I have completely lost track of weeks and time and no excuses, I have been a lazy blogger these past few weeks. And I have so much to report. Hopefully I can remember some of it!!
I have been using Google calendar more and more since I started showing up to work half an hour late at the end of July. *fail* My phone automatically synced up the calendar online. You go smart phone! I will use you as a tool for memory now. Good job!
I was cast on a makeover show! I will post the clips as soon as I see them, if I see them. It paid which is amazing! So when Sara Marsh said she wanted to nominate me in high school for What Not to Wear, her dream came true. It was basically that. The casting director called me to ask if I was interested in being on the show. He then proceeded to tell me that I would be myself, but not. I don't think I'm allowed to publish details, but when/if you see the clips, you'll know what was me and what was a complete lie. My first complete lies to America! Yay! *crossing off bucket list* I went in for a fitting on a Wednesday and some wonderful gay black man named Todd, of course, fitted me with me cute little outfits, then Saturday I went to this cool warehouse (where the Mentalist was also filming) and they shot me in the clothes talking to a super model "who picked them out just for me." It was a fun experience! Now you know Ohioans, all of those makeover shows? Fake. All of them. Sorry!
I've had a couple auditions for short films this week and last, notably one about PTSD that went pretty well. My beautiful roommate and I were having a discussion about how we feel about Hollywood now after a year. One of my comments is feeling like I put responsibilities, like work, ahead of acting and I need to get my priorities straight. I had a moment of this last Friday. My commercial agent submitted me for an audition for an almond commercial on Friday morning and I didn't get the notification until late on Thursday evening. I had planned to babysit Friday morning and told my agent that I was shooting and wouldn't be able to make it. He obviously was a little angry and said the casting director would be "pissed" if I wasn't there. So I texted the family that I wouldn't be able to make it and my midwest self felt awful. Us midwesterners do not like to let people down/ break plans/ be unreliable, but I had to tell myself that ACTING is why I'm here. Not babysitting. Really? I was about to put babysitting ahead of my chance at being the new face of California Almonds. I'm crazy.
I was cast in a short that filmed last Saturday. It was a cute little 8 minute piece about a girl who is addicted to online shopping and is a terrible girlfriend and her boyfriend who must really really...really love her. The director is submitting it to a contest of shorts that are done all in one take. Yikes. We did a 14 page script in one take. Ah! I haven't been memorizing huge chunks of dialogue like that since I've been out here, but it came to me pretty easily and we got through it 5-6 times. I think there was a good one in there. I'll post that as soon as I get it too.
All of these promised posts. You guys are getting a taste of how long it takes to get footage.
In other acting news, I got into the work study program at Margie Haber's Studio!!! I'm so grateful and so excited! I will be able to take ongoings for free and intensives at a discount. It will be amazing. I need to workout my acting muscles. They have weakened over these lazy summer months. Guess what I'll be doing? Wrangling children! AH! haha. God must really want me to work with kids. Really badly. Maybe He wants to get me back on the "I'll have children someday" train. Good luck. Not that I don't want kids someday, it's just, the older I get the more I realize what an immense responsibility they are. They are tiny humans, not kids. They aren't a different species. They are so complicated and wonderful and anything you say or do can effect the way they live the rest of their lives. That is mind melting. If I have to watch some kids and make some copies to make my Hollywood dream come true. So be it.
Other than acting and SoulCycle, I have been filling my time with singing. The wonderful magnificent Kevin Stanley and I have a show this Saturday night at the Pig & Whistle on Hollywood Blvd. 9:30pm. $10. Be there. We'll get money! Yay!
I have also been rehearsing for my final concert with HOME which is next Saturday night. Here is the poster.
Be there. I have a 15 minute solo slot :)
Thanks for reading about the last three weeks of my life. :)
LAism of the Week(s):
LA is SO big! My fran Lauren came to visit last week and she got to experience how two of her friends can live in LA for about the same amount of time and have two COMPLETELY different experiences and live in two COMPLETELY different places, but still both be in LA. Her friend April lives in Culver City. Some celebs live there, it's closer-ish to the beach. There is a lot of less touristy things to do. Great restaurants, GREAT karaoke bar. I live in Hollywood. Everything is expensive, SUPER touristy, great bars, Runyon Canyon etc. I work in Brentwood. Small town feel, I know a lot of the other employees of the businesses around Soul, super clean, super expensive, lots of moms. If you don't live in LA, you don't realize how there are 88 (I think) cities in LA County that all count as Los Angeles. That is the same amount of counties in Ohio! Fun facts. LA is so diverse and has so much to offer for any person in any walk of life.
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