Hello Friends!
Two weeks in a row? What?!
I don't have a ton to report this week because I was dogsitting/my dad and step mom are coming to stay with me on Friday, so acting wise not much has happened. Next week, if the government can get their shiznit together, I will be in Yosemite. Either way, I'm out of LA for a few days and it is going to be glorious and I will post pictures don't you fret.
This week I had a serious revelation. In the last two months in the depth of my stress and my second year in LA beginning, I was having doubts about being here. It's slow going folks, and no one has a straight answer on how to make dreams come true out here. Everyone has a different story. Jack Nicolson was working as an actor for 13 years before he was in Easy Rider. 13 years working as an actor. He had been here longer than that trying to make it just getting bit parts and being told he'd never amount to anything...hahahahahahahahhaha. There are 1,000 stories just like that, so it becomes a numbers game. 10,000 people move to LA every month to try to break into the industry. 9,000 move away. 90% give up. And most don't make it a year. I'm over that hump at least.
The doubt crept in and I started to think. Why am I here? But when I asked myself the question, What else would I rather do? The answer was nothing. I cannot imagine myself being happy working towards anything else. I may be singing a different song in 10 years if I'm not making a living off of acting or singing, but that's 10 years away :)
I auditioned for a game show last Friday called Killer Karaoke! Remember how I mentioned if I could karaoke professionally....well I could!! The competition is 50% audience vote and 50% judged on tone, pitch, and lyric accuracy. The catch is while you sing, they scare you. I was born to win $10,000 on this show. Born. The casting director loved me (his words not mine) and said if the producers like me then we shoot next week, if not he'd try to get me on another game show. O my goodness. $10,000 would help me SO much. Fingers crossed I get called in! And my dad and Karen would get to be audience members!
LAism of the Week:
Parking. If there aren't parking instructions attached to audition information in a part of town I don't know, I consider not going. For example, this morning, I drove all the way downtown to audition to be a spokesmodel for a new car that is coming out and I didn't end up going to the audition because there was no where to park...this is not a usual habit for me. I almost did not get out of bed this morning because I didn't want to go sit in a ballroom at a hotel with 1,000 other actors for hours on end and worry about getting to work on time this afternoon. But parking in LA is awful. When I was dogsitting I had to park on the street and I didn't go anywhere for 3 days except work just because I had a good parking spot. O LA life.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Stress. September. Gone.
Hello Blog Readers!
I have been too stressed to write. Why you ask? I honestly cannot answer that question. Wasting too much time probably. When time is wasted, or at least what I view as wasted, it slowly builds up in my brain and then kills me from the inside. The source of most of my anxiety is gone and now normality will hopefully return. Normality. Nothing is "normal" in this line of work which is the beauty of LA.
So a lot has certainly happened.
I work at Margie Haber Studio now as the Sunday girl. Guess what? The kids ain't bad. Most of them are serious actors and mature. They work and I make sure they stay on task for about an hour out of my day. Not too shabby.
I also got through the Intermediate intensive and now I am in the Intermediate ongoing with Courtney Burr. He's an amazing teacher AND he's worked with a bunch of cool people like Joanne Woodward!
I've had auditions here and there all of September. Notably, I was cast as an extra in a Google commercial. Before you tell me how amazing I am, let me explain. I was called back to be a principle in one of the spots and I wrote YES on the sign-in sheet when it asked if I would be willing to be an extra. BRRRRRRTTTT! Wrong answer. My agent called me the night of the callback and I was SO excited, until I answered the phone. He told me I should never say I'm willing to be an extra because if casting boiled down to me and another actor for principle and the other actor said they would not be an extra, they will cast me as the extra and the other actor as the principle. It makes complete sense, I was simply never told that. To make matters more disheartening, the person I was getting drinks with at the time was like "duh" and made me feel like an idiot. Then said person went on to say I can't think of myself as and extra, I need to think of myself as the leading lady. Fair. It's true. I need to inflate my confidence a bit to make it out here. It's not that I don't believe in myself. I do. I just wanted to work so I could pay my bills.
The commercial shot on Monday and the group of extras was fun, luckily, since we were there for 12 hours. Yikes. I was also late for my first ongoing class with Courtney. Boo :( It's okay. Monday paid for half of my rent next month :)
Both of my shows went well at the the August. When I get the video footage from my show with Home I will definitely post the link. Speaking of Home, Dee and Greg asked if I would become a permanent member of the band! Yay! So now I'm in a band and I'm really excited about it. We have some shows coming up this fall in Santa Monica and I will be posting about them regularly. Also check out Home on Reverbnation. We've been trending!
And now the moment you've all been waiting for. BachelorsPadTV on Youtube posted the Literal Enforcer video I took part in. Here it is. O so ridiculous!
In other news, the creative types in my apartment have started meeting once a week to begin collaborating on projects. Our first presentation is a web series called Living Unemployed. Please subscribe and keep a look out! Dotty and I play an interesting role in the second episode.
