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Melody KitchensIntrIgue edItor

Jeremy Banks, senior in Eng-lish, landed an internship with ABC Network’s “Modern Fam-ily” this past summer. Now, “Modern Family” is just the past for Banks, as a pilot for his own show may be picked up by The CW Television Network in the near future.

MK: Although shorter than you expected, how was your internship at ABC writing script cameos from “Modern Family?”

JB: First off let me just say, I hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and my cardigan. Welcome to the land of fame excess. Was I gonna fit in? Jumped in the cab, here I was for the first time, looked to my right and I saw the Hollywood sign. It was all so crazy, every-body seemed so famous, you know? My stomach was turn-ing and I felt kind of home sick. too much pressure, I was ner-

vous for sure. that's when the taxi man

turned on the radio and that new Jay-Z song they play in Skybar a lot was on. Moving to LA was and continues to be an interesting experience. Some of what you see in the movies is true; It's a fast-paced lifestyle and the city, it seems, is alive as well.

I've never eaten better su-shi or had a deeper respect for the severity of Auburn pedes-trian laws-they're almost non-existent here. Working with the studio has been the single most humbling experience of my life. I quickly found out that while I am, in fact, a writing in-tern, I was never to forget the second part of that title.

I found myself missing read-ings and film sessions because the intern part of my job re-quires me to cut up pineapples twice a day and prepare sev-eral trays of assorted veggies that the cast and crew some-how seem to miss on their way

to the el Pollo Loco catering table. Beyond that, I've met wonderful people and had the opportunity to network with everyone from producers to editors to somehow figuring out that Shia Labeouf lives three blocks from me, which prompted a three week mid-day power walk through his neighborhood. Shameless, I know. I'm still grateful for the opportunity.

MK: How did the chance of

CW picking up your own show come about?

JB: Well just so no one as-sumes pitching a script is easy, I’ll start with this: It’s not. I was 18 years old the first time I pitched a script. It was a crime drama called “nobody Move.”

It was quite terrible, but I mailed it to the nBC Los Ange-les office because I’d read some place that they actually looked at all new pitches.

What I didn’t know was calling them every four days and asking the receptionist, “Hey, have you guys read my script yet? My name? oh, I’m Jeremy, but I go by JBanks, or just Jay, you know, depending on the mood I’m in,” got me a swift but just dismissal from the hundreds of serious pitch-es I was surrounded by. Five years later,

I found an agent and after a very quick, for LA, three month stoop with no word from any network, I scored a meeting with a development director for the CW. two hours later, I was doing my version of a back flip down Avenue of The Stars before being almost tazed by the LAPd.

If the show is picked up, you could be watching it from the comfort of your dorm rooms

next Fall. the CW has a sis-ter studio in Savannah, ga. so when I got the go ahead to move back across country to work on a new project this fall, next spring and summer, a sin-gle tear rolled down my face. I would have sweet tea again.

MK: When did you start

drafting your ideas for your show?

JB: I started drafting ideas for the show about a year and a half ago during band camp. By the way, shout out to all my AuMB peeps who keep it live for your listening pleasure ev-ery Saturday on the Plains and abroad.

We were on a dinner break about to go out someplace and it was bid day on campus or something. needless to say, the screaming of elated baby sorority girls was everlasting.

But that prompted an idea that sort of blossomed into this hot mess of a storyline that I kept at the back of my head for a while.

MK: Possible name for the show?

JB: I don’t have a working ti-tle for the script as of yet, so for the foreseeable future I’ll refer to it as “Working title.” Many writers tend to adopt the same sort of policy until a title for their script or novel “comes to them.”

People think I’m joking when I say this, but every time I treat myself to a nice five star dining experience at Wing Zone, I settle down in an oversized shirt and turn on “Hoarders.” There’s something about trash-filled rooms that ignites my creativity.

15 wings later, I realize I’m fitting perfectly in that over-

sized shirt. eat your heart out, ryan gosling.

MK: So, what’s this show all about?

