Gaining Momentum...

So this has been a good week of progress in my acting career. For the past month I have been in the process of taking meetings with new agencies. I just felt like I needed a change and yesterday I joined Momentum Talent Agency. They are an up-and-coming agency with high powered agents that represent a handful of emmy winners and their clients regularly work on network television, films, and commercials.



So yesterday I wrote that Mrs. Moh didn't feel the earthquake. I was wrong. She definitely felt it at her work. I was just pretty confused when I was emailing back and forth with her because our phone service went out.

This weekend Richelle, her dad, and myself are headed up north a few hours to go skydiving in Santa Barbara. I am nervous and excited. It will be my first time. You only live once right??? Then the following weekend we'll be in MN!!!

For those of you that are doing the summer camp I will be guest-instructing a portion of the camp on Friday! I can't wait to work with you guys! Then on Saturday I am headed to Burnsville ATA to do a Summer XMA Clinic. But the thing I am most looking forward to is the picnic!

WOW... 2 things... but first: EARTHQUAKE!???

Just endured my first California earthquake. Happened out of nowhere. The whole condo just started shaking and I honestly thought the whole building was coming down. The dogs were going crazy and I had to stand up and I was actually thinking about how I was going to hang on for dear life. What an exciting/scary moment!

Everythings fine now, but my phone doesnt work so I can't call my wife to tell her about it. But emails back and forth will have to do. She must not have felt it in El Segundo where Mattel is.

Another bit of news... I was actually booking our tix back to MN while the quake hit. We're coming back on August 7th-10th. Finally! Hope to see you all at the picnic and throughout the weekend.

-Mr. moh

Strong quake shakes Southern California

By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago

LOS ANGELES - A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. No immediate damage was reported.
The jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas.

Preliminary information from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake at magnitude 5.8, centered 29 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Ten aftershocks occurred in the next dozen minutes, including three estimated at 3.8, and the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake was about 8 miles below the earth's surface.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury in Los Angeles. San Bernardino County fire dispatch also had no immediate reports of damage.

The quake struck at 11:42 a.m. PDT. Buildings swayed in downtown Los Angeles for several seconds.

Workers quickly evacuated some office buildings.

"It was dramatic. The whole building moved and it lasted for a while," said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, who was in the sheriff's suburban Monterey Park headquarters east of Los Angeles.

In Orange County, about 2000 detectives were attending gang conference at a Marriott hotel in Anaheim when a violent jolt shook the main conference room.

Mike Willever, who was at the hotel, said, "First we heard the ceiling shaking, then the chandelier started to shake, then there was a sudden movement of the floor."

Chris Watkins, from San Diego, said he previously felt several earthquakes, but "that was one of the worst ones."

Delegates and guests at a cluster of hotels near the Disneyland resort spilled into the streets immediately after the quake.

The 1994 Northridge earthquake under Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley was magnitude 6.7. It killed 72 people, injured more than 9,000 and caused $25 billion in damage in the metropolitan area.

The damage created by an earthquake depends greatly on where it hits. A 7.1 quake — much stronger than Northridge — hit the Mojave Desert in 1999 but caused only a few injuries and no deaths.

California is one of the world's most seismically active regions. More than 300 faults crisscross the state, which sits atop two of Earth's major tectonic plates, the Pacific and North American plates. About 10,000 quakes each year rattle Southern California alone, although most of them are too small to be felt.

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Associated Press Writer Thomas Watkins in Anaheim contributed to this report.

Miss you all!

Hey all! Thanks for the comments Alex, Hornilla's and Mears'! It's so great to get updates from you guys. It sounds like everyone is enjoying their summer.

Both Mrs moh and i have been VERY busy lately but we like it that way. We are still scouring the nets for reasonably priced tix back to MN. We would love to come back before the fall!!

I will post an update of what we've been up to soon!!

Wow. It's late!

It is 1am. You should all be sleeping. I, too, would normally be sleeping but my friend Anthony is coming into town and his flight got delayed 3 hours so I am waiting to pick him up around 2am. Now although I am horrible at keeping in touch with friends, this justifies my self-imposed title of "a good friend."

I have some time to kill so I will reflect on my recent happenings. So for those of you that still read this blog, sorry if I ramble on without any sense of order or... sense. (Thanks to those of you that still remember us by the way!! :)) Today, I was rehearsing a scene in the apartment for my upcoming shoot to finish the film "Greenside". Towards the end of the scene my character rises out of his seat to grab someone's neck. Instead of powerfully lunging out of the chair, I stumbled out of it as I broke the chair. As a bonus, my right leg was cut pretty deeply by a shard of the broken wood. AWESOME! not so much...

So my leg hasn't really stopped bleeding. Not too much pain, but just a lot of blood. Hopefully it stops sooowoafjeawiofmsd......



Whew. Blacked out for a moment. Just kidding. So anyways this Friday I fly to Chicago and then I will be driven 2 hours to Madison where I will film the final scene of this movie. As I look back from the footage of what we originally shot almost a year ago, I laugh at my "acting" chops. Not that it was horrible, but it wasn't... what's the word I should use.... good. At least I can see now that I can do much much better now and that's a symbol of my growth as a performer.

Since the end of the play I have enrolled in an acting class that meets once per week. It's a really fun process for me to study the craft of acting. After doing martial arts competitions for so long where there is a cut and dry 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, it's nice to make a change into something that is a little less cut-and-dry. There IS a right way to do a punch or a kick. There is NOT a right or wrong way to play a character. It is simply a choice. That being said, some choices are stronger than others. I have made it a point to practice everyday, but I know I could be practicing more. So I will.

Lately I have also been having a lot more free-time than I have had in a while. So I have taken up cooking. Mrs. Moh is at work all day working hard for the family and the least I can do is have dinner waiting for her right? Right. I've only been at it for a few days but needless to say she is quite pleased. I've been surprised at how good my creations have turned out! I have also made it a goal of mine to get my body in tip top shape. I've been going to the gym almost everyday and have been trying to get back to being the martial artist I was way-back-when!

Cheech had his teeth cleaned. Boy were they dirty. $400 later they are now spotless. They had to extract a tooth because it was infected. Cha-gi is turning out to be a great dog. He and Cheech play for hours a day now so that makes it much better too. Not all dogs are perfect though... he snores louder than (insert someone you know that snores very loud)!

Let's see. what else.... we are going skydiving next weekend. Wow. Should be fun. Kinda scared. But don't tell anyone.

Okay I've written too much. One last thing: Wall-E rocks!