• I'm Fucked
  • (but having fun! and isn't that what's important?)

(I'll add to this one as they come to me) *"Well I heard mister Young sing about her. Well, I heard ole Neil put her down Well, I hope Neil Young will remember... A Southern man don't need him around anyhow" -from "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Well Neil never needed your ignorant, inbred, redneck asses around either... This now classic song was written in response to Neil Young's songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama", which lashed out against Southern racism. Skynyrd then lashed out against Neil's anti-Southern racist sentiment with this catchy little number. Friggin' morons...

*"Let's talk this over. It's not like we're dead. Was it something I did? Was it something I said? Dont't leave me hanging. In a city so dead..." -from "My Happy Ending" by Avril Levigne...

• Emily Catherine (Ring?)
• Janet Paraiso

And, hey, I just happen to be having a birthday party next Friday night in the very city in which they live. Crazy!

• Choke
• In Bruges
• Clueless (for the first time ever!)
• A Clockwork Orange (for the bajillionth time)
• Milk
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Hard Candy

• John Bonham Led Zeppelin
• Neil Peart Rush
• Keith Moon The Who
• Ringo Starr The Beatles
• Dave Grohl Nirvana
• Jon Theodore The Mars Volta
• Mitch Mitchell The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Phil Selway Radiohead
• Travis Barker Blink 182
• Dave Lombardo Slayer
• Max Weinberg Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
• Topper Headon The Clash
• Alex Van Halen Van Halen
• John Densmore The Doors
• Nick Mason Pink Floyd
• Dominic Howard Muse
• Ginger Baker Cream
• Stewart Copeland The Police

I'm a member of...

• Those Aren't Muskets internet comedy troupe
  • www.thosearentmuskets.com
• Actors' Alliance of San Diego
• UCSD Alumni
• UCSD College Democrats Alumni
  • ex-Communications Direcor, Vice President and President
• Screen Actors Guild (eligible)
  • and as soon as I give them $2,600, they'll give me my damn card
• Actors Equity Assoc. Membership Candidate
• Carlsbad High School Alumni
• Carey Scott's Rehearsal Room
• The Berg Studios
• FM 94.9 Insider (I miss 94.9!)

• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Almost Famous
• Religulous
• Synecdoche, New York
• My Left Foot

• I hope Ryan gets a full-time job that pays him well and allows him to put his wit and charm to good use.
• I hope Lisa Marie gets back into acting, which she loves, gets her life organized, and (finally) quits smoking like I've been telling her to do for four years.
• I hope Steven does the smart thing and asks Jennifer to marry him. He would be a fool to ever let her go. I also hope he becomes the most successful stage actor in San Diego.
• I hope Briana finds a good guy who will treat her like a lady and not like a model (a guy that she won't get bored with after 3 weeks, hehe).
• I hope Matt does the smart thing and asks Katrina to marry him. As with Steven, he's got himself a helluva girl and letting her get away would be foolish beyond belief.

• Betsy Sue, Poodle (Birth-'91)...old age/put to sleep (_she absolutely hated me as a child_)
• Rose, Siamese Cat ('92)...damn those canyon coyotes in Rancho San Diego!
• Stan, Crayfish ('94-'95)...just found him floating on his side in his bowl one day (_named after Stan Humphries of the San Diego Chargers_)
• Junior, Crayfish ('94-'96)...crawled out of his bowl, walked the length of the house, into the bathroom, under my stepdad's hockey equipment, dried up, and went to sleep; we found him months later (_named after Junior Seau of the San Diego Chargers_)
• Nugget, Golden Retriever ('96-'04)...blindness, arthritis, obesity/put to sleep (_she was an un-trained, vicious beast but I still miss her :(_)
• Isabelle, Greyhound ('05-present)...she's...

