Self-Presentation

So, I suppose marketing is going to be a big theme in this blog. It's only after I went through the harrowing process of choosing my blog name and setting it in stone that I realized just how spot on its title really is. "Acting Cool in LA." That's about how you present yourself. It's about who you claim to be, just which face you put forward and how you make it look pretty. Really, that's why I'm writing this blog in the first place. I'm an actor, a writer, and a musician, and everyone I speak to tells me that I need to market myself. I need to establish some sort of online presence, not to peddle any wares, but to peddle me. Maybe that's what this blog is. Maybe this is an infomercial selling Henry Kober.

Odds are you can already tell, but I'm kind of cynical about the whole idea. That's why it took me so long to start. On the other hand, I have no interest in fading into debt and obscurity before I start any sort of career at all. Thus, blog.

I probably ought to tell you a bit about myself and my life. My name is Henry Kober, and I'm a native Los Angelino. I'm the drummer for a band called Agni (named after the Hindu god of fire), and even though we've been together for over a year now, we've never played a single gig. We recently added a new guy, Jon, and he plays back up guitar. Our other members are Toast, the bassist, and Zach, the lead guitarist/singer. I'm going to start a blog about our band and its exploits elsewhere. You can find a link to it in the links section. Is there a links section? There'd better be a links section.

I'm a writer, too. I love writing. It's great. That's what I studied in college until I left due to ennui and general discontentment about not really doing anything aside from homework. I initially went to school to study electrical and computer engineering, but I learned after two and a half semesters that my brain just doesn't quite work like an engineer's. I do love me some programming, though. I'll talk more about leaving school later.

I'm an actor! I know, I know, an actor in Los Angeles. No surprise. I think that's one of the reasons I didn't study acting in college; it seemed like too much of a cliche. Now, though, I'm over that, and I'm going to build a career doing what I love, which most certainly includes plying this particular trade. 

Finally, I'm a meditator. This is a pretty big part of my life, too, and it's something that I'd like to teach, at some point.

So, I guess this is what a blog is, huh? An opportunity for me to throw out snippets of my personality to the internet like a message in a bottle? Interesting. I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.