Anywho, I figured I'd better drop a little something-something before the few blog followers I DO have, lose interest all together.
I obviously can't regurgitate all the happenings of the past 5 months (nor do I even want to), but just know that things have been...well, I'll just say 'complicated'.
I won't focus on any of that though, instead I'll bring you up to speed on the more current goingson.
Let's see...I flew out to Dallas last month for a Christian Book Writer's Convention with my grandfather...he has sort of written me into the family business, as an agent/proposal writer.
I'm sort of at odds about the whole arrangment. I LOVE writing, and I love and respect my Papa and would have an awesome time working with him...but, I think considering the very nature of the business, I feel my involvment would have at least somewhat of a bit of hypocrisy tied to it. Yes, I am a Christian, but I wouldn't say I'm devout. I still go out to clubs/bars on occassion, I still drink on occassion, I still listen to secular music, etc. I just don't know if my current lifestyle would reflect well...I mean, not that I'm some devil child or something, but still, ugh. Anyways...
While I was in Dallas, there was an audition for America's Next Top Model. For those of you that don't know, the next cycle of the show is going to be 5'7 and UNDER. It's always only ever been 5'7 and ABOVE. I had gone to an audition before, here in Huntsville, years ago...but got shot down before I even got a chance to stand in line; "oh honey, you're too short, sorry." Hmph. So, I went to the audition, I made it to what I would call Round 2 (past the first judge's table), and got cut shortly thereafter. I would liked to have made it all the way through, but I honestly can't say I was all that disappointed, I felt pretty honored to have even made it past the first round of selections.
Speaking of modeling though, one day last week, I was contacted on ModelMayhem in reference to my availability for a Saturday shoot for Elleira Couture (http://www.elleiracouture.com/). So we all met up at The Mod Squad Salon on Saturday at 11, and we didn't finish the shoot with the photographer, Bill Vaughn(www.billvaughnphotography.com), until around 4 or 5 that evening, but what fun! Everyone was so nice, and I think the pictures turned out really nicely. Here are mine:
I did some networking and will hopefully get to work with Bill and some other folks again in the near future.
What else is new...oh yeeeah, something I'm SUPER excited about is...after several years of hoping and wanting and missing opportunities, I am FINALLY scheduled (Aug.1st @ 3pm) to get tattooed by Miya Bailey. Miya is a tattoo artist whose portfolio I first saw on Myspace, and was BLOWN AWAY. He works at The City of Ink in ATL. Dude is SO good in fact that there is a deposit required to even set an appointment. He's booked through July...yeah, he's that good. I don't think I'll say anything else, I'll just let his work speak for him:
Besides his OBVIOUS talent, something that really struck me with him, is a couple years ago when I first contacted him about inking me. I remember I'd started to tell him what kind of tattoo I wanted, and he cut me short...he told me he didn't need me to tell him what I wanted, that he likes to meet his clients in person and get a feel for who/how they are, and he builds the tattoo specifically for them. That alone blew me away...you do realize what that means, right? He creates 100% unique tattoos for each person, you never have to worry about seeing the same thing on someone else. How awesome is that? I do need to decide where I'm going to get it placed. It's either going to be my shoulder/partial half sleeve, or, going down my side/ribs. Opinions? I'm leaning towards the shoulder, we'll see. Also, my friend who is a pretty amazing celebrity photographer, Dennis Tortora, who currently resides in Atlanta, wants to shoot the whole session, this should be fun, fun, fun! I know some pretty freaking talented people, lucky me, here's some of Dennis' work:
Other than that, not much going on here...Thursday night, I'm off to see Ernie Halter at 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville...don't know who Ernie is? He's only one of my MOST FAVORITEST (yeah, favoritEST) musicians. And Saturday night, I'm off to see Josh Hoge at 12th & Porter in Nashville. I normally see them together, but they're doing solo shows now, so, I'll fit 'em in where I can get 'em in! They may easily be my favorite two live performers (and nothing holds a candle to live music, in my opinion).Here they are together, check them out, they're both friggin' AMAZING!
I have to include Josh doing "Ain't No Sunshine"...it's my favorite part of his shows. I LOVE how he gets into it...artists with passion are my cup 'o tea.
I guess that's it...oh yeah, I FINALLY got my wheels back on my car, so I'm feeling a lot better about that as well...
Okay, I gotta go, so, hollerrrrrrrr!
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