• A good friend said the other day that she only managed to make $50,000 last year, and then followed it with "that's not very much." ...I love her to death, but if I was able to make "only" $50 grand in a year I would be absolutely extatic. Hell, if I could merely make enough to support myself, not have to endlessly worry about how all of my basic expenses are going to be paid for and not have to dig myself deeper into debt, I would be beyond thrilled. Screw extravagance. Give me a decent enough apartment, an acting career, a car that runs, and good music to listen to and, as Jeff Spicoli would say, "I'M SET".
• Jennifer Jason Leigh is a really good actress... She was in two movies I watched this week ('The Hudsucker Proxy' and 'The Machinist') and was great in both. She's also in 'Synecdoche, New York', which I h...

• Arrested Development
• Seinfeld
• Entourage
• The Simpsons
• LOST
• The Office
• 24 (seasons 1-4)
• Nip/Tuck (seasons 1-4)
• South Park
• Family Guy
• Beavis & Butthead
• 30 Rock
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Flight of the Conchords
• Freaks and Geeks
• Friends
• Doug
• Rocko's Modern Life
• Ren & Stimpy
• Pete & Pete
• Guts

• Devotchka, 2/2 @ The Viper Room
  • Gotta work that night... rats.
• NOFX, 2/8 @ Henry Fonda Theatre
  • Could be cool to see Fat Mike and the boys again and get my mosh on, although my musical taste has kind of outgrown them. It'd be like high school and freshman year @ UCSD all over again!
• MODEST MOUSE, 2/24 @ THE PALLADIUM
  • Already got my tix, bitches! 1st time seeing them live... so stoked.
• Moving Units, 3/6 @ El Rey
• Cursive, 3/13 @ The Trubadour
• OK GO, 3/20 @ House of Blues San Diego
• Cold War Kids, 3/27 @ Orpheum Theatre
• Travis, 4/10 @ Henry Fonda Theatre
• Bloc Party, 4/15 @ The Palladium

• The phone buzzes on my night stand. One glance at the area code of the imcoming caller and my hopes shoot through the roof and into the smoggy Los Angeles atmosphere. It appears to be someone I very much want to speak to; someone I've been eagerly awaiting to hear from for a while now. "One sec, this could be important," I say... It's not necessarily a life-changing call, but a considerably consequential one for me, nonetheless. 'Finally! This is awesome.' ..."Helloo!", I answer anxiously ...Only the voice that answers is not the one I had hoped to hear at all. In fact, it's a voice I very much did not want to hear; a voice that makes me want to stick my finger into my eye socket, up to my brain, and swirl it around. It's a voice that drives me fucking crazy. Quite possibly the last voice that I wanted to hear at this point in time... My heart sinks...

• Frank calls me to tell me I've been cast as Michael in "Sarah's Choice" and I begin shooting in a few days...
  • and/or I've been cast in "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?"
• The "This Is Our Youth" scene for Carey's class goes just swimmingly, and fun times are had in the process.
• I finally rehearse up to my capability in the "True West" scene and get positive feedback about my work from Berg and/or Meg.
• I get a 'Y.E.S.'
• I read the first 50 pages in Uta Hagen's "A Challenge for the Actor."
• I hit up LA Fitness at least 4 times.
  • and get my lifting regimen back on track.
• I pick out a kickass costume for the 'Dea...

• Coca-Cola ('Coke' was my first word. No joke.)
• Rock music (that doesn't suck ass.)
• The San Diego Chargers
• The San Diego Padres
• Acting
• Progressive politics
• Watching movies
• Going to concerts
• Ben N Jerry's Cookies N Mint (how I gained my 'Freshman 15!')
• James Dean
• Toffee (and anything with toffee in it)
• San Diego
• JOHN, Paul, George and Ringo
• Natalie Portman
• Band shirts
• The upper deck at Petco Park
• NFL Sundays
• Heath Bar
• LA Fitness

Most of Hollywood's top-earning leading men (eg Pitt, Cruise, Depp, Crowe, Jackman etc...) are all over 40 now. Several others (like Washington, Gibson, Willis, Travolta etc...) are over 50. Here are the best actors UNDER 30 who I think are the next generation of leading men for years to come...

