Been a long time!

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:10:51 -0800

Audition: “Old Navy” @ Gabrielle Schary Casting. Geez, I haven’t auditioned at this office since July ’09! Wow. I have a plan to restart things at some of these offices around town that I haven’t been to in forever. Don’t get me wrong; I get called in regularly by many of the busiest commercial casting people in town, but I wanna get called in by more of them.

Anyway, the audition was a success! We started with an interview and I made up a story that, I think, worked very well.

2 a day...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:09:02 -0800

After working all night my phone rings with a same day commercial audition. I already had one scheduled for later in the afternoon and this one fit in perfectly time-wise and location-wise. Actually, it was the same casting director, but different locations.

Audition: “Best Buy” @ RMB Casting. Wow, I was quite confused after the group explanation for this one, but I didn’t worry too much because I think that was the idea of the spot. So confused I looked. Strangely, I think it went really well; it certainly felt organic and real.

Audition: “Maxwell House” @ RMB Casting. This one went okay. There was a sizable amount of copy and a bunch of different movements. I didn’t feel great about it, but I didn’t feel horrible either. Just more stuff to work on. I’m cool with that.

Blast from the past!

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:07:32 -0800

Audition: “Mercedes-Benz” @ Petite - a casting company. This was funny. I was in the lobby waiting to get seen for the audition and the gentleman sitting next to me said, “Now, I remember where I know you from”. I smiled, but didn’t think I had met him before. He explained that years ago he was the assistant to Robert Wuhl; Mr. Wuhl was the star/creator of the HBO Comedy Arli$$. I worked on the show February 6th 2001. He was watching a tape of my audition with Robert and Robert asked, “What do you think of this guy?” Since I had dreadlocks at the time and so did the guy he responded, “He’s cool!” I booked the job! We got a laugh out of that. You never really know what goes in to getting a gig...or not. Anyway, the interview style audition went well.

I had another interesting thing happen the other night at work. I guy that I shot a commercial with 5-6 years ago came into the restaurant. As we were chatting about this and that he told me that we were both very close to booking the roles we auditioned for in AVATAR. What? Yeah, he said they kept going back and forth and somehow he knew I was the other guy. He said the role was going to New Zealand for like 2 weeks... He wasn’t booked either. He thinks they cast it locally. Ouch! OUCH! Anyway...

Back to work!

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:06:32 -0800

The Christmas holidays came and went and now it’s back to work. I didn’t do much over “the break” but work at the restaurant and go to the gym. Of course it’s really slow at the restaurant, so earnings have been challenged, but it’s that time of the year. It’s okay, I’ll get things back on track soon enough.

Audition: “Mobius” @ Ross Lacy Casting. What did we do in the audition? We had a blast! We sang. I sang...and I don’t sing. That in itself was kind of funny…but fun.

Afterwards I had a meeting with my print agents @ KSR. I’m making another push at getting the print part of my business in line to be profitable in 2012. I requested a meeting to sit down with them, face to face, to make sure that we’re on the same page before I drop a few hundred dollars on a photographer. I’m ready to do it now that I got the dental work completed that I had been wanted to do since forever. The meeting went well and now I have to save my pennies, choose a photographer and shoot!

One day I’ll book...again.

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:05:11 -0800

Audition: “Time-Warner Cable” @ Spot Casting. Another audition! Wow. Anyway, this was another very simple one. I’m gonna book one of these TWC spots soon. I go in for them all the time it seems.