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Road Trip!

Here I go! Off on a two-week cross-country trio road trip with my friend Adam and my boyfriend, Matt.

Where in the United States is Josh H.? How's the trip going? Find out on Twitter!*

*For NYC updates: Josh K.'s on Twitter, too.

Sandy and Ryan, Sittin' in a Tree . . .

 

Inhale for Pride, Exhale for Equal Rights

On Friday, June 26, Josh & Josh amigo Asaf is teaching a 6:30 p.m. yoga class (featuring some fantastically gay music) at The Shala in New York City. All donations benefit Lambda Legal's fight for equal rights. Mark your calendars and check it out at 815 Broadway (between 11th and 12th Sts.). Go Asaf!

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And So Another Chapter Begins

So here I am in the new apartment, half-moved in from my place in Brooklyn and surrounded by stacks of my books waiting to find a home on shelves, getting ready to merge households with my boyfriend and make a new home in the city.

This is, of course, a sign that everything went well a couple weeks ago when the bf and I went down to Wilmington, North Carolina, with dog in tow, for a weekend spent with his family.

Meeting the family didn't have me nervous--they were fantastic, and a lot of fun--but it was the game of golf that had me freaked out. They're all golfers. Me? Not so much. And they wanted to do nine holes. But (luckily?) the schedule changed and all we had time for was the driving range, which resulted in considerably less embarrassment. (Still, though: Embarrassment. With a dash of courage and the willpower to finish a large bucket of balls.) (Josh K., I can hear you snickering. Pipe down.)

Oh, and did I mention that we drove there from Manhattan? Oh yes, friends. Drove. Twelve hours each way, with breaks to let the puppy pee and refill the gas tank. I consider it a positive sign for our relationship that the drive, both ways, went with very little fuss. Mostly it was about snacking, singing along to various iPod selections, checking out the scenery (who knew North Carolina was so pretty?), and kissing after we crossed each state line. (Anybody getting nauseated from the mushy stuff yet? Okay, okay, I'll stop.)

After we got back I had one day in the city and then I was on yet another plane, headed to my hometown of Minneapolis where I met a new member of our family (so cute, so tiny, so fun to hold) and spent a few days relaxing with my family in the 'burbs.

And now? Back to the city. Moving from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side, not far at all from the first apartment Josh K and I had in the city. The job hunt is on like Donkey Kong now that I'm finishing up my consulting gig with the uptown environmental non-profit, and I've got something juicy in my sites, so there will updates if happy news is afoot.

At the end of this month I'm off for an eleven-day cross-country road trip with my boyfriend and two other friends: Adam, who co-starred in "Jonathan, Just Because," and Adam's friend, Leah, a stand-up comic. If the Wilmington trip is any indication of how the cross-country trip is going to go I'm thinking I'm in for a pretty good time.

I may even set up a Twitter thingy to update as the 5,000-plus mile journey unfolds. Josh K has been trying to convert me to Twitterdom and I think he may have finally made his case. Might as well, right? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

--Josh H

F#@% the haters!

I'm on Twitter! 

xxoo

Josh K.

Meet the Family

I'm heading out the door with my boyfriend, on our way to Wilmington, North Carolina, where we're spending the holiday weekend. I'm looking forward to meeting his family and hanging out in what I hear is a very pretty city. (One Tree Hill is filmed there, as was Dawson's Creek.)

The only thing I'm worried about? The whole family plays golf. We're all set to play nine holes together this weekend.

The only potential problem? Um, I've never played.

Cross your fingers for me. ;)

Otherwise, can't wait to fly the coop for a few days and hang out in NC.

--Josh H.

This Made My Day

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Notes On A Sunday in May

Sometimes I’m not all that sure what to write here anymore. So, perhaps just a quick update on The Joshes:

Josh K. has been busying himself with working as a production assistant at a popular cable channel.

I’m now consulting with an environmental non-profit where I used to work before I got into magazines. And since the magazine world has gone all “ashes, ashes, we all fall down” since then, doing a bit of work uptown at the non-profit seems like a good idea.

