Happy New Year! Hope it was a fun one! I am so over 2010, and glad it's 2011, though I know it's going to take me forever to remember on stuff I sign and papers and checks to write 2011 or /11 instead of 2010!
The rest of my post is very connected, so I'm going to do my song and line early.
SONG: "Rhythm Of Love," Plain White T's (I just bought their new album, "Wonders of the Younger," though I've heard this song for quite some time now.)
LINE: "We may only have tonight. But til the morning sun you're mine, all mine. Play the music low and sway to the rhythm of love."
This song/chorus fits perfectly for an experience I recently had..
I have been really into thinking about my career lately, not that that's in any way out of the ordinary for me, and an article I read in the "Entertainment Weekly's 2010 Entertainers Of The Year" on James Franco (who placed 8 on the list, following the likes of Taylor Swift, John Hamm, Christopher Nolan, Kanye West, and Lady GaGa). Mr. Franco literally does everything. He's an actor (has been in: SpiderMan, Date Night, 127 Hours, etc. will be in: Your Highness, Rise of the Apes, Maladies, The Broken Tower, etc.), artist (has his own art shows going on all the time), soap star, writer (has a book out, has written screenplays), director, and will be this year's Oscar cohost. That sounds like an awesome life to live. I mean, switch soap star for musician and you've got everything I want to do with my life/career! I think it's awesome. I mean, yeah, great for him, but it also just makes me think, "yeah, this can happen. I can make all of this happen." It's very inspiring and encouraging to me.
I have also been thinking about lots of people I've met lately in their 20s & 30s (I hang out with my brother's friends most of the time, and he's 24), and their response when I tell them I'm an actress. They'll ask me what I do (usually after they know I go to a school for the arts), and when I tell them I'm an actress, their faces light up and they say, "You know, I was in my high school play once!" Probably about 70% of the people I've met in the past few months have said those exact words to me. I could be a film snob or an actor snob or whatever you want to call it and be like, "pshaw, I do so much more than high school plays." But that's not how I feel at all. I love when what I do or say brings back good memories and emotions for people. It's just this really cool feeling to know, I just made them really happy. Because when someone says something that reminds me of "A time I...," it's a cool experience. I love giving that to people. Plus, it's not so bad to hear, "but you'll probably go way farther than I ever had the chance to" every once and a while.
As you very well know, I now have a typewriter, which I am absolutely in love with! Well, I started writing, or, well, re-writing, a novel called Lake House, which I technically started a little over a year ago. When I originally wrote it, I got about 200 pages done, and then got stuck. I felt like I didn't know the characters well enough and had rushed myself in writing it. So, I am re-writing it, because I really like the plot idea.
Anyhoo, my point is that I wrote a flashback scene where my main character, Maya, remembers playing pretend with her friend when they were little. I'd been thinking back to times I used to play pretend a lot lately, so the scene really resinated with me. I remember when I was a kid, I usually played spies or did fake auditions with my friend Kayla. I realized something. People always ask, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" from the time you're able to talk until you're, well, grown up. My answer was always just, "An actress." But that's not really true..
My real answer?
"What do you want to be when you grow up, Jayna?"
"I don't want to wait that long."
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