You Had to Be There, In Narnia

Yo, yo, yo, yo! It's Max and it's time for JOURNEY TO TENNESSEE! The blog about me in the Volunteer State. Now I'm here to tell you about me volunteering for Narnia, actually like working. For the last few months I'll be working for The Playhouse on the Square in Midtown. I've met new friends, learned new songs, and got the opportunity to work with the wonderful actors at "the Square"...

Meet Bryan Robinson

This guy has the abilities of a strong lion. How? He plays one in the show. He reigns in Cair Paravel. Actually it's like some intern house or something of that sort... He is great at guitar and roaring so don't get him angry!


Meet John Tyberghien

The clever-working actor plays Fenris Ulf or "Maugrim" in the books. He is very fun and is good at quick costume changes (because his other costume is under the other) and can howl as good as Bryan is at roaring.


Meet the Edmunds

Oh and I wouldn't wanna forget the two Edmunds played by Jacob Zelonky and Cole Jackson. They are the funniest guys around. Jacob plays Edmund in the "X cast" with me, and along with Sydney (who you'll hear about later in the post), will also be releasing an awesome new website for child actors like us in Tennessee with audition dates, interviews, reviews, and skits written by him, Sydney, and her sister Zoe who plays his sister in the show too, Susan.


Meet Hannah Dowdy

Not to be confused with Hannah Northam (also in the show), plays the White Stag, a dragon, a cruelie, and an owl that can do the splits. The girl can even juggle! In the show, the dragon character is partnered with a second male dragon and they provide the comedic relief for the show and the White Witch/Edmund scenes especially.


Meet Karin Barile

She is a Theatre Education Staff member who plays the White Witch's right-hand-man known as Dwarf. Backstage, Karin provides help to the other actors like the White Witch, and most of the kids including me during my quick change.


Meet David Ryan

He plays Mr. Tumnus in the show and does a great job at it. He is a flutist, and a bad boy (only in the upcoming Pippin). He is sort of shy, but not on stage. When playing Tumnus he is paired with Sydney Bell who is Lucy in the show.

And last but not least... Laura Stracko

The funniest, the wackiest, the funkiest, the weirdest (weird in a good way), off the wall girl you'll meet. She plays Cockney Mrs. Beaver while Daniel Martin plays Mr. Beaver. She is as funny as Mrs. Beaver as she is as herself. She will soon be playing Annie Sullivan in the upcoming Miracle Worker at the Circuit Playhouse with Carly Nahon of Narnia and it will be her first non-comedy role.

Now I'm not over yet, the post just got started. I didn't tell you about the dance numbers, "Wot' A' Bit' A' Spring Can Do" and "At Last it's Christmas". They were both choreographed by Courtney Oliver, who will be directing the upcoming Oliver. The numbers include all the cast and are pretty good.

I loved the opportunity and it was a fun time from the beginning to end. Thank you to everyone and I'll be back for more. Bye and Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good night!

City of the Apes: A Week in Nashville

A week ago I guess, I went to a magnificent place for vacation. You see, my dad had to go to a seminar in Nashville with his business partner Dr. Hanson, so me and my mom took off with him. So we drove 3 and a half hours to Murfreesboro, TN and I had an awesome time once I got there.

First thing we did was check into our suite in the hotel, Embassey Suites. And I can tell you honestly, it was almost as good as the Animal Kingdom Lodge that I stayed in when I went to Disney World. It has to be like one of the best of all hotels. Hopefully, there will be another Embassey Suites hotel near our next vacation spot.

Next, me and the family went up to our sweet suite. See what I just did there, that's what you call a play-on-words. But, back to the subject, our suite was very luxurious. It had 1 bathroom, 2 sinks, 2 beds, 2 desks, 2 televisions, 1 couch and some chairs, a window with a good view of the outdoor mall across from the hotel, and a little kitchen-like place next to the bathroom where mom made my sandwiches, etc. Really the only bad part was that I couldn't get any of the Disney Channel, nor Disney XD. Fortunately I was there on a Friday, when I got to watch Monk and Psych.

I also got to take the laptop where I wrote a Microsoft Word Document, a biography on Rowlf the Dog, the Muppet, and his rise to fame. So far I got 2 chapters done out of 10. I also used the laptop for internet access, where I went to YouTube to watch the latest episodes of TSLOD (the Suite Life on Deck)

My dad had to go to his chiropractic seminars most of the time, so that left me and mom to do a little sight-seeing. We went to the outdoor mall I told you guys about in the last paragraph where we went to Barnes & Noble where I saw cool books especially a PIXAR encyclopedia that has really been updated, since it said that Cars 2 would be coming out in 2011, which is two years from now.

I had a great time there, but what I really enjoyed was going downtown with my mom and dad to eat at the Rainforest Cafe in a cool mall. But first we went down in to the otherside of the mall where I first went into another restaurant, only to pet stingrays and feed them too!!! And see people feed the pirahna!!!!!. Which I know from watching proffessionals that it's dangerous!

