Gettin' Laid at Dairy Queen

**Just some basic set up info, the aforementioned Eve is one of two main characters in the NA novel Mark and I have co-authored called HALFWAY PERFECT. Eve is 18, a former model turned Columbia University student. She moved to NYC at 14 to model as a way to escape her white trash Indiana upbringing.

Mark Perini: Talk on the street is that there are some new songs to add to the playlist?!?

10:14 AM me: yes! I've recently become re-antiquated with my 18 year old self and came up with what I'm calling Eve's Anthem

  hang on though...gotta make another cup of coffee

10:18 AM Mark Perini: Lol could it be? A rebel Julie Cross from the Midwest? I'm on my first cup is that bad?

  I'm still jet lagged

10:19 AM me: I'm making my second cup now. I try to stop at 3

  used to drink it all day long...

  ok so first I have to ask if I've told you the story of how I met my husband Nick?

10:21 AM Mark Perini: I usually have one otherwise I'm way to caffeinated, shaking and generally hyperactive...No I never heard the story in full I just know you met in college

The Elegance

11:12 AMWhere Julie and I talk about Chinese style and fighting crime in the nude...
me: Nǐ hǎo

  How are you?

 Julie Cross: awesome! How are you?

 me: Good I'm in Hong Kong right now

 Julie Cross: What time is it there?

 me: 11:12 PM

11:13 AM Julie Cross: so weird, it's 10:12 AM here

 me: I'm still not used to the time difference

 Julie Cross: really? After all these weeks?

11:14 AM me: Not that I'm jet lagged or anything it's just weird to have everyone I know on a flip flopped schedule

11:15 AM Julie Cross: so you're blaming your American friends and family, huh?

  I don't mind, I like that we can still chat even from across the world. Technology is awesome

 me: Lol of course who else can I blame?

11:16 AM Your right I don't know what I would do without my iPhone...

  Apple I'll be looking for a handout anytime now

 Julie Cross: haha

  okay, tell me about this strip of photos. Did you take these in Hong Kong?

11:18 AM me: Actually I took them in Guangzhou which is where all the catalogs are done

  Totally an industrial city two hours from Hong Kong

11:19 AM Julie Cross: cool! Are you allowed to say what it was for?

11:20 AM me: Not till it's out

 Julie Cross: okay, we'll work around that part.

 me: But I think it's very much Chinese style

  Which I think is awesome

 Julie Cross: The second photo from the top is very Clark Kent

11:21 AM me: So different from other stuff I've done

 Julie Cross: are you wearing tights under that suit?

 me: Zero tights

 Julie Cross: a new look for Superman?

11:22 AM me: Lol fight crime in the nude lol

11:23 AM Julie Cross: I think that could be dangerous...things hanging free and all

11:24 AM Okay, I'll stay on topic from now on

  How many times did you have to change clothes?

11:26 AM me: Lol I don't know that much would get done

  12 times

 Julie Cross: wow, that's a lot

 me: Different options

11:27 AM Julie Cross: I like the bow tie a lot. It's that Chinese style right now?

11:28 AM me: I hope to influence the change to bow ties

11:29 AM Julie Cross: The lighting in the bottom half of the photos is SUPER cool. How did they that?

11:32 AM me: In some they held up a net in others they held up a basket it looks awesome though

11:33 AM Julie Cross: wow, that's creative. I would have never thought of that.

  how long did the whole shoot last?

10 minutes

11:44 AM me: Yeah the photographer was awesome the whole shoot took 4 hours

 Julie Cross: that doesn't seem too bad?

11:45 AM me: No it wasn't I've been at editorials that have lasted 12 hours

  Or days even

11:49 AM Julie Cross: or a week like out CK shoot in Halfway Perfect

 me: Exactly

11:50 AM but this was short and sweet...

  

What do you guys think about the shoot? Bow Ties yes or no? 
M.P.

The Specific Genetic Formula for Models!?!

