xoxo.

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” 

-Rebecca West (1892-1983)

'Apartmental.'

Here is the TV Pilot 'Apartmental,' one of the projects I had the wonderful privilege of working on this year. 
Many, many thanks to everyone at Novel Concept Films for letting me join their fantastic and creative company because of this Pilot (everyone there is basically my soulmate/spirit animal and I love 'em all). 
Enjoy!  

xoxo.

“I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce."
"It’s a clever lettuce, then."
"Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?"
"Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked.
"Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.” 
― Patrick Rothfuss

I never do this but...

Last night I made a thing. 
And it was a yummy thing. 
And I'm going to share how I made the thing.

Stuffed Yellow Pepper

Ingredients:

1 yellow bell pepper (the bigger the better)
1/2 cup of quinoa (uncooked)
1/4 cup of beans (black or pinto!)
1/2 of a...handful??? of diced tomatoes
2 eggs
2 slices of fresh mozzarella 
Seasoning (I used garlic salt, ground black pepper, crushed red pepper and table salt, all to taste)

Step 1:
Prep:
Cut the yellow bell pepper in half and take out all of the seedy bits so that the two halves appear to be two oddly shaped bowls. Take a tomato, cut it in half, cut that half in half...Dice it!

Step 2:
Cook quinoa until it is ready. The best way to cook quinoa is- for every cup of quinoa, cook it in 2 cups of water. (So...1/2 cup of quinoa to 1 cup of water, for you math wizards) Sometimes you may need to add a smidge more water...because quinoa is weird. I cooked my quinoa with some of the seasonings. And just cook it on medium-high heat until all of the water is absorbed (which could take a while, FYI).

Step 3: 
(While the quinoa is cooking) Fry two eggs sprinkled with salt and black pepper. I like mine over-easy, so that's how I fried them last night. I also used the remaining oil to heat up the tomatoes.

Step 4:
Heat the beans up (microwaving them for, like, 45 seconds will do the trick)! And then, when the quinoa is cooked, mix the two (beans + quinoa) together. At this time, you can also preheat the oven to about 375° (F)

Step 5:
Stuff the peppas! 
I lined the bottom of the peppers with the diced tomatoes and then I spooned in the quionoa/bean mix and then I topped it with the egg and then I topped the egg with the slice of mozerella. *MAKE SURE* that when  you spoon in the quinoa/bean mix, you leave a little bit of space for the egg and mozzarella so that it's not just pouring over...unless you just like living on the edge.

Step 6:
Put the stuffed bell pepper halves on a metal pan and pop it in the oven for about 7 minutes. Just enough time for the cheese to get nice and melty and for the pepper to get a nice grilled taste.

Step 7:
Ruthlessly consume the deliciousness that you just made (it may be hot, though...so maybe you should be sort of careful).

Step 8:
Blog about it and then feel really awkward about blogging about it because you never write down recipes.

Bon appétit!

xoxo.

Werk.

ACTING

The DREAM.

I know I've said this before, but I'll reiterate---> I WANT TO BE AN ACTRESS.

These past several months, I've been working on building my portfolio. 

So I don't bore you with details, I'll just post screenshots/shots on set instead. I feel like I never really post pictures of what I'm working on, so I'm just going to post them here...all at once (well, not "all," but, most). Hopefully I'll have more things developing soon!

Here are some of the projects I've worked on (as always, click to enlarge)-

1. Apartmental (in post-production).

2. Bent On Conquest.

 3. Doritos commercial (contest entry).

 4. Exit Jude.

 5. The Walking Hippies.

 6. K.O.L.D.

 7. You Only Live Juance (in post-production).

 8. Puppy Farm (Bloodbath) (still in production).

 I have some potential projects lined up and I just wrapped a (very) short film on Saturday (I also didn't post any pictures from the play I was in, because I don't have the DVD with me). I'm so excited about being able to act a bit more this year, and I just wanted to share some of this with everyone. Let's hope that the latter half of 2014 and then all of 2015 is nothing but productive (for us all!). 

Dream big, my friends. 

Werk.

xoxo.

**Edit (7/11/14): They posted pictures from the play!

9. Table for two:

 This one was taken before dress rehearsal

** Edit (8/14/2014): The rough edit for 'Puppy Farm' has been released! They are still working on the final project, but here are some (kinda grainy, sorry) screenshots :)

xoxo.