Rising star Jackson Rathbone, currently known to legions of fans as Jasper Hale in the Twilight movie saga -- based on Stephenie Meyer’s successful Young Adult vampire novels -- is focusing his spare time on his side-project band 100 Monkeys (www.myspace.com/these100monkeys). Also comprised of his actor-roommate Ben Graupner, and his friend Ben Johnson (the former drummer of the Stevedores), the old friends from high school are taking their unique improvisational music in front of live audiences.
In front of a packed house, the band, accompanied by a few of their musician friends, rocked the 24K Lounge in ..West Hollywood.. on January 6th. While juggling such interesting acting projects as Dread, based on a Clive Barker short story, S. Darko, the sequel to cult fave Donnie Darko, and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, Rathbone and 100 Monkeys are working on two albums for release this year -- one will be an improv album, made up on the spot and recorded in one take, while the other is comprised of songs they’ve actually written.
Jackson Rathbone is copying Robert Pattinson and has decided against a Facebook account.This could prove to be a wise move as Jackson will be playing Jasper Hale again in New Moon and his fan base will no doubt continue to grow.Jackson told Seventeen: “I stay away from Facebook and MySpace. Whenever I go out with a friend, they’re like ‘I didn’t know you had a MySpace.’ I don’t have a MySpace.“ “There’s actually three MySpaces for Jackson Rathbone. I don’t know who these people are but they’re not me!“
Jackson really misses his friends and family back home.He says: “I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff.”“It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It’s tough.”
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