A chat in which Julie and I talk about the specific genetic formula for models!?!

8:36 PM Julie Cross: okay, so everyone always says models have to be tall but obviously there's models of all kinds so can you explain the whole height thing? Like runway versus...not runway...whatever that's called

8:37 PM maybe start with dudes and then we'll talk girls...hehe...girl talk

8:39 PM me: Lol okay so for fashion agencies men have to be at least 6 feet tall but the go up to 6'3" but agencies won't even look at someone that's not 6'...Having said that I've seen some guy models that are 5'11"...

  Runway models who are guys are usually 6'2"

  Or taller

8:40 PM Some 6'-6'1"

  But mostly fall into the 6'2" range

8:41 PM Julie Cross: so like people sitting in the audience during a runway show are really going to notice if a guy is two inches shorter than another guy?

Halfway Perfect Playlist part 3

11:31 AM Julie Cross: Awesome! Halfway Perfect Playlist part 3...let's add two songs each today?

11:33 AM me: I'm on board

11:34 AM Julie Cross: Okay, I'll start this one but just a warning...it's Kelly Clarkson

 me: Ouch there goes our macho playlist

11:36 AM Julie Cross: I know...it's gonna get even worse. So I'm adding Darkside by Kelly Clarkson. It's just so Eve. Not much else to say then that.

11:37 AM me: Okay keeping it a little mysterious I like it...

11:39 AM For me my next pick is Mae Embers and Envelopes it's about getting over your pride and making love work no matter what Alex and Eve are gonna be faced with a lot of drama and if they want to succeed they need to be ready to change for the better

11:41 AM Julie Cross: And to think....we questioned whether we were really writing a love story or a while back...remember that?

Halfway Perfect Playlist: Part 2

me: Halfway Perfect Playlist part 2?

 Mark Perini: I'm in

6 minutes

6:43 PM Mark Perini: My next pick is Mae Just Let Go its all about falling in love and how confusing it can be and how you can be with with then but your mind can be somewhere far away

6 minutes

6:49 PM me: That's really good...I love it.

6:50 PM Mark Perini: Plus Mae is a killer band in general

 me: thinking about my next pick...okay, I'm choosing Kiss Me Slowly by Parachute because it's so perfect for the scene with Alex and Eve's first kiss. I actually envisioned it playing it that scene

Stage Fright?

Where Julie and I talk about stress induced narcolepsy...

12:14 PM How has everything been with all the Vortex release craziness? You been stressed?

12:15 PM Julie Cross: It has gotten a bit crazy all of a sudden and a little stressful but in a good way

12:16 PM me: Yeah a lot going on I'm sure...do you ever get nervous on the interviews or when your speaking?

12:17 PM Julie Cross: I always get very very nervous. To the point of anxiety.

12:18 PM You do stage performing too, what do you feel right before it starts?

12:20 PM me: Yeah I've been doing Improv for a year and before that I never preformed before I love it...Sometimes I get butterfly's in my stomach right before but I never really get nervous I'm always excited...

  But even as a kid I was always fine public speaking

12:23 PM Julie Cross: I had an event on Saturday...a one hour solo presentation in front of about 100 people and I noticed something that happens to be right before these types of events, like minutes before, I get really drowsy. Like I might fall asleep at any moment

PSYCHOPATH CHECKLIST Part 2

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In which Julie and I talk about the green eyed monster of jealousy...

1:51 PM Julie Cross: Since Eve is into Alex, do you think she'll be jealous seeing him all over Elana for the CK shoot and of course during the whole fake relationship? I'm torn with this because part of me thinks she understands but still, understanding and seeing it are very different things...

1:54 PM me: I think jealousy is a tough thing she would probably be jealous seeing it but the question is does she let that manifest itself into something unhealthy...I think no matter how calm you are if you really like someone you are going to be jealous seeing them with another person whether it is for work or not...but you can't let it get to you