Two weeks worth...

Alright so it's been like two weeks since I've written - I don't know what it is, I tell myself I'm going to write and I never do! I can't seem to focus on sticking to it, it's like I'm ADD. Who knows, maybe I am or maybe I've just burned too many brain cells.... So anyway, two weeks ago today I went to club Hudson Terrace with a group of friends. I was told to bring people because in order to get in VIP with the promoter, he would need to have a bunch of people come in. So the friends I went with were going to bring people along with the people I brought. I, of course, ended up being the only person to bring people - brought two german girls I met at a club the previous weekend. They were cool and fun to party with so I invited them. Both of them are Au Paires, or however you spell it. Well we find a whole group of girls outside the club to bring in with is, you know to get our total of people higher so we'd get the service we want. So we get in and get our service in the corner of the club - probably the best spot. There's windows looking out all the way around and has a high-class feel to it. The bathroom however sucked, yet I'm sure the girls room had sofas and numerous kinds of toiletry dispensers. Anyway, I get pretty drunk and get to dancing. I danced with a couple girls and tried to dance a with a few others but fucked that up by not dancing very well at the moment. It's like sometimes I can dance well and sometimes I can't, I don't know, I'm not too worried about it. After that club we go to another, Juliet I believe it's called. By the time we got there I was on my way to needing to find a toilet or an alley. But of course, once we get in I'm handed two sleeps for free drinks by the promoters and buy myself more vodka redbulls. After the two I'm really needing to find a bathroom but luckily we leave just in the nick of time. We start walking and I quickly start feeling less nauseated. I leave with the girls I came with and one of them picks up these Italian guys and they escort us to the nearest diner. I had eaten at this diner a couple times before but didn't get anything this time, although I did eat half of one of the girls sandwich. The Italian guys were fucking douche bags. I think they had an issue with me but I couldn't have cared less. I just sat while they tried hitting on the girls. As I'm sitting trying to ignore these guys, I turn around and see Chuck Lidel - a UFC fighter. I was pretty excited to have seen him but didn't bother him for an autograph on a napkin, that would have been rude and I'd have looked dumb. We leave the diner and I walk the girls back to Penn Station, but one of them wanted to stay with me, so stay she did. That next morning, or should I say afternoon I walk her to the train and begin getting ready to head to Rumson, New Jersey to hang out with this girl I had met the previous weekend at a club. I hop on the train and get down there only to have her dad pick me up from the station - apparently she wasn't dressed and ready yet. So after saying "uh huh" and "ok" to her dad the whole way home because he wouldn't stop talking, we finally arrive at a very nice house. I enter the house only to continue waiting on her. Her parents make me feel very welcome and her mom is quite a character, very funny and sweet. Well she finally comes down and we go to a hibachi grill restaurant, and after making the waiters come ask us more than once what we wanted on the grill, we both end up getting sushi rolls - we could tell they were a little pissed that we took so long then ended up just getting rolls. After leaving there we drive around a little bit as she shows me the town. Before heading back to her house we stop at the restaurant her parents were eating at with friends to say hi. They all quickly find out what it is that I do and the women, who was the friend of her parents, said she heard that it's very stressful and demeaning going to all these auditions and having casting directors never say anything positive or just never getting roles, I proceed to say "well it can be, but I'm good..." haha oh man, they all died laughing and I felt rather witty for that one. After entertaining them, my friend and I head back to her house and stay up all night watching TV... The plan was for her to drive me to the train station the next morning before she had to go to some holiday party with all her fellow horse riders. Well, of course she takes forever to get ready and I miss my initial train and the next one wouldn't be for another hour - the Dallas Cowboys game started that hour and I didn't want to be on a train missing it. So she suggested that I just hang out at her house, watch the game while she and her parents attended the party. So that's what I did. The damn Cowboys lost and the game was over by the time they all got back. It was evening by then and I ended up staying another night. That night the Golden Globes were being presented - Kevin Bacon looked cracked out and Drew Barrymore just came off crazy. I don't what's with these actors, it's like they all feel they need to way too eccentric. I finally make my train that afternoon and head back home to get to the gym and relax the rest of the night... On Tuesday I had a GNC casting which was absolute mayhem. So many people were there and it took an hour and half for me to be seen. I didn't get the job... Weekend came before I knew it and I had a buddy in the city promoting a couple parties. He flew up from NC. That Thursday night I went in the city to hang out with him, his girlfriend, and this guy Nijay who's very cool. Nijay had a car so we were just driving around in it when I came to find out they were looking for a place to go, just to chill, while my buddy and his girlfriend came up to NYC without a place to stay. I had a feeling they were going to be needing a place, so I offered. I enjoyed having them here, it was cool to hang with him once more before he moved to LA that Monday... That following week I didn't do much at all - went to acting class on Tuesday which was pretty fun because our instructor had a guy come in and do some body movement drills. Tuesday's are always a good day for me, especially because the TV show 'Entourage' comes on just in time for me to get home from the city. I fucking love that show, it continually gives me inspiration to this whole acting business... Now I believe were all caught up with my past few weeks. Last night I was invited out to another club for VIP service but there were so many different issues trying to get in the club that the two first time promoters, who have been my friends for a while now, end up going home. So as do I. My roommate and I stay up till like 5:30 just talking about life and what's going on with us - I enjoyed that. Now it's Saturday afternoon and I have no idea what I'm doing today - maybe the gym, maybe just sit on my ass, I don't know...

