ME AND THE HOMIE JASLENE GONZALES

ERIN WASSON

LOOK AT JUS SKE FACE LOL AMAZEDDDDD

SOOOO I WENT TO THE LOUIS VUITTON STEPHEN SPROUSE COLLECTION CELEBRATION AT THE BOWERY HOTEL LASTNITE AND IT WAS PRETTY COOL….RAN INTO VASHTIE AND THE HOMIE JUS SKE

SO AS IM SIPPIN WAAYYYY TOO MUCH CHAMPAGNE ON A EMPTY STOMACH I GET A TEXT FROM JUS SKE ASKIN ME IF I WANTED TO PERFORM….I RESPONDED LIKE “WONT WE GET IN TROUBLE??” LOL LIKE A LIL KID N SHIT, BUT NEVERTHELESS, HE INSISTED HE COULD MAKE IT HAPPEN…NEXT THING U KNO, IM PERFORMIN DAY N NITE, ROCKIN SHIT….THIS CROWD DEF WASNT MY NORMAL AUDIENCE BUT I BODIED IT, I HAD A POINT TO PROVE….THOSE PRISSY SNOBBY RICH FOLKS WAS LOOKIN AT ME LIKE I WAS LESS THAN SPIT TIL I DAY N NITED THE SHIT OUT OF THEY ASS LOL YEAAA BITCH, WUT NOWWWWWW!!!!!!! OH WELL, IM SURE I PROVED A VERY VALUABLE LESSON LASTNITE, DONT JUDGE A NIGGA…..

16 Bars w/ Chip Tha Ripper from Eighty81 on Vimeo.

THE PILOT THAT I WAS CASTED IN A COUPLE MONTHS AGO JUS GOT PICKED UP BY HBO

I WILL BE CO STARRING ALONG SIDE MY FAM BRYAN GREENBERG, VICTOR RASUK, EDDIE KAYE THOMAS AND SHANNYN SOSSAMON IN HBO’S NEW COMEDY SERIES “HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA”

HERES HOW IT ALL HAPPENED, NO JOKE

ONE NITE I ATTENDED A PARTY MY HOMEGURL VASHTIE WAS THROWIN AND I ENDED UP MEETING A GUY NAMED IAN EDELMAN (COOLEST DUDE EVER)…HE APPROACHED ME ASKIN IF I HAD EVER THOUGHT ABOUT ACTING (hell fuckin yea lol) AND HOW HE WANTED ME TO READ FOR A PART ON A SHOW HE WROTE AND WAS PREPARING TO SHOOT A PILOT FOR….I WAS A LIL STANDOFFISH, FOR I COULD TELL MY MAN IAN HAD A COUPLE DRINKS LOL BUT I SAID WUT DA HELL, AND GAVE HIM MY EMAIL SO HE COULD HAVE SOMEONE CONTACT ME ABOUT THE AUDITION….

2 DAYS LATER I GET A EMAIL FROM THE CASTING DIRECTOR GIVING ME INFO ON THE READING AND A COPY OF THE SCRIPT….AFTER READIN THE SCRIPT I WAS SO BLOWN AWAY BY ITS ORIGINALITY THAT I FELT ID B A FOOL NOT TO FOLLOW THRU WIT THIS, TRYIN IS HALF THE BATTLE…SO MAYBE LIKE A FEW DAYS LATER I WENT IN, DID THE READING, DIDNT THINK I GOT IT AND WENT HOME LOL….A DAY LATER I GET A CALLBACK WHILE HEADING TO HAWAII TO LINK WIT YE, BASICALLY SAYIN THEY NEEDED ME TO COME IN FOR A SECOND AUDITION…NOW AT THIS POINT I WAS LIKE WOOOORDDDDD? BUT STILL DIDNT GET GASSED CUZ I KNO AUDITIONS ARE A GAMBLE EVERYTIME, NEVER KNO WUT THE OUTCOME MAY BE….

SO, WHILE IN HAWAII, I PRINTED OUT THE SCRIPT AND WOULD SOMETIMES SNEAK AWAY FROM THE SESSIONS WIT YE TO PRACTICE MY LINES LOL…I WAS STILL VERY SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT MY ACTING SO I DIDNT WANT ANYBODY TO SEE ME REHEARSE OR DISTURB MY FOCUS, ESPECIALLY KANYE AND COMPANY CUZ THE JOKES ARE FAIR GAME WHEN EVERYONES TOGETHER, NO ONE GOES UNROASTED HAHA…BUT I HAD TO GET COMFORTABLE AND FAST CUZ I KNEW THESE PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE WUTELSE I COULD BRING TO THE TABLE….SOOOO, HIDING IN HAWAII I STUDIED LIKE I NEVER STUDIED BEFORE…IT HAD ONLY BEEN A FEW DAYS SINCE THE LAST READING AND ONLY A FEW DAYS TIL THE NEXT ONE SO I DIDNT HAVE MUCH TIME, I HAD TO GO IN….I WENT THRU THOSE LINES OVER AND OVER TIL I FELT RIGHT WITH THEM ASWELL AS MAKING THE CHARACTER MY OWN

