La Tee Dah

Wish I Didn't Need Food : Barbie Didn't

Approaching the Holidays makes me sad without the Food Issue. So I am writing to mysellf today. Kay, you do NOT have to eat things people offer you, nor do you have to bake or cook things for others. Take a walk, Journal, Get a Pedicure, Look at Baby Jett's pictures, anything can take up 15 min and then it passes. You are up 5 lbs since last year at this time. So TODAY you are on your way back to 2009's Holiday weight! Yea! Barbie I love you!!! You look marvelous! I want to look like you !

Missing Baby Jett

Jett is Home in Dallas,
GG's Heartsick in Houston,

Love Stretches across Texas .

No MORE extra work ... ever !!!!

Most of the time I appear fabulously 'together' while underneath I am unraveling. Like the other day being background for "The Preachers Daughter"  as The Well To-Do Lush. A favor to my sweet friend but it's an unraveling to a working actor. So it's hightime I confess, with God as my witness,  "I will never do extra work again!"

"Bernie" Audition in Austin, Finally !

Okay .....  I finally got THE audition I've been waiting for.  A chance to be in the Richard Linklater film "Bernie"!!!! It stars Shirley McClain and Jack Black. I've been boldly asking both my agents to submit me. Then I found a self submission page which I submitted two very different tapes of my own created characters. Well finally, my Dallas Agent called Monday night saying I was to go to a Straight To Director Audition the next day! I had quite a few lines to learn but I took off to Austin on Tuesday Sept. 14th. It went pretty well. I was to be a "Proper" lady who talks from her back porch. I did get a little tongue twisted on two words, "genuinely" and "proclivities"..... I saw Richard Linklater out of the corner of my eye, he looked a little "WTHey?"  But I think I did well overall and this will also be cast for a "Look". I shall see!!! I've been quoting  Proverbs 22:29 "Do you see someone who excels in their work? They will not work for the obscure, but for the significant."  On the drive back to Houston, I thought, "I just stood before a six time Oscar winning Director and an Emmy winning Casting Director. The words I've been speaking have led me to where I am today. Keeping positive words in my mouth is so important! Life and death are in the power of the tongue.

Emmy Scrumptious

The three of us actresses arrived at Studio "G" in need of soul resuscitation, after a long week of auditions ourselves,  found pure pleasure. Glasses of wine were poured, hot tub was bubbleing, gift bags handed out, flat screen TV on the patio and dinner on the grill. My two friends are as big of camera whores as I am. We tote them everywhere! Thought you might want to see our Emmy night under the big Texas outdoor starry sky.

DOUBLE

Life is so wonderful and full! I wish there were two of me so I could get more in everyday!!!!

Double/Illustration Friday

Acting Road Trip

Lines memorized, schedules cleared, we're off to our drug of choice with heads full of sunshine. Saturday Sisters; traveling the sun-kissed Texas Highways.  Heads full of personalities, time periods and genre's, yawning our way to workshops, classes and auditions.

Shimmy between the seats for the threadbare sides needed for the afternoon auditions. Arriving to class, crisp scripts handed out by the instructor. Blood rushing through our minds in bursts, like lit firecrackers beneath our skin as we memorize, ground the characters and make the words our own.

First single file into the mock auditions, young, middle aged, ready and half hypnotized. It's exciting and never the same. In a flash, clips are watched and we're relishing in another step toward our craft. Pleased with our critiques, that prop us up like soft pillows on our way to the afternoon's real auditions, number 4 this week!

Patient in the backed up line of actors, we're "UP"! Careful with our performance, remaining in our fulfillment, accomplishments and joyousness our work brings. Comfort is for cowards, we are daring risk-takers; come sweat, dry mouths, nerves and limbs of rubber.

Back in the car driving home, we are ten again, wild and free. Talking, exhilarated, hands gesturing, baptized in the sunbeams going down, trails of ice cream treats clinging to our fingers. For a moment we see the world with wide-eyed wonder. We painted our Masterpiece!

Fourth Of July

I love the fourth but I never know how they're gonna turn out year to year. Fireman Hubby working today so no pressure to cook traditional food fair. I've gained 3 lbs!!!!!! That may sound like nothing, but do you know how hard it is to change your resume' weight on all my acting web sites? Way to much work. So it's eaiser to loose the 3 lbs back to my resume' weight. So I had a great, albeit differnet Fourth Lunch!

Start w/Sandwich Thins, the ones that are like skinny hamburger buns for 100 cal. Spread a little Marg. on and grill in small skillet, (Fried Bread,what's not to like). I don't like Hummus so I made my own using White Northern Beans, saute'ed oninon & peppers mixed in food processor. Spread 2 Tbs. on half of the grilled (fried) bread, add sprouts, figs and a little drop of that Hot Ketchup stuff, Sriacha. One opened face is only 150 cal!

Giant Leap

Today a big beautiful gift fell into my lap. My acting credit for "Friday Night Lights" was posted on my IMDB listing. It's no small thing to get your credits on The Internet Movie Data Base. They check and recheck so you can't say you were in the last Tom Cruise film, now please add that to my credits, when you really weren't. So today I checked my page and there it was!!!!! This is a small thing in the world, but it's a GIANT thing to me! I've trained and nurtured my acting career for many years, all my live in one way or another. This made me quiet down, sit still and enjoy the acknowledgment. When a director or producer looks my name  up now, it may create an opening I didn't have before. So I'm excited and awed. July is going to be good!!!!

You can go to  http://www.imdb.com/  and search "Kay Salem" and there I am !

New Things Everywhere!

