Monday, August 29, 2011

Graduate with a Dilema in Personal Ambitions???

We were doing research on Grad schools today and it hit me…

I have NO IDEA what I want to go to school for

I mean I have an "idea" but honestly I don’t know what I want to do.


I AM STARTING TO PANIC !!!

::WHEEZE, WHEEZE::


OK, I graduated with Honors with a Theatre Degree in 4 years and I feel like I know absolutely nothing remotely close to what I would need to know about the industry that I want to become a part of. Not to mention my repertoire has basically nothing of interest for any of the Grad programs I am interested in…


SOOOOOO

Little piece of paper I worked my ass off for…

NULL AND VOID


Basically I feel screwed because I can Act-for-Theatre?? I guess that’s what my degree says, but what about ANYTHING ELSE.



GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF

::Slap across the face::


WHAT WE KNOW:

- I love to perform, I know I want to do that and don’t want to miss out on that

But does that just shell me in as an actor and I would go to school for acting and nothing else???

- I have a million little stories and skits and sketches in my head

A degree in creative writing would be great but I don’t just want to write and I don’t have a background of writing or a collection of any stories as samples…

- I LOVE being in charge lol, as much as I hate to admit it I can take the helm and I enjoy it

So do I want to be a director, a filmmaker… will that put me in a box too?? I have Ideas for Game design do I jump Acting ship and try to get back in as a voice actor???


The possibilities are endless

- When this is all over…

I want my own entertainment Studios, that way I can do all the projects I want…



Reality Check…

I just have to go with my Passion and well if my Passion encompasses all of the above then I guess I will just be one busy MO FO huh… but at least one thing is certain… I will not give up.

~H00k

Friday, August 26, 2011

My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!!!

Ok so it started out good,

I had woke up before my alarm but then I spilled my Protein shake all over the kitchen floor while trying to shake it up in a new container I got from my job…(OMEN)

Whatever lil' spill, still left out early and had everything, I was ready.

Got to the bus with 5 mins to spare--

Then got on the metro didn’t have to stop to add fare I was good to go--

Got off the Greenline at U Street and as I reached the elevator I checked my phone clip to find… no phone,

SON OFA...

I had mistook the wallet in my pocket for my phone and had left the phone somewhere near or on the seat… that or I got GOT…

In a word BLOWN

Walk to the place of employment…mad

Get the my job and just lay in my classroom pouting as I lay lounged against a bold green child sized couch. Then I get the motivation to do something about it…

I call sprint, and realize I am past due… so I pay the bill only to be told from the Jackasses at Asurion that my insurance didn’t count cause the phone was not activated at the time it was lost/stolen...

Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch

So I am texting on my computer to my gf to try to get the Metro lost n found and then I stop getting responses, and what do you know, a teacher has to leave early so gues who has to work for 7-5 this guy…

Finally go to the lobby and call home to be told that I had like a dozen responses to the texts I was sending and all she kept getting was hello, mostly cause I wasn’t getting anything on my end, and she had now been waiting for a full hour to pick me up from the metro that I had not even got on yet….

In short on August 26, 2011 it was written… FML

--H00k

On a more positive note I did remember to grab my jacket before it started to rain… (it’s the little things)

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

BACK in the game

TANKING

Today I watched a video from Lore and the weekly marmot . The topic was tanking and threat WoW is a great game, and it has evolved over the years. Some love where it is now, some hate it, and some play it completely indifferent to the changes because they know they are just going to play the damn game anyways… well I appreciated the game mechanics from when I started to where they are now, and with millions playing it is a grueling task to try to appease that crazy population (proudly I am a member of that crazy population)

TANKING

Before the new changes

Tanks - Focus on keeping attention of the boss (sustaining aggro as we call it)

Healers - Focus on keeping Party members alive

DPS (damage per second, its virgin for Damage dealt) - Focus on Killing

After

Tanks - Focus on Staying alive

Healers - Focus on keeping party alive

DPS - Focus on Killing things

MY TAKE ON IT ALL

WoW as a game has become more of a calculation than a game to most hardcore gamers. In the same fashion as one counts cards in poker or black jack this game has been broken down by players so much that you are really expected to know the formulas in order to attempt End Game content.

I don’t think they ever meant for the game to be interpreted so analytically but it has and for me that might be the worst part.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Back with a CHALLENGE

*****THE OFFICIAL 5 FOR 15 CHALLENGE*****

So, I heard from a good friend that if you take the time to be good at something, even if it is just 15 minutes every day, that in two years you will become an expert. I decided that the day after my Birthday would be a perfect starting point to test this theory. Starting today I will take 5 fifteen minute segments of my day, everyday and use them in the service of 5 personal goals. Through the help of Social Networking, I will record and document the results. But, I know I will need help and so I am sharing my challenge my Social Network. I will be using Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, and Youtube to Kick it off (maybe others as I get better). Now it doesn’t have to be 5 that’s just a catchy little hashtag, it can be more, or just one goal but the important part is that you put in the time EVERYDAY and try.

My 5:

- Acting/Entertaining

- Japanese

- Drawing

- Blogging???(this is the tough one lol)

- Chess

- Learning JKD (yea its 6 wanna fight about it...)

If you want to be apart, just do it! Comment, Reply, Retweet, Message me, or post a video link of your #5for15 or #5for15challenge and include that tag in your post.

I know I will need the encouragement of my friends to make it happen so I encourage you, I ask you, and I CHALLENGE YOU (in my Charlie Murphy voice) to become an expert and take the #5for15challenge

Thanks in Advance for Indulging my madness…

~H00k

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The Vid -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbgNWyZWz-8