biscuit will have a special show on Saturday!!!

THAT'S IT MAN! Sorry about the lack of imaginative story ideas. Or for 3 & 5 (which technically cheated and didn't have anything to do with January).

To hold you over til the next entry, bc who knows when M. Vandy will finally get of her lazy blogbutt and post, here's PUFFS TISSUE! Bc i've been obsessed with their commercials & little characters for ...forever.


and now for the Tostidos pub, which I'm also in love with:


ENJOY! FEBRUARY! ENJOY!

Harpy Newr Yerr everybody! punch! PUNCH! punch!!!!

Boy have we got some great punches ahead. K.O.'s, T.K.O.'s, snogging.. Agnus...thongs and all that fun stuff in a bag, we'll punch your christmas lights out! (which will be convenient if mom and dad forgot to take them down and the month has somehow skipped to june) ...we're judging you, parents!

Anywarz, i've been playing a lot of Wii at home with my Mii, a befreckled friend who is my exact in the virtual world. Madison has one as well, and it looks EXACTLY like here. hilar (if only i had a screen shot to show of it!) one day perhaps. If you ever want to challenge me to brain academy, I'd be down. Because My brain is Quite Massive according to the little peanut headed teacher with a moustache. Visual please? Ta-Da!

As far as movies go, I saw Sherlock Holmes two days after it's debut on Xmas and thought it was a decent take on the infamous literary detective (though not As exciting or innovative with the twists as I had hoped for), anything with RDJ surpasses the soggy waffle criteria (which goes: soggy waffle, wet noodle, mac 'n cheesy, shepard's pie, to pumpkin pancakes--the all-star highest rating). Yes, I just made that up. But truly, it put on a good show and Mr. Cheated With the Maid- Law was a lovely and smart addition to the film.

Moving on to the tele- lots of Mr. Bean, Friends, Iron Chef, Launch My Line and, well, let the following speak for itself.

At home I've been frequenting "The Disney Channel" as per usual, hovering specifically around "The Wizards of Waverly Place" trying to decide if David Henrie is gay or not. According to "Cha Cha.com" a site that is quite unreliable and sketchy, the answer is No. but one can't be sure. All in all, my favourite still remains Raviv Ullman. I've definitely blogged about this before, but he's still a highlight of people to befriend in the near future. Madison...any comments?

Lots of good thoughts and feelings for the coming of 2010, and especially due to it being the YEAR of Graduation (which has finally arrived, godsavethequeen!). Life proves once more to be cyclical, though most would argue that it is linear what with the creation of 'time' and such--something we've come to learn I don't really buy into. I wonder at which point we will all end up regenerated cells.

We, brains, moving our bodies. Multiple cells tiny microscopic organisms, bacteria, molecules, etc. and 'spirits' making up our human life forms. After having read "The Calcutta Chromosome" (and Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" which I recommend greatly) as well as attended my first Hindu wedding, I am beginning to think that reincarnation isn't so farfetched. Because if we are just matter, mind, and 'spirit' then we will easily live on, forever, in a different way, and all of our friends and family who've left us (and so many have in the recent times) are also more alive than they ever were before.

FTWolf - Kimberley

expanding madison's struggle

In response to Madison's blog--it's true. Too True. 2-2ru. this is an interesting point and i'd like to expand on it a bit further, let it soak on an applicable 'fieldwork' basis. Everytime i'm at an audition for so-and-so commercial (Coca-cola for example) and i'm in the lobby next to fellow (and often older) actors and actresses, we engage in a light chitchat. Some call this the part in which each actor tries to psych the other out by talking incessantly about their careers and how far along they've come and asking how many auditions they've been on, if they've booked, etc (industry gossip). i would say this is the 'struggling' part of my 'currently in progress' career. And then they get to asking YOU questions. Cool. I often respond with "well, great. I just got a callback for so-and-so director, currently doing the acting thing but still in school, about to graduate, exciting stuff ahead..blahblahblah", just something kind after my curt introduction, and then i'll get back to memorizing my sides and prepping individually.

And then 'reality' hits. These mid-20 to 40 yr olds are trying to book this commercial to pay the rent while I am a college student AND actress just dipping my feet around before fully plunging into it [the madness]. I think it is safe to say that everyone is struggling "IN THESE ECONOMIC TIMES", but maybe we use entertainment careers as an excuse. For example, by telling people how exclusive it is, how hard the 'struggle' is to get in, we are inadvertently strengthening the perception of "prestige" in the business and thereby hopefully lessening the competition into said career (by disheartening our fellow actors and screenwriters etc.). I feel like entertainment is just as accessible as any other job (though this is only from having met a lot of people in the business). If you really want to do anything, you will do it regardless of how hard it is.

I kind of really believe this. Especially with all of the interviews of industry professionals that I have been conducting over the past two yrs of college. Once you hear their opinions and stories of 'how they made it' you realize it's not really about "the struggle" or pursuit. And it's definitely not listening to the downside of 'entertainment careers' because there are downsides to every career. It's about figuring out what you want and being confident in it.

I can't say that acting is any more difficult to book jobs in than journalism or medicine. A low-paying job as a writer is probably equivalent to Extra work (no one really likes doing it, but its a job). Perhaps I'm disillusioned, insane, or really out of my league here (at least my parents would say so), but I firmly believe that if you really are passionate about something, anything (be it job, or living situation, etc) you will pursue it. Change what you don't like. "Life is what you make of it"...yada? I know, I'm a genius.

Anyway, I absolutely find it ridiculous when the actors 'banter' about in the pre-audition lobby for whatever reason..it's just so unnatural the way they (we?) speak to one another. But secretly, I love how so many different people, different ages, etc. are present, and how many stories they have to tell (actors, take it from me, have so many stories. Sometimes i make mine up). They've got agents. They've made it to the audition. And even if they seem so unlikely to succeed in the business (who are we to judge?) they know what they want, and they keep going on these auditions regardless of whether or not they book (that's the first step). There's just something so incredibly exciting about acting (for me) that I know i'll always be doing it.

Here's to booking in the New Year! *champagne clink*
-Kimberley

One more thing: It's very strange that people assume you will perform for free, whenever, instantaneously. When they find out you're in entertainment they want to judge immediately: "you do improv? let's see you improv!" What am i a monkey? Nay' suh! For a pretty penny, perhaps. but would i ever ask a surgeon to show me how to perform his surgery? A magician never reveals his tricks.