After that we went back down were we ate with the animals, animatronic that is, in the monkey section. Hence the title, "City of the Apes", funny. Huh? Anyway, mom and dad thought the food didn't taste that good. I thought different, the dinosaur chicken nuggets tasted fine to me. But we all loved the animatronics, the hippo, snake, elephants, butterflies, and especially the monkeys. At first I was afraid and scared of the monkeys, especially the little infant monkey, but as Dad and I kept watching them I wasn't that afraid anymore.

The next day, I think, I went to the pool, and I think I stayed there too long. By the time everyone was gone, I was still swimming. Even the lights dimmed as if it was closing down. Then came the last day of our trip where I spent most of my time in the lobby and the halls. I kept going back and forth from mom to waiting for my dad to get out of his seminar in the halls. Good news, dad got a break and I got to see him, I decided to go into the seminar with him. Bad news, it was as boring as in the lobby with mom and Mrs. Hansen talking about "The DaVinci Code". By the time dad got out and all of us got out of Barnes & Noble, we were taking the trip back. And that was my trip to Nashville, at least the good points of it.

I'll talk to you later, oh and by next time I'll be here to tell you about my show at Playhouse, "Narnia". I'll talk to you about who I might be playing and the songs I've learned in my first rehersal. Well... Bye!

The Murfreesboro Embassey Suites exterior (top right)

Me and an elephant at the Nashville Rainforest Cafe (lower right)

Guess Who I Saw?

Hey, I haven't blogged in a while, so I thought I'd tell you about the special guests I saw. First off, last weekend, Dad's best friend from chiropractic college came into town, Danny Dail. And he is so awesome, we played Monopoly Deal: Card Game with him. Most of the time I won, unless Dad was playing. Then he wins. We had a great time, we went to Corky's BBQ Grill place with him, and while I was there I almost caught up on an episode of Muppets Tonight with super-model Cindy Crawford.

And the day after, a Saturday, we went to a 2-hour long audition for the "Star of the Fair" at the carnival/music festival, The Delta Fair and Music Festival. Which, unfortunately, I did not get into the next round. Or the finals with judges, Wizards of Waverly Place's David Henrie, Jasmine Murray & Alexis Grace from Season 8 of American Idol, Byrd the American Idol vocal coach, and Lucy Hale from ABC's Privileged and Wizards of Waverly Place as Justin's goth girlfriend who is currently his real-life girlfriend. Meanwhile, Dad and Danny had been taking him to the "real" part of Tennessee, downtown Memphis. But it was worth it because I got dances from the audience and comments from contestants.

The next morning Danny left, only to have a great Monday at the carnival. Dad and Mom told me. I would be there twice, one time at 10-2:00 and the other from 7-??:00 with Dad. The reason we were going twice was because I wanted to go to a meet and greet with the Wizards star, David Henrie. Who happened to meet me, sign my Disney autograph book and take a picture with me.

Oh, and I have great news. I got the only kid role in Pippin. You might have been thinking I got Edmund in Narnia. But, I only got in the Narnia ensemble. I'm so happy, I hope you have as much fun as I do. Keep reading. Oh, and next weekend, me, Mom, and Dad are going to Nashville. So you might want to stick in for that. Have a happy day, bye!

Danny Dail my Dad's friend (top right)

David Henrie and his wizard siblings (bottom right)

How to Draw: Pepe the King Prawn - Full Body

Hey, I'm back, again. Last time you saw me, I taught you how to draw the Muppet, Pepe the Prawn. Now I'm going to make a sequel. I'm going to teach you how to draw Pepe, but I'll teach you to draw his whole body.

Now let's start once more and just to assure you, you will need only the supplies you used in the previous post. Continue:

1. Complete the jacket and the shirt, this time, feel free to color them in. 2. Add Pepe's legs and color it in with the same color of his head and neck.

3. Add Pepe's feet and color them in for the last step of all.

Wow, after 12 steps, we have the real Pepe. Thanks to you, the readers. Let's hope that I get more comments over the week. Thank you, again. Unfortunately, it's the end of summer. But, have a great school year anyway. I'll be back to blog for ya'. See ya later.

How to Draw: Pepe the King Prawn

Hello, people of the galaxy, lend me your brains. Today I, Max, will show you the reader at home how to draw a Pepe the King Prawn, the wise-cracking Hispanic Muppet I talked about in "Why I Like the Muppets". The reason I'm teaching people how to draw, well, I want to show some of my viewers more of my talents. Besides writing. By the way I'm wondering what I should go as for Halloween, even though it is two months away. I'm thinking either Michael Jackson in Thriller, Beaker, or Fred (YouTube star). Think about it, give me your opinion and comment on it, or you could talk about what you wanna be for Halloween. In other words, comment about anything.

Now to show you how to draw Pepe the Prawn:

Before we start your going to need these supplies, pencil (any kind), crayons and/or colored pencils in orange, tan, white (if you don't have white, leave all whites blank), red, and any two colors of your choice.