• Jason Schwartzman (29)
• Jake Gyllenhaal (28)
• Ryan Gosling (28)
• Elijah Wood (28)
• Chris Pine (28) - for some reason I figured he was gonna suck in 'Star Trek' but was actually really fuckin' good
• Seth Rogen (27)
• Paul Dano (25)
• Emile Hirsch (24)
• Michael Cera (21) - although his same old character is still hilarious, it will likely grow tired soon and he'll have to ex...

• Star Trek (new one)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Hard Candy
• The Devil's Backbone
• Donnie Darko
• The Reader
• City of God
• Miller's Crossing
• Edward Scissorhands
• Event Horizon

• Diarios de Motocicleta (Motorcycle Diaries)
• El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
• Y Tu Mama Tambien
• La Mome (La Vie en Rose)
• Paris, Je T'aime
• Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
• Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
• Die Falscher (The Counterfeiters)
• Cidade de Deus (City of God)
• El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone)
• Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)

The guilty pleasures list... 1

• Project Runway
• American Idol
• Grey's Anatomy (at one time, not anymore)
• Blink 182
• Pina Coladas
• Dumb 80's pop songs like "You Spin Me Right Round" and "I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight"
• Fantasy sports
• Dancing while listening to David Bowie's "Golden Years" on my ipod while alone in my room (I'm doing it right now)
• Karaoke
• Wasting time making lists
• Wasting time Facebooking
• A couple Backsteet Boys and N*Sync songs
• The latest My Chemical Romance single that's on the "Watchmen" soundtrack (Really good song from otherwise lame band)

Yep, I'm man enough to admit it...

• "The Boxer" Simon & Garfunkel (probably more than any other song... I don't know why)
• "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Simon & Garfunkel
• "Tears in Heaven" Eric Clapton
• "Hallelujah" Jeff Buckley
• "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" Jeff Buckley
• "Streets of Philadelphia" Bruce Springsteen
• "The Blower's Daughter" Damien Rice
• "Unintended" Muse
• "Hyper Chondriac Music" Muse
• "Somebody" Depeche Mode
• "Bulletproof... I Wish I Was" Radiohead
• "Exit Music (For A Film)" Radiohead
• "Bedshaped" Keane
• "She's Got a Way" Billy Joel
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "Here Today" Paul McCartney
• "My Sweet Lord" George Harrison
• "Something" The Beatles

• Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
• Johnny Greenwood Radiohead
• Eric Clapton The Yardbirds, Cream & many more...
• Omar Rodriguez-Lopez At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta
• Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Johnny Marr The Smiths
• George Harrison The Beatles
• Matthew Bellamy Muse
• John Frusciante Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Neil Young
• Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
• Bradley Nowell Sublime
• Stevie Ray Vaughan Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
• Ed O'Brien Radiohead
• East Bay Ray Dead Kennedys
• Slash Guns 'N Roses
• Kurt Cobain Nirvana
• Kirk Hammett Metallica
• John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Keith Richards Rolling Stones
• Robby Krieger The Doors

5 DAYS-A-WEEK...

• BREAKFAST/ bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats (my fave. mm mmm.)
• SNACK/ if I lifted that day: fruity smoothie with protein boost; if I didn't: nothing
• LUNCH/ peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• SNACK/ any little chocolates or cookies the housekeepers and valets give me
• DINNER/ peanut butter, honey and banana sandwich with diet soda

In essence, it wouldn't be entirely inaccurate to say I live on peanut butter sandwiches. Some day, years and years from now, I fantasize myself getting several laughs from the audience when talking about my Starving Actor's Diet on "Inside the Actor's Studio." Until then... gimme 'dat Laura Scudder's Nutty!!!