So, as you know, maybe, my birthday was in September and I celebrated with my friend Brittany at Soop Sok Karaoke bar in Koreatown. We had a blast and a half! I posted some pictures to Facebook, but here's one, just so we can get a taste of September. My favorite month. Gone already.
If I could do karaoke professionally. I might.
LAism of the ... month:
People and their dogs. I'm sure you all know one or two people, not in LA, who treat their pets like human children. I emphasize HUMAN. Here, almost everyone treats their dog this way. I see dogs in restaurants, on buses, in strollers... and I think this week, as I am currently dog sitting, I understand why this phenomenon happens here more than other places. (This may be the same in other big cities as well). Big cities can be the loneliest places on earth. LA definitely falls into this category. I am dog/house sitting right now for my boss and I have decided there is NO WAY I could live on my own here and not have a dog. I need companionship and if a dog is your only companion they become everything in your life. One of my co-workers lives by herself with a dog and she loves him so much she has started spending $250 dollars a month to put her pup in doggy day care where she has to drop him off, pick him up and pack his lunch. This is a common practice in Los Angeles. There are pet hotels everywhere and parks specifically for dogs in many convenient locations. I am just happy to be a dog mama for a few days :)
I have been too stressed to write. Why you ask? I honestly cannot answer that question. Wasting too much time probably. When time is wasted, or at least what I view as wasted, it slowly builds up in my brain and then kills me from the inside. The source of most of my anxiety is gone and now normality will hopefully return. Normality. Nothing is "normal" in this line of work which is the beauty of LA.
So a lot has certainly happened.
I work at Margie Haber Studio now as the Sunday girl. Guess what? The kids ain't bad. Most of them are serious actors and mature. They work and I make sure they stay on task for about an hour out of my day. Not too shabby.
I also got through the Intermediate intensive and now I am in the Intermediate ongoing with Courtney Burr. He's an amazing teacher AND he's worked with a bunch of cool people like Joanne Woodward!
I've had auditions here and there all of September. Notably, I was cast as an extra in a Google commercial. Before you tell me how amazing I am, let me explain. I was called back to be a principle in one of the spots and I wrote YES on the sign-in sheet when it asked if I would be willing to be an extra. BRRRRRRTTTT! Wrong answer. My agent called me the night of the callback and I was SO excited, until I answered the phone. He told me I should never say I'm willing to be an extra because if casting boiled down to me and another actor for principle and the other actor said they would not be an extra, they will cast me as the extra and the other actor as the principle. It makes complete sense, I was simply never told that. To make matters more disheartening, the person I was getting drinks with at the time was like "duh" and made me feel like an idiot. Then said person went on to say I can't think of myself as and extra, I need to think of myself as the leading lady. Fair. It's true. I need to inflate my confidence a bit to make it out here. It's not that I don't believe in myself. I do. I just wanted to work so I could pay my bills.
The commercial shot on Monday and the group of extras was fun, luckily, since we were there for 12 hours. Yikes. I was also late for my first ongoing class with Courtney. Boo :( It's okay. Monday paid for half of my rent next month :)
Both of my shows went well at the the August. When I get the video footage from my show with Home I will definitely post the link. Speaking of Home, Dee and Greg asked if I would become a permanent member of the band! Yay! So now I'm in a band and I'm really excited about it. We have some shows coming up this fall in Santa Monica and I will be posting about them regularly. Also check out Home on Reverbnation. We've been trending!
And now the moment you've all been waiting for. BachelorsPadTV on Youtube posted the Literal Enforcer video I took part in. Here it is. O so ridiculous!
In other news, the creative types in my apartment have started meeting once a week to begin collaborating on projects. Our first presentation is a web series called Living Unemployed. Please subscribe and keep a look out! Dotty and I play an interesting role in the second episode.
So, as you know, maybe, my birthday was in September and I celebrated with my friend Brittany at Soop Sok Karaoke bar in Koreatown. We had a blast and a half! I posted some pictures to Facebook, but here's one, just so we can get a taste of September. My favorite month. Gone already.
If I could do karaoke professionally. I might.
LAism of the ... month:
People and their dogs. I'm sure you all know one or two people, not in LA, who treat their pets like human children. I emphasize HUMAN. Here, almost everyone treats their dog this way. I see dogs in restaurants, on buses, in strollers... and I think this week, as I am currently dog sitting, I understand why this phenomenon happens here more than other places. (This may be the same in other big cities as well). Big cities can be the loneliest places on earth. LA definitely falls into this category. I am dog/house sitting right now for my boss and I have decided there is NO WAY I could live on my own here and not have a dog. I need companionship and if a dog is your only companion they become everything in your life. One of my co-workers lives by herself with a dog and she loves him so much she has started spending $250 dollars a month to put her pup in doggy day care where she has to drop him off, pick him up and pack his lunch. This is a common practice in Los Angeles. There are pet hotels everywhere and parks specifically for dogs in many convenient locations. I am just happy to be a dog mama for a few days :)
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