1. First, I like to start with round eyes for Pepe, don't add any other features just yet. 2. Next, add pupils, and a peanut-like shape encircling the eyes for the top of the head, then make something along the lines of a bread loaf's height. Don't forget to add his one tooth on the left side.

3. After forming the head, I like to add his hair and antennae next. 4. Once you're done, add the neck and the shoulders.

5. You now need Pepe's jacket down to show the arms. This will be quicker than some steps. 6. Quicker than No. 5, draw Pepe's four hands on Pepe, but remember he has only has three fingers.

7. Now grab a red or dark orange crayon or colored pencil and color over his hair and antennae. 8. For No. 8, get out some light orange or peach color for his face. But don't color his tooth or any of his ordinary two eyes.

9. Last, but surely not least, get two colors of your choice (I prefer light blue and light green. His usual outfit color) and color his jacket and shirt.

So now after 9 steps we have made Pepe the King Prawn.

I'd like to thank all my readers, and pupils for helping Journey to Tennessee get off on it's feet. Thank you! I'll be back to blog for your amusement. Read more of my blog and draw if you want. Keep up on my Journey to Tennessee. Maxwell out...

Again another awkward exit. See ya!

Why I Like The Muppets

Max here. Now people always ask me, "Why do you like the Muppets?" Well, I'm here to answer that question. But before I begin, I'd like to thank all of my readers and fellow bloggers, Aunt Angela and Uncle Jeremy from OUR JOURNEY, and my mom's best friend from Alabama and one of the biggest Muppet fans and Journey to Tennessee's first follower, Andy. Thank you for reading and commenting, and I hope you like this one as well.

So, why do I like the Muppets. Well, to start the Muppets give a good sense of laughter and positive energy. Take Fozzie Bear for example, he tries to be funny but he succeeds... by not being funny. Although, he keeps trying to do it anyway.

No. 2, The Muppets always have a guest star, it's a big variety of them. From Ethel Merman, to the Mummenschanz, Don Knotts to Steve Martin, Elton John to Julie Andrews. Even Alice Cooper, hard rocker, guest starred. And not many kids know who Raquel Welch is. It just goes to show ya', The Muppet Show has history.

#3, I love the characters they are hilarious, I can even do impressions of some of them. Actually most of them I can do, sometimes even the Sesame Street characters. I love them.

There's Pepe, the prawn with a Spanish accent. Rizzo, the rat with a New York type look. Gonzo, the stunt artiste that never gives up. Fozzie, the comedian with the hecklers that never stop heckling. Miss Piggy, the pig... I mean girl, with a strong arm. "Hi....ya!" she says. And Kermit, the host with problems and a green outside. But my favorite is the Muppet Labs guinea pig, Beaker. You remember him he was nominated for a Webby award. He won.

Another thing I like about them is their sketches. The variety of performances is very open. There's Pigs in Space, parody of Star Trek, starring Captain Link Hogthrob, Miss Piggy, and Dr. Julius Strangepork. There's The Swedish Chef and his variety of food. There's Muppet Labs, "Where the future is being made today", with Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker. And there's Veterinarian's Hospital, "the continuing stooory of a quack who's gone to the dogs", starring Rowlf as Dr. Bob, Miss Piggy, and Janice.

But the one thing I like the most is the youth within it. I once heard a recording of a man say, "The most sophisticated people I know, inside their all children. We never lose a certain sense we had when we were kids.", the late, Jim Henson says.

So I hope you get to know the Muppets as much as I do. So I say to you, Meep, Wocka Wocka, Hi ho, and WOMAN! And goodbye.

Dedicated to Jim Henson

The Muppets gang says hi, (upper center).

Brooke Shields with Gonzo (upper right).

Pigs in Space picture (upper left).

School's Out... and Back in Again

Hi, this summer is awesome... warts and all... but, since I'm getting homeschooled. I'm getting a lot of stuff to go on my curriculum. You see it's awesome how you can go to school at home. We actually thought of it because we're so busy now with my auditions, and Ms. Carrie's acting classes, and all the kids that want to play with me at dad's office. But it's weird, we used to laugh at homeschooled kids.

So, nowadays we're getting back to Ms. Renee Kemper's voice classes to work on getting into Narnia. Last time we met at the "non-constructed" part of Playhouse on the Square, she said I was really good with my vocals on my songs and warm-ups.

Yeah, summer begining to ending by now, sorta. But I'm trying to last the fun till August. Only, this summer's gone by, especially with the death of Michael Jackson, the new specials on TV (ex., He Could Be the One, Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana), and all the fun I'm having. Especially the Lincoln Log mansion I made today.

I'm also looking forward to seeing G-Force, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which I woulda' seen already but I've been waiting to go at the right time with Braxton. The movies... I haven't really had time for this summer, but I'm hoping to get back to that when dad gets a bit more patients this year.