LG Text Messaging World Championship!

Today I got paid, yes paid, to sit in the audience of the world text messaging championship. It was pretty excited, actually. I cheered hard for the 14 and 15 year old USA girls. But the Koreans took the title (which I called before I ever arrived.. I don't need to explain why, just had a feeling they would be more technologically advanced). After that I spent the last bit of money on my subway gift card on a 5 dollar foot-long, then only had 74 cents left so had to use the 20 subway points on the card to get a drink - what, its a tough economy, gotta use what ya got. Anyway, after that I bought some supplements at GNC and came home. I shot the newly directed audition tape for the writer of the feature in Austin and sent it out to him. I liked the character of this take better but not sure I acted it as well - we'll see... One of my buddies texted me just a second ago and said he's coming back up to the city (from his home town in North Carolina) next week to promote some club parties. He asked me to help bring people so all this next week it looks like I got a good reason to talk as many girls as I want :). I'd like to bring in a lot of people for him, he's a good guy and can see he and I doing business ventures in the future.

So Friday night I went to this club.. Pacha, in New York City. It was the craziest club I've been to. Like 4 floors, girls dancing in shower glass boxes, and people smoking weed all through-out. My kind of club... All kinds of different people in there. It ended up for a kinda good time, I somehow cracked the face of my D&G watch pretty badly so that sucked but it should be fixable. Stayed out till like 7 that morning and slept only until 2 that afternoon. I expected to be asleep all day but for some reason woke up. I just sat around all day and watched the wild card football games. The Cowboys played and dominated the Eagles for a second week in-a-row. Next week they'll play the Vikings, should make for a hell of a game. Today (Sunday) I had a job working Calvin Kleins private dinner party at his apartment. Man, was it nice. Has three stories and the roof, and an amazing view of the Hudson and New Jersey (as amazing a view can get of New Jersey anyway). He was a cool guy though, his daughter apparently is the producer of Saturday Night Live and the TV show 30 Rock.. if only I could meet her! Got tipped well for the night however and the rate is good so for 4 hours of work I made a good number. On a different note, I heard back from Ben (the guy who has a feature film in the works and wanted me to read for a role) and he liked what I did with the audition pieces. He gave me some more direction, however, and asked if I could do it again he'd like to see how I take the direction. So that's what I will do and he'll see that there's no other person for the role. I'd be damn ecstatic if I got this part and it would do a lot for me as far as my acting career goes. Got a casting tomorrow for some guys look book. Not sure how good it go being as how I don't have a book to show but will give him a comp card hopefully that's all needs to see.

Texas lost...