I’m still very much in love with the guy I’ve been seeing. The big, happy news is that we’re moving in together this summer.

He’s the one. I’m in love.

It’s good.

And that’s mostly it. Josh and I are weathering the big ol' recession the best we can. I spend a lot of time with my guy and the dog. Right now it’s a rainy Sunday afternoon on the Upper East Side and my guy is putting down new tiles in the kitchen while the dog naps on the couch.

I think I’ll go now, dear friends, and join them.

"Jonathan, Just Because" Makes Its World Premiere!

Left to right: Kirsten Major, Broadway star Hunter Bell, Adam Lehman, and Josh H. at the New York premiere of "Jonathan, Just Because" on March 22, 2009, in Midtown.

Oh my god, it's hard to know where to start. All of this is so crazy.

On Sunday, March 22, Josh K. and I debuted our short film "Jonathan, Just Because" (which we made with Kirsten Major and Adam Lehman) at a swank little lounge in Midtown Manhattan in front of a standing-room-only crowd of more than a hundred very supportive, fantastic friends. The lovely and talented Mr. Hunter Bell, co-writer and co-star of Broadway's [title of show] (and presumptive Tony nominee), served as emcee of the evening, introducing the film and leading a Q&A afterward.

It was crazy, crazy, crazy.

And amazing.

The whole thing started on November 23, 2008, when, over burritos in Brooklyn, Kirsten and I thought it might be fun to make a short film with Josh K. at the helm as director. Two days later Kirsten had a draft of the script in my hands, then I spent some time rewriting it, and then she spent some time rewriting my draft, and then we handed it over to Josh K. He was all about it, ready get back into filmmaking, excited about the story and the characters, and ready to put his fancy little camera to use.

In December we started casting and first saw Adam Lehman and, after one reading, we knew he was the one we wanted for Nick. After a few table reads and rehearsals, and several rewrites, we began shooting in early January, beginning with a seven-hour shoot on the Brooklyn Heights promenade (the second scene of the film) in freezing weather. But, no matter: The film had started, and we were really, really excited.

Over the next couple months we had eight shooting days, some of them going long into the night, resulting in cast sleepovers at my place in Brooklyn, sprawled out all over my apartment. And then, the last few days before the film's New York premiere, Josh and I huddled up in the editing studio, working 10 hours one day, a few more the next, and then the final day--the evening before the premiere--we pulled a 19-hour all-nighter.

But, at last, we had a film.

And, by god, The New York Times covered it, Next magazine ran a big ol' picture and a listing (and HX magazine ran a listing, too), and--bam!--then we had the premiere.

I can't tell you how much fun we had making the film. I can't tell you how many trials we also had, but all of them, in the end, worth it. What we each learned about every facet of filmmaking--from writing to directing, acting to lighting, sound design to editing, set scouting to film promotion--is actually pretty phenomenal. In a way we created something of a graduate seminar in indie filmmaking, and having this project online feels a little bit like graduation day.

Josh and I hope you enjoy it.

Click here to watch "Jonathan, Just Because"!

Also, check out the film's website, JonathanJustBecause.net!

"So, Where Have You Two Been?"

I know, I know, we've been naughty little bloggers. We haven't been posting lately as much as we should have been. Josh K. ended up entirely wrapped up in the editing process for a while, as well as the process of getting the film loaded online and set for its release, both of which were rather Herculean tasks. I've been continuing the magazine job hunt, and also been quite busy falling in love with an amazing guy. Then, on top of it all, Josh K. landed a short-term position as a production assistant at a cable network (yay!). Between the two of us we haven't been around as much as we'd like, but now we expect to have a little more time on our hands, and we plan on posting more frequent updates here on J&J.

Want more? After the jump are a collection of mobile mini blog posts I wrote over the past few weeks that previously went unpublished. Check 'em out if you need an extended behind-the-scenes J&J fix.