Karaoke Professionally a Possibility?

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.