Cherif Gacis Chassis Musings

"Price is what you pay, value is what you get" ~ Warren Buffett Everything is life has a price attached to it, everything. That price isn't always a monetary tag you can attach to what you're "buying", although many times you can. The most expensive commodity everyone in the world is handed is time, and whether you spend it wisely or not usually shows up far too late down the road, way past the point of no return in terms of cost spent. I haven't been able to venture out to my favorite past time of going to the movies because I've been diligently working on being healthier. Two weeks ago, my work did a free medical screening on site, and I was excited to find out what things looked like. I knew I was a bit heftier than usual because my suits were fitting a **little** too tightly. I was DEFINITELY not prepared to be handed a bio-metric card that showed how unwisely I'd been spending my time: not only was I overweight, I was actually OBESE for...

"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it will get you the right ones." ~John Lennon One of the biggest points we discussed during group before we broke off to do an on-camera testimonial on a specific shaping event in our lives, was the need for authenticity. More to the point, being comfortable with being vulnerable and open. From my perspective, that struck me as the need to be genuine with people and with the characters you are tasked with portraying. Many times, whether it be theater, contemporary art, or film/television, an audience can always tell when you are "trying too hard" or "just don't have IT". Both are easy to spot, and from an acting perspective it becomes distracting in trying to follow to story line or plot. On one particular occasion, I remember discussing background work with a movie goer and his main take was "the background actor was overdoing their role so much, that it became distracting to the scene and ...