• Almost Famous (Too good for words.)
• Donnie Darko (A collection of some of my favorite 80's songs ever.)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (A soundtrack loaded with acoustic Bowie covers sung in Portuguese? Pure genius.)
• Pulp Fiction (Tarantino's soundtracks are always superb. Especially this one.)
• Reservoir Dogs (What better to cut off a cop's ear to than Dylan's "Stuck in the Middle with You"?)
• Garden State (When I first heard "New Slang" in this movie, it was almost like the first time I heard the Beatles. That good.)
• Across the Universe (Anything that's 100% Beatles must be good. Mostly solid covers; few duds.)
• Dazed and Confused (70's-tastic. Almost as good as 'Almost Famous'.)
• This is Spinal Tap ("Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight"... hahaha)
• There Will Be Blood (I <3 Johnny)

• I'm at this casting director workshop today. Hangin outside the studio beforehand I introduce myself to this one guy; he looks like kind of a dork who's REALLY trying to look as "LA" as he can, doing this whole 'English gentlemen' pose as he stands sipping his tea in his designer jeans. But he seems like a nice enough guy: "Hey I'm McKay"..."I'm Dylan, nice to meet you man"..."Ohh Dylan McKay! Y'know that was a television character once (on 90210)"..."Haha yes it was! I got the whole '90210' thing a lot growing up"..."You know I worked with Luke Perry in a film once?" ...OKAAAAY, the conversation started off so promising too. And you just HAD to go and douche it up, didn'tya, McKay? Didn'tya? DAMNIT...
• Out to breakfast with the 'rents on Sunday morning in C-bad, one of the servers comes up and asks me, "Are yoou... an ACtor...

• San Diego Sports Superfan (dork) , (Middle school)
  • I basically wore Padres, Chargers, and Chargers Super Bowl t's, along with various other sports-team shirts that my mom would bring me from her layovers across the nation. There probably wasn't a day in middle school that I did not wear a shirt donning some MLB/NFL/NBA/NHL franchise on it... and I often sported my duds with jean-shorts, mind you. Yikes! I was a total dweeb and had no shame.
• Trend-O-Rama , (First two years of high school)
  • I had just relocated back to supercool Southern California buuut was overweight, brace-faced, timid as hell, friend-less, and desperate to fit in. I therefore decided to buy fancy shirts at such trenderiffic mall hot-spots as Pacific Sunwear and Miller's Outpost, trying to look as much ...

• Kate Hudson in 'Almost Famous'
• Faye Dunaway in 'Network'
  • AND in 'Bonnie and Clyde'
• Marion Cotillard in 'La Vie En Rose'
• Jennifer Jason Leigh in 'The Hudsucker Proxy'
• Helena Bonham Carter in 'Fight Club'
• Cate Blanchett in 'I'm Not There' (ok, so she played a man... but she was fuckin' brilliant, so whatever!)
• Kathy Bates in 'Misery'
• Madeline Kahn in 'Clue'
  • AND in 'Blazing Saddles'
  • AND in 'Young Frankenstein' (she was simply the funniest woman that ever existed)
• Parker Posey in 'Waiting for Guffman'
• Patricia Arquette in 'True Romance'
• Meryl Streep in 'Doubt'

For only the second time in 8 years, I won't have to...

• Think of something creative
• Make dinner reservations
• Have flowers delivered/buy a corsage
• Buy any chocolates
• Spend a boatload of money I don't have

Yeah, Valentine's Day sucks. Totally blows... so why do I still kinda wish I had a date this weekend? Hmm...

• Because I enjoy surprising people with things. As much as I dislike receiving things or asking for things from people, I've always liked giving. If only it wasn't so damn expensive sometimes. I really need to book that first network television role...

• 100,000 miles on my car
• 500 facebook friends
• 5 whole months at my job without punching a single guest
• 2 different scenes in 2 different cities for 2 different classes with 2 different partners
• Most agency submissions I've ever sent out at one time

• Hayden Christensen as 'Musician' in "Factory Girl"
  • I had already known from watching 'Star Wars Episodes I-III' that this guy was a talentless bag of douche, but little did I know the extent of his acting ineptitude until I saw this travesty of a performance. It's a good thing Dylan didn't give the producers of the film the rights to use his name, because this toolshed is clearly unworthy of it. Instead of really getting inside Dylan's head and effectively conveying his complexity and genius (which Cate Blanchett did BRILLIANTLY in "I'm Not Here"), he graced us with a half-assed Dylan impression , of which any wannabe-actor is capable (and undoubtedly got paid an obscene amout to do it!) So for disgracing one of my idols (and my namesake), I must say fuck you Hayden, fuck you.