Well, to cut this blog short, have a happy end of summer this July. Watch G-Force and I'll be back soon. Have a happy day from us at Journey to Tennesee.

Speckles the mole, my favorite character in G-Force (upper left).

Me at the park (upper right).

Fire Up Independence Day

Maxwell in the house. What's up home-dawgs. If I'm not clear... tell me. Tell me, dudes. Anyway, today's the 4th of July. Things are awesome especially since yesterday I saw awesome fireworks. One even looked like Mickey Mouse which was really cool. Even though it wasn't Disney World fireworks. The fireworks only lasted for about 15 or 20 minutes or less, but it was still worth it.

Oh, and today I saw my Lakeland Elementary art teacher, Ms. Orange. It is a bit weird that her name's a color and she's an art teacher. I showed her a bit of my summer artwork, like the owl mask I made at Scout Camp, the picture I drew of me and David playing wizards from my school, and my new comic books I'm working on like, Muppet Pirates of the Caribbean, and Mr. Pig.

This is an awesome holiday but not as much as Christmas or Halloween. This Independence Day is so cool. Sam the Eagle, Muppet, would of loved it. But did you know it was the day that we of the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence? This day is known as the national day of the United States.

Now during the American Revolution there was a legal seperation between the American colonies and Great Britain (England) occuring on July 2, 1776 when the Second Continetal Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia in June. After voting for independence, the Congress turned it's attention to Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining the desicion with Thomas Jefferson as the lead author. Soon after revising and debating the statement. They finally approved it on July 4, 1776. Thus by 1791, Independence Day was born.

Wow, a little history lesson never hurt anyone. Hope I celebrate the 4th as much as you may be. Have a great 4th of July. Comment and see ya. Oh, 180 more days till 2010.

Schedule in Fun

Things have gotten a little bit more difficult this summer. I took a trip to St. Louis for two days this week. I've got three auditions I'm looking forward to doing, two are from the same theater company. And Dad keeps getting more and more and more and more patients... shall I continue. Maybe not, but I can fit it all into my schedule. Now, I would of blogged about the trip to Missouri, but I've had alot on my plate. But I'll always make time for fun.

While I was in Missouri, I saw, Annie, at The Muny with Mom, Kohl Haun, Kohl Haun's Mom, and Kohl's Grandma, who happens to live with them. Also their family had been dog-sitting at the time so I met a new friend of the family, Sammie, which was a boy dog, and we got along good... Well, once he sniffed me to make sure I was safe. Oh, and we also played wizards with Kohl and his little brother, Chase, a.k.a. Chuck. Or even sometimes a.k.a Adam??

I couldn't see David. He's really busy too with 4th of July coming up and all that jazz. I also had two appointments with my acting teacher, Ms. Carrie, the two days I was there. We had a great time too, studying my monologues, talking together, and hanging out with her, sort of a 'Korat' breed, cat, Luna, which means moon in Spanish.

Everything's working out, sort of. Me and Braxton are planning to go see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The latest PG-rated Harry Potter film since the Prisoner of Azkaban. Braxton's seen all the Harry Potter movies, even the PG-13 ones, and he has read all the books, too. Since he's read um', his mom says if he reads all the books, he'd get to see all the movies. I've seen all the movies too. But I wanna see this one to make it complete.

Anyway, the two... no, three, shows I may audition for are awesome. I'm going to go for a production of Narnia at Playhouse on the Square. Oliver Twist in the same theater. And a community theater production of Fiddler on the Roof, which is at a theater where some people from Disney come. So that's other stuff I'm goin' for.

I've got a lot on my plate. I mean this is a very big post. Hope everything separates. But fun can always come in once and a while. Have a great summer. And please, please, please, if your reading this, comment. In the next post I might answer some of the questions you wanna know about me, my family, or the blog. So comment... and that means you Braxton Anderson. See ya' later. Max out and beyond.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book cover (upper right).

Me and Kohl at the zoo in 07' (upper left).

He Was A Thriller

Former king of pop. Musical genius. My idol. Announced today about forty minutes before 5:30. My idol, Michael Jackson, has been confirmed dead, of a heart attack, at age 50. His albums were awesome. His songs were awesome. He was awesome.

Michael Jackson died in current hometown, Los Angeles. One of the greatest singers in the history of Earth is gone. His fame was invincible as he was a hit at age 9. He and his brothers had formed a group known as the Jackson 5. The band in which I sing songs from.

The seventh child of nine had a great life in his youth. As he had made many hits including, ABC, I Want You Back, The Love You Save, and Ben. His solo career went even better with other singles, Shake Your Body, Billie Jean, Beat It, P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing). And the famous song known to everyone who is anyone, or at least the people from his time, Thriller, which was the biggest selling album in the world and produced 7 hit singles along with 50 million copies sold worldwide.

To me the controversies mean nothing. Jackson had it all. I feel bad for him wasting his money, but in his whole life, he did as much good as Disney's Friends for Change can do to the Earth. His career was a success. His come-back tour was going to hit the U.K. later this year. Rescheduled for never once his death was confirmed.

