Hurricanes you call that a hurricane I will show you a hurricane

A back in the day pic...one rainy morning 3 years ago! 

Its called Hurricane Rocket! I have made many claims on my blog, all with good intentions and then sometimes have not followed through for whatever the reasons, but the more i speak to people the more I realize close friends relatives acquaintances and fans to check up on me and my progress as I climb the ladder toward the top...thank you to all of you.  You know who you are bc your reading this...I very much appreciate your love and support.  I promise to get back to updating this and all my sites when mid-september rolls around.  Between now and then I will be working the US Open and wont be on a computer for a while, but come mid-september its like going back to school...just call me Rodney Dangerfield...Not really going to back to school but I will be knocking down doors and hitting the streets of NYC on a serious mission! So I hope this entry finds you and your loved ones safe and sound from Irene and for those without power enjoy going back a few years and letting go of technology (easy for me to say I know)

Again thanks for the love support and thoughts...keep em coming!

Back safe and sound

So I have been back for a week, have feet back under me and am off to the races after a stay-cation for an extended weekend with the family.  Here is the link to see the pictures from the trip, and soon there will be a video of the experience.  Thank you to all of you for you love and support.

www.johnsalutare.com

Time to kick the tires and light the fires

And so it begins...a week of Ireland under the belt and what a week it has been.  Great times had and shared with close friends and memories made.  Couldn't have asked for more, the experience is what I was expecting and looking for thus far and is about to turn the page to the next chapter of the trip.  I am just a few short hours away from landing in Brussels and once these feet hit the ground the story really begins!

I am short on sleep and long on energy of the experience, so for now...thank you to my friends for a great week...I love you all...to my family thank you for the love and support and I am alive and well and will contact you soon.

I am outta here!

At long last and after years of wanting, and then weeks of planning I am departing for Europe today.  I have not posted much in recent weeks, however, I have been on the hustle just the same.  I have arranged several meetings that shall yield great opportunities for when I return.  For those not in the know, I am off to backpack Europe a few weeks.  I will be jumping on the net and updating some notes about the trip and the experience.  WHo knows, maybe I will make my own documentary about it???

To all my friends and fans, thank you for all your kind words and support, I will be back at the end of July and celebrating a big birthday and would like to see everyone there to welcome me home and kick off this year which is going to be the biggest and best yet.  The party is onJuly 30th.  Party will be taking place at COPIA 307 E533rd st/2nd Ave NYC. Shoot e an email for an evite.

Yours

Jsal

Thursday in the books, you know what that means...

Its almost Friday.  It has been way way way too long since my last post, but it has again been for good reason.  I have not been home very often.  I have been tackling my regular acting class and its requirements and for the last two weeks picked up a second class being a reader for my teacher Deb Jackel's cold reading class which was a cool experience.  It was nice to have the shoe on the other foot and see auditions from another perspective.  Acting class is going well, been somewhat brutal at times, but such is the work.  I have found myself submersed in my craft more and more each day and loving it more and more as well! Both of which are extremely rewarding.  I am starting to get a few of my pet projects going and organizing others which is also rewarding on a whole other level.  This weekend I am doing a fitness shoot at my new fitness facility with a very strong photographer which is sure to produce some amazing work and I am very much looking forward to it.  So what have I been up to...a lot.  There are a few other opportunities circling the funnel and when they drop I will be sure to pass along that info for my 8 readers. To you guys and girls I say thank you for your support, I will not forget you when then number hits 800!

Have a great FRIDAY one and all, and celebrate the weekend like its your last, not because it may be, but because...why the hell not?  Approach every day like its Saturday and you will always be happy!

Whose got a case of the MONDAYS?

Not me, sorry to anyone that does, but hey we are half way through this one so take a deep breath think about what your going to do when you get home and start looking forward to it, and before you know it...book your there.  As for this past weekend, it was a great one.  I had my best audition to date, and it was a great feeling of success.  I have landed roles and done some strong work modeling, but this was my best accomplishment to date bar none for what it meant to me.  I battled with keeping this information private and holding that energy in for myself, but then thought, if only one other actor follows this blog it would be worth sharing it if only to help that one person.  Auditioning is regarded by some of the most accomplished right on down to the beginning actors as one of if not the hardest part of the profession.  Its pretty simple to understand, think about it.  Who likes going on interviews?  Not most, because if your interviewing your almost always in a position where you NEED a job!  Thats what auditioning is likened to. (likened is apparently my word of the day as I think that makes the 4th or 5th time I have used it in the past hour) Anyway, auditioning...picture this going on 3-if your lucky 7 auditions a day or 2-7 "interviews" a day!  Sound like fun?  Probably not, but as cliche as it may be, thinking of it as fun just might make the difference between a callback "2nd interview" and never hearing back at all.  The opportunity to do what you love, in any forum or industry is what makes all the difference in the world.  So, until your a household name, AUDITIONING is a part of your business...like it or hate it, that part is up to us! 

have a great day and week everyone! Until next time...

Its the weekend!!!

Just a quick note, had a few fun things take place yesterday in regards to the career.  First, had a great meeting with my writing partner and we have a few fun ideas to move forward on.  Second, had a few auditions come in, and a few potential modeling jobs to hear about. Lastly, I finally saw THE FIGHTER!! Let me tell ya, wow...you want to talk about why I am an actor and what its all about...see that movie.  It may not affect you the same way, but it definitely played on me.  Oh, and in keeping with telling stories and letting a little personality shine though in my blog, how about this one...I was talking to a girlfriend of mine and we got into a heated debate over District 9.  I wasn't fond of the movie, and she got mad because she thought I was saying it was a bad movie.  She was going on and on about it and how I am judging it without giving it a fair shake (I didn't make it through the whole movie).  The more we got into it the more intense it got, and then I came out and said, "your being a real bitch right now!"  Um, yeah then it hit me...I was working the conversation like an exercise from class.  Then it hit me even harder when she blew up and got extremely mad and turned beat red that I had been doing so for most of the convo...I couldn't help but laugh (internally-she really woulda flipped had I just laughed in her face when she was teeming! So thanks Esper and Mr. Mienser.  I really have been eating sleeping and thinking/dreaming acting...I wonder if this happened when I didn't catch on!  How do I feel...hahaha up tough call!