Two Months Gone! What?

This week will mark two months for my arrival in New York City! It actually feels like I've been here much longer, which is not a complaint, believe me. While I am glad to be getting more used to shuffling around the city (hello, there are like a gazillion ways to manuever around this place), I am still pinching myself at times when I walk down Broadway with a Starbucks in my hand or work on a TV set, like today, and see NIGEL BARKER just casually walk by with his drop dead gorgeous wife. I mean, really. Not to mention earlier in the holding room this girl walks up beside me and it's Claire from one of the past seasons of America's Next Top Model. I just kept waiting for Tyra to jump out of the bushes! This is definitely a place where things are happening and that feels great.

I had my first visitor to the big city a few weeks ago. The original encourager of the blog, my friend, Linda, came to celebrate her Bday in big NYC fashion. We had lots of fun trotting around the streets, hitting great eats like Shake Shake, Balthazar, and Mister Softee (ice cream on wheels!). We also got to see the show "Groovaloo" which features the dance group that won on the recent TV show, "Superstars of Dance." Linda knows how to cook and so she did for me and my roommate...it was insane. Be on the look out for Linda's cooking show someday. I am going to be a producer on it. Seriously, watch for it!

The chill has started to come and I hear it's going to be a crazy winter. While I love the cold I am sure I will have some interesting tales of me fighting the snow, sleet, and wind. Bring it on... I think I have had one white Christmas in my whole life so a ton of snow I am welcoming. I think. Brrrrr....

And if you are a TV watcher, check me out on upcoming episodes of White Collar (USA), CSI:NY (CBS), and Nurse Jackie (Showtime). I am not sure exactly when the episodes will air but they should be in the next few weeks. Just some extra work but it's been really fun to be on set and get more involved in the television community.

Okay, I guess that's it for now. Enjoy some pics of my recent weeks here. The cruise ship was taking off down the Hudson River on Sunday when I was sitting on a bench reading by the water. Some others are just awesome buildings I have stumbled across through my adventures around town and a shot from Central Park when my friend Chuck helped me move here.

Lots of love and hugs to all the people I miss.

Until next time...

josh

Week 4 in The Big City

I think I have the hang of this blogging now...you know me, I'm an actor, so it has to be a production, nothing basic. Blah. So things are seeming to click along here as I'm working on my fourth week here in NY. It has been busy, busy, busy and I'm am adapting well to all the changes.

I'm trying to include some photos from my first month's journey that I captured from my phone so hopefully that will work and you can see part of what I've been seeing. To recap a little, I've made several trips to Central Park, had quite a few cups of Soy Chai Latte in Midtown, mostly sitting at a small table people-watching, seen several celebrities - Julia Stiles, David Letterman, Andy Rodick, Rachael Ray, and America Ferrera, and was actually on a taping of Letterman in one of his outdoor scenes by the Ed Sullivan Theatre, shopped several times in Soho (love that area), been to several Broadway auditions and saw a girl I knew from NC and did theatre with 10 years ago. And on my Birthday I'm standing on the corner of the street, waiting for the crosswalk light to change and I hear my name being called out...out of 8.5 million people I actually ran in to someone that knew me, on my Birthday just south of Columbus Circle...this place is really small, don't let the population fool you. So adventurous and fun this month has been, there is no doubt.

I have really taken a liking to Hoboken, NJ too...it's a quaint town adjacent to Jersey City and where I will be doing some work with a dance studio this year. They are the home of Carlo's which is the famous bakery featured on the TLC show called "Cake Boss." They have AMAZING brownies...they dip them in sugar. Yum! 'And during the summer they show movies out on an open lawn/park with the NYC skyline as the backdrop. I went and saw "Coraline" there the other week but the rain booted us out before it was finished. Oh well...I am sure I will be here next summer!

So to wrap this week I am heading to an audition/seminar tonight to meet with a talent agent. Next week brings about several auditions and who knows what else adventures. And of course tomorrow is 9/11 so I am sure it will be a moving and reflective weekend. They are already shining the beams of light from Ground Zero. I actually captured a pretty good photo on my camera so hopefully that will show up well here on the blog.

Until next time here from NYC!

josh

My first blog in NYC

So per the request of my friend Linda, I decided to start a blog about my new adventures in NEW YORK CITY! I hope the blogs that follow will inspire, entertain, education, and lift your spirits in some way. This city can definitely do that. Who knows what will come about in these blogs, although I am sure a lot of it will be about the places I discover, the food I eat, and the people that I meet, or at least pass on the street. That in and of itself will be enough to keep us all entertained.

So, I guess I will just start with today b/c it might be hard to go back over the last two weeks and recount everything. Although I will try to bring back some highlites.

Today I had an audition for the Broadway musical "Wicked." It was a dance audition which turned out to be pretty challenging. Cool thing is I ran into a guy I met through the "Wizard of Oz" tour that came through Nashville just back in January. It's a small world and you would never think in a city of 8.5 MILLION people that you would run in to people that you know, but ya do.

So before I hit the audition I ate lunch at a new place for me (there will be lots of those to come!) called "brgr." Loved the spelling and despite being a vegetarian I thought I would check it out b/c the DID have a veggie burger on the menu and the decor was rocking. The coolest thing about the restaurant was the bathroom door assignment...two bathrooms, one labeled "Carnivore" and the other, can a I get a woo woo, "VEGETARIAN." Of course I used the VEGGIE facilities, I have to pay homage to my peeps when I can.

I took a photo on my phone of the doors because they were just too funny. I will try and upload these pics so you can get a good laugh.

Ok, that seems long enough for a blog right? Live vicariously through me if you wish. NYC is a grrrrrrrrrrrreat place and the end of the day was topped with a warm orange sky in the western view with a full moon hanging over Manhattan as I waited for the Light Rail to get to my apartment. Pretty sweet!

Well....peace, love and blessings from the city that never sleeps, except at my place in about an hour.

xoxo
josh