JB: The show chronicles the lives of greek society in a small college town, a particular well-to-do group of sorority sisters, who outwardly appear to have their stuff together in all the right places. They're beautiful, heavily involved in communi-ty service, charity, school spir-it-the normal prerequisites of greek life.

But beyond those gift wrapped bags and proverbi-al soup kitchen soap-boxes, lies a truth so gritty, so scan-dalous that you'll have to wait until the show airs to find out about it.

MK: Biggest hopes for your possible new show?

JB: I just hope it gets picked up. At the risk of sounding cli-ché, I'll admit I get a little sen-timental about the things I write.

They're a part of me- maybe even the best part of me, and it's not every day an opportu-nity comes around like this so I'm putting my best knock-off Steve Madden forward and hoping for a deal. If not, I'll make a mean pumpkin pice latte at Starbucks.

MK: What do you see hap-pening in the next year or so in your writing career?

JB: Speaking in terms of my career as a writer, I just wish to keep growing. I'll never be finished doing that, so long as comedy continues to evolve.

I'll be back taking classes in the spring at Auburn to finish up, driving back to Savannah on the weekends to work on

casting, editing and market-ing-the whole nine.

Worst case scenario, this time next year I'll be wheeling a tV/dVd combo into a class-room and allowing budding adolescents the rare opportu-nity to experience Seinfeld, the complete series. don't look at me like that. Alright, gimme a break. I'll bring in a Blue-ray player.

MK: Is your mom still upset about your non exsistent tyler Perry writing career?

JB: My mom once round-house kicked a mother of five for a pair of free tyler Perry tickets. So yes, she is still upset about me turning down the tyler Perry gig.

As per my twitter bio, which you can follow at @JBankS-its2012, she and I are no longer friends on Facebook.

MK: Any advice you’d like to give to other comedic writers?

JB: The advice I give com-edy writers is be funny. And I don't mean the kind of fun-ny where it takes the reader or viewer 12 minutes to get your joke (that day is done).

I mean the kind of fun-ny where the audience is not above breaking speeding laws and skipping Mass to get home to watch or read your stuff, or have your tweets sent to their phones and get thrown out of class for laughing excessive-ly (oMg still super sorry, Mag-gie. I hope you got to make up that test, gurl).

easier said than done, I know. Above all else, be your-self. You'll be much more suc-cessful that way and you'll begin to hone in on your strengths and weaknesses. But I was joking, don't skip Mass.

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Senior leaves ‘Modern Family,’ hopes to premiere own show

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tyler baxter, senior in musical theater, trains long hours each day.

Melody KitchensIntrIgue edItor

rebecca MoseleyIntrIgue rePorter

tyler Baxter strives to shine in more places than just the stage.

As a senior working toward a bachelor of fine arts de-gree in musical theater, Bax-ter commits most of his time practicing for various perfor-mances.

“Being any sort of BFA stu-dent, especially theater in my case, is not only mentally de-manding, as obtaining a de-gree should be, but it is also extremely physically and emotionally demanding,” Baxter said.

Appearing as the emcee in “Cabaret,” Bellomy in “The Fantastics,” and octave in “Scapin,” Baxter is currently working on an original mu-sical called “guarding gold Street.”

“It’s an insane commit-ment, but it’s the exact reason why I have stayed in this ma-

jor since I entered Auburn,” he said.

“I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t love it.”

Baxter begins his day “with some sort of physical labor, whether it’s ballet or lifting boxes at work doing ship-ments,” he said.

“I have, have, have to have coffee every morning.”

“referencing my plan-ner, reviewing the number of things I have to have memo-rized in my head like mono-logues, scenes, songs, speech-es, poems, warm up exercises, the international phonetic al-phabet and trying to focus on what I have to do for that day,” is how Baxter said he deals with mounting stress.

Baxter said since he spends the majority of his time with fellow theater majors, the group is like family.

“Being part of such a tight-knit group that you see every day and have the majority of your classes with is very com-forting in the college setting,”

Baxter said. “We may yell, argue and

hurt each other’s feelings, but in the end, we all want to see each other succeed in a ca-reer field filled with such rich creativity and passion.”

the ambitious and self-motivated student takes on a hefty course load while work-ing as well.