After 50 years, he made history, being compared to other artists of his day. Mostly Elvis Presley. I and his family of a wife and three kids, Paris, Prince, and third nicknamed, "Blanket", will especially miss him as much as he will miss being alive. As he was a Thriller.

Best Friends

Maxwell here. The man who runs the blog with already 20 posts. And this is Journey to Tennessee. If you don't know why I'm making a cool introduction on the internet... well. I was trying to act like Ryan Seacrest or someone like that. Anyway, today I want to talk to you, the readers out there, about my friends. Or best friends at least.

Now, you've heard of my cousin, Braxton Anderson, my sort of new Tennessee best friend. And you've heard of my Missouri friend, Kohl Haun. But in St. Louis I have a very, special dude who is a lot like me. His name is David. Last name: Pisarkewitz. Yep, easy to say, hard to spell. At least it's hard to spell for you.

We are awesome buddies, me and him have a neverending friendship. The first time we saw each other was at lunch in the 1st grade. Our first game... I do not remember. We love playing wizards and superheroes.

Wizards is our favorite game. We like making up our own spells, charms, and potions. And we usually team up with some of our other friends, who also live in St. Louis, Nathan and Lili. One time we made a spell to switch bodies and pretended to be each other which was really fun. We miss each other now that I have moved to Tennessee. We're thinking about getting a web cam to talk to each other from our different states over the computer.

I'd love for you to meet him. Maybe if we ever get the web cam we could get it on video and put it up on my the blog.

Anyway, Scout Camp was over on the last day we had a space derby with model rockets. Each cub/boy scout gets one time. Except for me. The first time I went it didn't go one bit. It just went straight to the ground. The second, it did the same. But, the third was different. With a lot of hard work and help from Dad, I won.

While at Scout Camp, I made a new friend, Jack. He's a lot like me... and David. He even has a family cartoon they do monthly on Youtube. They call it Fred, the Lovable, Huggable, Zombie. Which gave me insperation to do a cartoon too. 2 actually. I'll tell about em' later.

But, I like having friends. I guess this wraps it up. Have a great summer. Max out.

My boy, David in the second grade with his Webkinz tree frog (Upper left).

20th Blog Post Ever!

Hello, it's the guy who has a name is spelled M-A-X. And it's time to celebrate the 20th blog post in the history of Journey to Tennessee. Yes, it's been that long and it is also our 5th month anniversary, since it is the month of June. It's like an awesome holiday or something like that. Like on May 25th, Star Wars Day. Oh, and I'm having a great summer. If any of you asked. I'm so happy, and you should to. Anyway, the news, I'm going to Scout Camp this week, it started on Monday. It's awesome, we did archery, crafts, volleyball, BB guns, and one of my favorites, water games. I loved it. Anyway, let's get on with our online celebration.


Blogger has allowed me to create this awesome blog. That started out with my first ever blog post, To The Muny, that led to, Psych... I'm not in, and it all went from there. But the one blog post I appreciate is the one with my first comment, April Fools! The comment was from my Aunt Angela a fellow blogger. Also the latest post, The First Day, set a summer version of Journey to Tennessee along with this one.


Future posts will be awesomer, like me and my cousin, Braxton Anderson, who's also going to my Scout Camp, are planning to have him as a Journey to Tennessee guest blogger. And every Friday night this summer, started last Friday, me, my mom, and dad have a Summer Family Movie Nights. The first movie we watched was, Sky High, a Disney superhero movie that was awesome. The next will be Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams.




I'm having a great time but this celebration will not end. I'll be trying to reach a 30 blog posts. So I might see ya' later on this week. So bye, and only 204 days till the end of 2009.

Me and Ken Page, broadway actor, in a picture, also showed in my first blog post, To the Muny. (Upper center)

The First Day

Hey, I am here... On the first day of summer vacation. It was an awesome day... well, uh, almost. It was sort of weird, and somewhat painful, but it all turned out alright.

It all started this morning. My nose was so runny, and I had been blowing it from the time I got downstairs. And by the biggest blow my left ear had sort of felt different from the other ear. Soon it started getting better until we went to my dad's clinic. At his office, I was having a great time having lunch with Mom and Dad to showing the office lady, Lisa, this exact blog you, the reader, are reading right now. The bad news was that dad stretched my ear so far that now it is farther away from my head than the other one. Oh, yeah, now all my ear problems are solved. Not just yet. On the ride home I plugged my ears with my fingers to block a sound. But when I pulled my fingers out it began to hurt on my right ear, the opposite ear from the ear that Dad had stretched. I cried for a while about it but soon it got way better once I blew my nose as advice from Dad.