(SO KANYE, WHEN U COULDNT FIND ME SOMETIMES I WASNT ALWAYS SMOKIN MY WEED LOL)

FLEW BACK TO MAIN LAND, DID THE SECOND AUDITION, THOUGHT I DID A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE BUT FIGURED THIS WAS THE END OF MY AUDITION STREAK LOL…AT THIS POINT I WAS THINKIN, “IT SHOOOO WOULD B CRAZY IF THAT LADY HIT ME UP AGAIN”…WELL, SHE CALLED THIS TIME, BUT ONLY TO TELL ME ABOUT A FINAL AUDITION WHICH WAS TO TAKE PLACE IN LA ASWELL AS A WORKSHOP WIT THE DIRECTOR AND WRITER THE DAY BEFORE….NOW AT THIS POINT IN THE STORY, I WAS WIT MY GOOD BUDDIES HOLLYWOOD HOLT AND MILLION DOLLAR MANO ON THE HOLLYWOOD MOON TOUR AND WE JUS MADE OUR STOP IN LA….

(HERES A LIL BACKSTORY DATS KIND OF IMPORTANT)

AFTER A COUPLE DAYS OF BEING IN MIXED CLIMATES ON THE ROAD, MY IMMUNE SYSTEM SHUT THE FUCK DOWN AND I GOT REALLLY REALLY SICK PRIOR TO LA…IT STARTED UP TOWARDS THE BEGINNING OF OUR TOUR BUT BY THE TIME WE GOT TO THE WESTSIDE I WAS FULL BLOWN SICK AS HELL…COULD BARELY SPEAK, PROLLY THE WORST COLD I EVER HAD N MY LIFE LOL SCARY AS HELL….STILL DECIDED TO PERFORM THO, GOT TO MY ROOM AFTER RUNNIN OUT OF CINESPACE THINKIN I WAS GONNA COLLAPSE SOMEWHERE AND REALIZED I HAD 104 TEMPERATURE….NOW, IM SURE UR ALL WONDERING, WHY IS THIS PART OF THE STORY IMPORTANT TO TELL? THE NEXT DAY WE WERE SUPPOSE TO HEAD TO SAN FRAN FOR OUR LAST PERFORMANCE BUT I WAS BEDRIDDEN, ME LEAVIN THE ROOSEVELT IN HOLLYWOOD WAS A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, MY FEVER KEPT GOIN FROM 102 TO 104….WASNT TRYNA DEAL WIT THE DOCTORS N SHIT SO I WANTED TO JUS FIGHT IT ON MY OWN (SHIT, I SEEN HOW THEY DID KANE IN MENACE HAHA, U COULD B SHOT THE FUCK UP AND STILL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE A DOCTOR, AND BY THE TIME U DO, UR PROLLY EVEN SICKER FROM BEIN AROUND OTHER SICK PEOPLE HAHA)…THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER THE SHOW WAS WHEN I GOT THE INFO ABOUT THE WORKSHOP AND THEN THE FINAL READING, WHICH WAS TO TAKE PLACE 3 DAYS FROM THEN AT THE HBO BUILDING IN FRONT OF HBO EXEC’S, ASWELL AS IAN EDELMAN, JULIAN FARRINO, ROB WEISS AND OTHER HEAVY HITTERS IN THE HOME BOX OFFICE TEAM…(THINK “ENTOURAGE”)

I ENDED UP DESTROYIN MAD FRENCH ONION SOUP, TEA, DAY QUIL, NY QUIL, HELL ALL TYPES OF SIZZURP LOL JUS TO GET BETTER FOR THIS AUDITION AND IT PRETTY MUCH WORKED…BY THAT DAY, ALL I HAD WAS A INTENSE RE OCCURING COUGH BUT I MADE SURE TO KEEP EM ON THE LOW IN THE AUDITION, HAD HALLS ON DECK

SOOOO I GOT THRU THE WORKSHOP, IT WAS DOPE AS SHIT CUZ I DIDNT KNO WUT TO EXPECT BUT IT WAS BASCIALLY THEM COACHIN US ON THE CHARACTERS N THINGS LIKE THAT…ALSO MET SOME COOL PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE AUDITIONING ASWELL, SOME FACES U MITE RECOGNIZE….BUT ANYWHO, GOT HOME THAT NITE TO REALLY REST UP FOR THE FINAL AUDITION AND AT THIS POINT IM THINKIN “MAN, IF I DONT GET THIS ROLE, I WILL STAB IAN EDLEMAN WITH A NUMBER 2 PENCIL UNSHARPENED IN HIS LEFT OR RIGHT ARM, WHICHEVER IS CLOSEST” HAHAHA NAW IM JOKING, DATS MY HOMIE….ON DA REAL THO I WAS THINKIN “MAN, IF I DONT GET THIS PART ITS ALL GOOD, CUZ THIS WHOLE SHIT WAS A DOPE LEARNING EXPERIENCE”…AS CHEESY AS THAT SOUNDS, I GUESS AT THAT TIME I WAS MORE EXCITED ABOUT THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE SITUATION, THE PROCESS WAS ALL NEW TO ME…I MEAN, IVE DONE AUDITIONS BUT NONE LIKE THIS