“I feel that in my major, our class load is heavier than most students in other de-partments at Auburn,” Bax-ter said.

“We spend more hours in class and rehearsals than most, and we have home-work on top of that, too,” Bax-ter said.

He also takes extra dance and voice lessons each se-mester that are encouraged, not required.

“When I finally get home to rest at the end of the day, I only have enough time to make dinner and rush back to the theater for rehearsal,” Baxter said.

“once I have calmed down from having to be high energy at rehearsal, usually at least past 9 p.m., I come home and start homework.”

Baxter said this is his first semester in college working a part-time job along with tak-ing a full load of classes and being cast in a production.

“I struggled with the de-cision on whether to keep working throughout the se-mester or to take leave until Christmas shopping season,” Baxter said.

“I decided that working throughout my senior year here could be beneficial in having money stored up upon graduation in May,” he said.

“I think that in the end, I will definitely be glad that I made that decision when I am graduated and out in the ‘real world’ as they say.”

In the future, Baxter said he hopes to star as Harold Hill in “The Music Man” or be-come a dancer and singer on the disney cruise line.

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From left: Lilli Jackson, Jane Randall Jackson and Laurel Jackson Callaway make the products sold in Opelika’s Jane Sweet Jane by hand.

From Jane’s home to yours

Rebecca MoseleyINTRIGUE REPORTER

Located on a quaint corner of historic downtown Ope-lika is Jane Sweet Jane, a lo-cal, family-oriented business started by Jane Randall Jack-son.

Jackson grew up in Opelika and prides herself and the business on its homegrown roots and handmade prod-ucts.

“(To expand) is de� nitely a goal for us, a dream,” Jackson said. “You kind of have to have dreams of growth to keep you going, but (the business) will always have a home in Ope-lika.”

Jackson said choosing a lo-cation for her business was easy since her family has deep roots in the Opelika area and the business revolves around family.

Jackson said the design of each of the products available at Jane Sweet Jane are inspired by her surroundings as well as

customized requests of cus-tomers. Some items sold in-clude pillows, totes, table run-ners, placemats, lamps, cur-tain panels and other home décor. They are assembled from locally purchased goods.

“We’re very verbal about supporting local markets,” Jackson said. “It is the back-bone of America, and defi-nitely the backbone of this company. We make it here

and we’re proud of that. If you’re a student at Auburn, get involved in the commu-nity. Even if you move o¦ , get integrated with that environ-ment and get involved local-ly. ”

Although the Jane Sweet Jane family prides itself on its use of local goods, Jack-son said some noteworthy shipments of her handmade pillows have landed in for-

eign places. She added that a friend spotted one of her pil-lows at an apartment in New York.

The average turnaround time for orders is about two days, while custom orders can take up to two weeks, Jackson said.

Jackson said even though running her own business is an ongoing process, it took o¦ fairly quickly.

She had been painting pil-lows and other items for her own home as a hobby until a friend asked her to create some products for her shop.

“It just kind of caught on,” Jackson said as she hovered over a large work table strewn with materials from other projects. “I had a prayer mo-ment where I asked for some-thing to do with my hands or to help me be content with my old job,” Jackson continued.

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Top: The Weekender bag is a part of Guthrie’s G.E.A.R. collection that features repurposed purses for non-pro­ t. Above: G.E.A.R. merchandise is now being sold at Kinnucan’s.

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Auburn native Kellie Guth-rie of the social enterprise Re-Invention has taken her com-pany to a new level with its “Anthropologie meets TOMS Shoes-like” line called G.E.A.R., now sold in Kinnucan’s.

G.E.A.R. (Go! Everyone, Ev-erywhere and Re-Invent) is a collection of upcycled and repurposed goods that have been transformed into home accents and handmade acces-sories made in Alabama.

Guthrie employs women in transitional programs that teach them useful skills.

“G.E.A.R. allows the wom-en a reason to stay and not run away,” said Rachel Fisher, di-rector of communications for Re-Invention.