I had a great first day of summer including the time I went to see my grandma at the hospital. And why is she at the hospital? Awesome question. Well, to start back in 06' or 07' grandma had a stroke, sort of major. She's been recovered from that already, but things got bad for her and my parents when my grandpa, or as I called him, Papa, died in October of last year. Just last month she went out to Dallas, Texas to help her daughter, Cherise, my aunt, with their two new twin babies, Ella and Everett, but while down there she had little minor strokes that led to a giant stroke she had here in Tennessee after she came back. Now she is recovering very well by taking Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy. It's really fun at the hospital especially because there's a TV in the dining room. The bad part of the TV thing that it only has a limited amount of channels, by that I mean it doesn't have Disney Channel, Disney XD, or Nickelodeon. At least they have the Discovery Channel.

So I've had an awesome day, I want you to have a great summer. Like I said this past month, it's all downhill. But now, we've reached the ground. Have a great summer blog ya' later.

Me in a tree relaxing (upper left).

For more information on the death of Papa, go to my aunt's blog, http://www.jeremyandangela.blogspot.com/ and try finding the post, Our Beloved Papa.

The Last Day

Hey, I'm back and I've been having fun this past week. And guess who won American Idol.... Kris Allen. I mean that for me was a total rip-off. So to explain the title, today is the last day of school. Yes, the last day of school, and Mother's Day in Bolivia or Día de la Madre. So anyway, I'm so happy and excited. Also, it starts off a summer of Journey to Tennessee. Say goodbye to Lakeland Elementary. Oh, and I am also getting home-schooled next year. There may not be time with kids but I will have time with Mom and have lunch with my Dad every day.


Well, besides that I saw Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian on the 23rd. It was awesome. In my opinion it was better then the first movie, or as my cousin, Braxton would say, "Boom, Boom, Fire Power". This a way awesome movie. It had many great actors in it. Ben Stiller came back as the protagonist of the movie, Larry Daley. Also back is Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt, and Jedediah & Octavius played by Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan. And many new characters such as General George Armstrong Custer, of World War II, played by Bill Hader, Amelia Earhart, first woman pilot, portrayed by Academy Award nominee, Amy Adams, and the new pharaoh antagonist and big brother of Ahkmenrah, Kahmenrah, whose actor, Hank Azaria also did other characters in Night at the Museum 2 such as, the famous statue, The Thinker, and the Lincoln Memorial statue of Abraham Lincoln. It also had small, but funny cameos of Darth Vader and Oscar the Grouch. So anyway, it was totally awesome... B.T.W., You're gonna wanna read this next paragraph. It's going to also describe as totally awesome.

Now two days ago, the 25th, I got invited with my parents to a pool party with the Sotos and many of the church families. I had the greatest time, unfortunately, my mom and dad (but mostly my dad) didn't put any sunscreen on me. So like after that I was itching in my shirt I took it off having my mom realizing that I had just been sunburned. Currently I'm not wearing a shirt and I am wearing Hawaiian Tropic© Burn Relief on my arms, back, and belly. Because of this I yesterday did not go to school. But that did not stop me from going to school today (with a shirt). B.T.W., You also might like this next paragraph which this one will be described by these four words (not counting the quotations) "Boom, Boom, Fire Power".

Enough with the B.T.W.s. Today was a great day of school, we drew what we want to do this summer. And we had a Compliment* party, my mom came too, since we had to give back The Secret Garden video that we had borrowed from Mrs. Whitten. So she stayed for the party and for the rest of the day at school. During our indoor recess, I made a board game with the help of Chandler. It was awesome, but unfortunately I didn't win. Wha, wha, wha, whaaa..... I know it's not that cool in written form, but it's a funny sound affect. So I had a great time.

I hope this starts of a new summer generation of this blog. So hope I'll have time to blog you tommorrow. Anyway, for all the readers reading this blog, which I hope there are some reading out there, I wish you a Happy Summer, and Día de la Madre. Goodbye, blog you later, America.


*In my class we add a letter to the word, compliment, whenever we got a compliment. When finished with the word we have a pizza party.


Me havin' fun on my last school day (Upper right)

Nana in Tennessee

Hi, ya... It's me. I'm back. And Happy International Day of Families. Yes, that's today and it's a weird coincidence beacause my grandma and grandpa, Nana & Umpa, is in town today and tommorrow. She comes from my mom's side of the family, obviously since my other grandma lives here already. It's also another coincidence that it's my mom's birthday. It's been fun we've played dinosaurs, the family's went to On the Border, we even got to watch half of the "Secrets of the Muppets" episode of The Jim Henson Hour on YouTube. We're gonna watch the rest tomorrow. I had a great time. It's still not over yet.

Ya know, I learned alot from that "Secrets of the Muppets" episode. Well, since they told the Muppets' secrets, here's one you didn't know. Gonzo said, quote, "At night, uh, I puts soda into my socks to make my feet fizz, oh...", unquote, but not unwierd. And you think that's funny, try seeing Gonzo, and two other new Muppets, Bean Bunny & Leon, running and screaming in terror when Jim Henson says 'puppet'.