• Continue weekly scene work in class to constantly be improving your craft
• Continue weekly submissions on Actor's Access AND actually follow through with at least half of the auditions you land
• Get new headshots (theatrical and commercial)
• Get rid of all the old headshots you still have by sending them all over town
• Get an IMDBPro account
• Compile footage into a demo reel
• Get new commercial agent

~OR~

• Re-introduce yourself to current commercial agent
• Do at least one (legitimate) student film
• Book job in 2nd feature-length film
• Book job in 3rd feature-length film
• Book job in 4th feature-length film

• George W. Bush (only two days left, you motherf*cker.)
• Mayonnaise (or 'Satan's semen', as I call it.)
• The Denver Broncos
• The Oakland Raiders (although it's hard to hate something so pathetic.)
• Sugar-coated corporate pop-rock (like Nickelback and Fallout Boy)
• Kid Rock (biggest douchebag on the planet.)
• Walnuts
• Dick Cheney
• LA traffic on the 101, 405 and I-5 (seriously... kill me.)
• Stupid drivers.
• Liars
• High-maintenance hotel guests
• High-maintenance women
• "Reverends" like Pat Robertson and John Hagee (the antithesis of real Christianity...

• Birds (Hollywood)
• Brittannia (Santa Monica)
• Aroma (Studio City)
• The 5th (North Hollywood)
• EAT (North Hollywood)

• FM 94/9 in San Diego (91X suX)
• 100.3 The Sound in Los Angeles (KROQ is terrible)
• and that's it cuz the rest all blow

• Brad Pitt (for, like, ever)
• James Dean (RIP)
• John Lennon (RIP)
• Thom Yorke
• Matthew Bellamy
• Barack Obama
• Johnny Depp
• Christian Bale
• 1970's Robert Plant
• Jim Morrison (RIP)
• Gavin Newsome
• LaDanian Tomlinson
• Jake Peavy
• Kobe Bryant
• Steve Buscemi

• The Shins (5/10) @ The Palladium OR (5/11) @ SOMA depends on who wants to go with
• Death Cab For Cutie/New Pornographers (7/5) @ Hollywood Bowl not a big Death Cab fan, but the girl that I'm going with that I've had a schoolboy crush on FOREVER is a big Death Cab fan. and so, i'm going... shut up
• Depeche Mode (8/17) @ Hollywood Bowl my b-day gift to Steve-O. can't wait to reach out and touch some faith
• U2 (10/25) @ Rose Bowl Steve-O's b-day gift to me. usually not one to go to MASSIVE shows like this, but it should be fun

• John Paul Jones Led Zeppelin
• Matt Freeman Operation Ivy and Rancid
• Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Paul McCartney The Beatles
• Simon Gallup The Cure
• Chris Wolstenholme Muse
• Roger Waters Pink Floyd
• Geddy Lee Rush
• Jack Bruce Cream
• Les Claypool Primus
• Tim Commerford Rage Against the Machine
• John Entwistle The Who
• Colin Greenwood Radiohead
• Sting The Police
• Paul Simonon The Clash

AND I HATE THIS ONE

• Pete "Raging Tool" Wentz Fall Out Boy

• "That's funny, you don't LOOK like someone who'd have good taste in music." (What the f*ck does someone with good taste in music LOOK like? A hipster? C'mon...)
• "So you got any auditions coming up?"
• "Carey, I have a question..." (AHHHHHHHH!)
• "Can I have reservations, please?"
• "Hi, you've reached the voicemail of ____ ..." (Answer your damn phones, people.)
• "Hey there Delilah what's it like in New York City? I'm a thousand miles away, but girl tonight you look so pretty..." (F**K THAT SONG!!!!!!)
• "Can you give me your best rate?" (You'll get whatever rate I give you and you'll like it, a$$hole.)
• "Now be honest, how many of you know who _____ is? *two people raise their hand* ...Really guys, really??" (Oh shut up and teach, Carey.)
• "I've actually worked with ___ ..." (I don't care what famous people you've worked with, douchebag. And even if I did care, I still wouldn't care.)

