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Ha Ha Ha! That’s what it felt like at least. Shredding. My buddy Andrew Hunt who is now a “big-time” producer called me out on a post I had written a while back. He said we needed to go skating. So he showed up at my house this morning at 8am so we could hit the Venice skatepark before it got too busy. Well, I also wanted to go early because I haven’t ridden the park in years and I used to be pretty good and I was afraid of getting embarrassed. Honestly, I am not embarrassed because of what other people think. It bothers me that I use to kind of rip it and now I am afraid I can’t do what I used to. So it’s basically me not wanting to suck for my own well-being. Same reason I don’t play video games anymore. I used to destroy me some Mortal Kombat and Madden. Now I get owned online by a three-year-old. It has also been about ten years since I have consistently ridden a skateboard. I mean, I ride my skateboard still, just not how I used to. Not as many tricks and stuff, ya know? So we …
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At least for a day. At least for two hours. Twice so far I have played a Superhero. My name is JC Sedwick and I have the power of “mind control”. But I am also working on other abilities like “levitation”. That’s what I did on Sunday. Bright and early in the middle of the streets of Beverly Hills. Screaming, “Pick a card, any card…I this your card??” And then I saved an old man from being ran over by a truck. I was acting in a nice little project written and directed by my pal Bentley Montes. It is a fun little project he put together and he offered me one of the roles as one of the superheroes. I study with Bentley at John Rosenfeld Studios, an acting studio. That acting studio has been responsible for a lot of recent connections in my filmmaking/acting career. I met my producer for Closing Doors there. I met some of my cast for the Pilot, Underbelly, that we are shooting now. I have become a better Director by watching my teacher, John, work/teach. I have become a better actor by getting to practice every week. That’s what it is all about. …
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How rad is that photo? A skatepark on the beach? The iPhone has this new setting called HDR where it takes three different exposures of the same photo. I think it does it with a delay hence the trippy photo. Regardless of how it does it, I am in love with it. I was sitting at the skatepark at Windward in Venice the other day for quite a while. It was super peaceful. I just watched dudes skate. I was reminiscing of the days when I used to do that. I grew up on a skateboard. I have ridden a skateboard since I was twelve years old. I actually moved to California from Michigan when I was sixteen to try to have a career in it. I thought I could have gone Pro. Turns out I couldn’t even find a place to live at that age and I was forced back to Michigan to finish High School. I tried though. I really did. I had a dishwashing job at some Hawaiian restaurant in Santa Barbara. Hung out with a kid named Kai, whose father later f#$%ed me over for the little bit of money I moved there with. …
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So I was going for a quick run before I get ready to enjoy today’s football playoffs. I am just cruising right along the boardwalk in Venice. I run on the bike side of the boardwalk because there are too many dang people on the walking side. It was not very busy and I have my iPod on and I vaguely hear this crash behind me. I turn around, still in stride, and see that one of four dudes has crashed and bailed into the cement. Immediately one guy starts calling me “mother f$%&er” and whatever else he can think of and tells me to get off the bike path and run on the other path and basically go to hell. I was listening to DMX at the time so I replied in a similar manner as him. His stupid-ass buddy is the guy who slipped on the sand with his ten-speed bike and skinny tires. I was pissed that he was pissed at me. He fell long before I had anything to do with it. He kept bitching so I stopped and came back at him. I was ready to buck down with all four of them. Think it …
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Or my mind is getting away from me. Sometimes I don’t even know what I am thinking about. That is a stretch. My mind works just fine. In fact, it works too much. Too much thinking and over-thinking. What has really been getting to me lately is my career. It is a serious mind-f#&k. It is not that I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. Shit, I am plenty grown up even though I like to act like I am not, more times than not. It is just that I feel that my plate is too full. How can you be good at everything when you do so many things? I Produce. I started to do this TV Pilot about a month back with a talented writer/director I know and another close friend is Producing with me. It is a great project and I think it has a lot of potential. So I am digging through all my resources to make some shit come to life for this thing. We start shooting this Saturday and we shall see. We have put together a hell of a cast so far. I Direct which by default has …
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