“It is very consoling for them,” she said. “It is a form of therapy for them, for them to learn to sew and cut. It pro-vides a work aspect to the pro-gram and gives them a pur-pose. I just know it has been a huge encouragement.”

G.E.A.R. started with repur-posing plain burlap coffee sacks, but Guthrie saw much more than that.

“� at would be the most in-credible garment bag, because that is the natural shape of it,” Guthrie said. “� en I thought what a cool messenger bag. It would be very strong. I was thinking more like hav-ing something on the mission field that I could take out of my North Face and just throw things into and carry it, while still being kind of snappy and cool,” Guthrie said.

� e line uses bright, fun fab-rics and materials like burlap for its unusual texture.

“G.E.A.R. is sustainable in every way,” Fisher said. “It is a sustainable product, and we are helping create sustainable lives.”

Fisher explains the net prof-its accumulated through sales of G.E.A.R. products are re-invested into Re-Invention. � ese are then funneled into organizations like Friendship Missions in Montgomery.

� is money supports wom-en within transitional pro-grams.

Kinnucan’s began selling G.E.A.R. Aug. 27.

“It’s very humbling,” Guthrie said. “It’s amazing to be able to have a collection and be able to serve. I love it because of the opportunity with Kinnucan’s, with 120 stores that we’re in throughout the country.”

Guthrie believes they are “taking the conventional busi-ness model and turning it on its ear,” she said. “It is not about the getting, it’s about the giving.”

Re-Invention is a social en-terprise, meaning its main fo-cus as a business is to over-come social or environmental issues. Guthrie’s interest in this type of business comes from her desire to help others.

Re-Invention began as a sales group intent on creat-ing a better business model for this type of industry. It evolved into a collection July 2010.

Guthrie’s journey began in the offshoot of devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

“I wanted to be able to run to a place like that and know I was doing something,” Guth-rie said.

After that moment, she trav-eled to Thailand and served with NightLight International

for a month. � ere Guthrie ex-perienced her © rst strong so-cial enterprise.

“What I saw, what I was a part of, what I was able to do, I left there going, ‘It pisses me off,” Guthrie said. “From sex tra« cking to a little child beat-ing rocks in a quarry, it pisses me o® . � at’s where I was like, ‘� is is not going to happen on my watch.”

Guthrie’s experience in the fashion industry prepared her for the type of work she want-ed to pursue.

“Where I was at that point of my life, I could help these social enterprises build more sustainable businesses by opening that market for them,” she said.

She wanted to be a part of “something bigger.”

For Guthrie, that something bigger is providing a solution to poverty and the exploita-tion that comes out of it.

“I thought of work,” she said. “You have to o® er an alterna-tive to the poverty. If you don’t offer an alternative to what they’re in, it is a losing battle.”

� e University recently re-vamped its apparel lab, and Re-Invention was able to take seven leftover industrial-sized sewing machines.

Kate � ornton, director of hunger and sustainability ini-tiatives for the University, di-rected the apparel lab to Re-Invention.

The department decided the machines would be better utilized at G.E.A.R. than be-coming surplus.

� e gift was overwhelming for Guthrie.

“For me, it is con© rmation for what I’m doing,” Guthrie said.

She discussed the prospect with her sister, Laurel Jack-son Callaway, and with her sister’s encouragement, she successfully converted her hobby into a thriving busi-ness of her own upon open-ing Jane Sweet Jane Sept. 2011.

“It is important as college students to realize that once you graduate, you aren’t in that same college bubble and it takes a couple years to ad-just to being out of that bub-ble,” Jackson added as she continued her work on the tote.

“Especially if you want to do something on your own—or even if you don’t—you just have to work hard. It’s an in-teresting experience to have an entrepreneurial spirit and go for it. Sometimes the un-expected can happen. Have a little faith.”

Jackson believes work-ing with family has made her business fun.

“It’s the ideal situation to be able to disagree and then

be okay with each other © ve minutes later,” she said.

Callaway graduated from Birmingham Southern, and Jackson moved away to Tus-caloosa to attend the Univer-sity of Alabama.

Everyone in the Jackson family is a huge Auburn fan regardless, Jackson said.