I went movie-wild this week. Here's what I saw:

• The Machinist
• In the Line of Fire
• Paris Je T'aime
• The Orphanage
• Watchmen
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Changeling

I've been tossing these around. Help me out.

• "Dylan's 5th Annual 21st Birthday Party!"
• "Dylan Seaton's 25th Birthday Party: _Come celebrate a quarter century of mediocrity!_"
• "Dylan Seaton: _Now older than James Dean EVER was! (with only a small fraction of the career!)_"
• "Dylan's 25th: _I'm too old to check out teenage girls now, right? ...ok, yeah I thought so... just making sure._"
• "Dylan Seaton: _Ringing in 25 years of "Broodiness"_"
• "Dylan Seaton: _Single, poor, and 25... HELLOOOOOO COUGARS!_"
• "Dylan's 25! (and now slightly OLDER than most of the chicks his dad flirts with!)"
• "Dylan can now legally rent a car! Woo!"

• fuck
• my
• life
• mmmph

• A Nickelback concert
• The Republican National Convention
• Wal Mart
• A Fallout Boy concert
• An Abercrombie & Fitch store
• A Hollister store
• A Dave Matthews Band concert
• A gun show
• A NASCAR race
• Anywhere where country music is playing
• A pretentious Hollywood club
• Any 'Family Restaurant'
• Lakeside (Or any other city that has a rodeo)
• The Smoking Section
• Any theater showing a romantic comedy
• Boot World
• Hometown Buffet (Ew... I'll take Souplantation, please)
• A 'Harvest Crusade'
• PB Bar & Grill or Typhoon Saloon (Doucheb...

• Been to Europe
• Learned to play the guitar
• Learned how to surf
• Seen any of the following movies (that everyone has seen) in their entirety: Braveheart, Schindler's List, Clueless, Can't Hardly Wait...
• Been to Coachella
• Been on a road trip with my buddies
• Been to Washington D.C.
• Eaten Indian food
• Learned how to cook
• Learned any real dance steps
• Been able to save any money
• Kissed a girl
• ..but I WILL do all of these things over the next 2 years.

• Hamlet in 'Hamlet'
• Iago in 'Othello'
• MacBeth in 'MacBeth'
• Prospero in 'A Winter's Tale'
• Orsino in 'Twelfth Night'
• Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (or Mitch, since I may never be physically big enough for Stanley)
• Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie'
• Dennis in 'This Is Our Youth'
• Lee in 'True West'
• Vince in 'Buried Child'
• Larry in 'Closer'
• Fiyero in 'Wicked' ...just kidding.

• Fight Club
• Se7en
• Snatch
• Interview With the Vampire (yeah... kinda have a mancrush on Brad)
• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• True Romance
• Big Fish
• Magnolia
• Boogie Nights
• There Will Be Blood
• The Usual Suspects
• The Departed
• The Big Lebowski
• Network (I want to spend a hot, passionate night with 1960s/70s Faye Dunaway. Oh mama...)
• V for Vendetta
• The Godfather (Parts I and II)
• A Clockwork Orange

• 'Parachutes' - Coldplay
• 'The Lonesome Crowded West' - Modest Mouse
• 'Oh, Inverted World' - The Shins
• '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' - Oasis
• 'Damaged' - Black Flag
• 'The Stranger' - Billy Joel
• 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' - Flaming Lips
• 'Weezer' (Blue Album) - Weezer
• 'Odelay' - Beck
• 'Funeral' - Arcade Fire
• 'Slowhand' - Eric Clapton
• 'At Folsom Prison' - Johnny Cash
• 'Unplugged in New York' - Nirvana (1st album I ever bought)
• 'Hunky Dory' - David Bowie
• 'Meet the Beatles' - The Beatles
• 'Evil Empire' - Rage Against The Machine
• 'Escape' - Journey