NEXT DAY WAS THE FINAL AUDITION AT THE HBO HEADQUARTERS, DUN DUN DUNNNNN

WALKED IN THAT BITCH, SAID WUT UP TO EVERYBODY, PULLED OUT THAT SCRIPT AND STARTED REFRESHIN MY MEMORY ON THOSE LINES…WASNT PLAYIN GAMES….I WAS MADDD SHOOK CUZ I KNEW THIS WAS IT, COME WIT IT SCOTT, DATS ALL I COULD TELL MYSELF…B U, JUS LIKE THE MUSIC AND ULL BE AITE

THEY CALLED ME IN AND I HAD A WARM GREETING FROM EVERYONE IN THE ROOM, IT WAS A SURPRISINGLY PLEASANT VIBE IN THERE…FIGURED IT WOULD BE MORE, DEAD SERIOUS I GUESS LOL…BECAUSE OF THAT VIBE, I BECAME SCOTT, NOT THE CHARACTER I WAS READING FOR…I CREATED SUTTIN DIFF, A SUPER EXTRA FUNNY SCOTT IF U WILL LOL

SOOOOO, I DID MY THING, WENT HOME (WELL, TO THE ROOSEVELT LOL) AND TRIED TAKIN MY MIND OFF IT….IT WAS NERVE RACKING WAITING TIL I FOUND OUT IF I GOT THE PART OR NOT….ALL IN ALL, IT WAS STILL THE EXPERIENCE I THOUGHT OF THE MOST

UNLIKE THE MUSIC BIZNESS I SEE, TINSELTOWN DONT FUCK AROUND….THE NEXT DAY IAN CALLS ME AND SAYS “CUDIIIIIII, I GOT SOME GOOD AND BAD NEWS”

HOW IS DAT POSSIBLE I ASKED MYSELF, WUT THE HELL IS THE GOOD NEWS, THE ONLY BAD NEWS WOULD B I DIDNT GET THE PART….IS THE GOOD NEWS THAT I CAN DO THE THEME SONG FOR THE SHOW OR SUTTIN? LOL I WAS PUZZLED, THEN IAN CONTINUED

“U DIDNT GET THE PART U WERE READING FOR, THEY GAVE IT TO VICTOR RASUK, BUT, THE PEOPLE AT HBO LOVED U SO MUCH THEY WANT ME TO WRITE U INTO THE SCRIPT AS A NEW CHARACTER, KIND OF BASED ON U, THEY WANT MORE CUDI”

WORDDDDDDDDDDDDD????????? YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJWDNWDLQKWFJFNKLFQLFNQKFJNERFKJENFKRENFKLENEKLCNKLCNWKLCNECLCDKLCD

LOL DATS HOW I FELT, IF I COULD TYPE IT HAHA

SO YEA, THIS IS THE RUNDOWN:

MY CHARACTERS NAME IS DOMINGO DEAN AND HES GOOD FRIENDS WITH MAIN CHARACTERS BEN (PLAYED BY MR. BRYAN GREENBERG) AND CAM (PLAYED BY MR. VICTOR RASUK)…MY ROLE IS DEF COMIC RELIEF AND THEN SOME LOL SO IM EXCITED…

BONUS FACT: (IAN LET ME NAME MY CHARACTER SINCE ITS ROUGHLY BASED ON ME, SO I DECIDED TO NAME HIM AFTER MY TWO OLDER BROTHERS, DOMINGO MESCUDI AND DEAN MESCUDI, DOPE HUH..KINDA LIKE A SNEAK SHOUT OUT TO MY BIG BROS…WHAT YALLLLLL)

HERES SOME PRESS IVE FOUND ONLINE HERE AND THERE, AND STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO ON THE SHOW….

IM EXTRA G.O.O.D.

THE CAST
BRYAN GREENBERG (Prime, October Road, mad other shit lol)

VICTOR RASUK (Raising Victor Vargas, Lords of Dogtown, mad other shit lol)

EDDIE KAYE THOMAS (American Pie, Harold and Kumar, mad other shit lol)

SHANNYN SOSSAMON (A Knights Tale, 40 Days and 40 Nights, mad other shit aswell lol)

and last but not leastttttt

SCOTT “KID” MESCUDI (notonedamnthingtoreference)

peaceeeee

(oh, i also quit smoking cigarettes when i got sick in la, fun cudder fact lol)

SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY!!!