The University of Texas - my favorite sports team and program of any teams I root for lost the BCS National Championship game tonight... I knew going in to it I'd have a powerful emotion come out of me and that was so. When the Longhorns won the Big 12 Championship I nearly cried and if they had won tonight the outcome of my emotion would have been even stronger. But with the loss, I only feel sorrow and depressed - not quite sure what to think. Yes, the young freshman who took quarterback Colt McCoy's place, who was injured at the beginning of the first half, stepped up and began to play well in the second half, but it was not enough and I'm not sure if it will even be enough for next year. People say there's always next year, well yes there is but this years team was like no other - solid in every aspect on the field. If McCoy had not got injured, he would have solidified the team through-out the game and the Texas Longhorns would have won the national championship. I can't even imagine how he felt watching his dreams slip away as he just stood on the sideline... Well, there is indeed always next year and I'll be right there with my Longhorns as they pursue the crystal football they held after the 2005 season.

Hook 'em HORNS!

The Persuit to Success

So... First time to blog. My name is Jeff Riberdy and I am an aspiring actor/model. I've been in New York City for a year now as of January 7th. I can't believe its been a year already. I now know what it means when people talk about a New York minute. Last year I drove from my home in Texas to New Jersey to live in a model house for Silver Models. Man, was that interesting. Nothing but crazy jacked up guys that took up all the fridge space. But I got along and it didn't take me long to befriend them all. One of them even invited me to his birthday celebration down in his home town in PA. Well, either an invitation or he was just in need of a ride down, because we took my car - a 2006 GT Mustang. We get down there, party at a couple bars, and leave pretty drunk with a couple extra people in the car. Well I was rather tossed so for some reason I let him drive.. big mistake. He starts hot roding in my car and ends up ramping over a curb at 40 mph. The damage to the car was "the worst I'd ever seen the underneath of a car in all my time of work," said the mechanic who was the one to tell me the car was totaled. I was crushed. That car was my baby, I even named it Blue Steel because it was blue and I love the movie Zoolander. Sorry for the drawn out story about that, you can imagine how upset I was. So anyway... I came here to pursue modeling and am still doing so, I'm not signed with Wilhelmina Models, but after taking my first ever acting class I fell in love. I had never done acting before and realized how amazing it was. They say once you get in to acting you catch the bug, well it's true. After finishing the class I get in to contact with Wayne Gasser, a personal talent manager. He brought me under his wing and has been a huge influence on my career. He began sending me out on auditions and before I knew I booked my first gig. It was a play for the annual Fringe Festival in NYC. The play is called "Devil Boys From Beyond." Wayne said if I got the role in this play it'd be something big, man was he right. The play ended up breaking box office records for the Fringe, was invited back to the encore presentation, received 5 stars in NY Timeout Magazine, and won Most Outstanding Play for the fest that held 255 different plays. The play was to be picked up off-broadway but there were complications with the revenue owner and having the proper funds to even put the play on. It still may be picked up in the spring but without funds I'm not sure it will happen. I just pray something can become of it. That was at the end of September and since then it's been rather slow for me. I worked at Tommy Hilfiger on 5 ave for a little bit, but they wouldn't let me take off for the holidays so I quit. I work catering gigs to make money but now that the holidays are over the jobs will be few and far between. May go back to Abercrombie where I worked for a week when I first moved to the city. It's difficult for me to have a scheduled job though because I need the freedom to go to castings or auditions. I'm excited for the New Year though, I feel it will bring me some prosperity. Just hope I'm right.. with my acting I need to constantly be taking classes and seeing instructors but it's crazy expensive. I was told by an acting agent, whom I hoped would represent me, that my resume would be tossed out by casting directors due to the lack of training. So now what am I supposed to do? If I can't pay for the training then I can't be an actor?.. Such bull shit and I'm not buying. I've truly developed a passion for acting and will do whatever it takes to reach success. I tell people all the time that I'm looking forward to the future and now 2010 is here and let me tell you, I've never been more excited for a year. It should be the most pivatal year of my life and I intend to make it the best. I will have a focus like no other and will do what needs to be done. If you have read all this, I thank you. This was just a year in review for me and all my posts won't be this long but just wanted to give you all the prequal to the saga of my life and career. Please keep up with me as I plan to write most every night. Happy new year and let's all make it one to remember.