“Our hindrance has been that all of the football fans will be in Auburn,” Lilli Jack-son said.

However, Jackson and Cal-laway agreed that it is excit-ing for them to receive cus-tomers from the neighbor-ing city.

“We really love the com-munity, and we love it when Auburn students come to vis-it us,” Jackson said. “Opelika is a very different feel than Auburn, but both are very good.”

Jane Sweet Jane was re-cently recognized by publica-tions such as East Alabama Living and Society South, as well as having products ap-pear on the Junior League show circuit, at holiday mar-kets throughout the South-east and at holiday shows and events such as the Howl-

o-ween Parade in Opelika. Customized pillows of dog

faces, that were featured in last year’s Howl-o-ween Pa-rade, have become the most popular product, Jackson said, although seasonal prod-ucts like burlap wreaths are popular as well.

� e boutique hosts private parties at the end of each month, where customers can learn how to make their own seasonal pillows.

Jackson’s most recent un-dertaking involves mak-ing large pillows for mili-tary families that depict the different places around the world where the families have lived.

She said she found a con-nection with the customer who originally requested the product because her © ancé—who recently proposed to her inside Jane Sweet Jane—is now serving in Afghanistan.

� e store is also consider-ing creating a line of edible products, Callaway said.

� ey hope to start a cook-ie line and they plan to share their baked goods at Geor-gia’s Cotton Pickin’ Fair in October.

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� e rise of Pinterest hap-pened with all the enthusi-asm and violence of a politi-cal revolution.

At � rst, it was just a hand-ful of girls who were excited about a social network that they could guiltlessly post cupcake photos to.

Their ranks grew rapid-ly, attracting women with a whole range of hobbies. � ree of these prevailed: cooking, cuddling with baby animals, and making elaborate crafts out of basic hardware sup-plies.

I was a late adopter. I'll give you that.

At � rst, I thought that Pin-terest couldn't cater to my specific interests (primarily burritos).

But after my long period of resistance, and during a par-ticularly boring microeco-nomics class, I � nally clicked through the site.

How To Turn An Old Milk Crate Into A Fully-Func-tioning Microwave Oven! 50 Ways To Hang Empty Picture Frames Around Your Home! 1000 Uses For Salad Tongs!

Before Pinterest, I would have thought there was only one.

My eyes were opened. Be-fore me lay a world of endless possibilities.

� en the opportunity arose to attend a ‘Pinterest Party’ that promised croissants and crafts.

This is my opportunity, I thought.

I could start small with the simplest and most reoc-

curring pin on Pinterest: the friendship bracelet.

It would be my induction into the rough-and-tumble

world of terrariums and pal-ettes-as-bookshelves.

“How’s it going, Lane?” asked the party’s hostess,

glancing speculatively at my pile of discarded string.

I looked up from franti-cally trying to free my � nger from the jumble of knots it had gotten trapped in.

I plastered on a smile and said through gritted teeth, “Just � ne, thanks.” It had been going on like this for over 45 minutes.

Her other guests had fin-ished with their brace-lets in minutes and had al-ready moved on to upper-lev-el crafts, like making wind chimes out of old car batter-ies.

Meanwhile, I had already lost feeling in three of � ve � n-gers.

The rainbow-tiered pra-line-cheesecake croissants I’d eaten weren’t sitting well.

� e other girls were cast-

ing me looks of pity. “She can’t craft,” they said

a tone usually reserved for someone who’s contracted an incurable illness. “Bless her heart.”

I slid quietly out the back door and tossed the man-gled results of my friendship bracelet into the � rst dump-ster I found.

After that humilitating epi-sode, I couldn’t show my face in the D.I.Y. and crafts catego-ry again.

I was branded now. An out-cast. I can no longer � nd joy in the whimsical world of cof-fee filter wreaths or chalk-board paint.

But I’m not giving up on Pinterest yet – maybe I’ ll have better luck with cook-ing.

Editor’s note: She didn’t.

Pinterest-ing for the pitiful: how to accept your crafting fate

GRAPHIC BY LANE JONES / INTRIGUE REPORTER