So it's been great, now I may have not gotten mom a present (yet) but I've given her alot of attention even though it's Grilled Cheese Friday. It's going to be great, so I hope you have a great weekend. See ya.

Umpa (far left), Nana with a broken nose (middle), Mom (far right), and me (lower middle) at my Dad's chiropractic graduation in Logan College of Chiropractic.

Who's the Idol?

Hi, to explain the title, tonight somebody is going home on American Idol. Either Danny Gokey, the awesome, Kris Allen, the awesomer, of Adam Lambert, the awesomest. I'm wanting Adam to win. Just today I heard a girl say on the radio say, "Adam has the intensity of Chris Daughtry, the fearlessness of Carrie Underwood, and the urge to win of Kelly Clarkson." Anyway, I just saw Danny Gokey's trip to Wisconsin, his hometown. And now I'm watching Kris in Arkansas. It's so cool... Jordin Sparks is preforming "Battlefield" now.

Yesterday was great. It was Field Day. I had so much fun, besides the part where I lost my glasses for a few seconds. Someone stepped on em'... you don't want to know the rest. I sucked at the Sack Race too.

Adam just went to San Diego, his hometown. Then Katy Perry will preform. Back to the subject, on that same day we went to Texas Roadhouse on the last Lakeland Elementary* night. While there I got balloons, which mademe become Jack Sparrow. I got sword, a shield, a hat, a beld with a sword holder that came with an extra sword. Awsome, right.

One of the results came and Kris Allen is going to the Top 2. And the ellimination is............ Danny Gokey. Goodbye Danny. And goodbye for today, it's Journey to Tennessee. Goodnight everyone.

*The school I go to.

Danny Gokey says bye to Idol (Upper right).

Mother's Day with the Jessops

Hey, ya. St. Louis was awsome. Unfortunately, since the call to tell us if we got the call back was supposed to be at 9:00. I didn't get a call. Like the Muny, there is just something even better for me.

Yesterday was my dad's All About Women chiropic screening downtown. I had a babysitter for 8 hours. I'm fine with it since my babysitter is Tori, is Kalee McBride's, my mom's couponing friend, daughter. I didn't know her but my mom told me she liked drama and the preformance arts.

We had so much fun. We made stories, we sang songs, we watched YouTube videos. We even went on iCarly.com. We also practiced The Underground. Currently we are making a movie, Lights, Cameras, Kanines. It's about a talking dog who runs off to Hollywood to be a big star.

So anyway, it's Mothers's Day. The day deticated to moms all over America, and all the othe places on Earth. So I might as well tell you what mom wants.

1. Money for a new pair of walking shoes or a purse that she will pick out


2. Ten new patients at my dad's office


3. And no going anywhere except church for the day.

Yep, she's had a ruff weekend. So that's what she wants. Also for Mother's Day we sent nana, my grandma, a card. Now she always sends me cards with money in them. Like 1$ bills to like on really big occasions 20$. But this time we put money in the card for her. When she saw it she laughed so hard. Nothing like a little oppositing.

Anyway yesterday was Brandon's, my friend and nieghbor, birthday. So he invited me to the party but we couldn't go because of the babysitting. On the brightside, we got him a cool present, a 4-pack of Expedition brand Tech Decks. Oh, while getting his Tech Decks I got some myself. A 3-pack of Black Label brand Tech Dechs. Chandler will freak out. Or get mad.

So I guess that's my news for today. See ya, and Happy Mother's Day. Only 235 days left.

Me and my mom together (Upper center)

A Not-So-Christmas Story

It's Max, and I am ready for this audition. You may be saying to yourself, "What audition?". Well, if you haven't already read my blog post, Journey to Tennessee: Easter Edition, it mentions my audition as Flick in "A Christmas Story" in Missouri. Now, tomorrow, I will do my audition in front of the people of the Repretory Theater. As Flick might say, "Thith ith nothin'". Yep, I'm ready. The bad thing about this is that my other acting friend, Parker Donavan, is auditioning too. He's better than me. One of the many reasons he's better is because, even though he is the exact size of me but he is older. Try 13 years old. Compared to my ethics, he's proffesional.

I still am confedent that I will get the callback. They may even choose me for Ralphie. This isn't like the Muny where I got in because I was cute. But, talented. Parker might get a part. Well, even if he was Darth Vader he'd get a part. So to get my mind off Parker I might as well change the subject. Anyway, yesterday I got a new Tech Deck. Chandler was not that excited. I guess he just thinks since I'm a bit not like him he dosen't want me to be like him. It's a limited edition Black Label if you wanted to know. So because of the St. Louis audition my Mom is so stressed out. She still hasn't packed. But I am ready, I practice without my script since I memorized and I didn't stutter. She loves me and she believes I can go through the callback. I know too.