Wish there were an enchanted pipline that I could update with my thoughts.
 I've been so busy with new and wonderful additions to my life!
June 2nd: Beautiful New Grandson, Jett Zimmer  8lb 4oz
June 15: Unexpected New Windfall! IRS owed us $$$$
June 18th: New Auditions! "Drop Dead Diva" and "Direct TV"  (Hope I book both!)
July:  New Vacation to Akamul, MX !!!!

I've also been traveling around for local auditions and even shot a Wal-Mart commercial yesterday.

Can't wait to see more new things God keeps blessing my life with.

The Universe Is Lining Up For Me!!!!

I haven't bloged in a while. I've been so busy with wonderful things! First of all I finally booked a role on "Friday Night Lights" ! I believe this was my 7th audition. Hey, it takes time!! I'm the School Psycologist, Ms. Rene, the most boring speech giver a teen could hope for. It will air on Direct TV this Fall and on NBC next season about this time. I was so over the moon signing the NBC contracts......

I've had other doors open! I was requested to audition for a nice family film called "Moon Ring". It shoots in Hot Springs, AK this June. I think I've got a really good chance. With the Holy Spirit being my advocate, a top notch agent and I was very prepared in the taped auditon. We'll see!!!

Then I have a GrandSon being born in 2 weeks !!!!! YEEEEEAAAAAHHHH! My heart is so full! Thank you God, ruler of the Universe!

BRAVE - Illustration Friday and Audition Trip

FOR ARTIST: Watercolor from a Christian Romance Novel. Braving the unknown to carve out a home. Models are two of my girlfriends teens. Now they are both married with children.

FOR ACTORS: Leaving the ho-hum's of suburbia, griping the wheel and blazing straight into my madcap dreams. Driving with hope, wonder and strands of hair blowing in the cold air. Stop at Buc-ees for a Red Bull and praline shaped like the State of Texas. I arrive smiling on a sugar high, eyes bright, sides in the cusp of my palm, completely exposed, yet my nerves are unrattled. I've done this a million times, I'm a stringed marionette, and like a gratuitous puppet I begin. I've temporarily abandoned my depression for a truer sense of being.                                                 I'M ACTING!!!!!
This is my social order, I'm in the midst of my tribe, snaking around the soul of my calling. How can I ever do anything else?

It's over? So soon? My exhilaration so full as I leave. Intuitions so raw my spirit howls. I scream back in my car so excited, my one way passage home begins, traveling beneath the vault of heaven and the earth buzzing fast beneath the tires. I travel hundreds of miles to experience the happiest moments I've ever known. My bank account holds only a fist full of funds, all I have is who I am. The heart and soul of a creative artist God saw worth creating. He has told me more than once, "Nothing is foolish that fulfills my passion." Thank you God! Acting, auditioning you are my passion!
                                                    ACTING MAKES ME BRAVE!

Big Auditions

Exhilarating, head-spinning, fabulous auditions lately!

Austin:  Yesterday a Big Haired Texas Blonde Drama Queen wife of a conservative pastor. Got to be a little obnovious and wear a ton of make-up.

Houston, last night taped audition: Older,  Bleached Blonde, smokers pinched and winkled face with a rasp, dying in Hospice. Coming in and out of Morphine highs and lows, plus a dying scene!!! Such great fun! Got to be very Loopy!!!!

I love acting! It's a perfect self indulgence with very few side effects; mostly sleep deprivation.

Propagate Seed Time and Harvest

Today was "Love Scene" day in acting class. Lecture was very insightful. Actors must respect the love scene so much because the audience is always extremely interested in it. Embrace it, it HAS to matter. Men, well they're ready all the time. Women, well we're more picky. Both partners must open their hearts in a love scene. Have courage, be brave and totally believable. Thank goodness for The Method, I rocked it! My coach said I was very relaxed, totally believable and happy in love. I'm full of love, acting, painting and ready to make a film about love.

Insightful Film

So much enlightenment from watching "The Snake Pit" last night. Olivia de Havilliand is wonderful as the woman with a mental illness. What was so insightful was the psycological pointers Dr. Kick gave. The writer was Frank Partos, so I suppose he should get the credit for the awakening I received. So many issues in our adult life stem from our childhoods. If we don't have the insight needed we substitute all sorts of things trying to fix our damage.

God woke me up in the wee hours. I had so many "Ah ha" moments during our time together. I know I am more open for good things to enter my life now! More confidence is flowing through me. Everyday I increase in the knowledge of Him. Now He is showing me insight into my very soul.

Hebrews 10: 35 & 36  I will not throw away my confidence, for with it comes great reward. I will perservere and receive His promises as I follow His will.  

Chasing Pavement to Baking Cookies

I've been up and down the Texas Highways for several weeks. I'm gearing up now for all those call backs and bookings to start rollig in. Tomorrow I'm back in Dallas for a commercial audition.

Today is set with an overcast sky so I thought I'd bake. I had all the ingredients for Oatmeal Cookies, so that's what's in the oven. Such a nice calming experience baking is for me. My house smells yummy too!

Inch by inch, little by little, I move ahead with my acting career. Trying to leave time for family and more balance in my life is not always easy.

 Food for thought: "The more random the vision, the more random the outcome. Get a clear vision of where you're going and proceed with the result in mind."

Renewal

I love fresh starts - RENEWALS - second chances.

Art wise, I sat down the other night with several sketches of various artist and started to doodle. I came up with my renewed version of all the pieces laid out. A mermaid in a champagne glass.

Acting wise, I was just cast in a web series as a Mrs. Robinson type. The character is also a Millionaire, hope I have a nice wardrobe!

Looking forward to 2010.