I know I'm going to do well and for once beat Parker Donavan. I guess this will be great. We don't know when the callbacks are but I know I'll be there. I'll just keep it at this and contact you Saturday after I go to Missouri. It just occured to me that it's like the St. Louis Again sequel. Let's leave it at this. There's only 238 days of 09' left. I just have to say bye. Oh, and if you could tell your friends about Journey to Tennessee if you are reading. Bye.

Me, my friend Sydney and Parker. (Upper right)

Four Days of Fun (At Least for Me)

Four days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday lead to only one word and that is, awsome. At least that's what I think.

First on Friday, I saw Dad for the last time till Sun. because he was off to a chiropractic seminar in Dallas, Texas and while he was there he met up with his mom, who happened to have a stroke while visiting and had to go to the hospital, and his sister. Now that was just the start.



On Saturday, to advertise for my Dad's office we went to the parking lot of Kroger and held a sign showing things that my Dad might do. Now that may sound crazy but alot of people advertised there. There was Trustmark, Junior Achievement, even the Zaxby's chicken was there. One that interested me alot was the Rockin' Robin DJ event. The DJ, whose name I don't know, did all these contests and alot of people spun the record and won a prize. Yes, even me. I won the Macarena contest and guess what I won. You just can't take the suspension, I'll just tell you. I won the first place ribbon and... a stuffed monkey. They named it Mac, last name: Erana, funny. I may rename it. Anyway, that wasn't the best part about Saturday, I got a 4-pack of Tech Decks, you know those fingerboards, I got the Black Label company Tech Deck. It's so awsome even though Chandler, my school friend who has a very big resemblance with me, hates me. He thinks I'm caught up with his life. You see I have 4 Tech Decks and he has 5.


So bummer, but the fun went on when Sunday came, you see we I'm having this big cough and Mom wants me to feel better for my Friday auditions in St. Louis so we skipped church. It was practically a do-nothing day. First, I got up from bed watching Moises Arias in Beethoven's Big Break with Mom. Later we watched a Wizards of Waverly Place marathon till 7:00 I believe. At the beginning of each episode she paused it and we studied my lines for "A Christmas Story". And soon I got to watch the new episodes of Hannah Montana and Sonny with a Chance. When I went to bed later when I was still trying to get to sleep Dad came in to say hello, and then goodbye.

So this was going great, as for Monday, I finished Scene 5 of The Underground and played Monopoly: The Card Game with Dad. Not much but it was fun. I'd have to say that that weekend (plus one weekday) was awsome. sorry to cut it short or, well... long. Goodbye. Oh, and Happy Cinco de Mayo. Bye.

It's All Downhill

Hey, Max is here and it is May 1st. Or in Ireland, the first day of Summer, or Beltane. For me, May is the month that's all downhill till Summer Vacation. That's what my mom, and my teacher, Ms. Whitten says. Summer is the the time where I cam play all day, watch the best TV shows, and everything outdoors.

Another thing Summer is for and that is The Underground. I wanna let some ideas on you. Now, 11-year-old Tennessee singer, Brittany Russel from Brittany Russel & the Trunk Monkeys happens to go to my school. Even though she's in the 5th grade I may be able to ask her if she may be able to sing some songs for The Underground. And if you think she's not famous I'mjust going to tell you this. One, she's won a contest from Disney. Two, she's won a songwriting contest here in Tennessee. Three, she met Miley Cyrus. And four, she's already made a CD in O8'. Just letting you know that.

Anyway, back to the subject. It's just 26 days till the last day of school for the Shelby County 2008- 2009 School Year. It's not that long we just have to wait. The best we can do to make it pass by is vote in the 2009 Webby Awards. Beaker's "Ode to Joy" is being nominated, let's just leave it at that. So Spring's almost over let's say goodbye to the songbirds and daisies and say hello to pools and sandcastles. Actually, Memphis doesn't have beaches. So I guess this is all going by fast. I'll just say goodbye and Happy Beltane. Max out.

Max is rockin' his summer (Bottom center)

Opposite Day

I'm back! Hey, I didn't go to school today. Yeah, right. I'm telling you wrong because it happens to be Opposite Day. And if you don't know what that is, I'll tell you about it.

Opposite Day is the one holiday I made up, (not counting Grilled Cheese Friday). Opposite Day is the day where everythings all... well... opposite. That's a no-brainer. As I was saying, Oppposite Day is based on the Season 1 episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Oh, I forgot to tell you SpongeBob SquarePants got cancelled. Yeah, you think I mean that too. Tom Kenny would never allow it.

I've got other news, too. Today at ballet it was our last day of the ballet semester. It was Parent Observation Day. My mom came, I liked that. And no I am not kidding. It was so fun. Especially the part where the assistant teacher, Kelsi and I did a dance that had to follow a story. Mine was a story of a squirrel, played by me, is trying to get away from a girl driving a car, Kelsi, that tries running over the squirrel. It was very funny.

So today's been a great day. And so will to the rest of this year. I don't want to wish you a great Opposite Day. Kidding. See ya' later, on my journey to Tennessee.

They call me, Xam Possej (Upper right).